John Donne Quotes

Poor intricated soul! Riddling, perplexed, labyrinthical soul!

John Donne

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• I've lost fights before where I'm landing more punches and I'm moving away from the guy. So, the way that they score things at the end doesn't seem very consistent to me.

  

  Nate Diaz
  • Guy
  • Me
  • Lost

• My sisters are amazing. My sister is my business partner, my twin. She's an amazing producer, writer. You know, we're just grinding and trying to make my mother proud as well as God.

  

  Tasha Smith
  • God
  • Trying
  • She

• I'm a choreographer and I love watching 'The Bachelorette.'

  

  Taye Diggs
  • I Love
  • Watching
  • Choreographer

• My husband and I click wedding rings sometimes and say, 'By the power of the Castle of Greyskull!'

  

  Tamora Pierce
  • Power
  • Husband
  • Wedding

• Hebrew is the language I use to thank the Creator and, also, to swear on the road.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Road
  • Language
  • Creator

• To stimulate wildly weak and untrained minds is to play with mighty fires.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Play
  • Minds
  • Weak

• The pace of Swedish crime fiction is slower - Stieg Larsson's the exception. And I think we use the environment more.

  

  Camilla Lackberg
  • Think
  • Environment
  • Fiction

• The beauty of life is in people who feel some obligation to enhance life. Without that, we're only half alive.

  

  Ralph Waite
  • People
  • Life
  • Beauty

• I've always thought that we are what we remember, and the less we remember, the less we are.

  

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon
  • Remember
  • Always
  • Thought

• Toleration is the best religion.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Best
  • Religion
  • Toleration

• Who cares about great marks left behind? We have one life... just one. Our life. We have nothing else.

  

  Ugo Betti
  • Life
  • Great
  • Nothing

• I have never worn dresses by grands couturiers.

  

  Valerie Trierweiler
  • Never
  • Dresses
  • Worn

• Simply put, when women do well, everybody does better.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Women
  • Better
  • Well

• Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator.

  

  Wendell Phillips
  • Truth
  • Opinion
  • Forever

• I am much more understanding of people than I used to be when I was young - people were either villainous or wonderful. They were painted in very bright colours. The bad side of it - and there is a corollary to everything - is that when we get older, we fuss more. I used to despise people who fussed.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • People
  • Understanding
  • Wonderful

• I have a horror of people who speak about the beautiful. What is the beautiful? One must speak of problems in painting!

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Painting

• Why is a woman to be treated differently? Woman suffrage will succeed, despite this miserable guerilla opposition.

  

  Victoria Woodhull
  • Why
  • Woman
  • Succeed

• My wife is completely different from me: she's good with everyone, whereas I'm good at directed conversation when I have a purpose for it, like now. If everyone's sitting around being social, I'm not great.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Different
  • Wife
  • Purpose

• Long live the liberation of the workers off all countries from the infernal chasm of war, exploitation and slavery!

  

  Karl Liebknecht
  • Long
  • Live
  • War

• If I am not safe in Alton, I shall not be safe anywhere.

  

  Elijah Parish Lovejoy

• I'm big on manners. I'm big on politeness. I'm big on gratitude.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Gratitude
  • Big
  • Manners

• Eighty percent of our life is emotion, and only 20 percent is intellect. I am much more interested in how you feel than how you think. I can change how you think, but how you feel is something deeper and stronger, and it's something that's inside you.

  

  Frank Luntz
  • Life

• Society can and does execute its own mandates: and if it issues wrong mandates instead of right, or any mandates at all in things with it ought not to meddle, it practices a social tyranny more formidable than many kinds of political oppression, since, though not usually upheld by such extreme penalties, it leaves fewer means of escape, penetrating much more deeply into the details of life, and enslaving the soul itself.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • Life
  • Soul
  • Society

• Poor intricated soul! Riddling, perplexed, labyrinthical soul!

  

  John Donne
  • Soul