John Milton Quotes

Innocence, Once Lost, Can Never Be Regained. Darkness, Once Gazed Upon, Can Never Be Lost.

John Milton

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• I have been offered a lot for my work, but never everything.

  

  Yul Brynner
  • Work
  • Never
  • Everything

• There is no 20-year period in American history when stocks lost money.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Money
  • American
  • History

• One of the strangest experiences one can have is to sleep on stage, as I once did in Sydney when I'd lost the key to my flat. I had to stay at night in a bed, which conveniently was on stage because my character Sandy Stone did his monologue from a bed. To wake up looking at a shadowy auditorium is a very peculiar feeling.

  

  Barry Humphries
  • Up
  • Character
  • Night

• I'll never be like a Barbie girl, that's for sure.

  

  Victoria Azarenka
  • Girl
  • Never
  • Barbie

• When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.

  

  Tacitus
  • Woman
  • Chastity

• I never do anything out of my comfort zone.

  

  Danica Patrick
  • Never
  • Comfort
  • Comfort Zone

• Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Important
  • Future
  • Lost

• I've never been more famous than I was, suddenly, in 1986.

  

  Wendy Cope
  • Never
  • Famous
  • More

• I wanted to become a champ - I was surrounded by champs in my family and in my neighborhood - and because of this stupid accident, I lost my opportunity.

  

  Olivier Martinez
  • Family
  • Opportunity
  • Lost

• If you don't use good ingredients, the outcome is never going to be excellent. But if you buy the freshest ingredients that are in season, at their peak, and you cook with them, you can't really go wrong.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • Good
  • Never
  • Season

• I'm married, I have three children, I never hit my wife.

  

  Ja Rule
  • Children
  • Wife
  • Never

• The omnipotence of evil has never resulted in anything but fruitless efforts. Our thoughts always escape from whoever tries to smother them.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Evil
  • Never
  • Thoughts

• In fact, you couldn't give me anything to make me go back to being a teenager. Never. No, I hated it.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • You
  • Me
  • Never

• Many may look at me and see mostly what I have lost. I struggle to speak, my eyesight's not great, my right arm and leg are paralyzed, and I left a job I loved representing southern Arizona in Congress.

  

  Gabrielle Giffords
  • Great
  • May
  • Job

• Money is a bubble that never pops. It's a consensus hallucination.

  

  Naval Ravikant
  • Money
  • Never
  • Bubble

• Never trust a hippie. That's definitely my motto.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Trust
  • Never
  • Hippie

• I lost myself in the bubble of music - driving myself to be a success.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Music
  • Success
  • Lost

• We both agreed that Stalin was determined to hold out against the Germans. He told us he'd never let them get to Moscow. But if he was wrong, they'd go back to the Urals and fight. They'd never surrender.

  

  W. Averell Harriman
  • Never
  • Fight
  • Determined

• I've led a charmed life. I've known people who have been depressed, and I've never had that.

  

  Earl Hamner, Jr.
  • People
  • Life
  • Never

• I do not believe that people want to work hard enough and they want to find the quick Twitter, SEO. Anybody who's obsessed with SEO has lost already, period. I believe that firmly.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • People
  • Work
  • Believe

• President Kennedy knew every agent by name. President Johnson knew many of us, but not as many as President Kennedy, probably.

  

  Clint Hill

• The first step is to measure whatever can easily be measured. This is OK as far as it goes. The second step is to disregard that which can't be easily measured or to give it an arbitrary quantitative value. This is artificial and misleading. The third step is to presume that what can't be measured easily really isn't important. This is blindness. The fourth step is to say that what can't be easily measured really doesn't exist. This is suicide.

  

  Charles Handy
  • Important
  • Value
  • Suicide

• J.S. Bach was easily the greatest musical innovator in the history of the world. He was so advanced for his time. There's a spiritual depth to his music. You can listen to it and it's like meditation.

  

  Brian Wilson
  • Time
  • World
  • Music

• Innocence, Once Lost, Can Never Be Regained. Darkness, Once Gazed Upon, Can Never Be Lost.

  

  John Milton
  • Lost
  • Never
  • Innocence