William Hazlitt Quotes
The discussing the characters and foibles of common friends is a great sweetness and cement of friendship.
Quotes to Explore
-
Though many people said there is no joint border between Turkey and Montenegro, it feels like we are next to each other. We are in the same neighborhood.
-
I love being a woman and I was not one of these women who rose through professional life by wearing men's clothes or looking masculine. I loved wearing bright colors and being who I am.
-
Don't avoid extremes, and don't choose any one extreme. Remain available to both the polarities - that is the art, the secret of balancing.
-
I've got ten pairs of trainers. That's one for every day of the week.
-
People are wired for lots of things. We're wired for novelty. We're wired for humor. We're wired for new pieces of information that surprise us in some way or add value to our lives. We're wired for fear.
-
I don't aspire to have high approval ratings. I aspire, in light of my two predecessors, to be the most honest governor I can be. I'd rather focus on honesty than popularity.
-
I am not a Ph.D. in economics or a doctorate in literature that I can afford to take my singing lightly. Even if I sing a jingle, I take it as seriously as oxygen.
-
My first book, 'Radical Acceptance', grew out of the suffering of feeling personally deficient and unworthy. Because most of us are so quick to turn against ourselves, the teachings and practices of radical acceptance continue as a strong current in 'True Refuge': nurturing a forgiving, understanding heart is a basic step on the path.
-
Well, I was born in El Paso, Texas, it was in the nearest hospital to the family farm.
-
There's a certain fear of simplicity. I think that's the thing, when you're younger as an artist, you get this idea in your head that complexity equals quality. The more notes you're playing, the better.
-
My favourite place to eat is my grandma's kitchen. She makes a mean crab cake.
-
You get more insight as you get older, on everything.
-
With all of their benefits, and there are many, one of the things I regret about e-books is that they have taken away the necessity of trawling foreign bookshops or the shelves of holiday houses to find something to read. I've come across gems and stinkers that way, and both can be fun.
-
Well, it's taken a long time to get the Department of Homeland Security established. It's taken a long time for the Congress to decide how much it wanted to fund.
-
When someone holds a knife to your throat it's easy to be scared. It's not hard to imagine what it would be like.
-
I eat super clean and am always watching what I eat.
-
If you want to move people, you look for a point of sensitivity, and in Egypt nothing moves people as much as religion.
-
Chief executives, who themselves own few shares of their companies, have no more feeling for the average stockholder than they do for baboons in Africa.
-
I don't go out of the way to take special care of myself.
-
I went to the University/Resident Theatre Association auditions. Deans come and watch you in this theater. You have three minutes, and you have to do two contrasting monologues - at that time, this is 2003 - one classical and one contemporary.
-
We would completely delegitimise what we are doing if we allow politics to interfere with our work.
-
In a relationship I can influence—but not control—the thoughts, beliefs, feelings, and behavior of another.
-
We have to be serious and consistent if we believe the European Union makes sense. I believe it makes sense.
-
The discussing the characters and foibles of common friends is a great sweetness and cement of friendship.
