Jane Austen Quotes

I cannot make speeches, Emma...If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more. But you know what I am. You hear nothing but truth from me. I have blamed you, and lectured you, and you have borne it as no other woman in England would have borne it.

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• It happens that I'm heterosexual, but I don't care about that. I do care about protecting the rights of 10 percent of our population who are homosexual and who don't have the ability to protect their rights.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Care
  • Ability
  • Protect

• Without stirring abroad, One can know the whole world; Without looking out of the window One can see the way of heaven. The further one goes The less one knows.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • World
  • Heaven
  • Window

• Live rich, die poor; never make the mistake of doing it the other way round.

  

  Walter Annenberg
  • Live
  • Die
  • Mistake

• Random chance plays a huge part in everybody's life.

  

  Gary Gygax
  • Life
  • Chance
  • Random

• The thing about a failure is that it is possible to deny it forever.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • Forever
  • Failure
  • Possible

• The big tragedy in baseball is that the amateur spirit has gone out of it to a large extent.

  

  Larry MacPhail
  • Baseball
  • Tragedy
  • Big

• The fertility cycle is a cycle entirely of living creatures passing again and again through birth, growth, maturity, death, and decay.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Death
  • Growth
  • Maturity

• One of the things I have to do, and I'm working on it, is making sure I enjoy the ride along the way. I have to remind myself, 'Take a look around, look at things, and enjoy it.'

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Myself
  • Enjoy
  • Ride

• Family entertainment is really very necessary in our culture. Look how profitable they are. It's almost not discretionary. You need to take your family to the movies.

  

  Gary Ross
  • Family
  • Culture
  • Movies

• I was 6, and I was in the opera 'Carmen.' My dad sang opera and got me into the children's chorus. I was super fat at the time and didn't make eye contact with anyone. I knew I loved acting ever since.

  

  Owen Benjamin
  • Time
  • Children
  • Dad

• I like to go to Africa purely with something to do. I'm not very comfortable getting into an armor-plated Land Rover and going to see things, with my hand gel, you know, it's not me at all. So I like to hang out and you know, really get to know people and try and do something that resonates with them.

  

  Damon Albarn Gorillaz
  • People
  • Know
  • Hand

• Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization.

  

  Edmond de Goncourt
  • Life
  • World
  • Die

• Archeology and ecology can go hand in hand.

  

  Carlos Salinas de Gortari
  • Hand
  • Go
  • Ecology

• Panama's a really wonderful country. There's obviously the Panama Canal, which brings a lot of tourism, and a huge American influence; it's just a mix of so many great things: African, Caribbean, Latin American Spanish, all kinds of influences there.

  

  J. August Richards
  • Great
  • Country
  • American

• Chana dal are skinless dried split chickpeas used in Indian cooking. They have a great texture and delicate flavour.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Great
  • Cooking
  • Used

• When I think of the most beautiful women, they're not supermodels.

  

  Becki Newton
  • Women
  • Think
  • Beautiful

• Secrecy is one of the shadier sides of private and public life.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Life
  • Public
  • Sides

• I wish black people had a flag they could put into the ground, like when the troops stormed Iwo Jima.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • People
  • Black
  • Wish

• The scene of independent cinema is already a large scene in America, and not in a negative way, but it's cluttered. It's very populated with just American films, so the room left for foreign movies is not extremely vast. The American public also does not really read. They don't read subtitles. But we're like that in Canada, too.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • American
  • America
  • Independent

• What greater pain could mortals have than this: To see their children dead before their eyes?

  

  Euripides
  • Children
  • Pain
  • Mortals

• Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.

  

  Florence Nightingale
  • World
  • Never
  • Better

• If I stopped making records or performing, I'd probably still be famous for a while being me. But I'd rather have something to show for myself.

  

  Kylie Minogue
  • Famous
  • Show
  • Records

• I cannot make speeches, Emma...If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more. But you know what I am. You hear nothing but truth from me. I have blamed you, and lectured you, and you have borne it as no other woman in England would have borne it.

  

  Jane Austen
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