John Donne Quotes

O my America! my new-found land.

John Donne

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• I always say that I am a big fan of films but I am an even bigger fan of the filmmaking craft.

  

  Fede Alvarez
  • Films
  • Fan
  • Filmmaking

• All lives have triumphs and tragedies, laughter and tears, and mine has been no different. What really matters is whether, after all of that, you remain strong and a comfort to your loved ones. I have tried to meet that test.

  

  Pat Nixon
  • Different
  • Strong
  • Tears

• I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.

  

  Camille Claudel
  • Protect
  • Harm

• I wish to say that we Anarchists have never changed our position. We are Anarchists as of old and still pursue the same ideals.

  

  Federica Montseny
  • Wish
  • Same
  • Old

• My grandmother impressed upon me the importance of family, and my grandfather encouraged my hunger for learning.

  

  Harley Viera-Newton
  • Family
  • Learning
  • Grandmother

• There is a very thin line between confidence and arrogance.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • Confidence
  • Line
  • Arrogance

• The presidential candidates are offering prescriptions for everything from Iraq to healthcare, but listen closely. Their fixes are situational and incremental. Meanwhile, the underlying structural problems in American politics and government are systemic and prevent us from solving our most intractable challenges.

  

  Larry J. Sabato
  • American
  • Government
  • Politics

• All people, regardless of whether they're athletes or not, should treat people the way they want to be treated.

  

  Walter Payton
  • People
  • Want
  • Treat

• Though the male can be noble in reason and infinite in faculties, he is also easily amused by shiny toys, especially ones that do dumb things on his desk.

  

  Patricia Marx
  • Dumb
  • Noble
  • Desk

• No one person is an island.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • Person
  • Island

• I'm not even kind of a lesbian.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Kind
  • Lesbian
  • Even

• I enjoy meat, but I can do without it.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Enjoy
  • I Can
  • Meat

• Even though people say Richard Harris and I have been having a great feud, it's not true.

  

  Oliver Reed
  • People
  • Great
  • True

• What is important is to have values in life. What's important is how you are, not how you look.

  

  Valeria Mazza
  • Life
  • Important
  • Values

• War on terrorism defines the central preoccupation of the United States in the world today, and it does reflect in my view a rather narrow and extremist vision of foreign policy of the world's first superpower, of a great democracy, with genuinely idealistic traditions.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • World
  • Great
  • War

• I'm lucky to have a wife and a child that keep me grounded.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Wife
  • Child
  • Lucky

• People spend too much time finding other people to blame, too much energy finding excuses for not being what they are capable of being, and not enough energy putting themselves on the line, growing out of the past, and getting on with their lives.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • People
  • Time
  • Past

• Yes, the state must intervene to prevent the exploitation of poor Indian women who are enticed or coerced into surrogacy, as well as to protect the rights of surrogate children. However, it should also be empathetic to individuals with alternative lifestyles who are well within their legal and human rights to demand access to surrogacy services.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Women
  • Children
  • Legal

• I mean, if you asked me what I'm going to be doing when I'm 85, I'd make a quick picture in my mind and, well, I'll be singing.

  

  David Johansen
  • Mind
  • Singing
  • Picture

• I'm pretty sure I'm a doppelganger for Alan Alda. I'm a trannie; I'm a man.

  

  Megan Fox
  • Pretty

• Just several years ago, Shaykh Kabbani, who is the head of the Islamic Supreme Council of America, when he was speaking at the State Department, said that more than 80 percent of the mosques were controlled by extremists. And from all I've seen over the last four or five years, the situation has even gotten worse.

  

  Peter T. King
  • America
  • Islamic

• America has the best hand ever dealt to any country on this planet, ever. Yes, we have problems, but you travel around the world, you'll see we have it all.

  

  Jamie Dimon
  • World
  • Country
  • America

• Most countries are static, and they need to do is keep having babies. But America's like this big old clanking smoking machine that just lumbers across the landscape scooping up and eating everything in sight.

  

  Neal Stephenson
  • Up
  • America
  • Smoking

• O my America! my new-found land.

  

  John Donne
  • America