Margaret Cavendish Quotes

Pain and Oblivion make mankind afraid to die; but all creatures are afraid of the one, none but mankind afraid of the other.

Margaret Cavendish

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• Pain
• Afraid
• Oblivion

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• First of all, I'm not the kind of guy that likes to rehash the show and so forth and so on.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Guy
  • Kind
  • First

• Just as soaps were very pivotal in the transition from radio to television, they will be right in the thick of things again in the transition from television to the Internet. Exciting news.

  

  Cameron Mathison
  • Internet
  • News
  • Transition

• Well, I have been in physical altercations, but they weren't really fights because I am too scared and Jewish. So anytime that it gets to a point where there is gonna be a fight, I immediately apologize.

  

  Adam Pally
  • Fight
  • Jewish
  • Apologize

• In a strange way, I'm way more comfortable onstage than anywhere else.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Way
  • Strange
  • Comfortable

• And my dad wanted me to play the trumpet because that's what he liked. His idol was Louis Armstrong. My dad thought my teeth came together in a way that was perfect for playing the trumpet.

  

  Jackson Browne
  • Dad
  • Perfect
  • Play

• My wife has a horror the children will start talking American if we spend too much time out there.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Time
  • Children
  • American

• It became obvious in 1957 that I was endangering my health by carrying so much weight.

  

  Kate Smith
  • Health
  • Weight
  • Obvious

• There are things that bother me. I try not to let them, but they do.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Me
  • Things
  • Try

• We'll free every slave in every town and region. Can anybody get a bigger army than that?

  

  Dalton Trumbo
  • Free
  • Army
  • Slave

• Usually when I write a song, I'll write the music and then kind of fit some words to it.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Music
  • Song
  • Words

• Even if you go to Australia today, it's very much like visiting a state you haven't been to.

  

  Pat Oliphant
  • Today
  • You
  • Australia

• A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

  

  Harold Coffin
  • Something
  • Consumer
  • Sore

• In reality I have said very little things; I didn't point out many things to Geoffrey, I trusted very much not only his understanding of what I was doing, or what I wanted to do, in that moment.

  

  Victoria de los Angeles
  • Reality
  • Understanding
  • Moment

• Asian people are very practical and come from a conservative world. The parents want their kids to be doctors and lawyers. There are casting calls for Asian children, but once the parents find out the children might miss school, they're opposed to it.

  

  B. D. Wong
  • People
  • World
  • Children

• Parisian women have an inner elegance that's envied the world over. They are so relaxed about ageing and seem to acquire more charisma and beauty with time. Who wouldn't want to be like them? That's the trick - to embrace the natural progression of life and to be confident.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • Life
  • Time
  • World

• But working with Dre, I grew up with his music, so I'm still like more a fan.

  

  Obie Trice
  • Up
  • Music
  • Working

• I love being a writer. I don't really want to do anything else!

  

  Cameron Dokey
  • Love
  • Want
  • Writer

• I am a character actress. Well, let's say, I am a leading character actress who does interesting, odd parts.

  

  Imelda Staunton
  • Character
  • Interesting
  • Actress

• PETA doesn't want stressed animals to be cruelly crowded into sheds, ankle-deep in their own crap, because they don't want any animals to die-ever-and basically think chickens should, in time, gain the right to vote. I don't want animals stressed or crowded or treated cruelly or inhumanely because that makes them probably less delicious.

  

  Anthony Bourdain
  • Time
  • Die
  • Deep

• I think that's given inspiration to other musicians. I know, particularly through the 90s, a lot of bands would cite Rush as an influence. I don't think it was so much our music, but more the way we really stuck to our guns.

  

  Alex Lifeson Rush
  • Music
  • Inspiration

• Live in a constant state of expectancy, and leave room for God to come in as He decides.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Live
  • Decide

• The downfall of civilized states tends to come not from the direct assaults of foes, but from internal decay combined with the consequences of exhaustion in war.

  

  B. H. Liddell Hart
  • War

• Being silent and doing nothing is never the right answer. What happens in one state can happen in another.

  

  Alan Wilson

• Pain and Oblivion make mankind afraid to die; but all creatures are afraid of the one, none but mankind afraid of the other.

  

  Margaret Cavendish
  • Die
  • Pain
  • Afraid