William Hazlitt Quotes

We find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes the only temptation.

William Hazlitt

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: critic
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: April 10, 1778 - September 18, 1830

Topics

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Try to open up your mind a little, and move away from rigid opinions of what people should do and be - unless you have been there.

Ann Rule

PeopleMindOpinionsYouTryOpen

In the final analysis, it is your decision to make, but it doesn't move as fast as I'd like it to move.

Alphonso Jackson

DecisionFastFinalAnalysisMove

I don't see a difference between the idea of what an actor does and what someone supposes a character actor is, really.

Michael Stuhlbarg

CharacterSomeoneActorSeeIdea

My dad did show me interesting movies at a young age. I remember he showed me 'A Clockwork Orange,' and my mom said, 'I never want to see this movie in my house again.'

Jonathan Krisel

AgeMeMomInterestingRemember

I love boats. Anything that runs, anything mechanical. It's my God-given passion in life.

Dennis Washington

LifeLovePassionAnythingBoats

Incredibly, oil and gas companies don't have to pay certain environmental costs that amount to small change to them, while an offshore wind project start-up is faced with fees that could mean the difference between building a wind farm and packing up and going home.

Chellie Pingree

ChangeHomeEnvironmentalWindSmall

I've always believed that the best way you combat intellectual property theft is making a product available that is well priced, well timed to market, whether it's a movie product, TV product, music product, even theme-park product.

Bob Iger

MusicBestYouIntellectualWay

People in my books tend to get their just deserts, even if not at the hands of the police.

Antonia Fraser

PolicePeopleHandsGetJustBooks

I'm very frugal, so I don't like to shop because I'm afraid everything is going away.

Antoni Porowski

AfraidEverythingAwayGoingBecause

I believe you mother everybody, not in a cloying, hovering way, but taking care of what is around you.

Alice Walker

MotherBelieveCareYouWayAround

A thing that I'm always worried about doing is putting an image of myself on my Instagram or somewhere else that looks perfect, because that's not who I am, and that's not what I want to preach.

Petra Collins

MyselfI AmDoingPerfectLooks

I think probably one of the important things that happened to me was growing up in Idaho in the mountains, in the woods, and having a very strong presence of the wilderness around me. That never felt like emptiness. It always felt like presence.

Marilynne Robinson

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