Jane Austen Quotes

I am very much obliged to my dear little George for his message - for his love at least; his duty, I suppose, was only in consequence of some hint of my favourable intentions towards him from his father or mother. I am sincerely rejoiced, however, that I ever was born, since it has been the means of procuring him a dish of tea.

Jane Austen

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• Nothing is absolute in security.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Nothing
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• I don't really love to perform in music. Some people like it more, but it's not my thing so much, but just the writing, when you get the lyric, and the lyric just goes just the right way, or you find the right bridge that takes you to the solo, and those moments are tremendous, and it's difficult to portray.

  

  Pardis Sabeti
  • Writing
  • Way
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• People sometimes recognize me here, but they are very nice.

  

  Olivier Martinez
  • People
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• Free speech is not a bogus issue. It is an issue.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • Free
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  • Free Speech

• I'm not going to be a ten or twelve grand-slam winner. It's not going to happen.

  

  Patrick Rafter
  • Going
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• I choose projects that resonate with me on some personal level and projects that I'm afraid to do. If I'm afraid to do them, then I usually say yes, because it means that I'm not ready to go there and deal with certain aspects of the script. And that means that I need to do it, because the things that scare you only make you better and stronger.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Me
  • Better
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• The existing U.N. can be found in the writings of early Communist leaders.

  

  G. Edward Griffin
  • Found
  • Early
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• Spend enough time around success and failure, and you learn a reverence for possibility.

  

  Dale Dauten
  • Time
  • Success
  • Failure

• Survival requires us to leave our prejudices at home. It's about doing whatever it takes - and ultimately those with the biggest heart will win.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Heart
  • Home
  • Win

• People have given me the freedom and believe in me enough to say if I want to do these things that I will find a way to make it work. I don't know if they think I'm crazy, drug damaged or just an old weirdo.

  

  Wayne Coyne
  • People
  • Work
  • Believe

• Dried porcini add a substantial, deep flavour to otherwise more neutral vegetables. I use them in risottos, mashed roots and winter soups.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Deep
  • Winter
  • Roots

• When I was a kid, we got in a cipher and battled each other lyrically. We told jokes and made the hottest dance moves.

  

  Usher
  • Dance
  • Made
  • Jokes

• We have lost a lot of ground to the extremists in the Middle East.

  

  Najib Razak
  • Lost
  • Ground
  • Middle East

• I can totally identify with the younger kids. I'll never do what Jon Spencer did to me when I was 16, though. I made a tape with my friends and I put it onstage right near his mic stand by the pedal board and he pulled it out with his foot, kicked it to the center of the stage, looked me in the eye and stomped it to pieces.

  

  Patrick Carney The Black Keys
  • Kids
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• You cannot say we are a healthy, dynamic democracy when one party wins almost two-thirds of the vote.

  

  F. W. de Klerk
  • Party
  • Democracy
  • Vote

• Of course, mankind has made giant steps forward. However, what we know is really very, very little compared to what we still have to know.

  

  Fabiola Gianotti
  • Know
  • Steps
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• Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Life
  • Science
  • Knowledge

• I was a senior in high school when I decided I wanted to work on ants as a career. I just fell in love with them, and have never regretted it.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Work
  • School
  • Career

• I think the reason I was successful is that I was never cynical.

  

  Carol Burnett

• Our strategy has been to change the subject a bit so that we can get the issue of intelligent design, which really means the reality of God, before the academic world and into the schools.

  

  Phillip E. Johnson
  • World
  • God
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• Must! Is must a word to be addressed to princes? Little man, little man! Thy father, if he had been alive, durst not have used that word.

  

  Elizabeth I
  • Father

• He followed in his father's footsteps, but his gait was somewhat erratic.

  

  Nicolas Bentley
  • Father
  • Footsteps
  • Gait

• I do want to make music that people love, but I also want to make music that I love. I know I can't please everyone with anything I do, so I don't think too much about how other people are going to take things.

  

  Rivers Cuomo Weezer
  • People
  • Music

• I am very much obliged to my dear little George for his message - for his love at least; his duty, I suppose, was only in consequence of some hint of my favourable intentions towards him from his father or mother. I am sincerely rejoiced, however, that I ever was born, since it has been the means of procuring him a dish of tea.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Tea