Pleasure is a necessary reciprocal. No one feels, who does not at the same time give it. To be pleased, one must please. What pleases you in others, will in general please them in you. – Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
I thought it completely absurd to mention my name in the same breath as the presidency. – Dwight D. Eisenhower
I’m glad the NCAA is pushing back the 3-point line a foot. I’m a big supporter of the 3-point shot; it’s exciting. I hope the high schools adopt the same rule. – Morgan Wootten
I’ve been on the board of UCLA Film and TV School, and I went to UCLA. I realized that the same movie theater that was there when I went to school, 30 years later is the same movie theater in the same condition. There was an opportunity to refurbish an existing room, and I jumped at the opportunity. – Darren Star
Being a humanitarian, supporting animal rights activists, human rights activists, it’s all the same. – Daryl Hannah
Ed Balls has made it crystal clear that, left to its own devices, a Labour government would simply carry on with the same budget policies as the Tories. – Nicola Sturgeon
After feminism, I suddenly realised: not everyone has to live the same way. Imagine that! – Gloria Steinem
I quite like Low, the band from Minnesota. They’re absolutely mesmerizing. I get much the same feeling from anything that Will Oldham does. – Gavin Rossdale
At the same time we overlap, because, I do linguistics, and Ben did a first degree in Linguistics at Lancaster University, so he knows some of my subject. – David Crystal
Humanity is still advancing; and it will probably continue to advance for hundreds of thousands of years more, always on condition that we know how to keep the same line of advance as our ancestors towards ever greater consciousness and complexity. – Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Let your enemies be disarmed by the gentleness of your manner, but at the same time let them feel, the steadiness of your resentment. – Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters. – George Eliot
Let them show me a cottage where there are not the same vices of which they accuse the courts. – Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
I found that options traders – the Amex was mainly an options exchange – routinely conspired to keep as wide as possible the spreads between the prices investors paid and the prices floor traders paid for the same securities. – Gary Weiss
I read ‘1984’ at a precocious age, like 8, and when I did the math, I realized that Julia, Winston Smith’s lover, was born the same year I was, 1957. I read that book over and over again with the 1960s as a backdrop: anti-war and anti-bomb protests and this general pervasive sense of doom. – Elizabeth Hand
I’m a sci-fi fan, but a lot of the sci-fi you’re getting is the same. It’s very stereotypical. – Morten Tyldum
It’s the same with the ballplayers. Babe Ruth spent a lot, too and the ballplayers make a lot more money now. – Mickey Gilley
Self-awareness is not the same thing as self-approval, any more than imagination is the same thing as day-dreaming. – Francis Spufford
Gordon Brown and Alistair Darling, in hosting the G20 summit and in the budget, must display the same boldness in tackling the instability at home that they do in promoting a worldwide answer to the global meltdown. – David Blunkett
Whenever the kindly uncles and aunts came over for a cup of tea and asked what I wanted to be when I grew up, it was always the same: an ‘authoress’, and illustrate my own books. – Cecilia Dart-Thornton
Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy. – George Santayana
L.A. is… I always feel sort of abducted when I’m there, like I’ve stepped onto another planet where everyone looks the same. – Mamie Gummer
Everybody has basically the same family, it’s just reconfigured slightly differently from one to the next. – Douglas Coupland
