Jane Austen Quotes

She was sensible and clever, but eager in everything; her sorrows, her joys, could have no moderation.

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• There was the time I bought three cars in the span of three or four weeks. It was crazy; it wasn't greedy. It was mine, my girl's, my mom's. I got Benzes for my ladies. But I felt crazy. You have to understand I come from a world where we're very modest. But that's not greedy. That's nice, right?

  

  J. Cole
  • Time
  • World
  • Girl

• Science fiction is what we point to when we say it.

  

  Damon Knight
  • Science
  • Fiction
  • Point

• My parents and my brother instilled in me my sense of humor. That's kind of the way we communicate with each other, and it's always been a way for me to get to know people.

  

  Zach Anner
  • People
  • Parents
  • Brother

• I'm not an overnight sensation. I'm a Texan. And I'm a Texas success story. I am the epitome of hard work and optimism.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • Work
  • Success
  • Texas

• When it was over my daughter said, 'Oh, I felt so sorry for him - he didn't want to hurt you, he liked you.' That was Victoria. When you visualize him up there on top of the Empire State Building, you do feel sorry for him.

  

  Fay Wray
  • Up
  • Hurt
  • Daughter

• He didn't even have the satisfaction of being killed for civil rights. it had to be some silly little Communist.

  

  Jackie Kennedy
  • Silly
  • Rights
  • Civil Rights

• When I did these psychological characters like the drug addicts, the ones who were rejected and dejected, I started to feel a sort of melancholia which was very unnatural for me to have at a teenage. Then I avoided those characters.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Feel
  • Characters
  • Rejected

• Every good man progressively becomes God. To become God, to be man, and to educate oneself, are expressions that are synonymous.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Good
  • God
  • Man

• In a fascist system, it's not the lies that count but the muddying. When citizens can't tell real news from fake, they give up their demands for accountability bit by bit.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • Up
  • Real
  • Lies

• Ineptitude and negligence directed British policies in India more than any cynical desire to divide and rule, but the British were not above exploiting rivalries.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Desire
  • India
  • Cynical

• Hospitals must provide emergency treatment to all who walk through the door, regardless of their citizenship status or ability to pay.

  

  Gary Miller Bad Brains
  • Door
  • Walk
  • Citizenship

• … when we place our hope in worldly vanities, in money, in success. Then the Word of God says to us: 'Why do you seek the living among the dead?'. Why are you searching there? That thing cannot give you life! Yes, perhaps it will cheer you up for a moment, for a day, for a week, for a month … and then?

  

  Vanity
  • Life
  • Up
  • God

• The great artists of the world are never Puritans, and seldom even ordinarily respectable. No virtuous man - that is, virtuous in the Y.M.C.A. sense - has ever painted a picture worth looking at, or written a symphony worth hearing, or a book worth reading.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • World
  • Great
  • Book

• I don’t say I’ve got much of a soul, but, such as it is, I’m perfectly satisfied with the little chap. I don’t want people fooling about with it. ‘Leave it alone,’ I say. ‘Don’t touch it. I like it the way it is.’

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • People
  • Soul
  • Alone

• Waste not your Hour, nor in the vain pursuit Of This and That endeavour and dispute; Better be jocund with the fruitful Grape Than sadden after none, or bitter, Fruit.

  

  Omar Khayyam
  • Bitter

• If the songs are dreamed, it's like my voice is coming out of their dream.

  

  Bob Dylan
  • Dream

• The French are … the most brilliant and the most dangerous nation of Europe, and the one that is surest to inspire admiration, hatred, terror, or pity, but never indifference.

  

  Alexis de Tocqueville

• We are waging a nuclear war in Iraq right now. That country is contaminated. It will be contaminated for practically eternity now.

  

  Cindy Sheehan
  • Country
  • War

• The reality is being an Olympic windsurfer is bloody hard work, and it is a huge commitment.

  

  Nick Dempsey
  • Commitment
  • Hard Work
  • Olympic

• I think Douglas was a real one-off. He was so clever and so intelligent and so well read in real science that he could make science fiction work as well as it did. And just such fun to have around, he was just such a lovely man.

  

  Lalla Ward
  • Work
  • Real
  • Fun

• The thing that I see disappearing is just the love of old movies among kids. Everything's accessible, so you can get it, but when everything's accessible, that means you have to access it. And if you're not interested, you don't.

  

  Rob Zombie
  • Kids
  • Mean
  • Disappear

• With the weekend, I figured I'd let the guys go home,

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Home
  • Relax
  • Weekend

• It sounds plausible enough tonight, but wait until tomorrow. Wait for the common sense of the morning.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Morning

• She was sensible and clever, but eager in everything; her sorrows, her joys, could have no moderation.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Clever
  • Sorrows
  • Joys