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 have a life that I enjoy; I try and value the things that I think are worth valuing and everything else is icing. You know, it is a kick to go down the red carpet in that dress and then you go back home.

  

  Jewel Kilcher
  • Life
  • Home
  • Value

• Complaining becomes a habit. Focusing on the negative also becomes a habit. It’s one of the most detrimental habits you can possibly have. It can negatively impact you socially, affecting your personal happiness, but it can also subconsciously sabotage your money and success.

  

  T. Harv Eker
  • Money
  • Success
  • Habit

• You just try to learn and see what you can put in your repertoire, and that's what I try to do.

  

  Malik Jackson
  • Learn
  • See
  • Try

• As a teenager, I had to struggle alone to learn about myself and what it meant to be gay. Now for 48 years I've had the satisfaction of working with other gay people all across the country to get the bigots off our backs, to oil the closet door hinges, to change prejudiced hearts and minds, and to show that gay love is good for us and for the rest of the world too. It's hard work – but it's vital, and it's gratifying, and it's often fun!

  

  Barbara Gittings
  • People
  • Work
  • Fun

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

  

  John Dryden