John Donne Quotes

But I do nothing upon myself, and yet I am my own executioner.

John Donne

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• Natural gas is a better transportation fuel than gasoline, so if that's the case, it's cheaper, it's cleaner and it's a domestic resource.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • Better
  • Environmental
  • Fuel

• Honestly, I wish I could be a part of all the remakes of my father's films. But on second thought, I wouldn't want to be a part of any. The thought of being compared to him is unnerving. I'd rather do my films than live in the fear of living up to his standards.

  

  Abhishek Bachchan
  • Up
  • Live
  • Father

• Along with issues like global warming, I think a problem with the world today is population decline.

  

  Talulah Riley
  • World
  • Today
  • Problem

• For nearly as long as civilization has existed, patriarchy - enforced through the rights of the firstborn son - has been the organizing principle, with few exceptions.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Long
  • Son
  • Rights

• There's so much pressure, but I think if you really love it, if you truly love it, and it's your passion to sing, then that's what will get through. I think if you don't have that, you'll realise quickly.

  

  Fleur East
  • Love
  • Passion
  • Pressure

• I faced quite a few challenging times, and in front of those, I was more positive than some people not facing those conditions. I'm actually of the belief now that it is that struggle that offers you that open-hearted hope.

  

  Keinan Abdi Warsame
  • People
  • Hope
  • Positive

• As a child, I studied violin. My sister, who's 10 years older, was the actress in the family. I was painfully shy.

  

  J. Smith-Cameron
  • Family
  • Child
  • Sister

• In the past, if you did film, you couldn't do stage, and if you did film, you certainly didn't do television. You had to pick what you wanted to be. Now it seems like we can bounce around, not only between genres, but between mediums, and I like that. I like change and I like a good story.

  

  Garret Dillahunt
  • Good
  • Past
  • Change

• Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Good
  • Horse
  • Few

• The sky takes on shades of orange during sunrise and sunset, the colour that gives you hope that the sun will set only to rise again.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Hope
  • Sun
  • Sky

• What kind of people would be able to rationalize better than other people? Better storytellers, right? Creative people, right? Because if you're creative, you find more ways to cheat and still yourself a story about why this is okay.

  

  Dan Ariely
  • People
  • Why
  • Yourself

• Hamas, also elected to governmental leadership in Palestine, includes the jihadists, people who have declared war on the United States of America and its ally, Israel.

  

  Zach Wamp
  • People
  • America
  • War

• My predecessor, P. W. Botha, had an inner circle, and I did not like it. I preferred decisions to evolve out of cabinet discussions. That way, we achieved real co-ownership of our policies.

  

  F. W. de Klerk
  • Real
  • Way
  • Decisions

• Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Work
  • Imagination
  • Creative

• You could date a stick of dynamite and wouldn't go out with a bang.

  

  Eminem
  • Date
  • Stick
  • Dynamite

• The Bitchun Society had all but done away with any sort of dull, repetitious labor, and what remained-tending bar, mopping toilets-commanded Whuffie aplenty and a life of leisure in your off-hours.

  

  Cory Doctorow
  • Life
  • Done
  • Society

• There's no other art form in the world that affects me more.

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
  • World
  • Art

• It is difficult for the matter-of-fact physicist to accept the view that the substratum of everything is of mental character. But no one can deny that mind is the first and most direct thing in our experience, and all else is remote inference - inference either intuitive or deliberate.

  

  Arthur Eddington
  • Mind
  • Character
  • Experience

• We should leave behind discrimination, because it is narrow-minded and ignorant, denies contact and warmth, and corrodes mankind’s belief that we can better ourselves. The only way to avoid misunderstanding, war, and bloodshed is to defend freedom of expression and to communicate with sincerity, concern, and good intentions.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • Good
  • War
  • Freedom

• I will never, most likely, be good at the piano, but thanks to it, I will never forget the humbling, infuriating, necessary slowness of progress in any artistic endeavor.

  

  Ben Dolnick
  • Good
  • Progress
  • Thanks

• What do you know of my heart? What do you know of anything but your own suffering. For weeks, Marianne, I've had this pressing on me without being at liberty to speak of it to a single creature. It was forced on me by the very person whose prior claims ruined all my hope. I have endured her exultations again and again whilst knowing myself to be divided from Edward forever. Believe me, Marianne, had I not been bound to silence I could have provided proof enough of a broken heart, even for you.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Single
  • Liberty
  • Creature

• It is both delusional and stupid to think that clothes don't really matter and we should all wear whatever we want. Most people don't take clothing seriously enough, but whether we should or not, clothes do talk to us and we make decisions based on people's appearances.

  

  G. Bruce Boyer
  • People
  • Stupid

• But I do nothing upon myself, and yet I am my own executioner.

  

  John Donne