William Hazlitt Quotes

Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an end.

William Hazlitt

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• The mill cannot grind with the water that is past.

  

  Daniel D. Palmer
  • Past
  • Water
  • Grind

• The question for France and all countries is, 'Do you favour foreign Internet operators that do not pay, or do you favour national operators who pay?'

  

  Xavier Niel
  • You
  • Question
  • Internet

• You know, I get much more Jewish in Israel because I like the way that religion is done there.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Done
  • Know
  • Religion

• If there's another 9/11 or a major war in the Middle-East involving a U.S. attack on Iran, I have no doubt that there will be, the day after or within days an equivalent of a Reichstag fire decree that will involve massive detentions in this country.

  

  Daniel Ellsberg
  • Country
  • War
  • Day

• Rock music is being systematically merged with fashion.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Music
  • Fashion
  • Rock

• This whole beauty thing is something I've never comprehended.

  

  Pam Grier
  • Never
  • Beauty
  • Something

• Marching thus at night, a battalion is doubly impressive. The silent monster is full of restrained power; resolute in its onward sweep, impervious to danger, it looks a menacing engine of destruction, steady to its goal, and certain of its mission.

  

  Patrick MacGill
  • Power
  • Night
  • Goal

• When I get real excited, my muscles go into spasm, so they just shake.

  

  Zach Anner
  • Real
  • Just
  • Go

• I've lived in the Hamptons since 1978, when I first bought my store Barefoot Contessa.

  

  Ina Garten
  • First
  • Lived
  • Barefoot

• The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • World
  • Work
  • Long

• I definitely care about what I look like, certainly when I am going out in public, doing an appearance or something, but when I'm home, I'm all sweatpants, all the time.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Time
  • Look
  • Public

• I think now I'll probably take a few days off and enjoy the competition and then sit down with a few people and work out what is next, work out what the next preparation will be and what competition will be next.

  

  Ian Thorpe
  • People
  • Work
  • Competition

• I'm old-school English, so I suppose I'm quite protective - especially of time. Now that I'm a father, every moment is precious.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Time
  • School
  • Father

• Humans will die like all living things do, but we have the added burden of knowing that we will.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • Die
  • Living
  • Knowing

• Kids don't hesitate to ask questions. And it's a great honor to have the kids say, 'Your books have made me trust you.'

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
  • Great
  • Kids
  • Trust

• 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

• One of the annoying things about believing in free will and individual responsibility is the difficulty of finding somebody to blame your problems on. And when you do find somebody, it's remarkable how often his picture turns up on your driver's license.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Up
  • Free
  • Responsibility

• You know, the way I'm accepted, I almost feel like Judy Garland, truly. It makes no sense to me because I don't think that I've been any more outspoken... Or maybe I have, I don't know. But everyone I know supports anything that has to do with raising money or with AIDS.

  

  Bea Arthur
  • Money

• The happiest moments in any affair take place after the loved one has learned to accommodate the lover and before the maddening personality of either party has emerged like a jagged rock from the receding tides of lust and curiosity.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Party
  • Moments
  • Rock

• God shapes the world by prayer. Prayers are deathless. The lips that uttered them may be closed to death, the heart that felt them may have ceased to beat, but the prayers live before God, and God's heart is set on them and prayers outlive the lives of those who uttered them; they outlive a generation, outlive an age, outlive a world.

  

  Edward McKendree Bounds
  • World
  • God
  • Live

• But science can only be created by those who are thoroughly imbued with the aspiration toward truth and understanding. This source of feeling, however, springs from the sphere of religion. To this there also belongs the faith in the possibility that the regulations valid for the world of existence are rational, that is, comprehensible to reason. I cannot conceive of a genuine scientist without that profound faith. The situation may be expressed by an image: science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Science
  • Reason
  • Understanding

• Arnold has had his spokesman call me a crackpot. That was a mistake.

  

  Warren Beatty
  • Mistake
  • Spokesman
  • Crackpot

• To think is first of all to create a world or to limit one's own world, which comes to the same thing.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Think
  • Create
  • Same Thing

• Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an end.

  

  William Hazlitt