Jonathan Swift Quotes

Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.

Jonathan Swift

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

PoliticsNothingUnderstoodWord

My mother taught me to ask people about the things they love.

Andrew Sean Greer

LoveMotherPeopleMeAskThings

Look closer at the stress in your own life and you can identify that negative emotions are always built on counterfactual statements.

Andrew J. Bernstein

LifeStressNegativeYouLookOwn

All creatures tread across the rubble of ruined civilizations. The trick is to keep moving. No animal ever goes about dispensing shallow compassion.

Rita Mae Brown

CompassionAnimalMovingKeep Moving

When I am shooting a film I never think of how I want to shoot something; I simply shoot it.

Michelangelo Antonioni

I AmThinkWantNeverShootingFilm

Everyone deserves compassion.

Michael Sheen

CompassionEveryoneDeserves

When a woman is very, very bad, she is awful, but when a man is correspondingly good, he is weird.

Minna Antrim

GoodWomanManWeirdBadShe

If the brain expects that a treatment will work, it sends healing chemicals into the bloodstream, which facilitates that. And the opposite is equally true and equally powerful: When the brain expects that a therapy will not work, it doesn't. It's called the 'nocebo' effect.

Bruce Lipton

WorkHealingBrainPowerfulTrue

The company-as-a-machine model fits how people think about and operate conventional companies. And, of course, it fits how people think about changing conventional companies: You have a broken company, and you need to change it, to fix it.

Peter Senge

ChangeBrokenPeopleThinkYouNeed

I wasn't hanging around the movie theaters in New York where I grew up, a Manhattan brat.

Peter Bart

New YorkNewUpHangingManhattan

There's no such thing as standing still and just singing a song. I love jumping into the crowd. I love to dance.

Thomas Rhett

LoveDanceSingingSongJumping

They also can combine voice with instant messaging and online file sharing.

Niklas Zennstrom

VoiceSharingInstantOnlineFile

How can you not like Britney Spears?

Lindsay Lohan

YouLikeHowBritney SpearsSpears

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