Jane Austen Quotes

They were within twenty yards of each other, and so abrupt was his appearance, that it was impossible to avoid his sight. Their eyes instantly met, and the cheeks of each were overspread with the deepest blush. He absolutely started, and for a moment seemed immoveable from surprise; but shortly recovering himself, advanced towards the party, and spoke to Elizabeth, if not in terms of perfect composure, at least of perfect civility.

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• Before the Greeks were the Tamils. The Tamils are one of the oldest civilizations that's still surviving.

  

  M.I.A.
  • Still
  • Surviving
  • Greeks

• Comic-Con is really cool. It's different. I like to people-watch. I like to see the costumes.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • People
  • Different
  • Like

• One of the specific powers and responsibilities of the federal government is to secure the borders. Property can be taken with due process of law and just compensation.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Law
  • Government
  • Taken

• I like to keep a bottle of stimulant handy in case I see a snake, which I also keep handy.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • See
  • Snake
  • Bottle

• A created thing is never invented and it is never true: it is always and ever itself.

  

  Federico Fellini
  • True
  • Always
  • Never

• We've been working our tail off and lead by that example.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • Working
  • Example
  • Lead

• After 40, you want to reverse the ageing process. That's complicated for me because I spent so many years wanting to be older.

  

  Sam Rockwell
  • Want
  • Me
  • Process

• When I get older, I will be stronger They’ll call me freedom, just like a Wavin’ Flag

  

  Keinan Abdi Warsame
  • Freedom
  • Stronger
  • Flag

• I feel that my characters all have some part of my character. I feel that they're all me in some way, certainly not in individuality, but they all bear elements of what I feel.

  

  Jack Kirby
  • Character
  • Characters
  • I Feel

• One of the stupidest things we ever did was to take creative departments out of the agencies.

  

  B. R. Hayden
  • Creation
  • Agencies
  • Departments

• A country's competitiveness starts not on the factory floor or in the engineering lab. It starts in the classroom.

  

  Lee Iacocca
  • Country
  • Engineering
  • Factory

• The future of the airlines lay in hauling people, not in hauling mail for the government.

  

  C. R. Smith
  • People
  • Future
  • Government

• There's certainly a lot of noise in the hip-hop world now [that] I don't pay active attention to, but to the extent that I represent some flavor of what's happening in hip-hop - it's subconscious.

  

  Baratunde Thurston
  • World
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  • Pay

• There are so many misperceptions and stereotypes out there that I would love to see clarified one day.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • One Day
  • Stereotype
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• The majority of mankind think that they think; they acquiesce, and suppose that they argue; they flatter themselves that they are holding their own, when they have actually grown up to manhood, with scarcely a conviction that they can call their own. So it was, and so it ever shall be.

  

  E. W. Bullinger
  • Up

• Helplessness is the real secret and the impelling power of prayer.

  

  Ole Hallesby
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  • Prayer

• I've always thought that you just make everything as best as you can, and then, one day, people will look objectively at what you do, from a distance, and see its quality. All you try to do is keep the standard up so that, one day, when I sit back and I look at it all, I can feel really good about it.

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
  • People
  • Trying
  • Quality

• Your master is he who controls that on which you have set your heart or wish to avoid.

  

  Epictetus
  • Master
  • Avoid
  • Controls

• Let's distinguish between freedom and equality. The modern American woman may be more liberated sexually than her mother was, but I don't think she enjoys a bit more sexual equality. The American male continues to use her sexually for one thing: a means to the end of his own ejaculation.

  

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair
  • May
  • She
  • American

• But when you get music and words together, that can be a very powerful thing.

  

  Bryan Ferry Roxy Music
  • Music
  • Together
  • Powerful

• They were within twenty yards of each other, and so abrupt was his appearance, that it was impossible to avoid his sight. Their eyes instantly met, and the cheeks of each were overspread with the deepest blush. He absolutely started, and for a moment seemed immoveable from surprise; but shortly recovering himself, advanced towards the party, and spoke to Elizabeth, if not in terms of perfect composure, at least of perfect civility.

  

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