John Dryden Quotes

Of ancient race by birth, but nobler yetIn his own worth.

John Dryden

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• I don't get manicures, pedicures. I don't get my hair done as often as I should.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Done
  • Hair
  • Often

• I'm pro-death penalty, but what I have not seen is anybody that would mock someone on death row.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Death
  • Someone
  • Anybody

• You can go down the list of great artists and kind of understand that they are products of their environment. Whether it's U2 or Henry Rollins or myself or Johnny Lydon, they're gonna be products of their environment.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Great
  • Myself
  • Environment

• You know, one of the only times I ever wrote about art was the obituary of Warhol that I did for the Village Voice.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Art
  • Know
  • Voice

• I believe women are the glue of everything.

  

  Weili Dai
  • Believe
  • Women
  • I Believe

• It is within the last quarter century or thirty years. And a lot of that law has turned out to be very, very protective of the press and the public's right to know.

  

  Floyd Abrams
  • Law
  • Know
  • Last

• Inasmuch as society cannot go on without discipline of some kind, men were constrained, in the absence of any other form of discipline, to turn to discipline of the military type.

  

  Irving Babbitt
  • Men
  • Society
  • Military

• I would never call a neighbor an enemy. But I would request the neighbor to be a good neighbor, to see that the neighbor's interest is a stable prosperous neighbor, a neighbor that is doing well.

  

  Hamid Karzai
  • Good
  • Enemy
  • Doing

• If you look on Amazon - if you do a search for personal finance, there are literally 20,000 books written on personal finance, and there's no real reason for it. I mean, personal finance is pretty simple.

  

  Aaron Patzer
  • Real
  • Pretty
  • Simple

• You know, Californians care about protecting their environment. So do I. But they also care about that in the context of a healthy economy.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Environment
  • Care
  • Healthy

• I'm very serious about acting.

  

  Victor Garber
  • Serious
  • Acting
  • Very

• You shouldn't have regrets. I'd say instead that I've learned a lot of lessons. Yes, I could have handled some things better. But they've also made me who I am today.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Today
  • Lessons
  • Regrets

• Within the U.S., the Obama presidency will be mainly measured by the success or failure of his economic policies. And here, I fear, the monstrous stimulus package with which this administration stumbled out of the gate will prove to be Obama's Waterloo.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Success
  • Fear
  • Failure

• I love nothing more than a good, rich, dark chocolate. It exhilarates. It satisfies.

  

  Abigail Spencer
  • Good
  • Love
  • Dark

• I'm a terrible cook, but I make very good lobster salad.

  

  Nancy Carell
  • Good
  • Cook
  • Salad

• Growing up, I was the plain one. I had no style. I was the tough kid with the comb in the back pocket and the feathered hair.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Style

• Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment.

  

  J. Donald Walters
  • Long
  • Happy
  • Struggle

• The conviction that freedom is a universal desire is not the property of any political camp. ... Yet those who hold it remain a precious few, outnumbered many times over by the skeptics who don't.

  

  Natan Sharansky
  • Political
  • Freedom
  • Desire

• When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Man
  • Treat

• The way you see things depends a great deal on where you look at them from.

  

  Norton Juster
  • Way
  • Looks
  • Deals

• I'd rather be a silly old fool than a lonely old woman.

  

  Candy Darling
  • Fool
  • Lonely
  • Silly

• Funny, I never shopped. Even my jewelry - not a piece of my jewelry I bought for me.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • Funny
  • Jewelry

• Then Christ will say to us, 'Come you also! Come you drunkards! Come you weaklings! Come you depraved!' And he will say to us, 'Vile creatures, you in the image of the beast and you who bear his mark. All the same, you come too!' And the wise and prudent will say, 'Lord, why are you welcoming them? And he will say, 'O wise and prudent, I am welcoming them because not one of them has ever judged himself worthy. And he will stretch out his arms to us, and we shall fall at his feet, and burst into sobs, and then we shall understand everything, everything! Lord, your kingdom come!

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Christ
  • Image
  • Creatures

• Of ancient race by birth, but nobler yetIn his own worth.

  

  John Dryden