Jane Austen Quotes

I come here with no expectations, only to profess, now that I am at liberty to do so, that my heart is and always will be yours.

Jane Austen

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• Confirming John Roberts would endanger much of the progress made by the nation in civil rights over the past half century.

  

  Ralph G. Neas
  • Past
  • Progress
  • Civil Rights

• I've never quite worked out how to do holidays. I've got a house in France which I suppose is a kind of holiday house. But it's really only so I can go on drawing when I get there. I'm never far away from the feeling that I want to be getting on with something.

  

  Quentin Blake
  • House
  • Feeling
  • Drawing

• I'm Cuban, so I know a lot of people who act like vampires. But wait, vampires have to be invited to your house, so maybe they are nothing like Latinos!

  

  Valerie Cruz
  • People
  • House
  • Know

• I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.

  

  N. Scott Momaday
  • Land
  • Landscape
  • Isolation

• Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.

  

  Paavo Nurmi
  • Mind
  • Being
  • Muscle

• I try to work out with my personal trainer for an hour, four times a week - we mainly concentrate on weights and running. If I'm on the road I sometimes do DVD work-outs in my hotel room - P90X and Insanity are a couple of my favourites.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Work
  • Running
  • Insanity

• I'm blonde and tanned and normal-sized! I'm sweet, shy, funny, have a big heart and I'm nice - and I like to eat.

  

  Paris Hilton
  • Heart
  • Funny
  • Nice

• A mass of dust, world's momentary slave, Is man, in state of our old Adam made, Soon born to die, soon flourishing to fade.

  

  Barnabe Barnes
  • World
  • Man
  • Die

• Acting was something I had to do.

  

  Nancy Marchand
  • Acting
  • Something
  • Had

• I flunked my exam for university two times before I was accepted by what was considered my city's worst university, Hangzhou Teachers University. I was studying to be a high school English teacher. In my university, I was elected student chairman and later became chairman of the city's Students Federation.

  

  Jack Ma
  • School
  • High
  • City

• YouTube has become more mature, both as a platform and as a community. So much content has been added in almost every conceivable category that there are no more free passes on just getting there first. I think there are greater expectations for audience participation, the kind of participation that makes a real impact in a show's community.

  

  Ze Frank
  • Real
  • Free
  • Community

• Large organizations don't worship shareholders or customers, they worship the past. If it were otherwise, it wouldn't take a crisis to set a company on a new path.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Past
  • Path
  • Company

• We have seen the damage already caused to the music industry and we have to continue to make the public and government bodies globally aware of the damage that will happen if DVD piracy is not brought under control.

  

  Callum McDougall
  • Music
  • Control
  • Government

• Regardless of who wins, an election should be a time for optimism and fresh approaches.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Time
  • Election
  • Optimism

• I personally approve all the shoes that go into production, and I have a level of involvement with the factories that other people don't have.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • People
  • Shoes
  • Involvement

• Maybe there's something about the outsiderness of being Jewish that makes for a fiery feminist type.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Something
  • Feminist
  • Jewish

• My fear is that if we don't take remedial steps to control polio in the tribal areas, we will be faced with international sanctions.

  

  Mamnoon Hussain
  • Fear
  • Control
  • Take

• He who talks more is sooner exhausted.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • More
  • Exhausted
  • Sooner

• Lust hath these three companions: the first, blindness of understanding; the second, hardness of heart; the third, want of grace.

  

  Saint Basil
  • Heart
  • Understanding
  • Lust

• The father is the head of the home; the mother is the heart of the home; the children are the reward, the joy and the life of the home.

  

  Angus Buchan
  • Children
  • Heart
  • Home

• I don't run a non-profit. There are lots of non-profits in America - in Detroit, parts of Wall Street, etc. I run a not for profit. We're a business. The only difference is that instead of selling soap or sneakers, we sell hope and leadership.

  

  Nancy Lublin
  • Business
  • America
  • Hope

• I write to tell my grandchildren where they come from, and what their grandparents were up to, and I hope they will in their own way continue. I invite anyone else to listen in.

  

  Arthur Hertzberg
  • Up
  • Hope
  • Grandparents

• Nowadays, many Americans have forgotten the meaning and traditions of Memorial Day. At cemeteries across the country, the graves of the fallen are sadly ignored, and worse, neglected.

  

  Allen West
  • Country
  • Memorial

• I come here with no expectations, only to profess, now that I am at liberty to do so, that my heart is and always will be yours.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Heart
  • Liberty
  • Profess