Jane Austen Quotes

But to live in ignorance on such a point was impossible.

Jane Austen

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• As a kid, I was always very thin, and I kind of didn't know that I was skinny.

  

  Octavia Spencer
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• Another occupation might have been better.

  

  F. H. Bradley
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  • Been
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• You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind on, but what you can't keep your mind off.

  

  A. R. Ammons
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• I believe in social dislocation and creative trouble.

  

  Bayard Rustin
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• More than anyone else, Hank Aaron made me wish I wasn't a manager.

  

  Walt Alston
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• I like Noah from 'The Notebook.' One - hundred percent. I fall in love with him so hard.

  

  Camila Cabello Fifth Harmony
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• I think pulling off, pulling off a kind of fake documentary of me being a, you know, actual dictator would have been extremely difficult, if not impossible.

  

  Sacha Baron Cohen
  • Think
  • Difficult
  • Impossible

• I was brought up in the shadow of the Holocaust. My mother lost most of her family, and I didn't realize how much the guilt of survivorship weighed on her until I was an adult.

  

  Naomi Benaron
  • Up
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  • Mother

• Being able to breathe underwater would be sweet.

  

  Cameron Bright
  • Sweet
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  • Underwater

• I want medical experiments on animals stopped. They don't do anything, and they don't work.

  

  Sam Simon
  • Work
  • Animals
  • Medical

• A traveller on foot in this country seems to be considered as a sort of wild man or out-of-the way being, who is stared at, pitied, suspected, and shunned by everybody that meets him.

  

  Karl Philipp Moritz
  • Country
  • Man
  • WIld

• No Afghans, as far as we know, have been involved in terrorist acts against our country. We shouldn't be swatting at hornets' nests we know nothing about.

  

  Gary Goetzman
  • Country
  • Know
  • Nothing

• With only 2 percent of the world's proven reserves of oil, we in the United States can pump until we are blue in the face and it will not change the fact that we need more diverse and more secure sources of energy.

  

  Zack Wamp
  • World
  • Energy
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• Someday, I have no doubt, the dead from today's wars will be seen with a similar sense of sorrow at needless loss and folly as those millions of men who lie in the cemeteries of France and Belgium - and tens of millions of Americans will feel a similar revulsion for the politicians and generals who were so spendthrift with others' lives.

  

  Adam Hochschild
  • Men
  • Today
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• I decided to set out to prove that you could make a reasonable living building for the poor using recycled materials and only hiring unskilled labor.

  

  Dan Phillips
  • Building
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• Tech is all about building human connections.

  

  Padmasree Warrior
  • Human
  • Building
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• A pit bull is like a fighter. Every so often it needs to taste blood.

  

  Barry McGuigan
  • Blood
  • Taste
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• I like to stay home a lot. I like to do other things too, like decorate or build.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Home
  • Like
  • Build

• Pet ownership is an absolutely abysmal situation brought about by human manipulation.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Pet
  • Manipulation

• I lived in New York for maybe a year and a half, from '95 to '97, but I live in Dallas. My whole family is there.

  

  Erykah Badu
  • Live
  • Family
  • New York

• Pain has been part of my life. I don't complain about much. When you grow up with six boys, you can't show your pain, and if you do, they'll give you another piece of pain.

  

  Jim Kelly
  • Life
  • Up
  • Pain

• My general philosophy of playing bad guys, which I've sort of done, you know, half the time is, you know, very few people who we view as bad guys get out of bed and think, 'What evil, terrible thing am I going to do today?' Most people see their motivations as justified - as, you know, justifying whatever they do.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • People
  • Time
  • Done

• But to live in ignorance on such a point was impossible.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Live
  • Ignorance
  • Impossible