John Milton Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Nobody wants to give up good players.
-
Even complex passwords are getting easy to break if they're too short. That's because today's inexpensive computer chips have the power of supercomputers from the year 2000.
-
Disciples of Keynes, who focus on aggregate demand, view any increase in household wealth as raising employment because they say it adds to consumer demand.
-
People have been doing this for hundreds of thousands of years: using whatever is available to build shelter. If you ponder what could be used, then building materials are everywhere.
-
In a real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read. It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.
-
There's something about the silence of people listening to someone or watching someone - I just... I love that.
-
For me, clean fuels translates into cleaner air for Oregonians. I think that's a good thing.
-
The true character of ministry is a servants heart.
-
I moved into this neighborhood, and I was walking on this beach with my kids, and we came across a sign that said, 'Water's polluted, no swimming.' And I didn't have any answers.
-
I'm tempted by everything. My husband makes fun of me because every day it's a new food that I love. I have a weakness for butterscotch pudding, ice cream in any flavor and dark chocolate, although that's one thing I do keep in my house - 70% dark chocolate.
-
Every story makes a promise to the reader. Actually, two promises, one emotional and one intellectual, since the function of stories is to make us both feel and think.
-
A journalist covering politics, most of us are aware of the necessity to try to be sure we're unbiased in our reporting. That's one of the fundamentals of good journalism.
-
I never want to have to ask my husband for money. Never! That's incomprehensible to me. Would he have preferred that I change my name? Probably. But that's OK!
-
My parents were never condescending to us. They treated us like adults from a very young age.
-
Facebook now is mostly about people you know. In the future it could be about people you know less but are more important.
-
Frankly, I got into the movies because I like the movies a lot.
-
To us, the value of a work lies in its newness: the invention of new forms, or a novel combination of old forms, the discovery of unknown worlds or the exploration of unfamiliar areas in worlds already discovered - revelations, surprises.
-
In boxing, it's one fight, so it's easier to build up rivalries, but everyone's got huge respect for each other.
-
To die alone, on rock under sun at the brink of the unknown, like a wolf, like a great bird, seems to me very good fortune indeed.
-
We have 200,000 kids a year who drop out of the French school system and have no hope. They become a drag on society.
-
I spent most of the '60s, when I was starting to try to write novels, living and working in Greece and Turkey. These are countries where the ancient past is interfused with the daily present, and I remember being struck with wonder at the constant sense of continuity and connection, the reminders that lie in wait for you at every turn.
-
I'm not at the point of accepting it yet - but I will have to come to the point of accepting that people will doubt me forever.
-
I do think that all politicians today have to be more attentive to people wanting to be heard, wanting to have more control over their lives.
-
Hope allows us to bid farewell to fear.
