Tobias Smollett (Tobias George Smollett) Quotes

I think for my part one half of the nation is mad - and the other not very sound.

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• Mother Nature is always speaking. She speaks in a language understood within the peaceful mind of the sincere observer. Leopards, cobras, monkeys, rivers and trees; they all served as my teachers when I lived as a wanderer in the Himalayan foothills.

  

  Radhanath Swami
  • Mind
  • She
  • Mother

• I have a superhero complex. If I see anything bad happen, I run towards it, rather idiotically because, after all, what could I do?

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Bad
  • Run
  • Superhero

• I hope America can also be the cultural leader of the world, and use this frontier spirit to lead and show others that we need courage to go places where we have not gone before.

  

  Tadao Ando
  • World
  • America
  • Hope

• I think I will always stay involved in tennis and would like to give back by helping out young players. I have done a little commentary and may one day enjoy doing that again.

  

  Samantha Stosur
  • Done
  • May
  • Think

• I want to act for the rest of my life - and I also want to pursue directing. Watching Bill Condon direct 'Twilight' kind of made me think, 'OK yeah, I really want to do this now.' This idea that you can make an image in your head and be in full control of how it comes out - I thought that was really cool.

  

  Mackenzie Foy
  • Life
  • Control
  • Rest

• I've done a lot of films that all have been pretty edgy.

  

  Ja Rule
  • Done
  • Pretty
  • Edgy

• I have a notebook that is filled to the brim with my dreams and ideas and goals and aspirations.

  

  Karlie Kloss
  • Ideas
  • Goals
  • Dreams

• If I had foreseen Hiroshima and Nagasaki, I would have torn up my formula in 1905.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Formula
  • Torn
  • Hiroshima

• My focus is 100 percent on my day job, on the state of Arizona.

  

  Doug Ducey
  • Job
  • Focus

• Doctors always think anybody doing something they aren't is a quack; also they think all patients are idiots.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Patient
  • Doctors
  • Quack

• We took her to see Dorothy Hamill at the Morris (Performing Arts Center), and she was delighted, ... She thought it was awesome.

  

  Angela Davis
  • She
  • Awesome
  • Dorothy Hamill

• There's an idea about who I am that's eternally projected onto me, and then I almost feel like I have to fulfill that role. Even when things come out of my mouth, I want to be sure I'm saying exactly what I mean.

  

  Kristen Stewart
  • Mean
  • Ideas
  • Feels

• There is such pleasure in long-term marriage that I really would hate to be my age and not have had a long-term marriage. Remember, sustaining a pleasurable, long-term marriage takes effort, deliberateness and an intention to learn about one another. In other words, marriage is for grown-ups.

  

  Cokie Roberts
  • Long
  • Remember
  • Age

• Young people . . , God wants us to be victorious. He wants you to triumph over all of your foes. Stalwart and brave we must stand. God is at the helm. There is no reason for defeat.

  

  Marvin J. Ashton
  • People
  • God
  • Brave

• In Baltimore, soft crabs are always fried (or broiled) in the altogether, with maybe a small jock-strap of bacon added.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Small

• And even within cities you have different dynamics in each asset class.

  

  Jason Lee
  • Cities
  • Dynamics
  • Asset Class

• We must be alarmingly enterprising, and we must be startlingly original, and do new and striking things which constitute a revolution.

  

  William Randolph Hearst
  • Revolution
  • Originals
  • Enterprising

• The world is a very abnormal place.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • World
  • Place
  • Very

• With 'Kids React,' it started, hilariously enough, by thinking, 'Why, teenage girls seem to love 'Twilight' so much!' We went from wanting to ask them ourselves to coming up with the larger and more universal concept of a bunch of Kids reacting to viral videos.

  

  Rafi Fine
  • Girls
  • Concept
  • Universal

• The Syrian people will never forget those who extended their hand to help them rid of their dictatorship. The Syrian people also would love to be friends with all nations. I think the new Syria will contribute greatly to the return of regional stability and the birth of common development with Arab nations and the region. The only exception is those countries that still harm the Syrian peoples and take some of their rights. We are looking for a region where cooperation, prosperity, and peace flourish.

  

  Burhan Ghalioun
  • Friends
  • Help
  • Nations

• The great tragedy of Alzheimer's disease, and the reason why we dread it, is that it leaves us with no defence, not even against those who love us.

  

  P. D. James
  • Great
  • Why

• I think for my part one half of the nation is mad - and the other not very sound.

  

  Tobias Smollett
  • Sound
  • Nations