John Dryden Quotes

When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

John Dryden

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• I realize that things happen for a reason.

  

  Karl Malone
  • Reason
  • Happen
  • Realize

• I tell my daughter Nyssa, 'You should respect my work, and I will also respect yours when you grow up.' 'Work is worship' is what I have told her.

  

  Kajol
  • Up
  • Work
  • Respect

• There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Bad
  • Authority
  • Separate

• Any guy that's not working with the same amount of intensity and passion that I do, I don't want to know.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • Guy
  • Want
  • Know

• I think if I heard someone else talking about their life, describing all the problems I've had, they'd look like they were through. Done. But there's something about me - I'm smiling. Those things are really not bad enough to put me in a slump. I'm smiling with the opportunity to wake up every morning.

  

  Nas
  • Life
  • Up
  • Done

• But I think we need the international market.

  

  Zhang Yimou
  • Think
  • Need
  • I Think

• The good news is that real-world hands-on conservation is alive and well and catching on across the America I travel.

  

  Ted Nugent
  • World
  • Good
  • Real

• I really bonded with my mom, growing up, through our love of horror movies!

  

  Garrett Clayton
  • Growing
  • Mom
  • Horror

• I have a pickup truck. And I prefer to be with dogs or on my sailboat than in a car - actually, more than any other place on Earth.

  

  Gary Paulsen
  • Earth
  • Car
  • Truck

• An object is not first imagined or thought about and then expected or willed, but in being actively expected it is imagined as future and in being willed it is thought.

  

  Samuel Alexander
  • Future
  • Thought
  • First

• I guess my main influences are Jesus, rock 'n' roll and ex-wives. In that order.

  

  Sam Kinison
  • Rock
  • Jesus
  • Roll

• Care for life and physical health, with due regard for the needs of others and the common good, is concomitant with respect for human dignity.

  

  Salvatore J. Cordileone
  • Life
  • Good
  • Respect

• For me, with music, there is no half-stepping. This is my calling.

  

  Yolandi Visser
  • Music
  • Me
  • Calling

• Some artists get so comfortable now after even one or two albums and think, 'I'm the biggest artist in the world,' but it's like, yeah, you are for now, but you've gotta work so that you're remembered further, and that's what I'm trying to do.

  

  Sam Smith
  • World
  • Work
  • Trying

• Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish!

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Good
  • Logic
  • Gracious

• We did a lot of those road trips, all the mandatory stuff that you should when you're a kid, like Mount Rushmore and the Grand Canyon and the Sequoias and the western coast.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • You
  • Road
  • Grand Canyon

• Writing is just very difficult. I'm an adequate performer. And I think I have a special talent as an editor. Editing is what I do best.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Writing
  • Best
  • Talent

• Really important books to me are the classics. I try very hard to read them well - you know, especially once I got serious about writing. So, reading Tolstoy several times - 'War and Peace,' 'The Kreutzer Sonata' - all those were really important to me.

  

  Karl Marlantes
  • Important
  • Writing
  • War

• I want to be a popular novelist who's also serious, or a serious novelist who's also very accessible.

  

  Douglas Kennedy
  • Serious
  • Popular

• Listen, here's the thing about an English degree - if you sat somebody down and asked them to make a list of the writers they admire over the last hundred years, see how many of them got a degree in English.

  

  David Mamet
  • English

• I have something to say: it's better to burn out, than to fade away.

  

  Clancy Brown
  • Fade Away

• I honestly don't have many creative outlets. I'm not crafty - although motherhood has forced me to try to be - and I can only draw trees, beaches, and clouds. I'm a so-so cook except for deviled eggs. Writing has always been the one thing I feel that I am pretty good at doing. But it's enough, thank goodness.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Writing
  • Tree
  • Creative

• After 'Win, Lose or Draw' we were workin' on another album that nobody's ever heard, and it's a good thing nobody heard it.

  

  Butch Trucks
  • Good

• When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

  

  John Dryden
  • People
  • Life
  • Hope