John Donne Quotes

Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.

John Donne

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• Soon I knew the craft of experimental physics was beyond me - it was the sublime quality of patience - patience in accumulating data, patience with recalcitrant equipment - which I sadly lacked.

  

  Abdus Salam
  • Quality
  • Patience
  • Physics

• I'm more of a guy's girl. I like having a beer in a bar, and I don't bicker or sit down and do my nails.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Guy
  • Girl
  • Down

• I do not believe any president can bind a successor president to give up his fundamental role as protector of the country.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Country

• I like seeing girls throw down.

  

  Mackenzie Foy
  • Like
  • Down
  • Seeing

• Of course the success of A Boy's Own Story took me utterly off guard.

  

  Edmund White
  • Success
  • Me
  • Boy

• I've got to be honest, there's no pleasure when you're working.

  

  Dana Plato
  • You
  • Working
  • Pleasure

• Race differences show up early in life.

  

  J. Philippe Rushton
  • Life
  • Up
  • Race

• Start the practice of self-control with some penance; begin with fasting.

  

  Mahavira
  • Control
  • Practice
  • Start

• I'm now the Lord of the Brighton Manor.

  

  Barbara Stanwyck
  • Lord
  • Now
  • Brighton

• If there is no criticism, you become lazy. But it should be constructive, and it should be the truth. If it's biased and there's no truth in it, then I don't care about it. If it's true, it helps me grow.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Truth
  • True
  • Care

• I knew that it was my only shot to be taken seriously in the recording industry, because it's fast and broad.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Taken
  • Industry
  • Seriously

• The sounder your argument, the more satisfaction you get out of it.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • You
  • Argument
  • Satisfaction

• I was going to finish my university degree after finishing 'The Tailors,' but 'Pinocchio' made me to take another semester off.

  

  Park Shin-hye
  • Me
  • Finish
  • University

• As far as money goes, there's a saying in Denmark: 'Your last suit doesn't have any pockets.' You can't take it with you. You can make all the money you want, but who cares?

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Money
  • Want
  • Saying

• I just love scary movies. I love the thrill.

  

  Odette Annable
  • Movies
  • Scary
  • Thrill

• It sounds depressing, but I think when you truly love someone, you'll never stop loving them.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Think
  • For Him
  • Loving

• 'Entourage' was a show that existed around wish-fulfillment. People watched it because they wanted to believe they could go on private jets and be hanging out in Hollywood, but as a show, comedically, it was not funny. Not a funny show. It's funny, ironically, because of how terrible it is.

  

  Adam Pally
  • People
  • Believe
  • Funny

• I think we're all good and bad, but good's not funny. Bad is funny. Suppress the good and let the bad out, and then you can be funny.

  

  Larry David
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Think

• As an actor, I'm always so excited about those things that I get to stretch my legs and really get to do something that's hard to do.

  

  David Lambert

• The Producers Guild represents the creativity, innovation and dynamism that sets our industry apart from all others.

  

  Jon Feltheimer
  • Creativity
  • Innovation

• Being in front of a camera, in a nice dress, getting all dressed up is extreme. There's a lot of other extreme situations, you know, just getting out of bed sometimes is extreme - but I do it. Just got to do it, just got to get up. Put your sweatpants on, brush off the dog hair and just get out of the house!

  

  Sandra Bullock
  • House
  • Nice
  • Sometimes

• To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • World
  • Different
  • Heaven

• Even under a harsh God-and I do not believe in a harsh God-one is entitled to serenity in old age.

  

  Albert Outler
  • God
  • Serenity
  • Old Age

• Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.

  

  John Donne
  • Joy
  • Heaven
  • Serenity