Anthony Trollope Quotes

They who do not understand that a man may be brought to hope that which of all things is the most grievous to him, have not observed with sufficient closeness the perversity of the human mind.

Anthony Trollope

• Hope
• Human Mind
• Perversity

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• I don't see pitches down the middle anymore - not even in batting practice.

  

  Hank Aaron
  • Practice
  • See
  • Down

• Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Character
  • Judge
  • Dreams

• I wanna live 'til I die, no more, no less.

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • Live
  • Die
  • More

• I've always felt a bit hard done by in England – you know, I've won the Bisto three times in Ireland, but it has felt like nobody has even heard of me in my home country.

  

  Kate Thompson
  • Country
  • Done
  • Home

• My mom and stepdad were strict. I couldn't date; I couldn't go out. And I was a kid who was never good at just taking no for an answer. I needed to understand why. And sometimes they weren't interested in explaining.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Good
  • Why
  • Mom

• I have moved to a smaller house in Paris, and I don't fancy having so much staff now.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • House
  • Paris
  • Now

• Agriculture is a business that has been up to its bib overalls in politics since the first Thanksgiving dinner kickback to the Indians for subsidizing Pilgrim maize production with fish head fertilizer grants.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Up
  • Business
  • Politics

• Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Strength
  • Feet
  • Stand

• Make no mistake: the anti-war voices long for us to lose any war they cannot prevent.

  

  Ralph Peters
  • Long
  • War
  • Mistake

• If we get a few solid festival shows then I will have no problem booking the lads for as many quality club shows around them to make a nice tour come together.

  

  Pat Garrett
  • Together
  • Nice
  • Quality

• My whole back's tattooed. I just wanted a twist. I was always in punk bands when I was little... I think that's where the tie comes from.

  

  Gary Allan
  • Think
  • Always
  • Punk

• A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits.

  

  Edith Sitwell
  • People
  • Great
  • Writing

• You earn very little money on independent films and I'm the provider for my home, so I do have to think of taking one for the accountant time and again and that means studio pictures.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Time
  • Money
  • Home

• We visited Ravi. We didn't study with him, as such.

  

  Gary Wright
  • Study
  • Him
  • Visited

• Vijay Singh won a playoff in 2004 at Whistling Straits after a final-round 76, which was the highest last round by the winner of any major since 1938, when Reg Whitcombe won the British Open with a 78 in a storm that blew down the exhibition tent at Sandwich.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Down
  • Storm
  • Winner

• What bothered me most about chick lit, frankly, was how the term was used to dismiss a huge chunk of the bookstore as silly, girlish prattle.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Me
  • Silly
  • Bothered

• When I go to a sci-fi convention, oh God, it's the closest thing to being a rock star I will ever know in this life. I want to be a rock star, don't you? It's a good thing to be, a rock star.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Life
  • Good
  • God

• The motive, principle, and end of the religious life is to make an absolute gift of self to God in a self-forgetting love, to end one's own life in order to make room for God's life.

  

  Edith Stein
  • Life
  • God
  • Religious

• I actually thought, like, I was sure 'Get Smart' and, like, 'James Bond' movies, I was sure that that's what real life was like.

  

  Bruce Eric Kaplan
  • Life
  • Real
  • Smart

• I mean, roots musicians - we can get old, you know? We can get up there and wear overalls and deliver the songs, we don't have to look any certain way.

  

  Valerie June
  • Up

• Laws and Institutions Must Go Hand in Hand with the Progress of the Human Mind.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Progress
  • Laws
  • Human Mind

• Unless man have a natural bent in accordance with nature's, he has no chance of understanding nature at all.

  

  Charles Sanders Peirce
  • Nature
  • Understanding

• They who do not understand that a man may be brought to hope that which of all things is the most grievous to him, have not observed with sufficient closeness the perversity of the human mind.

  

  Anthony Trollope
  • Hope
  • Human Mind
  • Perversity