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

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

  

  Pam Grier
  • Never
  • Beauty
  • Something

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

  

  Zach Anner
  • Real
  • Just
  • Go

• 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

• 8) History never repeats itself.

  

  Larry Niven
  • History

• As a Christian, I try to meditate or pray at least once a day, however briefly.

  

  Jay Parini
  • Christian

• The British have a unique relationship with horses. They are etched into our landscape in chalk, they have been written about, painted, sung about, celebrated and gambled upon for centuries.

  

  Clare Balding
  • Relationship
  • Unique

• The worst thing that can happen to you in travel is having a gun pointed at you by a very young person. That's happened to me maybe four times in my life. I didn't like it.

  

  Paul Theroux
  • Life
  • Travel
  • Gun

• Telling your story out loud is the way human beings communicate. We don't normally think up words, translate how to spell them and then move our fingers up and down over this randomly arranged set of keys to make the same letters appear on a screen.

  

  Kevin J. Anderson
  • Up
  • Words

• The effect of dominance is not always the result of an intention to dominate.

  

  Deborah Tannen

• I would have waived the Jones Act, and some unions not might not like it, not union membership, but the union leaders, too many, who are thugs.

  

  Sarah Palin
  • Leader
  • Might
  • Thug

• Six years of your life is a long time to do anything, and especially in this business, where you get so used to being nomadic and moving on to different jobs.

  

  Busy Philipps
  • Life
  • Time
  • Different

• Protest and anger practically always derives from hope, and the shouting out against injustice is always in the hope of those injustices being somewhat corrected and a little more justice established.

  

  John Berger
  • Hope
  • Justice

• Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Universe
  • Creativity
  • Creative

• Growing up, my dad owned a restaurant in Washington, DC, and food was something I was passionate about. But when I finally got into it, I felt like it was so late in the game; that's why I worked seven days a week at Craft and Mercer Kitchen. I wanted to see how far I could take it.

  

  David Chang
  • Up
  • Why
  • Game

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

  

  William Hazlitt