Jonathan Swift Quotes

Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age.

Jonathan Swift

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: irish
  • Birth: November 30, 1667 - October 19, 1745

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One of my biggest superstitions is to never speak about the future out loud. Let's just say I got a lot out there and I hope to keep on going.

Steven Blum

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When I was in school, I conceptually didn't want black people to have context, to take it out of all that history. I wanted nothing to indicate where they are or what time it is, to place them anywhere.

Toyin Odutola

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How can you not have preconceived notions and expectations of who Kelsey Grammer is gonna be? He's been in my living room since my TV was on. And he exceeded them all, somehow. He's such a beautiful and open-hearted collaborator and mentor and such a great family man. I was just lucky to get to work with him and learn from him.

Matt Bomer

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I refuse for any person or organized group to dictate to me what God is. That is really the height of insufferable hubris. I believe in just immediately putting to death or just putting over the cliff people who assume they know about God.

Miriam Defensor-Santiago

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Our utilitarian structures will mature into architecture only when, through their fulfillment of function, they become carriers of the will of the age.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

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My foundation was created so I can find a way to improve the living conditions of my people in the African continent, not just in Congo.

Dikembe Mutombo

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If he could sleep on it. He would make his bed with white sheets And disappear into the white, Like a man diving, If he could be certain That the light Would not keep him awake, The light that reaches To the bottom.

Donald Justice

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What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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There are so many things to be lucky for. Lucky to be healthy, lucky to be, like, beautiful. Lucky to be living in America.

Ansel Elgort

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Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old.

Winston Churchill

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When my wife and I got married, she thought of me being an easygoing person, and I warned her I wasn't.

Peter Higgs

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If you immediately take a job somewhere, you've given up on the dream of being an entrepreneur and creating jobs for people and making new technologies and making new paths.

Shervin Pishevar

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