Edward Gibbon Quotes

The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness.

Edward Gibbon

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: historian
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: April 27, 1737 - January 16, 1794

Topics

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I just didn't want to get bored playing a character, and that's kind of the benefit of doing films; you've lived with a character for four or five months and that's it, and you walk away from that character and you feel like you told a story.

Jeffrey Dean Morgan

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I will not be a punching bag as part of anyone's defense strategy.

Michael Cohen

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I remember loving 'Braveheart,' and I still do! It was one of those films my family had on video and we watched over and over again.

Rose Leslie

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During my Ph.D. program, I became interested in the informational structure of markets that turned into the work on signaling, which was the part of my early work that was recognized for the Nobel Prize, but it was not really a subject at the time.

Michael Spence

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I do real paintings, you know. I'm a little messy in the studio, so I'm a bit of a danger. But I just adore it.

Jaron Lanier

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There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.

Confucius

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Peter Lucas and I live in Durham but spend a great of time in North Wales, where we have a cottage in the mountains, and in Vermont, USA, with my sister - who is a children's writer married to a poet.

Anne Stevenson

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We're seeing a new 'Gilded Age,' where inheritance is a deciding factor in who becomes the wealthiest.

Annalee Newitz

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Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.

Paul Valery

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It's not about working anymore, its about doing work I can be proud of.

Paul Walker

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Most actors feel only one way. We're just grateful to have a job.

Seann William Scott

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The experience of ages has shown that a man who works on the land is purer, nobler, higher, and more moral... Agriculture should be at the basis of everything. That's my idea.

Nikolai Gogol

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