John Milton Quotes

Yet once more, O ye laurels, and once moreYe myrtles brown, with ivy never sere,I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude,And with forced fingers rudeShatter your leaves before the mellowing year.

John Milton

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• I have been desperate to escape for so many years now, it is routine for me to try to escape.

  

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• I don't think you really have chemistry in the way that you want between two actors unless frustration is there as well.

  

  Omari Hardwick
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• Just personally, I've been attached to 'On the Road' since 2007 and it was the greatest thing in my life when I got cast in it. I couldn't believe it. When I was 17 and read the book, I looked it up on IMDb and it said that Francis Ford Coppola was going to direct it.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
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• I skate just to satisfy my own desire and not care about other people's desire for me to do well.

  

  Patrick Chan
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• One of the cool things about amateur athletics is that, I think, the pursuit is sort of the pursuit of excellence for nothing more than trying to be excellent.

  

  Cameron Winklevoss
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• The thing about politics is to plan 10 years ahead, and assume every year is your last.

  

  Ed Balls
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• How do you know you're going to do something, untill you do it?

  

  J. D. Salinger
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• I think Bond the character is distinct: He's British, he has a certain code that he lives by, he's incorruptible... he's a classical hero, but he's also fallible. He has inner demons, inner conflicts, and he's a romantic.

  

  Barbara Broccoli
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• Well, there's no one at all, they do be saying, but is deserving of some punishment from the very minute of his birth.

  

  Lady Gregory
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• One of the things that people don't realize is that that natural beauty, those recreational forests, they have an economic development impact for the state as well.

  

  Ed Rendell
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• What am I doing in this silly showbiz life? I do wonder that sometimes.

  

  Saffron Burrows
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• I was always a fan of the old-style comics. I loved vaudeville. I loved Milton Berle, Dick Shawn, Phyllis Diller, Don Rickles, Charlie Callas, all those guys. Hilarious. I love the Bing Crosby and Bob Hope movies, and Abbott & Costello. My television influences were 'Monty Python's Flying Circus,' 'Benny Hill,' and 'Hee Haw.'

  

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• Breakfast is always the best time for something juicy, sweet and fresh - it just feels like the right way to open the day. There's no right way, though, when it comes to choosing the fruit.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
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• I realized that becoming a doctor, I can only help a small community. But by becoming a politician, I can help my whole country.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
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• Teams are always hitting me in the gut, trying to grab me when I jump and stuff like that. But I expect it.

  

  J. J. Watt
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• Qualifying for the Olympic Games was one of those moments where you just cry because it was like you've climbed Mount Everest.

  

  Natalie du Toit
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• I would dare say that most anyone in public life, if they stay in public long enough, is not treated fairly.

  

  Vince McMahon
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• The believer who follows the Lord most fully will ordinarily enjoy the most assured hope, and have the clearest persuasion of his own salvation.

  

  J. C. Ryle
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• Now I see there is a people risen that I cannot win with gifts or honours, offices or places; but all other sects and people I can.

  

  Oliver Cromwell
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• Eddie Fisher married to Elizabeth Taylor is like me trying to wash the Empire State Building with a bar of soap.

  

  Don Rickles
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• A good night sleep, or a ten minute bawl, or a pint of chocolate ice cream, or all three together, is good medicine.

  

  Ray Bradbury
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• The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision.

  

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• Our goal should be to cool the planet in ways that reinforce and restore the resilience of its natural systems.

  

  Alex Steffen
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• Yet once more, O ye laurels, and once moreYe myrtles brown, with ivy never sere,I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude,And with forced fingers rudeShatter your leaves before the mellowing year.

  

  John Milton