Daniel Defoe Quotes

I have often thought of it as one of the most barbarous customs in the world, considering us as a civilized and a Christian country, that we deny the advantages of learning to women.

Daniel Defoe

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• Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Think
  • Act
  • Tyranny

• I think Woody Allen is Woody Allen, and no matter where he goes he still makes his Woody Allen films.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Think
  • Matter
  • Where

• We were talking about how old quarterbacks can't throw before 10 am... Practice starts too early for us. Wake me up in the middle of the night and I can throw. I can throw anytime.

  

  Dan Marino
  • Night
  • Practice
  • Starts

• If I categorized home runs that I've seen, without a doubt the monumental one is Henry's... but I've seen a lot of classic, great home runs. Gibson's was probably the most theatrical home run I've ever seen.

  

  Vin Scully
  • Great
  • Home
  • Doubt

• I went to Floridita on Wardour Street when I was 18. All I could afford was pumpkin soup and a glass of champagne, but it was worth it.

  

  Karen Gillan
  • Street
  • Champagne
  • Soup

• All I can do is make good music and make it for the fans, not for anybody else.

  

  Taio Cruz
  • Good
  • Music
  • I Can

• Don't try to guess what it is people want and give it to them. Don't ask for a show of hands. Try your best to write what you like, what you think your friends would like and what you think your father would like and then cross your fingers... The most valuable thing you have is your own voice.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • People
  • Friends
  • Father

• After six years without seeing one, I love just seeing a smile - every smile I see gives me hope.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Hope
  • Smile
  • Seeing

• Elizabeth, Lady C, claims to be writing at the limits of language. Would it not be insulting to her if I were diligently to follow after her, explaining what she means but is not smart enough to say?

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • Writing
  • She
  • Language

• I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughout all my life and with all my heart I shall strive to be worthy of your trust.

  

  Queen Elizabeth II
  • Life
  • Heart
  • Myself

• We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure.

  

  Karl Popper
  • Freedom
  • Security
  • Plan

• The goal in life is to be solid, whereas the way that life works is totally fluid, so you can never actually achieve that goal.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Life
  • Never
  • Goal

• The father figure doesn't impress me. I have a very friendly relationship with my father, but that wasn't always the case. My mother had custody, and I only saw him every other weekend. I never knew him well enough for him to inspire me.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Relationship

• It is not important what Rahul Gandhi thinks, its important what a billion Indians think.

  

  Rahul Gandhi
  • Important
  • Think
  • Indians

• You just have to take control of your own performance.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • You
  • Control
  • Performance

• I try to stay focused.

  

  OMI
  • Try
  • Focused
  • Stay Focused

• I'm annoying to be around because I keep twitching.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Because
  • Keep
  • Annoying

• Hollywood would make a holocaust an animated comedy if people would pay to see it; they don't care... they just want your money.

  

  Adam Green
  • People
  • Money
  • Comedy

• You know, when you start, especially with me, I didn't really know I was going to be a movie actress. I thought I was going to do theater.

  

  Ludivine Sagnier
  • Movie

• You forget all of it anyway. . . You forget who was cool and who was not, who was pretty, smart, athletic, and not. . . You forget all of them. Even the ones you said you loved, and even the ones you actually did. They’re the last to go. And then once you’ve forgotten enough, you love someone else.

  

  Gabrielle Zevin
  • Pretty
  • Cool
  • Smart

• But to hear Kennedy when he was grandstanding in front of the McClellan Committee you might have thought I was making as much out of the pension fund as the Kennedys made out of selling whiskey.

  

  Jimmy Hoffa
  • Whiskey

• I make no vows. I take my chance. … It means that I fear certainty as you fear uncertainty. It means that nothing is certain but uncertainty. If I bind the future I bind my will. If I bind my will I strangle creation.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Future
  • Fear

• People settle for so much less because they find their identities in the world's fickle and untrue opinions. God made you royal with His blood. Live.

  

  Lacey Mosley
  • People
  • World
  • God

• I have often thought of it as one of the most barbarous customs in the world, considering us as a civilized and a Christian country, that we deny the advantages of learning to women.

  

  Daniel Defoe
  • World
  • Women
  • Country