John Dryden Quotes

Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.

John Dryden

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• In Europe, we will work towards having a common stance, while in France, we will strengthen our protection for asylum seekers whose lives are in danger because of their sexual orientation.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • Work
  • Danger
  • France

• I love this planet... I want to see the environment preserved and I want to see the human race preserved. And I'd like to see everybody living decently in a more equitable, kind-hearted, thoughtful, generous world.

  

  Ted Turner
  • World
  • Love
  • Want

• What's genius about 'Gravity' is that you are close upon the actors, but 3D works best when you have foreground, middle ground and background.

  

  Gavin Hood
  • Best
  • Genius
  • Gravity

• The music business is one of a few places where everything you've heard about it seems entirely cliche, but it's true.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Music
  • Business
  • True

• I had a very famous trainer tell me once, 'You can usually train a wild animal but never tame a wild animal, ever.' They are always going to be wild, no matter what anybody says.

  

  Jack Hanna
  • Animal
  • Famous
  • Train

• One bipartisan policy tradition is to deny Americans the use of our own resources.

  

  Harold Ford, Jr.
  • Policy
  • Tradition
  • Resources

• No man should ever lose sleep over public affairs.

  

  Harold MacMillan
  • Man
  • Sleep
  • Lose

• My favorite word was a word James Lapine used repeatedly in 'Sunday in the Park with George,' which was the word 'connect.' All I want to do is connect.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Want
  • Word
  • Sunday

• I sometimes feel that racism is getting worse.

  

  Tahar Rahim
  • Sometimes
  • Feel
  • Racism

• Something in a writer's brain needs to watch everything with a detached, amoral eye.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • Brain
  • Eye
  • Everything

• Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Greatness
  • Drinking
  • Vices

• For nighttime or for an event, I'm all about the nice heel. Something that's still walkable but definitely very elegant.

  

  Carly Rae Jepsen
  • Nice
  • Something
  • Event

• What does signature mean? Supposedly these are the added touches that make the crime personal to the killer.

  

  Pat Brown
  • Crime
  • Personal
  • Signature

• What we do at its very, very best, at its very, very most, will shift us slightly in our seat. If only for two hours, great. If for the rest of our lives, even better.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • Great
  • Rest
  • Best

• The only reason I ever played golf in the first place was so I could afford to hunt and fish.

  

  Sam Snead
  • Place
  • Golf
  • Fish

• I love seeing my husband hold our daughter and just give her kisses, unsolicited kisses. When he doesn't know that I'm watching or when I come into the room and I look over and he's just kissing her forehead or kissing her cheek. He loves her so much, and I love his love for her.

  

  Vanessa Lachey
  • For Her
  • I Love
  • Give

• I do tend to play characters that have a lot of costume and hair change. I sort of like the change of physicality thing.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Change
  • Play
  • Hair

• I don't go to celebrity parties a lot. I don't really enjoy them because I really like going for it in parties. And sometimes at celebrity parties, there is no dancing on tables because people... it can be a little judgmental at times. So I tend not to go unless it is Taylor Swift's birthday party; then it's amazing.

  

  Sam Smith
  • People
  • Party
  • Amazing

• There are soccer athletes that are known the world over except in the U.S. Thierry Henry, for example.

  

  Adam Richman
  • World
  • Athlete
  • Soccer

• When there is change, it must not alter the content of what propaganda is driving at, but in the end must always say the same thing. For instance, a slogan must be presented from different angles, but the end of all remarks must always and immutably be the slogan itself. Only in this way can the propaganda have a unified and complete effect.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Change
  • Propaganda
  • Presented

• In that instant they felt an overwhelming sense of pride and accomplishment. Though they had failed dismally even to come close to the expedition's original objective, they knew now that somehow they had done much, much more than ever they set out to do.

  

  Alfred Lansing
  • Sense
  • Accomplishment
  • Expedition

• The higher the rank the less pretence, because there is less to pretend to.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Rank
  • Pretence

• Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.

  

  John Dryden