William Hazlitt Quotes

The soil of friendship is worn out with constant use. Habit may still attach us to each other, but we feel ourselves fettered by it. Old friends might be compared to old married people without the tie of children.

William Hazlitt

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• I found the offer of a knighthood something that I couldn't possibly accept. I found it to be somehow squalid, a knighthood. There's a relationship to government about knights.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Relationship
  • Government

• I talk every day about doing the right thing.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Day
  • Doing The Right Thing

• The character I play is a wonderful compilation of things I hate about myself and things I love about myself and things that I've invented to make her even more interesting than me.

  

  Camryn Manheim
  • Character
  • Interesting
  • Play

• I'm confident in who I am. I've come to a place in my life where I've accepted things that are me, as opposed to feeling pressure to explain myself to people around me. That's just the way I've always tried to be. It didn't change when I became a star.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • People
  • Life
  • Feeling

• I wonder sometimes why the U.S. reviewers are more negative towards turn-based battle systems.

  

  Yuji Horii
  • Why
  • Wonder
  • Battle

• There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Very
  • Days
  • Humanitarian

• The way that I look at it is that, when we film for eight months straight for a new 'Jackass' movie, I know that I'm going to wind up with at least two broken bones. I don't know when it's going to happen, but you can't contemplate how you're going to fall and what's going to happen.

  

  Bam Margera
  • Up
  • Movie
  • Know

• If I were president, I am not sure that I would offer Ed Rendell the job of chief of staff.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • Job
  • President
  • Ed Rendell

• Everybody in the black community must organize, and then we decide whether we will have alliance with other people or not, but not until we are organized.

  

  H. Rap Brown
  • People
  • Black
  • Community

• My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Good
  • Wrong
  • Places

• Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Man
  • Government
  • Decent

• I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Long
  • Mind
  • Streets

• It excites me to go to a movie and be reminded that I'm human, and I'm filled with opposites, and I'm built with flaws. Part of growth and healing is recognizing that.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Movie
  • Me
  • Growth

• The kids from the streets don't want preaching or messages. They want what they can identify with. They want to hear about the reality of their situation, not fairy tales. They don't care if it's ugly; they just want reality.

  

  Eric Lynn Wright
  • Kids
  • Reality
  • Care

• At the end of the day, you can't have a vision; you have to have a hope. This is where the miracle comes in.

  

  Dan Colen
  • Hope
  • Day
  • Vision

• One of the recent love stories I enjoyed was Bhaskar's 'Bommarillu.'

  

  Ram Charan
  • Love
  • Stories
  • Love Stories

• Heaven is long-enduring, and earth continues long. The reason why heaven and earth are able to endure and continue thus long is because they do not live of, or for, themselves.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Long
  • Live
  • Why

• I like movies about longing and desperation, and dark and light things, stories about people struggling to raise children, and to have relationships and be intimate with each other.

  

  Laura Dern
  • People
  • Children
  • Light

• Whenever we start a new TV series, there's also a lot of question marks, and part of that is finding who you are.

  

  Mary Steenburgen
  • Question

• Your first thought is often the best one. You know, the one that felt too weird or silly or stupid. Trust your imagination - it knows what it's doing.

  

  Karin Tidbeck
  • Trust
  • Imagination
  • Thought

• I remember tap-dancing and singing in front of the TV when I was a kid, telling my dad to stop watching Ed Sullivan or Milton Berle and watch me.

  

  Andie MacDowell
  • Remember
  • Stop
  • Dad

• There are goals that I had set out for myself as an artist. I have accomplished some of them - becoming accepted all over the world - however, other parts of my goals have not been completed.

  

  Jimmy Cliff
  • World
  • Goals

• I personally think that the visibility that the Cowboys have, the kind of interest we have, is best served and best used by showing people that are contrite, know the mistakes they've made, and want to try to go in a different direction.

  

  Jerry Jones
  • People
  • Different

• The soil of friendship is worn out with constant use. Habit may still attach us to each other, but we feel ourselves fettered by it. Old friends might be compared to old married people without the tie of children.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • People
  • Children
  • Friendship