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

• Look before you leap for as you sow, ye are like to reap.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • You
  • Look
  • Leap

• 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
  • Best
  • Rest

• 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

• If you're showing people where it's smooth sailing, where is the joke? If you go back to any movie, even a conventional movie, with any comedians, they're either not terribly intelligent or they're not doing something well.

  

  Christopher Guest
  • People
  • Movie
  • Intelligent

• The corporatist-economic model of society appears to be governing us. Economists, often in the pay of transnationals, are deciding, for us, what democracy is, and will be.

  

  B. W. Powe
  • Society
  • Democracy
  • Model

• I have to work hard for my family. They don't have a lot.

  

  Jose Reyes
  • Family
  • Work Hard

• In the old days pictures went forward toward completion by stages. Every day brought something new. A picture used to be a sum of additions. In my case a picture is a sum of destructions. I do a picture - then I destroy it. In the end though, nothing is lost: the red I took away from one place turns up somewhere else

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Up
  • Lost
  • Picture

• As digitalisation and the ageing population trends advance, international mobility and the development of employable skills are crucial to balance demographic gaps and surpluses as well as the deficit of skills across the world.

  

  Alain Dehaze
  • World
  • Balance

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

  

  John Dryden