John Bunyan Quotes

Words easy to be understood do often hit the mark; when high and learned ones do only pierce the air.

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• Justice is revenge.

  

  Saad Hariri
  • Justice
  • Revenge

• It's always been my dream to just continually do really cool indie movies - character-driven stuff.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Character
  • Dream
  • Cool

• I think the attraction to Israeli women stems from the fact that we're exotic and the fact that there are many talented and beautiful women in Israel. I think that there is also greater awareness of Israel than before in the movie industry.

  

  Bar Paly
  • Women
  • Movie
  • Beautiful

• A country that does not fulfill its tasks in protecting the external borders has to cope with the consequences.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Country
  • Consequences
  • Cope

• When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?

  

  Park Shin-hye
  • Marriage
  • Thought
  • Year

• I grew up in a house full of books and parents who read, which led to me to reading from a very young age. And reading seemed to naturally progress to writing.

  

  Garth Nix
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Age

• I put Tabasco sauce over everything. Or I put it on pretty much anything that wouldn't taste gross - I mean, I wouldn't put it on salad, but I like it on fried chicken, nachos... a lot of stuff.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Pretty
  • Everything
  • Taste

• I have this desire in the back of my mind now of making music and film at the same time - putting the two together.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Time
  • Music
  • Mind

• I'm trying to knock the medical profession into accepting its responsibilities, and those responsibilities include assisting their patients with death.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Trying
  • Death
  • Medical

• We just sort of thought a Web series would be a cool thing to be able to send to our parents to show them that we were, in fact, actually doing comedy.

  

  Abbi Jacobson
  • Parents
  • Comedy
  • Cool

• I enjoy stand-up because it has the biggest reward: instant gratification. You can hear the people laughing.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • People
  • Up
  • Enjoy

• Happiness is knowing and appreciating what you've got. I am very, very, very grateful for what, to me, is dead easy.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Happiness
  • Knowing
  • Grateful

• I'd always assumed that I would die at about the same age as my dad - he was 45. I am five years in credit now. I can't get my head around the fact that I am older than he was - ever.

  

  Ian Hislop
  • Age
  • Dad
  • Die

• I think that this is the first war in history that on the morrow the victors sued for peace and the vanquished called for unconditional surrender.

  

  Abba Eban
  • War
  • History
  • Peace

• I don't want to be idealized by a patient because of what I've written.

  

  Irvin D. Yalom
  • Want
  • Because
  • Patient

• The music led to the acting. But movies aren't something you can just will yourself into. Someone has to choose you, and you have to be quite fortunate to be chosen.

  

  Ice T
  • Music
  • Acting
  • Yourself

• Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Growth
  • Ambition
  • Proceeds

• I never planned to be an actor. It turned out I could make a living doing it.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Doing
  • Actor
  • Living

• Rhyme, the rack of finest wits, That expresseth but by fits, True conceit, Spoiling senses of their treasure, Cozening judgement with a measure, But false weight. Wresting words from their true calling; Propping verse, for fear of falling To the ground. Jointing syllables, drowning letters, Fastening vowels, as with fetters They were bound!

  

  Ben Jonson
  • True
  • Words
  • Fear

• Translating from one language to another, unless it is from Greek and Latin, the queens of all languages, is like looking at Flemish tapestries from the wrong side, for although the figures are visible, they are covered by threads that obscure them, and cannot be seen with the smoothness and color of the right side.

  

  Miguel de Cervantes
  • Language
  • Latin
  • Obscure

• One of the ideas that I wanted to highlight, which is actually a very bipartisan idea - it's not just about conservatives - is this worship of wealth, the CEO saviour.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Ideas
  • Idea
  • Wealth

• If you believe that movies are alive and talking back to you, there's a point at which it's very obvious they're not finished.

  

  Dede Gardner
  • Believe

• So a lorry-load of tortoises crashed into a train-load of terrapins, I thought "That's a turtle disaster".

  

  Tommy Cooper
  • Train
  • Disaster
  • Tortoises

• Words easy to be understood do often hit the mark; when high and learned ones do only pierce the air.

  

  John Bunyan
  • High
  • Words
  • Air