Jane Austen Quotes

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• You can tell by the kindness of a dog how a human should be.

  

  Captain Beefheart
  • You
  • Dog
  • Kindness

• I try to be as thoughtful as I can about everything that comes out of my mouth and not reinforce sexism.

  

  Hari Kondabolu
  • Try
  • Thoughtful
  • Mouth

• I did. I did see Bigfoot when I was a kid and I still believe it to this day. I saw a big furry man outside my window. It's not funny! It was real.

  

  Barry Watson
  • Believe
  • Real
  • Man

• The damage that climate change is causing and that will get worse if we fail to act goes beyond the hundreds of thousands of lives, homes and businesses lost, ecosystems destroyed, species driven to extinction, infrastructure smashed and people inconvenienced.

  

  David Suzuki
  • People
  • Lost

• I wanted to continue doing my work, but I had to figure out how. And so what I have basically come up with is that I still go to Afghanistan and Iraq and South Sudan and many of these places that are rife with war, but I don't go directly to the front line.

  

  Lynsey Addario
  • Up
  • Work
  • War

• I wanted to avoid, special IO for terminals.

  

  Ken Thompson

• For me, the creative process for me always starts in a personal place. I step away from my iPod or any records or CDs.

  

  Miguel

• I remember all the stages in my career where I almost didn't have enough confidence to try for something, almost didn't have the guts to follow something I was excited about doing, because I didn't know anyone else who'd done it, or other people made me question it.

  

  Amal Clooney
  • People
  • Done
  • Remember

• As a kid, when I was living in America, I started using those Noxzema wipes that just felt like you removed half your face. I quite like that tingly sensation.

  

  Jade Jagger
  • America

• England is the paradise of women, the purgatory of men, and the hell of horses.

  

  John Florio
  • Men
  • Women
  • Paradise

• No one likes to look at their stock price go down and say, 'I feel good about that.' It goes without saying.

  

  John L. Flannery
  • Good
  • Stock

• We have something called naked Sundays ... You have to keep marriage alive, spice it up ... We don't need to go anywhere, we're just with each other. We do everything naked. We cook naked.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Up
  • Marriage
  • Needs

• There must be a better way to make the things we want, a way that doesn't spoil the sky, or the rain or the land

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • Future
  • Vision
  • Sky

• The best reply to an atheist is to give him a good dinner and ask him if he believes there is a cook.

  

  Louis Nizer
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Giving

• I think I should learn French and be a better cook - basic, really good life stuff.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Life
  • Good
  • Thinking

• The fact of progress is written plain and large on the page of history; but progress is not a law of nature.

  

  Herbert Albert Laurens Fisher
  • History
  • Nature
  • Law

• Under no circumstances trust a lean cook.

  

  Iain Hewitson
  • Trust
  • Circumstances
  • Cooks

• The dusk runs down the lane driven like hail; Far off a precise whistle is escheat To the dark; and then the towering weak and pale....

  

  Allen Tate
  • Dark
  • Driven
  • Dusk

• One wit, like a knuckle of ham in soup, gives a zest and flavour to the dish, but more than one serves only to spoil the pottage.

  

  Tobias Smollett
  • Wit
  • Spoil
  • Dishes

• Then Elizabeth moaned and said, “Mountain of God, receive a mother with her child.” For Elizabeth was not able to climb the mountain. And straight away the mountain split open and received her. And the mountain was shining a light on her, for an angel of the Lord was with them, protecting them.

  

  Bart Ehrman
  • God
  • Mother
  • Child

• Now as to magic. It is surely absurd to hold me "weak" or otherwise because I choose to persist in a study which I decided deliberately four or five years ago to make, next to my poetry, the most important pursuit of my life...If I had not made magic my constant study I could not have written a single word of my Blake book, nor would The Countess Kathleen have ever come to exist. The mystical life is the center of all that I do and all that I think and all that I write.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Thinking
  • Important
  • Writing

• Too many cooks spoil the broth...

  

  Jane Austen
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