John Donne Quotes

Full nakedness! All joys are due to thee, As souls unbodied, bodies unclothed must be, To taste whole joys.

John Donne

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• I hope our people hold tight to the notion that we do not have to be a fear-ridden country focused on restrictions, but rather that we remain the land of the free and home of the brave.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • People
  • Country
  • Home

• I actually like to sing on 'Rock Band.' I prefer to take the mic.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Band
  • Rock
  • Like

• I write to please me, and I've been very lucky. It's like playing baseball. You just keep swinging, and eventually you get a hit.

  

  Karen Robards
  • Me
  • Baseball
  • Lucky

• I'm not 'Will's brother' anymore. Will is my brother. I'm paving the way for all middle children out there.

  

  Nash Grier
  • Children
  • Way
  • Brother

• Nothing heightens chaos more than a berserk wild animal right in the middle.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Animal
  • Chaos
  • WIld

• I want to take a close look at the SBA to see what works, what doesn't, what is duplicative, and what isn't even being utilized. We'll focus on what they do well and strengthen those areas.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Want
  • Focus
  • Look

• We don't worry about the integrity of our game. I'm more focused on the atmosphere in the arena, and that's something we're comfortable with going forward.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Game
  • Worry
  • Integrity

• Before 'Whiplash,' I'd had a string of failed scripts. I'd pour my blood, sweat and tears into them, and no one would like them.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Tears
  • Blood
  • Sweat

• There's some places where, I don't know if they're fiddle fans, or Natalie fans or if they just love Celtic music, but there's some places where there's just awesome crowds.

  

  Natalie MacMaster
  • Music
  • Love
  • Know

• I was born with this heart condition, but it's never affected me – I've been able to play every sport I wanted to, and the doctors were amazed.

  

  Dan Feuerriegel
  • Heart
  • Born
  • Condition

• My mom didn't want us to go to the candy house, she didn't want us to go to the ice cream truck, she didn't want us to go to the... There was actually a donut truck, if that makes sense.

  

  Venus Williams
  • She
  • House
  • Mom

• There are not many female role models to guide voters, and the tradition that a Southern woman's place is in the home still lingers in some quarters.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Home
  • Woman
  • Tradition

• I'm looking to make history.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • History
  • Looking
  • Make

• I grew up in Southern California, and I particularly did not fit in. I always felt like a fish out of water in my hometown because everyone was very happy, and I was thinking about death and anxiety, and not many other people around me seemed to be thinking about that.

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • People
  • Up
  • Thinking

• I get invited to premieres, and I've been to a few fashion shows and stuff, but I always get really bored. I feel quite awkward. You have to wear something by them, and it all feels like, 'Why am I doing free advertising for you?'

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • Why
  • Free
  • Fashion

• The thing about Paris, it's a great city for wandering around and buying shoes and nursing a cafe au lait for hours on end and pretending you're Baudelaire. But it's not a city where you can work.

  

  Malcolm Mclaren
  • Work
  • Great
  • City

• I grew up listening to most of my parents' music like The Beatles and ABBA and all that stuff.

  

  Tammin Sursok
  • Up
  • Music
  • Parents

• The island is in Kenya, the water is in Uganda... But the Luos, a Kenyan ethnic group are mad, they want to fish here but this is Uganda.

  

  Yoweri Museveni
  • Water
  • Mad

• There is a month, a year, there is a time In which majesty is a mirror of the self: I have not but I am and as I am, I am.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Time
  • Mirror

• You can forgive your leaders for not knowing the intricacies of Islamic history. You cannot forgive them for not knowing their own. And when you look at American democracy, where did it start? It started, if you need to pick a point, at Runnymede in 1215. We have now been at this process, we and our English-speaking allies, for 800 years.

  

  Michael Scheuer
  • American
  • Democracy
  • Process

• No one talks about woman power. The Spice Girls - they're masquerading as little girls. It's repulsive.

  

  Kim Gordon Sonic Youth
  • Power

• Full nakedness! All joys are due to thee, As souls unbodied, bodies unclothed must be, To taste whole joys.

  

  John Donne