William Hazlitt Quotes

The look of a gentleman is little else than the reflection of the looks of the world.

William Hazlitt

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• t0 is blockchain-agnostic so, ultimately, we can use anybody's blockchain.

  

  Patrick M. Byrne
  • Use
  • Anybody
  • Blockchain

• If you are hopeful, if you are optimistic, other people want to help you. And if you are down in the dumps, other people may still help you, but I've noticed that they're walking, not running, over to you.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • People
  • May
  • Help

• We were talking about how old quarterbacks can't throw before 10 am... Practice starts too early for us. Wake me up in the middle of the night and I can throw. I can throw anytime.

  

  Dan Marino
  • Night
  • Practice
  • Starts

• I don't mind talking about 'what might have been,' but I am not one to doubt or regret most of my decisions.

  

  Larry Wilcox
  • Mind
  • Doubt
  • Regret

• I've been working on this feature script for Master Class, a play by Terrence McNally that won a lot of Tonys.

  

  Faye Dunaway
  • Play
  • Working
  • Class

• Nowadays, there are seven music directors in one film. I had never heard of such a thing before. If one of our old music directors was told to share a score with others, he would have left the assignment.

  

  Lata Mangeshkar
  • Music
  • Never
  • Old

• There is one thing women can never take away from men. We die sooner.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Men
  • Women
  • Die

• Pity is the deadliest feeling that can be offered to a woman.

  

  Vicki Baum
  • Feeling
  • Woman
  • Pity

• Your private life is really very important for you. You know, all of us, you know.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Life
  • Important
  • Know

• I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.

  

  Camille Claudel
  • Protect
  • Harm

• Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Great
  • You
  • Learning

• The mistake that straight people made was imposing the monogamous expectation on men. Men were never expected to be monogamous.

  

  Dan Savage
  • People
  • Men
  • Mistake

• Devo and The Cramps didn't get big until they went to New York City. Chrissie Hynde didn't get big until she moved to London. When I was growing up, there wasn't even a place to play - just one little bar. If we wanted to have a gig, then we had to drive 45 minutes up to Cleveland.

  

  Dan Auerbach The Black Keys
  • City
  • Play
  • New York

• When confronting most crises, whether historic or contemporary, aid agencies generally muddle along on a case-by-case basis. They weigh insufficient information, extrapolate somewhat blindly about long-term pros and cons, and reluctantly arrive at decisions meant to do the most good and the least harm.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Good
  • Long
  • Information

• It's just someone has labelled us as having a different label to do what you do. I find that labels are the worst thing in the world for artistic expression.

  

  Ornette Coleman
  • World
  • Different
  • Find

• Futurists don't consider overpopulation one of the issues of the future. They consider it the issue of the future.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Future
  • Overpopulation

• If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.

  

  M. H. Abrams
  • You
  • Learn
  • Changing

• I still have a young attitude.

  

  Pat Morita
  • Attitude
  • Young
  • Still

• A woman at the Limited once asked me, 'Why do you work?' She said, 'You made a lot of money as a young man, so why are you still working?' I had never thought about it before. Forced to consider it, I told her, 'You know why? Because I think that if you stop to smell the roses, you'll get hit by a truck.'

  

  Les Wexner
  • Work
  • Money
  • Why

• Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.

  

  William James
  • Character
  • Mean
  • Humans

• I consider myself lucky to have been born into a family that valued service to both one's country and one's community.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Country
  • Family
  • Community

• People can't imagine an enemy that would cut someone's head off before a video camera and spread it out across the world. But that has happened with the kind of enemy we are now facing.

  

  Kay Bailey Hutchison
  • People
  • World
  • Enemy

• The question is, can we have a more peaceful, effective relationship with Russia, utilizing interests that are similar in a realistic way to make this world a safer place and get off this dangerous hostility with Russia.

  

  Jeff Sessions
  • World
  • Relationship
  • Question

• The look of a gentleman is little else than the reflection of the looks of the world.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • World
  • Reflection
  • Gentleman