Jane Austen Quotes

All the privilege I claim for my own sex ... is that of loving longest, when existence or hope is gone.

Jane Austen

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• I think most families have a few secrets or some strange aspect to their history. We're all fascinated by family dynamics, but I'd much rather sit in an audience and watch someone else's problems!

  

  Ed Harris
  • Family
  • History
  • Problems

• Disciples of Keynes, who focus on aggregate demand, view any increase in household wealth as raising employment because they say it adds to consumer demand.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Focus
  • Wealth
  • View

• There's a lot of things lost in the Digital Age.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Age
  • Lost
  • Digital

• The true character of ministry is a servants heart.

  

  Harold Warner
  • Heart
  • Character
  • True

• I have hundreds and hundreds of people from Brazil, Chile, Columbia and Argentina, every day, buying my music and telling me about it online.

  

  Gabrielle Aplin
  • People
  • Music
  • Day

• Fortunately, I don't spend too much time reading or worrying about what people have to say, but the goal for me throughout this whole process - throughout my whole life - is to try to be happy.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• I theorize that there is a spectrum of consciousness available to human beings. At one end is material consciousness. At the other end is what we call 'field' consciousness, where a person is at one with the universe, perceiving the universe. Just by looking at our planet on the way back, I saw or felt a field consciousness state.

  

  Edgar Mitchell
  • Universe
  • End
  • Looking

• One of the main reasons I am so drawn to Hitchcock is that he planned his shots way in advance on story-boards, which he designed like classic paintings (he was an art connoisseur). It's why he found shooting on set boring - because he had already composed the film in his head.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Art
  • Film
  • Head

• Clothes are interesting and they're there to be played with. I like the idea of costume rather than fashion.

  

  Orla Brady
  • Interesting
  • Fashion
  • Idea

• I'm all in favour of grand important speeches, but the president then has to link his sermons to a strategy.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Important
  • Strategy
  • Link

• Fascist movements kill off their critics, literally or metaphorically, while democratic movements value, invite and even welcome criticism.

  

  Parker Palmer
  • Value
  • Criticism
  • Welcome

• Select a subject that interests you and make an effort to become an expert in that field. I promise you, if you make the effort, and you become an expert, you will have a wonderful career.

  

  Dan Shechtman
  • Career
  • You
  • Effort

• I'd like to go back to standup. I don't like to think I've done my last gig. At the moment it terrifies me, I get really nervous. It's a great buzz when it goes well.

  

  Mackenzie Crook
  • Great
  • Done
  • Think

• I don't think anyone sets out to do something bad, it's just that it's very difficult.

  

  Gary Cole
  • Bad
  • Think
  • Difficult

• I sometimes think that being widowed is God's way of telling you to come off the Pill.

  

  Victoria Wood
  • God
  • Think
  • Sometimes

• After doing comedy for a while and knowing how hard it is to do physical comedy right, I learned how incredibly talented the Three Stooges really were after re-watching old episodes. They still stand up!

  

  Carly Craig
  • Up
  • Comedy
  • Doing

• I don't want to be famous famous. I'm happy on the second tier, where I have autonomy on a professional level but I can still go out to the movies without being recognized.

  

  Gabrielle Reece
  • Happy
  • Famous
  • Professional

• All of our early hits, 'Danke Schoen' and 'Red Roses,' were produced by Bobby Darin.

  

  Wayne Newton
  • Red
  • Early
  • Roses

• The Republican argument that raising the debt ceiling encourages additional future spending is logically irresponsible. The debt ceiling has to be raised to authorize spending already approved by Congress. Despite that fallacy, the GOP has been able to score political points with its argument.

  

  Eliot Spitzer
  • Future
  • Political
  • Republican

• We have to always hope in humanity that people will make the right choices.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • People
  • Hope
  • Humanity

• America to me is so varied and exciting. I always feel nostalgia for the place I'm not in, and then I get there and find myself in a traffic jam going into the Lincoln Tunnel, and I think, 'God, why was I romanticizing this part of the country?' I think it has to do with the romantic, unrealistic temperament.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • God
  • Country
  • Why

• The needle rocked awkwardly and at the end of her beginning rows, Isabel held up her work to show Esperanza. "Mine is all crooked!" Esperanza smiled and reached over and gently pulled the yarn, unraveling the uneven stitches. Then she looked into Isabel's trusting eyes and said, "Do not ever be afraid to start over.

  

  Pam Muñoz Ryan
  • Up
  • Work
  • She

• Obviously, our political system is profoundly corrupted by, among other things, the influence of money. But, at a deeper level, the current structure is flawed because it looks to citizens for only two things - votes and money. I don't think we will see any healing until citizens are viewed in a whole new way.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Money
  • Political
  • Healing

• All the privilege I claim for my own sex ... is that of loving longest, when existence or hope is gone.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Hope
  • Sex
  • Existence