John Donne Quotes

He must pull out his own eyes, and see no creature, before he can say, he sees no God; He must be no man, and quench his reasonable soul, before he can say to himself, there is no God.

John Donne

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• I find being funny very hard work. I am always asked about it, and I feel guilty saying that, but it's the truth. I love my work, but it ain't easy.

  

  Madeline Kahn
  • Work
  • Truth
  • Funny

• In the north we could not hope to keep the worst and poorest servant for a single day in the wretched discomfort in which our negro servants are forced habitually to live.

  

  Fanny Kemble
  • Live
  • Hope
  • Single

• I think watching Channing Tatum caress his Lego Oscar statue will be something I won't forget. Even if I try.

  

  Nathan Sawaya
  • Think
  • Forget
  • Try

• I kept my babies fed. I could have dumped them, but I didn't. I decided that whatever trip I was on, they were going with me. You're looking at a real daddy.

  

  Barry White
  • Looking
  • Babies
  • Trip

• Serbia did not want to recognize our country in a peaceful way, so that is why they wanted to destroy us. All our efforts to find a peaceful solution were impossible. In order to save the people, NATO had to intervene.

  

  Ibrahim Rugova
  • People
  • Country
  • Why

• I like the dark undertow of grime, and it gets me aggressive. You need that aggression.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • Dark
  • Aggressive
  • Aggression

• If you think about a Thanksgiving dinner, it's really like making a large chicken.

  

  Ina Garten
  • Think
  • Dinner
  • Thanksgiving

• Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Trying
  • Become
  • Harm

• Nothing is ever for sure, but when something in love doesn't work from the beginning, it's never going to work. Don't push it.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Work
  • Love
  • Never

• If I focus on being an activist and my job is to be a rapper, I'm not going to be as good of a rapper. I need to focus on hip-hop and focus on making the music, so that when the activists come to me and they need my voice to create a platform, then I've got enough people listening to me. Not because I'm conscious, but because I'm dope.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • People
  • Good
  • Music

• Your most precious possessions on offense are your twenty-seven outs.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Most
  • Precious
  • Possessions

• I'm a foodie. I enjoy it a lot, and contrary to what it looks, I eat a lot. My comfort food, of all things, would be southern soul barbecue.

  

  Zach Johnson The Fray
  • Soul
  • Food
  • Enjoy

• If people don't get paid for their inventions, that's not a good thing. In the case of many patents, there are people who aren't in a position to take them to the next level. If you don't enforce your rights, no one is going to enforce them for you.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • People
  • Good
  • You

• The journey matters as much as the goal.

  

  Kalpana Chawla
  • Goal
  • Journey
  • Matters

• I guess I probably make violent films partly because I can't express my anger in my real life very well.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Life
  • Real
  • Anger

• When you face a 'performance' that might provoke the 'I'm scared' response, choose love and approach your opportunity as a chance to dance with God. It's more fun than 'Dancing with the Stars!'

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • God
  • Love
  • Fun

• If the FBI gets the 'back doors' it wants, Internet services would be required to create a massive online infrastructure for law enforcement to spy on members of the public.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Law
  • Internet
  • Doors

• I actually did go through severe depression and anxiety attacks where I couldn't sleep for weeks. It was definitely several months of being not myself.

  

  Felicia Day
  • Myself
  • Sleep
  • Depression

• My husband claims I have an unhealthy obsession with secondhand bookshops. That I spend too much time daydreaming altogether. But either you intrinsically understand the attraction of searching for hidden treasure amongst rows of dusty shelves or you don't; it's a passion, bordering on a spiritual illness, which cannot be explained to the unaffected.

  

  Kathleen Tessaro
  • Husband
  • Attraction
  • Daydreaming

• Everyone's like, 'Oh my God, can I ask you something? You were in 'Percy Jackson,' right?' I'm like, 'No, different guy.'

  

  Dylan Minnette
  • God
  • Different
  • Guy

• Failure sometimes enlarges the spirit. You have to fall back upon humanity and God.

  

  Charles Horton Cooley
  • God
  • Fall
  • Humanity

• By capitulating to life, this world has betrayed nothingness. . . . I resign from movement, and from my dreams. Absence! You shall be my sole glory. . . . Let 'desire' be forever stricken from the dictionary, and from the soul! I retreat before the dizzying farce of tomorrows. And if I still cling to a few hopes, I have lost forever the faculty of hoping.

  

  Emil Cioran
  • Life
  • World
  • Soul

• Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • More
  • Four
  • Thousand

• He must pull out his own eyes, and see no creature, before he can say, he sees no God; He must be no man, and quench his reasonable soul, before he can say to himself, there is no God.

  

  John Donne
  • God
  • Soul
  • Eyes