Jane Austen Quotes

She attracted him more than he liked.

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• They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?

  

  Fidel Castro
  • America
  • Success
  • Failure

• 'The Truth About Lorin Jones' will undoubtedly shock and offend as many readers as it will amuse, since it dares to make fun of feminism - of its manners, if not its politics.

  

  Edmund White
  • Truth
  • Fun
  • Politics

• In Britain, you never get away from the fact that you're a foreigner. In the U.S., the view is it doesn't matter where you come from.

  

  Aasif Mandvi
  • Never
  • Matter
  • View

• Cyberespionage and cyberattack is exploding from our adversaries inside our country. We don't seem capable of stopping it.

  

  Jack Keane
  • Country
  • Inside
  • Capable

• I'm not an easygoing guy as a director.

  

  Ted Kotcheff
  • Guy
  • Director
  • Easygoing

• You can't play having a mental disability. You have to play whatever that person's truth is without any judgement.

  

  Rachel Keller
  • Truth
  • Truth Is
  • Disability

• I think I will never stop working with music; it has become a part of who I am.

  

  Martin Garrix Area21
  • Music
  • Stop

• My mother did what all great leaders do: She sparked the growth of future leaders.

  

  Marillyn Hewson
  • Great
  • She
  • Mother

• When I'm alone in my hotel room in some foreign place, I feel very lonely. Then I tuck into my favourite chocolate - Chuckles or Whispers - for some comfort.

  

  Chad le Clos
  • Alone
  • Lonely
  • Chocolate

• Whatever labels may be attached to the fifteen charges brought against me, they all arise from my having been a member of the Communist Party and from my activities as a member.

  

  Bram Fischer
  • May
  • Party

• My driving, I've been accused of not being the best, most safest driver.

  

  Matt Dillon
  • Driving

• The other girls were so comfortable with their bodies and it eventually rubbed off on me.

  

  Brooke Langton

• There was this really rock n' roll guy who was very obviously dragged to my concert by his girlfriend. He had tattoos all over, and he was wearing a Metallica T-shirt. He came up to me said it was one of his favorite concerts because I had reached for his heart and dragged it out and put it in front of his face.

  

  Lou Doillon
  • Up
  • Heart
  • Guy

• I think I've become more like my mom just because of what we're both interested in, children and teaching and writing.

  

  Jenna Bush
  • Writing
  • Children
  • Mom

• I hate having to do small talk. I'd rather talk about deep subjects. I'd rather talk about meditation, or the world, or the trees or animals, than small, inane, you know, banter.

  

  Ellen DeGeneres
  • World
  • Small
  • Hate

• Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.

  

  John F. Kennedy
  • Victory

• I really hope everyone who saw 'Twilight' sees 'Warm Bodies,' but at the same time... I don't resent the comparison on a level of quality because I don't judge other movies like that. Now that I make movies, I see how hard it is to do everything. I pretty much love all movies.

  

  Jonathan Levine
  • Time
  • Hope
  • Pretty

• It seems he'd seen me in a play or plays.

  

  Abe Vigoda
  • Play

• Our yearnings are homesicknesses for heaven; our sighings are for God, just as children that cry themselves asleep away from home, and sob in their slumber, know not that they sob for their parents. The soul's inarticulate moanings are the affections yearning for the Infinite, and having no one to tell them what it is that ails them.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Heaven
  • Yearnings
  • Homesicknesses

• Remember, too, every day, and whenever you can, repeat to yourself, Lord, have mercy on all who appear before Thee today. For every hour and every moment thousands of men leave life on this earth, and their souls appear before God. And how many of them depart in solitude, unknown, sad, dejected that no one mourns for them or even knows whether they have lived or not!

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Life
  • God
  • Remember

• Yale is practicing a most unusual media strategy. I'd call it Just say nothing.

  

  Merrie Spaeth
  • Strategy
  • Unusual

• As a comedian, I don't know if they're laughing because it's funny or if they're laughing at me because I'm not funny. And I'm thinking, 'Who cares? They're laughing.' If you go on stage, and they're laughing at you full-on for 60 minutes? You know, whatever puts them in the seats.

  

  Larry the Cable Guy
  • Thinking
  • Funny
  • Me

• She attracted him more than he liked.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Attracted