John Milton Quotes

These evils I deserve, and more . . . . Justly, yet despair not of his final pardon, Whose ear is ever open, and his eye Gracious to re-admit the suppliant.

John Milton

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• I think it's about not just the crisis you're in, but how do you get to the other side? How do we heal? How do we survive this experience while remaining hopeful instead of filled with despair? That's what interests me.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Experience
  • Despair
  • Crisis

• Blues are the songs of despair, but gospel songs are the songs of hope.

  

  Mahalia Jackson
  • Hope
  • Despair
  • Blues

• 'Cheers' was great. They paired me up with Shelley Long on this tiny bar set for the final audition. That was my first really big one, and we just clicked instantly – I still think I got the part because of Shelley.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Think
  • Part
  • Final

• For me, it's not an option to despair. The question is: what can we do to make someone's life better? Take the unimaginable strides made in places like Bosnia, where I cut my teeth, and Rwanda. Their stories aren't perfect, but I wouldn't have dreamt they could happen in a million years.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Life
  • Perfect
  • Stories

• The final conflict will be between the Communists and the ex-Communists.

  

  Ignazio Silone
  • Will
  • Conflict
  • Final

• One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for examinations, whether one liked it or not. This coercion had such a deterring effect upon me that, after I had passed the final examination, I found the consideration of any scientific problems distasteful to me for an entire year.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Mind
  • Consideration
  • Final

• Our D-I-V-O-R-C-E becomes final today. Me and Little Joe will be going away. I love you both and this will be pure H-E double L for me. Oh, I wish that we could stop this D-I-V-O-R-C-E.

  

  Tammy Wynette
  • Love
  • Today
  • Stop

• Science still won't explain the mysterious nature of love and despair.

  

  Andrew Solomon
  • Nature
  • Science
  • Stills

• The path to joy leads through despair.

  

  Alexander Lowen
  • Joy
  • Path
  • Despair

• There is a hint of despair in the cry of 'I told you so,' an element of disappointment in the apparent satisfaction when idols turn out to have clay feet. The human race, when it thinks it has proved that no one is superior, is partly gratified and partly depressed.

  

  Alice Thomas Ellis
  • Disappointment
  • Despair
  • Satisfaction

• To the extent that I had come to understand that despair does not necessarily result in annihilation, that one can go on as usual in spite of it, I had become hardened. Was this what it means to be an adult, to live with ugly ambiguities? I didn't like it, but it made it easier to go on.

  

  Banana Yoshimoto
  • Live
  • Mean
  • Ugly

• She wore far too much rouge last night and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of despair in a woman.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Night
  • Always
  • Woman

• Presumption should never make us neglect that which appears easy to us, nor despair make us lose courage at the sight of difficulties.

  

  Benjamin Banneker
  • Courage
  • Easy
  • Challenges

• Many people are despairing of the possibility of finding love. And some of the people who are despairing the most are in their thirties and forties and looking just great.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • People
  • Great
  • Looking

• We pardon infidelities, but we do not forget them.

  

  Madame de La Fayette
  • Forget
  • Infidelity
  • Pardon

• Who would attain to summits still and fair,Must nerve himself through valleys of despair.

  

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  • Stills
  • Despair
  • Nerves

• I do not despair in the least of ultimate triumph. I repeat it with intense conviction.

  

  Emile Zola
  • Despair
  • Conviction
  • Intense

• Trying every day to tell the truth is hard. There are harder things, of course - arguably, living with lies and meaninglessness, living in despair is harder, but it's hardship disguised as luxury and easier perhaps to grow accustomed to, since truth is usually the enemy of custom. There are harder things than writing, being President Obama, for instance, and having to deal with House Republicans, or trying to fix the leak at the Fukushima reactor, these are harder, but writing is hard.

  

  Tony Kushner
  • Writing
  • Trying
  • Truth

• I get to interact with a bunch of young people that are up against despair constantly.

  

  Cleve Jones
  • People
  • Young
  • Despair

• Banish (the onion) from the kitchen and the pleasure flies with it. Its presence lends color and enchantment to the most modest dish; its absence reduces the rarest delicacy to hopeless insipidity, and dinner to despair.

  

  Elizabeth Robins Pennell
  • Food
  • Pleasure
  • Kitchen

• Pardon the deserter; he is weak and will return to the lesson later on.

  

  Chico Xavier
  • Lessons
  • Return
  • Weak

• Don't be concerned that you have no position; be concerned how you may fit yourself to occupy one.

  

  Confucius
  • Position
  • Concerned
  • Occupy

• From the earliest times man has been engaged in a search for general rules whereby to turn the order of natural phenomena to his own advantage, and in the long search he has scraped together a great hoard of such maxims, some of them golden and some of them mere dross. The true or golden rules constitute the body of applied science which we call the arts; the false are magic.

  

  James G. Frazer
  • Search
  • Rules
  • Advantage

• These evils I deserve, and more . . . . Justly, yet despair not of his final pardon, Whose ear is ever open, and his eye Gracious to re-admit the suppliant.

  

  John Milton
  • Despair
  • Final
  • Pardon