John Donne Quotes

Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

John Donne

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• You know, I don't really understand a suburban environment. I want to be out in the woods, I want to be where it's wild, I want to wake up and hear birds, I want to walk outside and see a gaggle of turkeys bouncing across my lawn - I want to be someplace like that - or I want to be right in the middle of an urban environment.

  

  Karen Allen
  • Up
  • Environment
  • Wake Up

• I'm showing the younger generation your career doesn't have to be over when you're 16-years-old.

  

  Nastia Liukin
  • Career
  • You
  • Generation

• I had my first concert in front of 80,000 people at the International Soca Monarch Finals.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • People
  • First
  • Concert

• The visionary starts with a clean sheet of paper, and re-imagines the world.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • World
  • Imagination
  • Paper

• Fashion is supposed to be light and not try too hard.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Light
  • Fashion
  • Try

• We think that democracy can change a lot of things, but we're being fooled, because democracy is not the election. We've been taught that democracy is having elections. And it isn't. Elections are the most horrendous aspect of democracy. It's the most mundane, trivial, disappointing, dirty aspect.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Change
  • Democracy
  • Dirty

• Yet through history gays have always dominated religious life and churches.

  

  Malcolm Boyd
  • Life
  • History
  • Always

• I'm not good at accepting help.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Good
  • Help
  • Accepting

• Really it was the first time in my life that I recognised that acting is, I'm just going to say it, I am an artist, I have to do this, I have to do this.

  

  Tea Leoni
  • Life
  • Artist
  • Acting

• Delhi is full of energy. It is special to me because I have shot my first film here, and it is closer to my home town Chandigarh. I love the food, the vibe, and the people here.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • People
  • Home
  • Energy

• If you're doing the same job every day, there's room for error.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Job
  • Day
  • Same

• I've seen it again and again in my consulting: Most teams are too large to be innovative, despite their leaders' best intentions.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Best
  • Most
  • Intentions

• I'm always gonna have the darker edgy music; it is always in my pocket because it comes so naturally to me.

  

  Yelawolf
  • Music
  • Me
  • Always

• I use egg whites and an olive oil-based hair mask that deep-conditions the hair and adds incredible shine.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Hair
  • Deep
  • Shine

• I grew up with music very much in my life. I achieved success by combining my training as an accountant with my family upbringing and love of music.

  

  Zarin Mehta
  • Life
  • Music
  • Family

• The rules of drama are very much separate from the properties of life. I think that's especially true of Shakespeare.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Life
  • True
  • Think

• When the Hollywood thing happened, I thought at some point I'd get to the front of the queue: 'Yes, hello, I'd like to play that role.' But you don't. You just join a different queue.

  

  Olivia Williams
  • Different
  • Play
  • Thought

• The light would reach us more quickly in the morning and fade more slowly at night if the whole earth were divided into vast flower beds that called forth the light at dawn and clutched it longer at nightfall. Nature instituted summer for flowers long before man took summer over for his own uses.

  

  Malcolm de Chazal
  • Long
  • Nature
  • Night

• Water - a thoroughly underrated drink.

  

  Wayne Gerard Trotman
  • Water
  • Drink
  • Underrated

• The problem is not the claycourt. The problem is, you know, rather something to do with the conditions on center court. Because I've played well on Suzanne Lenglen, on the other courts. But the Chatrier court is really, really big, and I just haven't had enough play on it. Maybe I come here next year and play a week on this court, if I can, if the French Federation lets me. We'll see. I've been playing well in other tournaments, in Davis Cup on clay. So for me it's not the surface, it's rather maybe the court.

  

  Roger Federer
  • Play
  • Problem
  • Enough

• 'Career' is not a musical term.

  

  Simon Rattle
  • Career
  • Term
  • Musical

• What is likely to vanish - or be transformed beyond recognition - are many of the things we think of when we think of Australia: the barrier reef, the koalas, the sense of the country as a land of almost limitless natural resources.

  

  Jeff Goodell
  • Country

• The common people are but ill judges of a man's merits; they are slaves to fame, and their eyes are dazzled with the pomp of titles and large retinue. No wonder, then, that they bestow their honors on those who least deserve them.

  

  Horace
  • People
  • Common
  • Deserve

• Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

  

  John Donne