William Hazlitt Quotes

It is essential to the triumph of reform that it should never succeed.

William Hazlitt

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• Generally, what adults want to know is my background, why I write what I write, and very personal insights that some say are inspiring.

  

  Patricia Polacco
  • Why
  • Want
  • Know

• Doctrines provide an architecture for both Republican and Democrat presidents to carry out policies.

  

  Malcolm Wallop
  • Architecture
  • Republican

• It was luxuries like air conditioning that brought down the Roman Empire. With air conditioning their windows were shut, they couldn't hear the barbarians coming.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • Air
  • Down
  • Windows

• People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing the practice. According to this logic, we should not try to prevent people from murdering other people, since this has also been done since the earliest of times.

  

  Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • People
  • Done
  • Practice

• Bling is good.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Good

• I left Montana in Spring of 1866, for Utah, arriving at Salt Lake city during the summer.

  

  Calamity Jane
  • City
  • Summer
  • Spring

• I feel like people are funny, and women are people, so I'm sick of the distinction.

  

  Kate Flannery
  • People
  • Women
  • Funny

• I'm focused on being the best, making history.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • History
  • Best
  • Being

• Work for something because it is good, not just because it stands a chance to succeed.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • Good
  • Work
  • Chance

• The more I find out about the dynamic and how it works, the more I realize how lucky I am to have ever got anything. Like... there was no need to put me in 'Cinderella Man' - there was no need. Why? Just get an American actor - it would've been cheaper, probably.

  

  Paddy Considine
  • American
  • Actor
  • Works

• What do you know? Haven't you heard of suspension of disbelief?

  

  Ed Wood
  • You
  • Know
  • Suspension

• Urban areas tend to attract members of the 'knowledge class' - people who work with ideas, data, information.

  

  Nancy Pearcey
  • People
  • Work
  • Knowledge

• If you're really a rapper, you can't stop rapping.

  

  Ice T
  • You
  • Stop
  • Rapper

• Drama class was one of the only areas at school I responded to.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • School
  • Drama
  • Class

• I have treated many hundreds of patients. Among those in the second half of life - that is to say, over 35 - there has not been one whose problem in the last resort was not that of finding a religious outlook on life.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Life
  • Problem
  • Religious

• I saw Tom Cruise at every audition I went up for, and he was a friendly go-getter back then. You gotta remember, in New York I would go up for something, I would sit, and in the room would be Matthew Modine, Matthew Broderick, Andrew McCarthy, Tom Cruise, and Kevin Bacon.

  

  Zach Galligan
  • Up
  • Remember
  • New

• Relationships survive on trust, and if that is broken at any point, it's pretty much the end of the relationship. Besides, inability to communicate leads to problems.

  

  Yuvraj Singh
  • Pretty
  • Relationship
  • Trust

• I borrowed a creaky laptop from my husband, went into the web, and never came back.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Never
  • Husband
  • Back

• Mack was getting frustrated. He spoke louder, 'But, don't I have a right to...' To complete a sentence without being interrupted? Not in reality. But as long as you think you do, you will surely get ticked off when someone cuts you off, even if it is God.

  

  William P. Young
  • Thinking
  • Long
  • Reality

• The city is being destroyed by thugs who in a very senseless way are trying to tear down what so many have fought for, tearing down businesses, tearing down or destroying property, things that we know will impact our community for years.

  

  Stephanie Rawlings-Blake
  • Trying
  • Community
  • Tears

• George W. Bush bought the election - period. End of story. There is no argument. You can try to come up with any argument you can, but there is none.

  

  Gary Coleman
  • Up
  • Period
  • End

• Women are responsible for their children, they cannot sit back, waste time and see them starve.

  

  Wangari Maathai
  • Time
  • Women
  • Children

• It is essential to the triumph of reform that it should never succeed.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Succeed
  • Reform
  • Essentials