Jane Austen Quotes

Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.

Jane Austen

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• It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck even while waiting for it.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Great
  • Waiting
  • Luck

• I think studies are really important and shouldn't be compromised.

  

  Saina Nehwal
  • Important
  • Think
  • Really

• I'm a little sheepish about it. Whenever I meet fans and they're like, 'Oh, you're so sexy,' I just don't get that. There's no way one man can be universally sexy.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Man
  • Fans
  • Sexy

• When you grow up on a dairy farm, cows don't take a day off. So you work every day and my dad always said, 'No one can outwork you.'

  

  Pat Summitt
  • Up
  • Work
  • Dad

• The field of 'economics and organization' is still young and needs support. I have been a chaired professor much of my academic life and know that such chairs are important for recruiting and retaining faculty.

  

  Oliver E. Williamson
  • Life
  • Important
  • Support

• A two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and a region free of Iranian nukes are worthy goals that should be able to withstand public scrutiny in every Middle Eastern capital.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
  • Free
  • Goals
  • Conflict

• I always say you can never be extravagant with beauty. Beauty is God made real. Beauty is life.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • Life
  • God
  • Real

• Science is defined in various ways, but today it is generally restricted to something which is experimental, which is repeatable, which can be predicted, and which is falsifiable.

  

  Walter Lang
  • Today
  • Science
  • Something

• My mom is a therapist, and my dad has a doctorate in psychology, and growing up, I felt 'very understood.'

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Dad

• I'm really fascinated by lingos and colloquialisms that are outmoded and have gone by the wayside. I love the way people spoke in the '30s, and the amazing slang of the mid-'60s and '70s.

  

  Beck
  • People
  • Really
  • Fascinated

• I love musicals; I love the ballet, opera, the circus. It's all performance to me.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Performance
  • Ballet
  • Opera

• I drive my own horses in a race. And I always have.

  

  Oleg Cassini
  • Always
  • Race
  • Drive

• And I'm not so in love with making people mad that I want to live my life around it.

  

  Aaron McGruder
  • People
  • Live
  • Love

• I have the best husband a wife could possibly have. He's the best father my children could have.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Children
  • Father
  • Wife

• I feel like when the task is more difficult for me it's more exciting.

  

  Victoria Azarenka
  • Me
  • Feel
  • Difficult

• It's not about retro or modern, it's about this note or that note, which sounds better?

  

  Dan Hicks
  • Better
  • Modern
  • Retro

• Sentences or solutions occur to me in the shower, or while running on the treadmill, or riding on the subway.

  

  Karen Thompson Walker
  • Me
  • Solutions
  • Sentences

• China was the worst place I've ever been in my life.

  

  J. R. Smith
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Place

• I don't want to be the front for somebody else's creativity and sell that day in, day out.

  

  Lauren Mayberry Chvrches
  • Creativity

• I turned atheist in the '90s when India went through troubled times - communal riots, bomb blasts... Mumbai, where I live, was badly affected. I blamed religion; also, extremists on both sides - right and left.

  

  Amish Tripathi
  • Live
  • Atheist

• This endeavour to do a thing or leave it undone, solely in order to please men, we call ambition, especially when we so eagerly endeavour to please the vulgar, that we do or omit certain things to our own or another's hurt : in other cases it is generally called kindliness.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Thing
  • To Do
  • Endeavour

• The education that prepared me was my general education classes, which I tried to avoid when I was a stupid undergraduate, but which gave me the foundation of general knowledge that makes a career as a writer possible.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Career
  • Knowledge
  • Education

• Where are the leaders who can speak to the idea that it is not alien to American interests, but very much in our socioeconomic interests - not to mention our spiritual health - to integrate immigrants, that our nation functions best when we welcome newcomers and help them participate fully in our society?

  

  Andrew Lam
  • Society
  • Interests
  • Immigrants

• Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.

  

  Jane Austen