Joseph Hall Quotes

What fools are we, to be besotted with the love of our own trouble, and to hate our liberty and rest!

Joseph Hall

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: clergyman
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: July 1, 1574 - September 8, 1656

Topics

LoveHateRestFoolsTroubleOwn

There isn't a day when I don't look in the mirror and think, 'How in the hell did I become a conservative Republican?' It's still a weird reckoning, because it shouldn't have happened.

Andrew Breitbart

MirrorDayThinkHellWeirdLook

My younger sister Debby had died of cancer, which started me writing - the sense of life being short. Cancer focuses your mind.

Meg Rosoff

LifeMindMeSisterWritingShort

I've always been conscientious and hardworking. I've never wasted time.

Stelios Haji-Ioannou

TimeNeverAlwaysWasted TimeWasted

I've always wanted to make music like people write plays, so I was inspired by writers as much as musicians.

St. Vincent

MusicPeopleMusiciansWriteAlways

I think in the heat of emotions, some rhetoric is said that is a little explosive.

Tommy Thompson

ThinkEmotionsSaidRhetoricHeat

Properly targeted public investment can do much to boost economic performance, generating aggregate demand quickly, fueling productivity growth by improving human capital, encouraging technological innovation, and spurring private-sector investment by increasing returns.

Michael Spence

GrowthInnovationPerformanceHuman

I've always tried to make music for someone who's never heard anything I've ever done.

Lou Barlow

MusicSomeoneDoneNeverAnything

The best people I know have had a lot of obstacles to overcome.

Jayne Meadows

BestPeopleObstaclesKnowOvercome

I think you only have to pull stunts if the content of your music is meaningless.

Josh Tillman

MusicThinkYouContentMeaningless

One of the strengths I derive from my class background is that I am accustomed to contempt.

Dorothy Allison

I AmClassStrengthsBackgroundAm

I think the core of fans' relationship is one that vacillates schizophrenically and mercurially from reverence to resentment. Fans fetishize the players' athletic genius and both deify it and demonize it; witness the way awe turns into anger whenever a player holds out or flips off the offensive coordinator.

David Shields

RelationshipAngerThinkGeniusWay

America should be ashamed to say they have the best justice system in the world when, every day, race plays a part in who goes to prison, who don't go to prison.

Anthony Ray Hinton

JusticeBestDayWorldPrisonGo

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