Jane Austen Quotes
To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment.Jane Austen
Quotes to Explore
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Making music is pretty much the only thing I can do.
Washed Out -
There is a saying: 'The child is parent to the adult', which means whatever happens to you as a child or teenager affects the adult you become. You are forged in your history. And fiction is an incredibly important force in shaping children, and that's why fiction needs to be diverse.
Malorie Blackman -
When you've grown sick of reading and bug-eyed from watching TV, when your friends are all visited out, no words can adequately praise the link to the outside world provided by your parents and family.
Lance Loud -
Readers appreciate the truth. Why say, 'Some think a situation is a mess?' Based on my reporting, if a situation is a mess, then I say that. The truth is always what reporters tell each other when they get back to the newsroom.
Kara Swisher -
You change the world by being yourself.
Yoko Ono -
I'm a cereal girl. I have always loved my cereal ever since I was a kid.
Rachel Stevens
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What entrepreneurs and artists have in common is that they give the world something it didn't know it was missing.
Dan Pink -
Everything happens to me. I've never had a streak of luck in my life.
Eddie Slovik -
I love 'Jane Eyre,' and I love the Bronte sisters. I actually didn't read any of them until I was in college, so I don't have quite the same connection with them that I think a lot of women do.
Mallory Ortberg -
The whole spirit of 'Eddie The Eagle' is that it's the taking part that counts, not the winning.
Taron Egerton -
It never cost a disciple anything to follow Jesus; to talk about cost when you are in love with anyone is an insult.
Oswald Chambers -
Agreement has now been reached that negotiations on Turkey's accession to the European Union can and will begin in the very near future.
Jack Straw
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I think that once you've produced a conformist, a totally conformist society, a society in which there were no critics, that would in fact be an exact equivalent of the totalitarian societies against which we are supposed to be fighting in a cold war.
Malcolm Muggeridge -
The average man finds life very uninteresting as it is. And I think the reason why is that he is always waiting for something to happen to him instead of setting to work to make things happen
A. A. Milne -
I tried to fit it in with some previous broad conceptual understanding of some part of mathematics that would clarify the particular problem I was thinking about.
Andrew Wiles -
I don't care when people use the term 'one-Slam wonder' with me.
Andy Roddick -
Your financial success is directly related to the size of the problem you solve for other people (solve BIG problems and you'll make BIG money).
Brian Tracy -
If DreamWorks and Disney need that name to sell the cartoon and get people in the seats, that's what they need. It's not fair, but there's plenty of other work for us to do.
Carlos Alazraqui
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I don't know who Maxime thinks she's kidding. If Hagrid's half-giant, she definitely is. Big bones... the only thing that's got bigger bones than her is a dinosaur.
Joanne Rowling -
It is evident that the state is a creation of nature, and that man is by nature a political animal.
Aristotle -
I don't want to get too dippy about all this. If you take the view of the scientist and everything is in a state of vibration, then every note is a vibration, which has a certain frequency, and you know that if you put 40 beats into a frequency it's going to be the same note every time. You take that into infrasound and people can be made to be sick, actually killed. Taking it the other way, not to be too depressing, what about euphoria, etc., and what about consciousness being totally... no, I won't go into that one. Time warps.
Jimmy Page Led Zeppelin -
To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment.
Jane Austen