John Milton Quotes

Him that yon soars on golden wing, guiding the fiery-wheelèd throne, the Cherub Contemplation.

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• I do not take steroids. I never have. It's sad to me that people want to point fingers. I don't do that. That's not me. I wouldn't feel like a human being.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • People
  • Want
  • Feel

• When I came up in hip hop, there was no such thing as a Puerto Rican rapper doing hip hop for many mainstream people, so I was the ship, the captain, and the crew.

  

  Fat Joe
  • People
  • Up
  • Ship

• I'm trained in the theater, and acting, for me, is about the imaginative life I create for myself, not about basing it on something real. I think that whatever I create becomes the reality for the audience.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Life
  • Real
  • Reality

• We should revoke passports from any Americans or dual citizens who are fighting with ISIS.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Fighting
  • Should
  • Citizens

• If I could sew comedy and philosophy together, then I've done a good job. The primary goal is always going to be laughs and the secondary goal is always going to be saying something without it being a lecture.

  

  Hal Sparks
  • Good
  • Done
  • Job

• The problem is not the occupation, but how people deal with it.

  

  Bashar al-Assad
  • People
  • Problem
  • How

• I like to consider myself a relatively spiritual person, and I just do my thing. I'm very focused on what I do professionally, and I'm very focused on my family, and I don't really get too stressed out about what people say or what other people think.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • People
  • Family
  • Myself

• The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • World
  • Action
  • Contemplation

• The act of contemplation then creates the thing created.

  

  Isaac D'Israeli
  • Act
  • Contemplation
  • Then

• The Democrats just don't have a foreign policy that they're willing to defend, that they're willing to use to take down the president's. We're dealing with the power of suggestion here.

  

  Chris Matthews
  • Power

• Oh, the summer night, Has a smile of light, And she sits on a sapphire throne.

  

  Barry Cornwall
  • Night
  • Light
  • Summer

• A good song is a good song.

  

  Glen Campbell
  • Good
  • Song

• At the Sahara, the seats are banked and most of the audience is looking down at the stage. Everybody in the business knows: Up for singers, down for comics. The people want to idealize a singer. They want to feel superior to a comic. You're trying to make them laugh. They can't laugh at someone they're looking up to.

  

  Buddy Hackett
  • People
  • Up
  • Trying

• The cool thing about those small-budget movies is that there's a tremendous amount of freedom the filmmakers have since there's less money at stake.

  

  Holly Hunter
  • Money
  • Freedom
  • Small

• You get to a point in your life where you go, 'I don't remember what I did.'

  

  Frank Abagnale
  • Life
  • Remember

• Most people are not shocked that I am occasionally rude to journalists. They are probably amazed I don't punch one in the face.

  

  Ken Livingstone
  • People
  • Rude

• In most of the European countries - France stands out in its resistance to this particular form of American cultural imperialism - the national film industries were forced onto the defensive after the war by such binding agreements.

  

  Fredric Jameson
  • American
  • War

• You miss the point? The lady that spares her lover spares herself too little.

  

  Plautus

• I sing, not arms and the hero, but the philosophic man: he who seeks in contemplation to discover the inner will of the world, ininvention to discover the means of fulfilling that will, and in action to do that will by the so-discovered means.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • World
  • Discover
  • Contemplation

• Great law schools like Northwestern are here to expand the minds of their students, to allow them to achieve their personal goals, to enable them to contribute, to give back in ways that they could not without the education they receive here, and to help them make the greatest country in the world just a little more accessible, a little fairer.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • World
  • Great
  • Country

• The Earth is like one of those balls made of twelve pieces of skin.

  

  Plato
  • Earth
  • Balls
  • Pieces Of Skin

• It is axiomatic: When there is no penalty for failure, failures proliferate.

  

  George Will
  • Penalties

• I think the French have a romantic cliche that Englishmen have great style, great music, irony and sense of humour. Well, sometimes cliches are true.

  

  Josephine de La Baume
  • Thinking
  • Style
  • Sometimes

• Him that yon soars on golden wing, guiding the fiery-wheelèd throne, the Cherub Contemplation.

  

  John Milton
  • Contemplation
  • Throne
  • Cherub