John Lyly Quotes

A clere conscience is a sure carde.

John Lyly

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• Of course it can be said of jails, too, that they try - by punishing the troublesome - to deter others. No doubt, in certain instances this deterrence actually works. But generally speaking it fails conspicuously.

  

  Barbara Deming
  • Doubt
  • Said
  • Try

• All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Time
  • World
  • Power

• It's very different to have this kid that I'm truly responsible for.

  

  Laura Lippman
  • Different
  • Kid
  • Responsible

• Freedom has a price. Most people aren't willing to pay it.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • People
  • Freedom
  • Price

• I used to wonder because I never thought I looked like either of my parents, but now I think I look like a conglomeration.

  

  Talia Balsam
  • Parents
  • Wonder
  • Thought

• That's the one criteria I have - I can't do an impression of someone I don't like.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Like
  • Someone
  • Impression

• There are no warlike people - just warlike leaders.

  

  Ralph Bunche
  • People
  • Just
  • Leaders

• In your imagination, you can perfect things in a way you can't do in your everyday life.

  

  Washed Out
  • Life
  • Perfect
  • Imagination

• I had a very funny family.

  

  Zach Braff
  • Family
  • Funny
  • Very

• The question at the end of the day was, the courts having found there was no defense, a producer about to go to jail, should CBS in effect tell the producer go to jail even though there is no law at all that we can use to get you out of jail?

  

  Floyd Abrams
  • Law
  • Question
  • Day

• Man should not try to avoid stress any more than he would shun food, love or exercise.

  

  Hans Selye
  • Man
  • Exercise
  • Stress

• I'm hesitant to ever take on the crest of the veteran. So I don't know who I am to warn the younger writer about the perils to come. I think maybe the most dangerous influence is to think you have all the answers and should be giving counsel.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Influence
  • Writer
  • Dangerous

• I never think about what I want. It's about what you want to give to other people.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • People

• Why, what a wonderful piece of luck! Here is a red rose! I have never seen any rose like it in all my life. It is so beautiful that I am sure it has a long Latin name.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Beautiful
  • Luck

• The truth is, all might be free if they valued freedom, and defended it as they ought.

  

  Samuel Adams
  • Truth
  • Free
  • Freedom

• At no point do the resurrection narratives in the four Gospels say, 'Jesus has been raised, therefore we are all going to heaven.' It says that Christ is coming here, to join together the heavens and the Earth in an act of new creation.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • Together
  • Earth
  • Jesus

• Against the teachings of eternal torture, of the vicarious atonement, of the infallibility of the Bible, I levelled all the strength of my brain and tongue, and I exposed the history of the Christian Church with unsparing hand, its persecutions, its religious wars, its cruelties, its oppressions.

  

  Annie Besant
  • History
  • Hand
  • Church

• I had never heard of Walter Young before, and I do not expect to hear from him again.

  

  Conrad Black

• Strength and beauty are the blessings of youth; temperance, however, is the flower of old age.

  

  Democritus
  • Age
  • Flower

• And hast thou sworn on every slight pretence, Till perjuries are common as bad pence, While thousands, careless of the damning sin, Kiss the book's outside, who ne'er look'd within?

  

  William Cowper
  • Sin
  • Common
  • Kissing

• A woman brought her child with an abscess in the lower part of the back, and offered as much corn as she could carry for some medicine; we administered to it of course very cheerfully.

  

  Meriwether Lewis
  • Children
  • Medicine
  • Courses

• Daring is doing. Daring is asking something outrageous despite your chances of failure and rejection. Daring is going out on a limb by believing in something that no one else understands, and if all fails, daring is trying again.

  

  Bibi Bourelly
  • Trying
  • Failure
  • Rejection

• A clere conscience is a sure carde.

  

  John Lyly