Margaret Cavendish Quotes

Indeed I had not much wit, yet I was not an idiot - my wit was according to my years.

Margaret Cavendish

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• If you have a government that is elected, they need to do the hard work - because if they don't, they won't be around the next time the ballot box is open.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Time
  • Work
  • Hard Work

• The whole gun debate needs to be infused with a discussion about manhood. It's frustrating to hear debates about gun rights vs. gun control, and yet very few people say what's hidden in plain sight: It's really a contest of meanings about manhood.

  

  Jackson Katz
  • People
  • Control
  • Gun

• Caring about others, running the risk of feeling, and leaving an impact on people, brings happiness.

  

  Harold Kushner
  • People
  • Feeling
  • Running

• I don't write about Google except to insult the company.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Company
  • Insult
  • Google

• The goal must be to expand ourselves beyond one field of focus and use our improved access to information to solve the very real and extreme economic, environmental, and resource challenges we face as an interconnected, global society.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Real
  • Society
  • Focus

• A lot of them are afraid to sit down and break their position. You should be able to make it so natural that you can just get out, and sit down and walk away from it, and there's nothing wrong with that.

  

  Nancy Johnson
  • Down
  • Afraid
  • Walk

• The National Surveillance State doesn't want anyone to be able to communicate without the authorities being able to monitor that communication.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • Want
  • Communication
  • Without

• Too many trees are killed to print the words of people who may not have all that much to say, and authors and journalists are equally culpable in this regard.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • People
  • May
  • Words

• Art historians agree that Da Vinci's paintings contain hidden levels of meaning that go well beneath the surface of the paint. Many scholars believe his work intentionally provides clues to a powerful secret... a secret that remains protected to this day by a clandestine brotherhood of which Da Vinci was a member.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Art

• I loathe and detest movies and television and don't watch any. I do not have the time.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Time
  • Movies
  • Television

• There are a lot of times where, filming 'It Follows,' I'm fighting against a guy dressed in a green suit for special effects, and I'm just like, 'No. There's no way this is going to be pulled off.'

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Guy
  • Fighting
  • Green

• Alimony - the ransom that the happy pay to the devil.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Happy
  • Devil
  • Pay

• Why can't death - if we must have it - be always glorious, as in 'The Iliad?'

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Why
  • Death
  • Always

• Protesting near a fence, approaching a fence, damaging a fence, climbing a fence or crossing a fence is not are reason to kill someone. But Israel has ordered it's soldiers to use lethal force. This is criminal.

  

  Yousef Munayyer
  • Fence

• Chorus leader: Ye Children of Man! whose life is a span, / Protracted with sorrow from day to day, / Naked and featherless, feeble and querulous, / Sickly, calamitous creatures of clay! (heavily rewritten tr. Frere 1839, p. 38)

  

  Aristophanes
  • Life
  • Children

• I am sure the grapes are sour.

  

  Aesop

• The slave begins by demanding justice and ends by wanting to wear a crown. He must dominate in his turn.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Justice

• To the extent that anyone anywhere does anything interesting, the question is: 'Why isn't Apple doing that; why is Apple behind in that?' We aren't the Everything Company. We take on a very small number of things that we do very well, and we find that pretty rewarding.

  

  Craig Federighi
  • Why
  • Pretty
  • Small

• We'll eradicate Twitter. I don't care what the international community says. Everyone will witness the power of the Turkish Republic. There is now a scourge that is called Twitter. The best examples of lies can be found there. To me, social media is the worst menace to society. They came to me with this case of Twitter ignoring case of smeared housewife. I said, let's solve this.

  

  Recep Tayyip Erdogan
  • Community
  • Social Media
  • Twitter

• Defensive midfielder is my position and I have to be focused on that role.

  

  Nemanja Matic
  • Role
  • Focused
  • Midfielder

• I think the essence of humor has not changed. It's all about surprise, facilitating follows. But the context of humor has changed. Previously, the jokes were more related to current issues, political. Today people make about each other either funny or about people like Kim Kardashian. It's brutal. Everything is so much vielschmutziger.

  

  Bette Midler
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Today

• But most of us are apt to settle within ourselves that the man who blocks our way is odious, and not to mind causing him a little of the disgust which his personality excites in ourselves.

  

  George Eliot
  • Mind
  • Way
  • Blocks

• At 6 years old, the ice became a place for me to express myself. Because I was so shy off the ice, it became my safe haven, with music and freedom and self-expression. That was my emotional outlet.

  

  Kristi Yamaguchi
  • Music
  • Freedom
  • Emotional

• Indeed I had not much wit, yet I was not an idiot - my wit was according to my years.

  

  Margaret Cavendish