Joseph Addison Quotes

Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt.

Joseph Addison

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: May 1, 1672 - June 17, 1719

Topics

HappinessEnemyWillVirtueCorrupt

Growing up in the icy isolation of Hibbing, Minn., Dylan, who was still Robert Allen Zimmerman then, found comfort in the country, blues, and early rock 'n' roll that he heard at night on a Louisiana radio station whose signal came in strong and clear.

Robert Hilburn

Growing UpNightIsolationStrong

As the wonderful agony begins for 1964-65, I sometimes wonder why I do it. I've got an insurance business going on the side, and it is starting to grow nicely. Selling insurance fulfills me, in a way, like basketball. But basketball keeps calling me back. I suppose I'll play until I can't keep up with the kids any longer.

Tom Heinsohn

BusinessMeBasketballGrowPlay

I have friends that are much better actors than I am that had to quit the business because they couldn't survive the auditions or the rejections, or people just didn't realize how good they were.

Robert Englund

GoodBusinessI AmPeopleSurvive

At one point I had a stretch where it was working on 'In Treatment,' then 'True Blood,' then 'Durham County,' then 'True Blood,' then 'In Treatment' again. If I didn't have that little dose of 'True Blood' in the middle, I might have lost my mind.

Michelle Forbes

MindLostBloodTrueLittleMiddle

There's something really satisfying if you've created a bunch of characters that have withstood 25 episodes.

Jonathan Tropper

YouSomethingCreatedSatisfying

If fans come up to me, I talk to them.

Chester Bennington

MeTalkUpFansComeThem

I was motivated to write about violence because I believe it's not unusual. I see it as just a part of life, and I think we get in trouble when we separate people who've experienced it from those who haven't.

Alice Sebold

LifePeopleBelieveThinkViolence

Just because somebody makes a mistake doesn't make them useless.

Todd Akin

MistakeJust BecauseUselessJust

I used to think of it as a joke that all paranoids were right. That was a joke in the '60s, but now I'm convinced that people should be paranoid reflexively - and then pare it down from there if there's any indication that they're wrong.

Richard Belzer

PeopleThinkDownWrongNowRight

I have a generally optimistic temperament and am thrilled by what I see as a rapidly growing food movement, especially among young people who care about how food is produced and what it does to their health and the environment.

Marion Nestle

HealthFoodPeopleCareEnvironment

Broadway is the same as Hollywood. Every few years we say we reached the mountaintop, then we take two steps back.

Kenny Leon

BackSayHollywoodTwoSameYears

I've always admired lawyers who use their power to effect social change, and Thurgood Marshall was always a childhood hero of mine.

Kenneth Frazier

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