Jane Austen Quotes

They parted at last with mutual civility, and possibly a mutual desire of never meeting again.

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• I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • School
  • Kids
  • Like

• We have shown that it is possible to create a radioactivity characterized by the emission of positive or negative electrons in boron and magnesium by bombardment with alpha rays.

  

  Irene Joliot-Curie
  • Positive
  • Possible
  • Negative

• You've got to really be able to accept the rejection.

  

  Barry Mann
  • You
  • Accept
  • Rejection

• And also, it's sort of my job to make you believe things about him that aren't true about me.

  

  Ian McDiarmid
  • Believe
  • Job
  • True

• If you want your children to bring original ideas into the world, you need to let them pursue their passions, not yours.

  

  Adam Grant
  • World
  • Children
  • Ideas

• I will be up at 8 A.M. making spaghetti bolognese for Peter and Sophia's evening meal if I'm working that day. I may not get back for the evening, and I worry if I don't do that, then they won't eat anything.

  

  Abbey Clancy
  • Up
  • May
  • Day

• I originally went to school for writing, for non-fiction. I'm specifically a poetry major within literature, but I don't know.

  

  Paloma Elsesser
  • Writing
  • School
  • Poetry

• Personally I had the opportunity to go on several ride alongs with the LA County Sheriff's Department with some amazing detectives, who were invaluable to me.

  

  Nancy McKeon
  • Opportunity
  • Amazing
  • Ride

• 'Good English' is whatever educated people talk; so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• I'm a fast learner. I may not run as fast as I used to, but I think I still learn as fast.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • May
  • Think
  • Learn

• The Wild West attracts cowboys. A sheriff is a good thing.

  

  Cameron Winklevoss
  • Good
  • WIld
  • Sheriff

• If a child plays sport early in childhood, and doesn't give it up, he will play sport for the rest of his life. And if children have a connection with, and are involved in the preparation of, the food they eat, then it will be normal for them to cook these kind of meals, and they will go on cooking them for the rest of their lives.

  

  Ferran Adria
  • Life
  • Up
  • Children

• Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Money
  • Capitalism
  • Throw

• You can't build another bridge that's so close to ours. It's stupid.

  

  Manuel Moroun
  • You
  • Stupid
  • Bridge

• I can tell you where I was when Kennedy was shot - which was in the common room at school. I heard about it on the old valve radio. At the time of Armstrong's landing, I was at university rehearsing a play.

  

  Sam Neill
  • Time
  • School
  • Old

• The race of children possesses magically sagacious powers.

  

  Gail Godwin
  • Children
  • Race
  • Possesses

• I have worked hard since my childhood and worked as a labourer. I put my mind and heart into it.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Mind
  • Heart
  • Childhood

• I've been in government and politics my entire career, and while I try to keep a level head and a reasonable tone in my commentary, even I can lose my head sometimes and let anger bubble over and burst out. It feels gross, looks ugly, and leaves a lasting mark.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Career
  • Government
  • Politics

• In beginning the world, if you don't wish to get chafed at every turn, fold up your pride carefully, put it under lock and key, and only let it out to air upon grand occasions. Pride is a garment all stiff brocade outside, all grating sackcloth on the side next to the skin.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Pride
  • Next
  • Key

• We do not have an ideal world, such as we would like, where morality is easy because cognition is easy. Where one can do right with no effort because he can detect the obvious.

  

  Philip K. Dick
  • World
  • Effort

• Every book leaves its mark on you. It might leave you hungry for that kind of book or you may be satiated, and you're eager to read something else. It might send you in a completely different direction. I love that about reading.

  

  Laila Lalami
  • Different
  • May
  • Book

• All the filmmakers I've worked with have taken my desire to educate myself very seriously.

  

  Jeremy Davies
  • Desire
  • Taken

• Unscientific man is beset by a deplorable desire to have been right. The scientist is distinguished by a desire to be right.

  

  Willard Van Orman Quine
  • Men
  • Desire
  • Scientist

• They parted at last with mutual civility, and possibly a mutual desire of never meeting again.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Desire
  • Civility
  • Mitual