John Donne Quotes

But he who loveliness within Hath found, all outward loathes, For he who color loves, and skin, Loves but their oldest clothes.

John Donne

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• Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Imagination
  • Never
  • Carry

• My husband had a very strong identity and was successful in his life. Thank God for that. There's no way I can control him. I wouldn't stay married to him if I felt I could. I can readily take my business personality into the home. But he forces me to be a partner rather than the boss.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • Life
  • God
  • Home

• When I first started writing, I used to listen to music all the time because it would make time pass more quickly. And then I started to wonder if the music wasn't affecting my writing in ways that I didn't necessarily intend.

  

  Gabrielle Zevin
  • Time
  • Music
  • Writing

• I left Beijing in 1987, shortly before my books were banned there, but have returned continually.

  

  Ma Jian
  • Books
  • Before
  • Left

• The National Flood Insurance Program is a voluntary program. If a community really feels that the building insurance requirements are too burdensome, they don't have to participate.

  

  Earl Blumenauer
  • Community
  • Building
  • Insurance

• At night when I used to sleep, I was thinking all the time that shall I put a knife under my pillow.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Night

• Speed is more important than endurance in the decathlon.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Important
  • Speed
  • Endurance

• Nolan has the strangest affect on people. You know, I think there's something very sad and little boy about him, but at the same time the way he goes about everything is so awkward and obnoxious. He can never say the right thing, you know? And I think if he just didn't try so hard and calmed down, people might actually like him a bit more!

  

  Gabriel Mann
  • People
  • Time
  • Boy

• AIDS is the biggest challenge, the major disaster facing this country and we would have wished for something more specific and far-reaching.

  

  Mangosuthu Buthelezi
  • Country
  • Challenge
  • Disaster

• You can be on top of everything, and the next minute, you're going to be on the bottom.

  

  Pam Grier
  • You
  • Everything
  • Top

• I don't think anyone who has been to Africa comes away untouched by the place. You see a lot of beauty and optimism, but you also come away with an awareness of the huge gulf between what most of us have and what most of them have to make do with. Then, every now and then, a famine or a war makes everything a hundred times worse.

  

  Gary Frank
  • War
  • Beauty
  • Optimism

• Go as far as you can see; when you get there, you'll be able to see farther.

  

  J. P. Morgan
  • You
  • Leadership
  • See

• I would like to see more new productions of new material by new composers/lyricists/book writers. I would like to see people take more chances. I think because everything costs so much they're not taking the chances they used to.

  

  Harold Prince
  • People
  • Book
  • Think

• Globalization is a fact of economic life.

  

  Carlos Salinas de Gortari
  • Life
  • Fact
  • Globalization

• Life has taught me to be very cautious of a man with a dream, especially a man who has teetered on the edge of life. It gives a fire and recklessness inside that is hard to quantify.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Life
  • Dream
  • Man

• Straight couples don't have to be monogamous to be married or married to be monogamous. Monogamy no more defines marriage than the presence of children does. Monogamy isn't compulsory and its absence doesn't invalidate a marriage.

  

  Dan Savage
  • Children
  • Marriage
  • Presence

• Cape Town is a weird town. There's a mountain, and the sea, and a little city tucked into the side of the mountain.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • City
  • Weird
  • Sea

• I’m not only uninterested in having children. I am opposed to having children. Having a purebred human baby is like having a purebred dog; it is nothing but vanity, human vanity.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Children
  • Baby
  • Dog

• With Fleetwood Mac, it's an amazing chemistry that we have on stage.

  

  Christine McVie Fleetwood Mac
  • Amazing

• It's not part of my ambition to become fabulously rich. My plan was always to make my pictures, and hopefully people would buy them, and then I'd buy a studio, buy a house, help friends out, do bits and bobs - but I've no idea after that.

  

  Gary Hume
  • People
  • Friends
  • Help

• I think, in a lot of ways, we underestimate how much clothing plays a part in achieving our identities and in how we want the world to deal with us.

  

  Hailey Gates
  • World
  • Want
  • Achieving

• If a university announced that henceforth, it would be offering a three-year bachelor's degree, in one stroke it would cut the cost of a college education and provide a distinctive way of competing for students - as well as put the institution on the cutting edge of reform.

  

  Charlie Sykes
  • Education
  • College
  • Cutting

• Thoughtful people are concerned with the future because that is the only area of experience about which anything can be done. We cannot change the past, and the present is gone as soon as it is reported, but the future is that in which we can make a difference.

  

  D. Elton Trueblood
  • People
  • Done
  • Experience

• But he who loveliness within Hath found, all outward loathes, For he who color loves, and skin, Loves but their oldest clothes.

  

  John Donne
  • Color