John Dryden Quotes

The sword within the scabbard keep,And let mankind agree.

John Dryden

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• Various circumstances, mainly to do with my military service, prevented me from doing a Ph.D., and I have often regretted it, though you do need to choose the 'right' supervisor in the 'right' discipline - no easy task when you are totally inexperienced.

  

  Yves Chauvin
  • Military
  • Service
  • Discipline

• I'm not looking to shock anyone.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Looking
  • Anyone
  • Shock

• He's going to be around a long, long time, if his body holds up. That's always a concern with a lot of players because of how much they play. A lot of guys can't handle it. But it looks like he can.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Up
  • Time
  • Long

• In my day, I wasn't the best footballer, but I was the best goalscorer for two or three years.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Day
  • Best
  • Three

• Music video played a huge role in developing my sensibility as a director.

  

  Tamra Davis
  • Music
  • Director
  • Video

• You can collect all the plastic bottle caps you want as long as you give me the money so we can get off this death trap, find somewhere else and have tremendous fun screwing that up as well.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Up
  • Long
  • Money

• There are terrible things going on in the world, but I am not going to force them down everyone's throats.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • World
  • Terrible
  • Throats

• There are so many great artists and most of them are women, but that's good - the more the merrier!

  

  Rachel Stevens
  • Good
  • Great
  • Women

• Muslim communities themselves, as they expect mainstream society to stand down racists, must do more to also stand down the Islamist extremists.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Society
  • Down
  • Stand

• I'm going to say this - to the people in Seattle, to all the people in Seattle that trust me, that believe in me - I'm going to say this: I'm not going to disappoint anybody.

  

  Felix Hernandez
  • People
  • Believe
  • Trust

• The ribosome is a machine that gets instructions from the genetic code and operates chemically in order to produce the product.

  

  Ada Yonath
  • Order
  • Product
  • Genetic

• We all have our down days, but it's not hard to smile and say, 'Thank you.'

  

  Yvette Nicole Brown
  • Smile
  • Down
  • Thank You

• Modern bodybuilding is ritual, religion, sport, art, and science, awash in Western chemistry and mathematics. Defying nature, it surpasses it.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Art
  • Nature
  • Science

• That'll be my claim to fame: My grandmother-in-law is the oldest iPad user!

  

  Daniel Clowes
  • Law
  • Grandmother
  • Fame

• When I came out, I told my stepmother Gladys, and she just said she had known for years and was glad I wasn't lying anymore.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • She
  • Said
  • Lying

• Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Love
  • Soul
  • Beauty

• In Spain, we should have enough intelligence, enough sense of individual and collective responsibility to do for ourselves that which would be imposed upon us by a dictatorship.

  

  Federica Montseny
  • Responsibility
  • Intelligence
  • Dictatorship

• I like to get real pretty.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Real
  • Pretty
  • Like

• I am afraid that this chapter will amply demonstrate the truth of Clarke's 69th Law, viz., 'Reading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as reading sex manuals without the software.' In both cases the cure is simple though usually very expensive.

  

  Arthur C. Clarke
  • Truth
  • Law
  • Reading

• In the moment of acting you don't feel like anything, you feel like the person, as much as you can.

  

  Jason Isaacs

• With me being a sportsman and being an icon who people know, if I can even send a little message across which will maybe help a lot of people, I'm going to do that.

  

  Amir Khan
  • People
  • Message
  • Icon

• I have no personal knowledge of, or experience with, paramilitary hate groups, or heart transplantation, or escapees from maximum security prisons, or what it's like to be profoundly deaf. But I've written about all these topics, and the books became bestsellers. I figure that if something interests me, there's a reasonably good chance that it's going to interest the reader, too. As I approach my keyboard each day, I remind myself to have a good time - as good a time as one can have doing the hardest work there is.

  

  Sandra Brown
  • Experience
  • Knowledge
  • Personal

• I'm not just a fan of the really restored ones, the shiny ones. But I like the working man's cars.

  

  Danny Clinch
  • Working
  • Fans
  • Restored

• The sword within the scabbard keep,And let mankind agree.

  

  John Dryden