Jane Austen Quotes

Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.

Jane Austen

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• Sadly, for some mothers, this experience can be made so much harder due to challenges with our very mental health.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Experience
  • Health

• I didn't have a long-term plan or goal. If there would have been a road map showing me the way to my dreams becoming reality, I might have given it a second thought.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • Long
  • Reality
  • Road

• I have a trophy case that contains all the action figures ever made of me. It also has items I've stolen from my movies, like three guns and holsters from 'Serenity'.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Me
  • Action
  • Movies

• I'm a little angry in life.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Life
  • Angry
  • Little

• No one thought the Mayweather-Pacquiao fight would happen, but I had patience.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Thought
  • Fight
  • Patience

• Agriculture is a business that has been up to its bib overalls in politics since the first Thanksgiving dinner kickback to the Indians for subsidizing Pilgrim maize production with fish head fertilizer grants.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Up
  • Business
  • Politics

• The truth, it is said, is rarely pure or simple, yet genetics can at times seem seductively transparent.

  

  Iain McGilchrist
  • Truth
  • Simple
  • Said

• The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Will
  • Nation
  • Forgotten

• A writer without a reader doesn't exist.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Writer
  • Exist
  • Without

• I worked hard in gymnastics since the time I was six years old until I retired at 23 years of age.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Time
  • Age
  • Years

• My whole back's tattooed. I just wanted a twist. I was always in punk bands when I was little... I think that's where the tie comes from.

  

  Gary Allan
  • Think
  • Always
  • Punk

• If God hadn't meant for us to eat sugar, he wouldn't have invented dentists.

  

  Ralph Nader
  • God
  • Eat
  • Sugar

• I love entertaining people, I love playing music, and I love rocking like an animal. But at a certain point, you're playing gig after gig after gig, in town after town after town, and you're lying down, staring at another hotel-room ceiling, and it's like, 'I want to be home. I'm a dad. I've got kids.'

  

  Flea Jane's Addiction
  • People
  • Music
  • Love

• As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Light
  • Purpose
  • Darkness

• Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked.

  

  Viktor E. Frankl
  • Life
  • Man
  • Meaning

• I'm a girls' girl. I have guy friends, but the problem with having guy friends is, like, I always get linked to them, and they'll end up in a slideshow of people I've apparently dated on the Internet.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Up
  • Friends

• Certainly, I've loved musicals for a while, so I did some short films in college that had musical numbers and things like that, so I've kind of been obsessed with Fred and Ginger and Vincente Minnelli and Stanley Donen and Jaques Demy forever.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • College
  • Forever
  • Numbers

• We must take steps to prevent further nuclear weapons development or modernization.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Development
  • Steps
  • Weapons

• When I was a publisher of CNN, I took responsibility for the actions of the network.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Responsibility
  • Actions
  • Cnn

• Their forms had no more influence on me than they did on Matisse. Or Derain. But for them, the masks were sculptures like all others. When Matisse showed me his first African head, he spoke to me of Egyptian art.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Art

• I think it is important to say that though, of course, it is wonderful to have children, it is a disservice to others not to also say how hard it is to do it alone.

  

  Meg Tilly
  • Important
  • Children
  • Alone

• I want to be part of the resurgence of things that are tangible, beautiful and soulful, rather than just give in to the digital age. But when I talk to people about this they just say, 'Yeah, I know what you mean,' and stare at their mobiles.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • People
  • Age
  • Beautiful

• That's a nice thing about being a topical standup: you can add in things to keep it fresh.

  

  Loni Love
  • Nice

• Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Hope
  • Cure
  • Selfishness