William Hazlitt Quotes

When you find out a man's ruling passion, beware of crossing him in it.

William Hazlitt

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• The nations of Africa, as is true of every continent of the world, from time to time dispute among themselves. These quarrels must be confined to this continent and quarantined from the contamination of non-African interference.

  

  Haile Selassie
  • Time
  • World
  • True

• In my situation, every time I write a sentence, I'm thinking not only of the people I ended up in college with but my siblings, my family, my school friends, the people from my neighborhood. I've come to realize that this is an advantage, really: it keeps you on your toes.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• It's actually pretty complex, because there's two levels of reality in the narrative. One is what really took place, and the other is Spider's poisoned version of what took place.

  

  Gabriel Byrne
  • Pretty
  • Reality
  • Place

• All of us grow.

  

  Foster Friess
  • Grow
  • U.S.

• Food is fuel and not a solution to anything other than giving your body nutrients. I love chocolate like the next girl, but it's not going to change my situation.

  

  Gabrielle Reece
  • Girl
  • Like
  • Body

• I just want to have a nice, happy life.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Nice

• I had to give myself permission to act, then others agreed.

  

  Edie McClurg
  • Myself
  • Act
  • Others

• No one wants to hear my perspective on politics, but I think honestly as you get older, you get more interested in it.

  

  Danica Patrick
  • Think
  • Politics
  • Perspective

• I love Westerns!

  

  Barry Corbin
  • Love
  • I Love
  • Westerns

• Every citizen of this country should be guaranteed that their vote matters, that their vote is counted, and that in the voting booth, their vote has a much weight as that of any CEO, any member of Congress, or any President.

  

  Barbara Boxer
  • Country
  • Vote
  • Voting

• I was raised in a way where there was no distinction between kids and adults.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Kids
  • Way
  • Where

• Armenians and Azerbaijanis in Stepanakert, capital of the Nagorno-Karabakh autonomous region, rioted over much needed spelling reform in the Soviet Union.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Riot
  • Armenians
  • Azerbaijanis

• ‘If one approaches a problem with order and method there should be no difficulty in solving it - none whatever,’ said Pirot severely.

  

  Agatha Christie

• I would like to believe that I am a collaborative actor. That's why I love all the directors I have worked with in recent times, as they are all collaborative directors. I think my constant desire is to keep bettering my own work. I don't get easily satisfied with my work; I am very critical of it. I learn from my mistakes.

  

  Deepika Padukone
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Why

• I've always thought photography is not so much of an art form but a way of communicating and passing on information.

  

  Don McCullin
  • Art
  • Photography

• Real short- and long-term rates were relatively high in the late-1990s, so financial excess can also arise without a low-rate environment.

  

  Jerome Powell
  • Long
  • Real
  • High

• You have to strike while the iron is hot. You have to take downtime to see friends and family, but my passion is acting: pursuing those scary, challenging characters and working with passionate people.

  

  Colin Morgan
  • People
  • Family
  • Friends

• I would be very, very bored doing light little comedies for my entire career.

  

  Dee Wallace
  • Career
  • Light
  • Bored

• Over the years, I've had to learn to play. For example, when 'Lennon' was on Broadway, I learned my way around the guitar chords because originally we were all going to play the instruments without a band.

  

  Will Chase
  • Play
  • Years
  • Guitar

• I'm a fairly ordinary person - a lifelong reader, a former software engineer, and former math teacher. I come from a wonderful family of teachers, musicians, librarians, and engineers. I think I surprised them as well as my friends and coworkers when I took up writing as a hobby and let it take over my life!

  

  Carol Berg
  • Life
  • Up
  • Writing

• The truth is that I'm an idiot. I am. I don't do things by the rules sometimes. I say things that I probably shouldn't say. I push buttons. I deserve to be made fun of. And I feel like, as soon as you can make fun of something, it instantly removes the fear.

  

  Ashton Kutcher
  • Truth
  • Fun
  • Fear

• When you find out a man's ruling passion, beware of crossing him in it.

  

  William Hazlitt