Elizabeth-hoyt Quote by Elizabeth Hoyt

“And am I answerable that thoughtless and unprincipled men exist whose shades of contenance may resemble mine?”

— James Fenimore Cooper

“With very few exceptions I have never remained in mutual favor very long with people I have known well. They very quickly find things…

— Thomas Cullinan

“I am for the most part so convinced that everything is lacking in basis, consequence, justification, that if someone dared to contradict me, even…

— Emil Cioran

“It is curious that this man who, even in my childhood, made such an impression upon me, who had such a crucial influence on…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“This proved to me that no matter how diametrically opposed your views may be from another's if you can succeed in knowing him as…

— Carlos P. Romulo

“He was perpetually on guard against the ways that abstract thinking (especially thinking about your own thinking) can draw you away from something more…

— James Ryerson

“... we seemed to possess a similar worldview: slightly jaded, fiercely independent ... ”

— Douglas Kennedy

“But it is a strange experience, to a man of pride and sensibility, to know that his interests are within the control of individuals…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“Who can know how much of his most inward life is made up of the thoughts he believes other men to have about him,…

— George Eliot

“I found it difficult to accept that people could be so easily manipulated into supporting positions that contradicted both their self-proclaimed values and their…

— Frederic C. Rich

“It's one thing to listen only to yourself and believe in the superiority of your ideas. It's quite another to look down upon those…

— Ryan Asmussen

“I started to pour some of my passion into politics. I later learnt that a man who has passion in his politics is usually…

— Waguih Ghali