Daniel Defoe Quotes
Nature has left this tincture in the blood, That all men would be tyrants if they could.
Quotes to Explore
-
The perfect normal person is rare in our civilization.
-
I once tried standing up on my toes to see far out in the distance, but I found that I could see much farther by climbing to a high place.
-
It's very hard to maintain focus in the gym.
-
But I think we need the international market.
-
Sometimes I go to movies, and it's just a bombardment, and I'm not entertained by them - I'm assaulted by them! And I know I sound like such a drama queen, but I find that really strange.
-
To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't white.
-
It seems to me that Halloween is the perfect time to get all over steampunk.
-
I have a different way of thinking. I think synergistically. I'm not linear in thinking, I'm not very logical.
-
I don't think we can go back to the old days. But I think that what the government needs to do is it needs to make sure that the pricing is fair, that you don't have monopolies out there, so that people don't have a chance to compete fairly.
-
He was what I often think is a dangerous thing for a statesman to be - a student of history; and like most of those who study history, he learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.
-
As far as how much you listen to the audience, you listen to them when they really hate something.
-
I find it some of the hardest photography and the most challenging photography I've ever done. It's a real challenge to work with the natural features and the natural light.
-
I really feel that New York City is the greatest city in the world.
-
I am my own sanctuary and I can be reborn as many times as I choose throughout my life.
-
A surgeon wouldn't sell his tools. A lawyer doesn't sell his law books. I'm not going to sell my horse. I'm a sportsman.
-
Seeing myself on the screen makes me cringe. I understand that I am that way - pouty.
-
I think my first hit was probably '24 is a Rubberband Man,' which was my second album. My first project, it was very well received in the Southeast region, all throughout the South and parts of the Midwest. It was very well received, but I didn't get national exposure on my second album.
-
But the development of human society does not go straight forward; and the epic process will therefore be a recurring process, the series a recurring series - though not in exact repetition.
-
I grew up believing my sister was from the planet Neptune and had been sent down to Earth to kill me. I believed this because my sister Emily convinced me of it when I was a toddler. I think she'd seen Invasion of the Body Snatchers and her imagination ran away with her. There's a part of me that still believes it.
-
E.B. White's essays are the best things I've read about Maine - especially the one in which he's not sure if he can go out sailing any more in his sloop.
-
Yes, I was a parish priest for five years. I was a curate in a large working class parish in Bristol and the Vicar of a village in Kent.
-
I'm not the kind of person you think I am, I'm not the anti-Christ, or the iron man.
-
I don't want to save a creek for the creek's sake, but what's in it for human beings.
-
Nature has left this tincture in the blood, That all men would be tyrants if they could.
