Jane Austen Quotes

The post-office is a wonderful establishment! The regularity and dispatch of it! If one thinks of all that it has to do, and all that it does so well, it is really astonishing!

Jane Austen

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• We are professionals. We know when we're playing badly, so if you have a poor game, you work in training to put things right so form comes back.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Work
  • Game
  • Training

• My father is an amazing person.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Father
  • Amazing
  • Person

• I am used to training 10 to 12 sessions a week, so I have the physical and mental endurance that comes with being an athlete.

  

  Tanc Sade
  • Training
  • Athlete
  • Week

• It's so hard getting rid of something that means something to you, as many of the pieces on our site do for me.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • You
  • Me
  • Means

• Obviously, when you're up against somebody you don't like there's extra motivation, but I don't think any person going for an Olympic gold is going to put friendship first.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Up
  • Gold
  • Friendship

• The authenticity may have been dubious, but the excitement had been real.

  

  Pat Cadigan
  • Real
  • May
  • Authenticity

• We've done some good work, but all of these products become obsolete so fast... It will be some finite number of years, and I don't know the number - before our doom comes.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Good
  • Work
  • Done

• My young nerds, here's the deal:

  

  Craig Newmark

• 'Mona said, 'Did you see Gore's new play The Best Man when you were in New York?' 'Of course not.'...'Don't like plays, only shows.' He meant musical comedies.'

  

  Edward VIII

• El hombre no va a ninguna parte. Todo viene al hombre, como el mañana.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• People don't actually want to think about their own health and don't take action until they are sick. Yet employers are very motivated to get their employees healthy, since they bear most of the burden of their health care costs.

  

  Clayton Christensen
  • People
  • Action
  • Health

• There are some things that, if you say them out loud, will hurt the other person's feelings. I tend to say them anyway. It's better to be honest.

  

  Katherine Heigl
  • Hurt

• I'm actually the son of Mary Guibert. My mother was born in the Panama Canal zone and came to America when she was five with my grandmother and grandfather, and that was the family I knew. Everybody sang; everybody had songs all the time, and they loved music.

  

  Jeff Buckley
  • Time
  • Music
  • Family

• You can always affect things - so can you change it in a way that will make you as happy with it in the future as you were in the past? Maybe it won't be the same, but it might be something else you also like.

  

  Jamie Zawinski
  • Happy
  • Future
  • Past

• It's often difficult to get perspective on your own stories, on your own experiences, without talking them through with someone who is genuinely interested in thinking about them. And that's the key.

  

  Phil Klay
  • Thinking
  • Perspective

• I have been able to attend many technology conferences around the world over the years, including some of the largest, like Google I/O, Microsoft's Developer Conference, Apple's WorldWide Developers Conference, Oracle World, Le Web, and more.

  

  Megan Smith
  • World
  • Technology

• After Mary Queen of Scots, I turned to the farthest subject possible: Cromwell.

  

  Antonia Fraser

• Some of my friends have urged me to tell people the basic story, but 'for God’s sake don’t mention the reptiles.'

  

  David Icke
  • People
  • God
  • Friends

• And the distinction between violent and non-violent action is that the former is exclusively bent upon the destruction of the old, and the latter is chiefly concerned with the establishment of something new.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Destruction
  • Distinction
  • Establishment

• Tardiness often robs us opportunity, and the dispatch of our forces.

  

  Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
  • Opportunity
  • Forces
  • Dispatch

• What, sir, is the use of a militia? It is to prevent the establishment of a standing army, the bane of liberty ... Whenever governments mean to invade the rights and liberties of the people, they always attempt to destroy the militia, in order to raise an army upon their ruins.

  

  Elbridge Gerry
  • Liberty
  • Destroy
  • Governments

• I shall sustain a massive erection, that’s what, and I shan’t be answerable for the consequences. Some kind of ejaculation is almost bound to ensue and if either of you were to become pregnant I should never forgive myself.

  

  Stephen Fry
  • Consequence
  • Pregnant
  • Ejaculation

• The post-office is a wonderful establishment! The regularity and dispatch of it! If one thinks of all that it has to do, and all that it does so well, it is really astonishing!

  

  Jane Austen
  • Establishment
  • Regularity
  • Dispatch