John Dryden Quotes
Beauty, like ice, our footing does betray; Who can tread sure on the smooth, slippery way: Pleased with the surface, we glide swiftly on, And see the dangers that we cannot shun.
Quotes to Explore
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Do we mean love, when we say love?
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My audience has really become a very diverse group of people. It's not just 15-year-old girls. That's kind of what allows me to write from all the different places I want to write from.
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Generally, I like making my own mistakes and learning from them because that's what I think life is about.
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People are very curious and have written a lot of things about me. Right or not. I never comment on those things, because it's not much of my thing to comment on everything that's written about me.
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Gerry Mulligan and Chet Baker seemed so sophisticated and bad. I wanted to be like that.
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There isn't much room for an outsider point of view in print any more.
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I would love to play a regular guy in a family drama.
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I think people have to set up little battles. They have to demonize people whom they disagree with or feel threatened by. But it's the ideological framing of the debate that scares me.
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Over the last 15 months, we've traveled to every corner of the United States. I've now been in 57 states? I think one left to go.
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But I think the image that's thrown out on television is a bad image. Because you see players who want to imitate hip-hop stars. And the NBA is taking advantage of the situation.
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Love is the beauty of the soul.
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Even when bad things happen you have to try to use those bad things in a positive manner and really just take the positive out of it.
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Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful.
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Marriage finally became acceptable to the churches when laws were established that could make it a means of depriving women of incomes and property, and making wives the equivalent of slaves.
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A U.S. dollar is an IOU from the Federal Reserve Bank. It's a promissory note that doesn't actually promise anything. It's not backed by gold or silver.
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I couldn't do everything in the first or second day; it took me years to be able to get to the achievement that I've had. I wasn't perfect from the beginning.
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Our duty is to be patient.
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I think there is a chance that Indian writers in America will start producing very interesting books in the years to come.
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The fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event.
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We ought to start running the government like a private-sector business. I have that ability as CEO of our companies. I have line item vetoes, and if I didn't, we'd probably be out of business by now.
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We have certain differences over the ways to pursue our goals, but our final aims coincide, in my opinion.
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Beauty is not skin-deep; it can be a means of self-affirmation, a true indicator of personality and confidence.
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Don't ever write just for a trend or fad, because it's a moving target, and by the time you get your work out there, the trend or fad is gone. Dig deep; don't be afraid to write fiercely. Expose your heart.
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Beauty, like ice, our footing does betray; Who can tread sure on the smooth, slippery way: Pleased with the surface, we glide swiftly on, And see the dangers that we cannot shun.
