Jane Austen Quotes

I have no pretensions whatever to that kind of elegance which consists in tormenting a respectable man.

Jane Austen

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• My parents have a strong work ethic, but their attitude to life, their philosophy, is: 'whatever makes you happy.'

  

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• Live TV would terrify anybody.

  

  Hannah Simone
  • Live
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• I do a lot of speaking about energy and environment. But that's more a second job than a hobby. Hobby-wise, I love the outdoors - hiking, biking, kayaking, swimming, scuba diving. Because I spend almost all of my life in front of a screen, time in nature is especially important, I think.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Life
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• The breaking wave and the muscle as it contracts obey the same law. Delicate line gathers the body's total strength in a bold balance. Shall my soul meet so severe a curve, journeying on its way to form?

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Soul
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• Jamestown changed the world in many ways, but perhaps it shaped our nation most profoundly the day Africans arrived. I can't think of a more relevant place to talk about the issues facing our community today than the place where African culture became American culture.

  

  Tavis Smiley
  • World
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• Marriage has made me safer.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Me
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  • Made

• Whatever I do, I hope it's quality, I hope it's something that's class.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Hope
  • Quality
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• Though many corporations honor commitments to reduce dangerous pollution, some cut corners and cheat. The marketplace doesn't always have mechanisms to correct bad actors.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Bad
  • Honor
  • Dangerous

• The entire making of 'Within and Without' was a series of experiments and trial by error. When I started writing, I didn't have a strong idea of what the record was going to end up like.

  

  Washed Out
  • Up
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• I don't want to over-promise and under-deliver.

  

  Larry Hogan
  • Want
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• Angry or not. It's a human emotion. But you can't walk around being angry all the time. What a dull person you'd have to be!

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Time
  • Angry
  • Walk

• The words of truth are always paradoxical.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Truth
  • Words
  • Always

• I got to dress up in funny clothes and run around New Zealand with a bow and arrow for 18 months, how bad could that be?

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Up
  • Bad
  • Funny

• If I could start with anybody, I would initially draft Tom Brady. Then I would go get Ray Lewis, and then maybe an offensive lineman, or somebody like Adrian Peterson.

  

  Barry Sanders
  • Like
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• It was a great thing to be a human being. It was something tremendous. Suddenly I'm conscious of a million sensations buzzing in me like bees in a hive. Gentlemen, it was a great thing.

  

  Karel Capek
  • Great
  • Human
  • Conscious

• I just think something about being in front of a live audience when you've finished a big dance that you've been working on for so long - I don't think anything can really beat that.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Long
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  • Dance

• I like people, and I like listening to them because something that'll happen out of that conversation could be the title or the subject of the song.

  

  Babyface
  • People
  • Song
  • Listening

• I do not live in the world of sobriety.

  

  Oliver Reed
  • World
  • Live
  • Sobriety

• No god ever gave any man anything, nor ever answered any prayer at any time - nor ever will.

  

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair
  • Time
  • God
  • Man

• Around my house, I won't even speak to my family unless they first address me by my official Berzerker name, Godred Crovan, Victor of Sky-Hill and Ruler of Man and the Isles. And now that I think of it, that's probably why nobody speaks to me unless it's time to feed the dogs or take out the garbage.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
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• Speaking generally, punishment hardens and numbs, it produces concentration, it sharpens the consciousness of alienation, it strengthens the power of resistance.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Consciousness
  • Punishment
  • Resistance

• A good producer brings out the best in the artist he's working with. You shouldn't be able to listen to something and say, 'So-and-so produced this album.'

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Good
  • Best
  • Artist

• I enjoyed working at R.K.O. more than at M.G.M. At R.K.O., the parts were better!

  

  Laraine Day
  • Better
  • Working
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• I have no pretensions whatever to that kind of elegance which consists in tormenting a respectable man.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Man
  • Elegance
  • Respectable