Tobias Smollett (Tobias George Smollett) Quotes

And hearts resolved and hands prepared The blessings they enjoy to guard.

Tobias Smollett

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• I often feel like not writing! Sometimes I overcome it by just sitting there until writing happens. Sometimes I don't write, because books often need periods of percolation.

  

  Nancy Pickard
  • Writing
  • Sometimes
  • Feel

• I would never try to invalidate someone's opinion of something or the feelings something makes them feel.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • Opinion
  • Feelings
  • Try

• I don't think being an athlete is unfeminine. I think of it as a kind of grace.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • Think
  • Athlete
  • Grace

• I felt that a number of people might have questioned my loyalty, but I continue to be a patriotic American.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • People
  • American
  • Loyalty

• I want to keep active, so when they called me to fight Nate Diaz, I agreed because I wanted to stay active. I got a little surprised because he was out so long, but he's a tough opponent.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Long
  • Fight
  • Tough

• You get to a new school, and you're the new guy, or you're the foreigner, or you're the guy with the funny accent. That first day at school was a whole new opportunity to create a new persona.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • School
  • Guy
  • Opportunity

• This is the voice of Vietnam Broadcasting from Hanoi, capitol of the Democratic republic of Vietnam.

  

  Hanoi Hannah
  • Voice
  • Vietnam
  • Capitol

• I get attached to things: I wear the same jeans for a year.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Same
  • Year
  • Jeans

• Still, still with Thee, when purple morning breaketh,When the bird waketh, and the shadows flee;Fairer than morning, lovelier than the daylight,Dawns the sweet consciousness, - I am with Thee.

  

  Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Morning
  • Sweet
  • Bird

• 17. The Jnanin present in the heart sees the mind merged in the light of the heart, like moonlight in the presence of the sun during the day.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Mind
  • Heart
  • Light

• She said, 'Spell 'ant' ', and I wrote out the entire alphabet. She said, 'That doesn't spell 'ant' ', and I said, 'It's in there somewhere! There's the A, there's the N, there's the T – the rest are silent!'

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • She
  • Rest

• Lydgate opened the sort of letter…'My dear husband I very good…I come in flying ship…we be very happy…love.' It was as satisfactory a letter as he had ever received from a woman.

  

  Anthony Burgess
  • Good
  • Happy
  • Husband

• It seems to me absurd to doubt that a man may be an ardent Theist & an evolutionist. … I have never been an atheist in the sense of denying the existence of a God.

  

  Charles Darwin
  • God
  • May
  • Doubt

• What good do you think it does to waller all over a horse thataway? said Rawlins.I dont know, said John Grady. I aint a horse.

  

  Cormac McCarthy
  • Good
  • Horse

• Oklahomans value our children and our seniors. Oklahomans value traditions of faith. Oklahomans value our heroes, our veterans. Oklahomans value innovation and the creative arts.

  

  Brad Henry
  • Children
  • Faith
  • Value

• You see things through a different lens when you have a child.

  

  Kevin Nealon
  • Different

• People wouldn't hire me for comedies. They would say, 'Oh, he doesn't do comedy,' and now it's really all I do.

  

  Kevin Dillon
  • People
  • Comedy

• In Paris, everything's for sale: wise virgins, foolish virgins, truth and lies, tears and smiles.

  

  Emile Zola
  • Truth
  • Wise
  • Lies

• War is very uncertain in its results, and often when affairs look most desperate they suddenly assume a more hopeful state.

  

  George Meade
  • War
  • Results
  • State

• In the Seventies, we still had dreams and hopes of Utopia, but by the end of the decade, the world had shifted to the right.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • World
  • End
  • Dreams

• After a year and six months, it's no longer me that you want. But, I love you so much it hurts. Never mistreated you once; I poured my heart out to you. Let down my guard, swear to God. I'll blow my brains in your lap, lay here and die in your arms. Drop to my knees and I'm pleading; I'm trying to stop you from leaving. You won't even listen, so...

  

  Eminem
  • God
  • Trying
  • Heart

• Be careful what you set your heart upon - for it will surely be yours.

  

  James A. Baldwin
  • Heart

• Days come and ages pass, and it is ever he who moves my heart in many a name, in many a guise, in many a rapture of joy and of sorrow. Deliverance is not for me in renunciation. I feel the embrace of freedom in a thousand bonds of delight.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Heart
  • Freedom
  • Joy

• And hearts resolved and hands prepared The blessings they enjoy to guard.

  

  Tobias Smollett
  • Heart
  • Enjoy
  • Blessing