John Dryden Quotes

I am resolved to grow fat, and look young till forty.

John Dryden

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• Having committed ourselves to Iraq, we must prevail, and to prevail, we must fund all of the requirements for our military. We must do it adequately and promptly, and the administration is doing neither.

  

  Jack Reed
  • Military
  • Doing
  • Prevail

• It is right that we be concerned with the scientific probity of metaphysics.

  

  Gabriel Marcel
  • Science
  • Right
  • Scientific

• An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand.

  

  Ovid
  • Understand
  • Medicine

• I'm not religious, so theres no church on Sunday.

  

  Tamara Ecclestone
  • Church
  • Religious
  • Sunday

• The world's entire scientific and cultural heritage, published over centuries in books and journals, is increasingly being digitized and locked up by a handful of private corporations.

  

  Aaron Swartz
  • Up
  • World
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• People want opportunity so they can earn security.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • People
  • Want
  • Opportunity

• I realised a long time ago that instrumental music speaks a lot more clearly than English, Spanish, Yiddish, Swahili, any other language. Pure melody goes outside time.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • Time
  • Music
  • Long

• People say that I could sing the phone book and make it sound good.

  

  Edith Piaf
  • People
  • Good
  • Book

• I'm the fourth generation to be in show business. It's pretty neat; it's nice to have that family history.

  

  Rachel Bilson
  • Family
  • Business
  • History

• Terrorism is a horrible thing that is the great threat to civilization on our planet.

  

  Walter Isaacson
  • Great
  • Planet
  • Terrorism

• Failure means a stripping away of the inessential.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Failure
  • Means
  • Away

• You have to love your children unselfishly. That's hard. But it's the only way.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Children
  • Way
  • Hard

• Et maiores vestros et posteros cogitate.

  

  Tacitus

• Wit seduces by signaling intelligence without nerdiness.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

• Woman's flirtatious arts of self-concealment mean man's approach must take the form of rape.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Approach

• It is no coincidence that while some major female artists have married, very few have borne children. The issue is not conservation of energy but imaginative integrity. Art is its own self-swelling, proof that the mind is greater than the body.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Mind
  • Children
  • Art

• 'Oh, but I've done some other unforgivable, unspeakable thing'? Google it. There's seven billion of us. Somebody has done exactly what you have done, and is currently on a book tour. You're never alone!

  

  Maria Bamford
  • Done
  • Book
  • Alone

• Here sit I, as a little child; The threshold of God's door Is that clear band of chrysoprase; Now the vast temple floor, The blinding glory of the dome I bow my head before. Thy universe, O God, is home, In height or depth, to me; Yet here upon thy footstool green Content am I to be; Glad when is oped unto my need Some sea-like glimpse of Thee.

  

  Lucy Larcom
  • God
  • Home
  • Universe

• The U.S. does not involve itself in what is happening in the world's largest democracy, nor does it intend to do so.

  

  John McCain
  • World
  • Democracy

• Many a one cannot loosen his own fetters, but is nevertheless his friend's emancipator.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Friend
  • Fetters
  • Emancipator

• Everything is kind of up in the air.

  

  Bret Bielema
  • Air

• When you're just starting out in the TV business, you don't know anything at all, and you think you're doing a better job than everyone else around you, and you just sort of presume that you're not getting the credit you deserve. And then when you start to get better, the pressure is extraordinary, and then you start to second-guess everything you do, and when people start looking to you for answers, for insight and for analysis and guidance, you start to wonder if you are the right person - even when you have all the information.

  

  Katy Tur
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Deserve

• I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong. I have approximate answers, and possible beliefs, and different degrees of uncertainty about different things, but I am not absolutely sure of anything. There are many things I don't know anything about, such as whether it means anything to ask "Why are we here?" I might think about it a little bit, and if I can't figure it out then I go on to something else. But I don't have to know an answer. I don't feel frightened by not knowing things, by being lost in the mysterious universe without having any purpose - which is the way it really is, as far as I can tell.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Different
  • Interesting
  • Mean

• I am resolved to grow fat, and look young till forty.

  

  John Dryden