Daniel Defoe Quotes

From this amphibious ill-born mob beganThat vain, ill-natured thing, an Englishman.

Daniel Defoe

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• In the future, officials will feel more pressure to protect the environment. But how to assess the officials' efforts to protect the environment is still a pivotal issue.

  

  Ma Jun
  • Future
  • Environment
  • Feel

• My public in Guadalajara and the people from Guadalajara, they've supported me since day one.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • People
  • Day
  • Public

• You've got to try to guard, make an effort to defend to the best of your ability. You have to rebound the ball, which was an area that was so critical. And they wanted you to play smart and have fun. I've kind of tried to let our people understand those are the most important things that I could possibly tell them.

  

  Larry Brown
  • People
  • Important
  • Fun

• What did we want out of Iraq? We wanted a country that was stable and secure, that elected its own government, that was not going to be a threat to its neighbors and also was capable of protecting and defending itself. That was our objective in Iraq.

  

  Jack Keane
  • Country
  • Want
  • Government

• Pasta with melted cheese is the one thing I could eat over and over again.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Again
  • Cheese
  • Pasta

• Presidents make their hard decisions and then abide forever with their mistakes and regrets.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Forever
  • Mistakes
  • Decisions

• The song This Kiss was definitely my breakthrough song. After that, Breathe was my breakthrough album.

  

  Faith Hill
  • Song
  • Kiss
  • Breathe

• Religion is a complex and often contradictory force in our world. It fosters hope and comfort but also doubt and guilt. It creates both community and exclusion. It brings societies together around shared belief and tears them apart through war. However, what unites the faithful, whatever their religion, is the unshakeable force of generosity.

  

  Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
  • World
  • War
  • Together

• Every person gets negative things, they learn from those negative things, and you become a positive person.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • Positive
  • Learn
  • Negative

• Wine lovers have known for centuries that decanting wine before serving it often improves its flavor. Whatever the dominant process, the traditional decanter is a rather pathetic tool to accomplish it. A few years ago, I found I could get much better results by using an ordinary kitchen blender.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Process
  • Wine
  • Kitchen

• I didn't have a record player.

  

  Harrison Birtwistle
  • Player
  • Record

• It is probably safe to say that all the changes of factual knowledge which have led to the relativity theory, resulting in a very great theoretical development, are completely trivial from any point of view except their relevance to the structure of a theoretical system.

  

  Talcott Parsons
  • Great
  • Knowledge
  • Changes

• Film acting is really the trick of doing moments. You rarely do a take that lasts more than 20 seconds. You really earn your spurs acting onstage. I needed to do that for myself. I would hate to say at the end of everything that I never did a stage play.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Hate
  • Myself
  • Moments

• We went into this with the utmost respect for the source material, but we recognized the need for change.

  

  Sam Wood
  • Change
  • Respect
  • Need

• Cut off the head of the snake

  

  Abdullah of Saudi Arabia
  • Snake

• If that was on my road the council would be like 'Get that down, its a deathtrap!'

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Road

• With skill she vibrates her eternal tongue,Forever most divinely in the wrong.

  

  Edward Young
  • She
  • Forever

• I went into performing for the community. Being backstage with your company of fellows is the best part of working in live theater. That energy, that combined focus, the synergy - it's addictive.

  

  Jason Alexander
  • Live
  • Energy
  • Community

• It's not an easy topic because it gets at some fairly delicate issues. The source of some of the smuggling, who's involved, means it is probably not that easy a topic to tackle.

  

  William Ramsay
  • Topic
  • Tackle
  • Smuggling

• With the requests of some he complied, and has published a discourse, delivered before the Society for recovering drowned persons, which may be justly pronounced one of the most beautiful and interesting sermons in the English language.

  

  John Strachan
  • May
  • Beautiful
  • Society

• Every human interaction offers you the chance to make things better or to make things worse.

  

  Barbara Brown Taylor
  • Chance
  • Worse
  • Human Interaction

• I really like comedy. There's always a choice, when you're writing: you can either go for the joke or you can go for the story, the important stuff.

  

  David Chase
  • Important
  • Writing
  • Comedy

• If you should ask me what are the ways of God, I would tell you that the first is humility, the second is humility, and the third is humility. Not that there are no other precepts to give, but if humility does not preceed all that we do, our efforts are fruitless.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • God
  • Giving
  • Effort

• From this amphibious ill-born mob beganThat vain, ill-natured thing, an Englishman.

  

  Daniel Defoe