John Donne Quotes

Ah cannot we As well as cocks and lions jocund be, After such pleasures?

John Donne

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• The most wonderful discovery made by scientists is science itself.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • Science
  • Discovery
  • Most

• The richer you are and the more financial advisers you employ, the less likelihood there is that you can ever discover what you are really worth.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • You
  • Financial
  • Discover

• Cultural tourism surveys consistently rate San Francisco's art industry as a core reason for visiting.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Art
  • Reason
  • Tourism

• People said I couldn't gig, and I proved them wrong.

  

  Kate Bush
  • People
  • Said
  • Wrong

• I pretty much move around wherever I like.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Pretty
  • Like
  • Wherever

• Logically, harmony must come from the heart... Harmony very much based on trust. As soon as use force, creates fear. Fear and trust cannot go together.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Heart
  • Together
  • Fear

• If I didn't have children I might be more of a lush than I am. I like booze. I struggle with smoking. And I'm a big swearer. I'm trying to rein it in but I do think it's a nice seasoning of language.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Children
  • Trying
  • Nice

• You know, I go around the country a lot.

  

  Sally Ride
  • Country
  • You
  • Know

• When we were filming 'The Darkest Hour,' we didn't even know what the aliens were going to look like, we didn't even have a graphic reference. So it was definitely a big challenge to sell those kind of extreme moments when you're just generating them from your own imagination.

  

  Olivia Thirlby
  • Moments
  • Imagination
  • Challenge

• That people believe I can be Olympic champ, it just spurs me on.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • People
  • Believe
  • Me

• Young gentlemen with literary aspirations usually start a new university magazine, which for wit and pungency is designed to eclipse all such previous efforts, and I was no exception in the matter of this popular gambit.

  

  E. F. Benson
  • Popular
  • Matter
  • Start

• You can learn all about the human condition from covering the crime beat in a big city - you don't need to go to Beirut for that - but a foreign correspondent begins to understand poverty from a different perspective.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Different
  • City
  • Poverty

• To me, if you are in the same building with Peter Sellers or John Cleese, or any of those guys and holding your own making other people laugh, that’s a compliment.

  

  Alice Cooper
  • People

• The Chinese authorities think of artists as prostitutes. And in reality it’s true: in the Communist system artists just represent what the power structure seeks them to represent. It is prostitution.'

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • Power
  • True
  • Reality

• When I was in high school, there was no safe haven, there was no outlet for you to speak your mind.

  

  Matt Bomer
  • Mind
  • School
  • High

• Growing up, I really looked up to the classic Hollywood actors like Spencer Tracy, Robert Mitchum, and Peter Falk. I love character actors - I've never wanted to be the leading guy.

  

  David Harewood
  • Up
  • Character
  • Guy

• 'Mariah' was the first series-regular role for me, and that really came about because of 'Secret Honor.' That really was a direct result of that. Because now I had an agent and was submitted for that part, for James Malone. And... I was the casting director's first choice for James Malone.

  

  Philip Baker Hall
  • Honor

• If you make that decision, that you'll always follow that rule, then your commitment to do it sinks into your heart, and when you realize the benefits of having integrity time after time, it really changes your heart, not just your head.

  

  Clayton Christensen
  • Time
  • Heart
  • Decision

• Do not be of two minds whether this should happen or not. Do not take the Lord’s name for a futile purpose. Love your neighbor more than yourself. Do not abort a fetus or kill a child that is already born. Do not not remove your hand from your son or daughter, but from their youth teach them the reverential fear of God.

  

  Bart Ehrman
  • Purpose
  • Child
  • Kill

• Advances have fallen, generally, for everything except the biggest potential bestsellers. Given all the changes, both economic and technological, SF hasn't done too badly.

  

  Alan Dean Foster
  • Done

• Anyone who goes into writing has to find out somewhere along the line, he's either naive or insane.

  

  Leon Uris
  • Writing
  • Insane
  • Naive

• Criticism is the endeavour to find, to know, to love, to recommend, not only the best, but all the good, that has been known and thought and written in the world.

  

  George Saintsbury
  • World
  • Criticism
  • Written

• If I have any attribute that serves me well, it's I don't have a long-range plan in life. I have no idea. I just don't look ahead, I really don't. You know when people get out of college and they're talking about their five-year plan. Five-year plan? I got a plan to get to Friday.

  

  Michael Wilbon
  • Idea
  • Friday
  • Range

• Ah cannot we As well as cocks and lions jocund be, After such pleasures?

  

  John Donne