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.
Quotes to Explore
-
Before the Greeks were the Tamils. The Tamils are one of the oldest civilizations that's still surviving.
-
Comic-Con is really cool. It's different. I like to people-watch. I like to see the costumes.
-
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.
-
I like to keep a bottle of stimulant handy in case I see a snake, which I also keep handy.
-
A created thing is never invented and it is never true: it is always and ever itself.
-
We've been working our tail off and lead by that example.
-
After 40, you want to reverse the ageing process. That's complicated for me because I spent so many years wanting to be older.
-
When I get older, I will be stronger They’ll call me freedom, just like a Wavin’ 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.
-
One of the stupidest things we ever did was to take creative departments out of the agencies.
-
A country's competitiveness starts not on the factory floor or in the engineering lab. It starts in the classroom.
-
The future of the airlines lay in hauling people, not in hauling mail for the 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.
-
There are so many misperceptions and stereotypes out there that I would love to see clarified one day.
-
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.
-
Helplessness is the real secret and the impelling power of prayer.
-
The very shaping of history now outpaces the ability of men to orient themselves in accordance with cherished values.
-
Neglect of appearance becomes men.
-
If two men who were friends in their youth meet again when they are old, after being separated for a life-time, the chief feeling they will have at the sight of each other will be one of complete disappointment at life as a whole; because their thoughts will be carried back to that earlier time when life seemed so fair as it lay spread out before them in the rosy light of dawn, promised so much — and then performed so little.
-
The Republican Party - that was the end of the Republican Party. What Pete Wilson did with the xenophobia and the negative attitude, all this sort of anti-crime backlash.
-
It takes a smart man to play dumb.
-
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.
