John Dryden Quotes

Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.

John Dryden

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• I was an avid Pokemon card collector.

  

  Flume
  • Card
  • Collector
  • Avid

• No one becomes an expert in a new career overnight, even if you are coming from another career where you were established and experienced.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • Career
  • You
  • New

• I'm not on a slander campaign to ruin Jon Jones publicly. That's not what I set out to do.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Ruin
  • Campaign
  • Slander

• I don't think it's a coincidence that 'The War Room' and 'A Perfect Candidate' are films that have been consistently shown and available for rental for 20 years. These are films that are more about the moment in which they were filmed: they also have a great deal to say about larger issues about who we are as a country.

  

  R. J. Cutler
  • Great
  • Country
  • War

• Agents are still asking for millions of dollars for actors that don't sell one ticket.

  

  Uwe Boll
  • Asking
  • Still
  • Sell

• People want to know where I'm going, and I just don't ever know.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • People
  • Want
  • Know

• In order to be discipled by others a person must have a trusting heart, one that listens even when it doesn't fully comprehend or see the end result.

  

  Ed Townsend
  • Heart
  • End
  • See

• While the public school rewards failure by throwing more government money at failing school systems, the voucher system does the opposite.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • School
  • Money
  • Failure

• There are kids going into chemistry and biology because of 'CSI.'

  

  Walter O'Brien
  • Kids
  • Going
  • Chemistry

• The nice thing about the gallery shows is that without having to pay any money you can just go and see it.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Money
  • Nice
  • See

• All my graduation money went to paying for bartending classes so I could have a side gig. I bartended for two months before I was supposed to move to New York and then two months later I got the job as an understudy in 'Sister Act' and haven't looked back since.

  

  Patina Miller
  • Money
  • Job
  • Sister

• I don't do facials - I don't really enjoy people picking at my skin. I'd rather a dermatologist who's a doctor for that do that.

  

  Hailey Bieber
  • People
  • Enjoy
  • Doctor

• I talk a lot about taking risks, and then I follow that up very quickly by saying, 'Take prudent risks.'

  

  Irene Rosenfeld
  • Up
  • Saying
  • Risks

• The man whose nature is such that by one path alone his chief desire will reach consummation will try to find it on that path, whatever it may be, and whatever the world thinks of it; and if he does not, he is contemptible.

  

  F. H. Bradley
  • World
  • May
  • Nature

• MacAllister commented recently that Plato was right, that democracy is mob rule, that the voters can be counted on consistently to find the candidate with the fewest scruples and put him in office.

  

  Jack McDevitt
  • Democracy
  • Plato

• Hey. On my worst day, I'll train for two hours. You know what I'm saying? Like, I don't have hobbies. I don't have too many hobbies. I'm always working, I'm always training.

  

  Nate Diaz
  • Training

• We’re at war with Japan. We were attacked by Japan. Do you want to kill Japanese, or would you rather have Americans killed?

  

  Curtis LeMay
  • War
  • Japanese

• How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Time

• I'm very lucky, because my beat is current events. And events are changing all the time.

  

  Rick Mercer
  • Lucky
  • Events
  • Beats

• If you believe that how you do your work is as influential as the work you do, then a theatre rehearsal, which is a microcosm of the world, is the perfect place to model social change because if it doesn't work this time, you can try again on the next production.

  

  Phyllida Lloyd
  • Time
  • World
  • Work

• People talk about body cleanses like there's no tomorrow - what about apartment cleanses?

  

  Emily Weiss
  • People

• The truth is if you can eat just a serving size, you can eat anything. But we all know how those harmless treats can call out your name all night long, and rationalizing in the middle of the night is very easy.

  

  Marissa Jaret Winokur
  • Long
  • Truth
  • Night

• I saw the sunlight in a leafy place, Bathing itself in liquid green and amber-- Where every flower had tears hid in its petals, And every leaf was lovely with the rain.

  

  Ernest Rhys
  • Tears
  • Rain
  • Sunlight

• Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.

  

  John Dryden