John Dryden Quotes
Him of the western dome, whose weighty senseFlows in fit words and heavenly eloquence.
John Dryden
Quotes to Explore
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I was not the pampered baby, no. I'm five years younger, and my parents were actually very strict with me, more strict than with the other ones.
Tate Donovan
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When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?
Park Shin-hye
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This applies to many film jobs, not just editing: half the job is doing the job, and the other half is finding ways to get along with people and tuning yourself in to the delicacy of the situation.
Walter Murch
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Nothing escapes God's knowledge. This is proved by the witness of the Scriptures and the analogy of the sun, which, although created, yet by its light or heat enters into all things.
Saint Ambrose
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Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.
Saint Augustine
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Now, I guess, people want stars. People are trying to invent stars.
Oscar Robertson
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I have a very personal interest. I am a Miami-Dade voter. One of the issues is that my vote and so many other votes of women and African Americans in Florida are being discounted or discarded. I want my vote to count.
Patricia Ireland
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When you're in a place, the details you focus on are different than details you focus on when you're writing about it.
Tea Obreht
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It is tough to say what has influenced me the most because I know that Mozart makes me think better, but you cannot beat Dave Matthews for feeling good!
Mackenzie Astin
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Beauty is an asset, just like physical prowess, charisma, brains or emotional intelligence. The key with any gift is in the way that you use it. It doesn't define you as a person. Rather, it's an asset to be used judiciously and with an understanding of how it is just a small part of who you are.
Dale Archer
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The death of Abdel Nasser on September 28, 1970, was an irreversible setback for Egypt.
Fidel Castro
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If danger arises in the present moment, there may be an emotion. There may even be pain. But that's a challenge, not a problem. For a problem to exist, you need time and repetitive mind activity.
Eckhart Tolle
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I’m not interested in the words or the meaning of the words. I’m interested in disappearing in it completely, to not be aware of yourself at all. That’s the way music works for me. It’s purely emotional. It goes straight to the heart. There are no explanations. That’s just it.
Karl Ove Knausgard
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It's the circumstances of popular monarchy, the manner in which it's developed, and it is also the fault of the people who present her with this unquestioning adulation. In other words, it's their lack of a larger faith. Which makes them fasten onto, a purely earthly symbol.
Malcolm Muggeridge
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That was the thing about pictures--they were worth a thousand words, but sometimes they weren't the right ones.
Melissa de la Cruz
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'All this talk of using tax policy to ‘assess social costs’...what a dumb idea. The only way to stop polluters is to put them against walls and shoot them.'
David Brin
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I was brought up with two sisters, so I do know about a three-way dynamic. It's a complex one, because it's easy for one to get left out and the others to gang up. In my family, we were all pretty up for it, but the dynamics would constantly change.
Anna Chancellor
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Him of the western dome, whose weighty senseFlows in fit words and heavenly eloquence.
John Dryden
