Jane Austen Quotes

There was no being displeased with such an encourager, for his admiration made him discern a likeness before it was possible.

Jane Austen

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• Oh yes, I love to do shoes. I'm not a fetishist but I love to do shoes.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Love
  • Shoes
  • Fetishist

• I work with some of the funniest writers in the country.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Work
  • Country
  • Some

• I would probably say that being a commissioner in sports is one of the hardest jobs in the world.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • World
  • Sports
  • Say

• I've known Mark Hughes for half a lifetime. We joined Barcelona in the same summer of 1986, played together under Terry Venables and Luis Aragones, and have kept in touch ever since.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Together
  • Summer
  • Same

• I'm always flattered when someone thinks of me as a potential commissioner of baseball.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • Me
  • Always
  • Potential

• On March 12, 2004, acting attorney general James B. Comey and the Justice Department's top leadership reached the brink of resignation over electronic surveillance orders that they believed to be illegal.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Justice
  • Acting
  • Leadership

• We think about time as something not to waste, not as something to invest.

  Garry Kasparov
  • Time

• Plumbing is usually boring.

  

  Alex Berenson

• The last thing the NFL wants to do is make problems for the colleges.

  

  Jim Finks

• It's really cool when, in every genre of music, you can listen to a song and know what era it was from.

  

  Kelsea Ballerini
  • Music
  • Song
  • Cool

• Everyone has the opportunity to do a horror film. There's something great about it as an actor. You have to go to places you'd normally never go and be put in situations you would never be put into. You don't get the opportunity in a lot of films to have this kind of acting. It's an interesting challenge.

  

  Alexandra Daddario
  • Great
  • Opportunity
  • Interesting

• I try to create some stupid entertainment for really smart people that they don't feel too stupid watching. In 'Xanadu,' the biggest laugh was a reference to Achilles.

  

  Douglas Carter Beane
  • People
  • Stupid
  • Smart

• To God, thy country, and thy friend be true.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • God
  • Country
  • True

• Brad got me this great thing for Christmas. It's a bookshelf that has a book on every religion. That's how we plan to raise our kids. Teach them about all religions. They can pick one or be a student of all of them. We'll celebrate Kwanzaa for our girl. We'll celebrate moon and water festivals for our boys. We'll take them to temples in certain countries. Also to church.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Great
  • Country
  • Book

• I say to my team all the time that this is how I grew up: Always thinking that, at any minute, I could be unemployed. You have to scramble. You have to work hard and get ahead of things.

  

  Ursula Burns
  • Up
  • Time
  • Work

• Desiring is a part of dreaming.

  

  Rachel

• There is an old cliche, 'You can see the glass half empty, or you can see it half full.' You can focus on what's wrong in your life, or you can focus on what's right. But whatever you focus on, you're going to get more of. Creation is an extension of thought. Think lack, and you get lack. Think abundance, and you get more.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Life
  • Focus
  • Empty

• Deep thoughts (come) from a deep well. Society is useful because when we see ourselves reflected through others we can gain a deeper understanding of ourselves.

  

  David Jenkins
  • Society
  • Understanding
  • Reflected

• I have so much admiration for women who are mothers, who balance family and work.

  

  Beyonce Destiny's Child
  • Work
  • Women
  • Family

• Duane Allman was one of the best there ever was ... when you listen to him, you are hearing a truly gifted individual giving his all to the music, and there is nothing better than that. Duane played music the same way that he rode his motorcycle and drove his car .. he was a daredevil, just triple Scorpio, God's-on-my-side wide open... that was part of the romance and I loved Duane. I have nothing but admiration for him.

  

  Forrest Richard Betts The Allman Brothers Band
  • Music
  • Romance
  • Admiration

• When somebody takes a stand for principles, no matter what side they are on, they have my admiration. And when they take a stand for principles of freedom and refusing o give up your constitutional rights, then I think the guy is kind of a modern American hero.

  

  Bill Whittle
  • Freedom
  • Hero
  • Principles

• Fiat justitia et ruant coeli. Let justice be done, though the heavens may fall. See Ferdinand I 320:1.

  

  William Watson
  • Done
  • Fall
  • Justice

• There was no being displeased with such an encourager, for his admiration made him discern a likeness before it was possible.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Admiration
  • Discern
  • Encourager