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Oliver Goldsmith Quotes

A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future.

Oliver Goldsmith

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: irish
Birth: November 10, 1730 - April 4, 1774

Topics

Future Alone Great Past Wise Regret

Who knows what technology will emerge in the next five years, let alone 20. Yet the education we provide our children now is supposed to last for decades. We cannot train them for jobs that do not even exist yet, but we can provide them with the minds and tools they'll need to adapt to our ever-changing set of circumstances.

Jim Hunt

Education Technology Alone Children

She has no imagination and that means no compassion.

Michael Foot

Compassion Imagination She Means

I went through different looks. At one period, I was preppy because that's how I grew up. But then I had bleached hair in the front. And I used to wear - then I wanted to be a beatnik. It was hard to be a beatnik in suburban Baltimore. But I wanted to be one.

John Waters

Hair Looks Hard Through Up Wear

All political revolutions, not affected by foreign conquest, originate in moral revolutions. The subversion of established institutions is merely one consequence of the previous subversion of established opinions.

John Stuart Mill

Political Opinions Moral Institutions

I spent six years touring the world playing Shakespeare, Molire, Shaw, Goldsmith... But I slowly came to realise that the people you are working with are as important as the parts you play, and that there were lots of interesting people working in film and T.V.

Stephen Mangan

People World Interesting You Play

George Clooney, who is a moron, came here to Cannes and gave a press conference saying, 'Under no circumstances will Trump ever be president. Hillary Clinton will be the next president.' Well, we can't wait to make George Clooney eat his words.

Steve Bannon

Words Wait Saying Circumstances Will

Popularizing - much less venturing beyond one's secure turf - was frowned upon for many years. I think I probably internalized the prohibition, even though I was - and knew I was - among the best speakers and writers of my age cohort. I don't mean I was the best historian - a quite different measure.

Tony Judt

Age Best Think Measure Beyond Mean

In England we are sort of very awkward.

Tom Felton

Awkward England Very Sort

I jetset around and play these songs and get to hang with some pretty amazing people, then I go home to a really great farm, though actually it's a disaster area of a farm at the moment. But it's certainly a blast. I wouldn't trade lives with anyone right now.

Brad Paisley

Home Great Moment People Amazing Go

If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it.

Julius Caesar

Power Law Legal You Seize Break

I made a promise to myself when I graduated from law school that I would never do anything that I didn't enjoy doing, and almost every day of the year since that June of 1963, I have awakened glad that I was going to work, glad that I was going to court, glad that I was going to grapple with a problem.

Janet Reno

Work Myself Day School Law Problem

That it's a lot harder to make a keyboard sound not-cheesy than a guitar.

Julian Casablancas

Guitar Sound Keyboard Harder Than