John Milton Quotes

The greatest burden in the world is superstition, not only of ceremonies in the church, but of imaginary and scarecrow sins at home.

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• This is who I am: a flyspeck of human vanity in a trillion miles of stone-dead interstellar space; a graceless lump of flesh and fear in a remote desert where nearly everything that I can see or touch is designed to hurt me.

  

  S. C. Gwynne
  • Fear
  • Space
  • Hurt

• I would love to be a role model.

  

  Gabby Douglas
  • Love
  • Model
  • Role Model

• I like a little bit of designer, with a bit of vintage and high street mixed in. I love it when you find those one-off key pieces, which end up becoming investment pieces.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Like
  • Find
  • Key

• I was involved with drama departments since the 5th grade. I played at it. It was an escape.

  

  Adam Baldwin
  • Drama
  • Involved
  • Escape

• My hearing has suffered seriously; just now I am obliged to have the assistance of an ear trumpet. Think of that, my beauty! - There 's a state for your old Lover to be in! - No more tender whisperings! Imagine sweet confessions to be made through an ear trumpet!

  

  Samuel Lover
  • Hearing
  • Suffered
  • Ear

• Isolation is a self-defeating dream.

  

  Carlos Salinas de Gortari
  • Dream
  • Isolation

• All politicians should have 3 hats - one to throw into the ring, one to talk through, and one to pull rabbits out of if elected.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Talk
  • Ring
  • Rabbits

• Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Character
  • Wisdom
  • Looking

• I don't want to wait 20 or 50 years for something to be done about petrochemical pollution.

  

  Jack Herer
  • Done
  • Want
  • Pollution

• Actually, I bought one share of Warren Buffett's stock, probably 35 years ago, in order to read his letters.

  

  Sam Wyly
  • Years
  • Order
  • Stock

• Ignorance is not bliss, but in my case, that was.

  

  Victoria Principal
  • Ignorance
  • Case
  • Bliss

• There's a place in me that can really relate to being the underdog.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Me
  • Place
  • Underdog

• One of the main lessons I have learned during my five years as Secretary-General is that broad partnerships are the key to solving broad challenges. When governments, the United Nations, businesses, philanthropies and civil society work hand-in-hand, we can achieve great things.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Work
  • Great
  • Society

• A funny thing happens in real estate. When it comes back, it comes back up like gangbusters.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • Up
  • Real
  • Funny

• I loved DreamWorks and Pixar, and I still love kids' films.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Kids
  • Loved
  • Films

• My dad had been an ardent amateur photographer, and he taught me to compose a photograph from the back to the front, and then populate the picture.

  

  Sam Abell
  • Me
  • Dad
  • Picture

• Rap is the only interesting music left - it's the only genre that's still pushing itself, and experimenting in a way that I find exciting.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • Music
  • Interesting
  • Find

• There is always anxiety before a competition and it was no different for me today. It was only in the third round, with about 40 targets left, that I realised I could match the world record score.

  

  Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore
  • World
  • Different
  • Today

• The show business has all phases and grades of dignity, from the exhibition of a monkey to the exposition of that highest art in music or the drama which secures for the gifted artists a world-wide fame princes well might envy.

  

  P. T. Barnum
  • World
  • Music
  • Art

• We in the industrialized world make a greater difference because our ecological footprint, our impact on the condition of the environment, is 40 to 50 times larger than that of people in the developing world.

  

  Maurice Strong
  • People
  • World
  • Environment

• Low inflation and government prudence may be harmful for economic development.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • May

• It is essential that God created men and women to be one, as it is said in the first chapters of the Bible. So I think even if our culture is against marriage as essential form of relations between human beings, between women and men. I think our nature is always present, and we can understand it if we will understand it.

  

  Pope Benedict XVI
  • God
  • Men
  • Women

• Words are small shapes in the gorgeous chaos of the world. ... they bring the world into focus, they corral ideas, they hone thoughts, they paint watercolors of perception.

  

  Diane Ackerman
  • World
  • Focus
  • Perception

• The greatest burden in the world is superstition, not only of ceremonies in the church, but of imaginary and scarecrow sins at home.

  

  John Milton
  • World
  • Burden
  • Superstition