John Milton Quotes

Boast not of what thou would'st have done, but do.

John Milton

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• I read everything by Ian McEwan, he is so elegant. I love reading anything about Shakespeare, too. He is my first love. If I had a time machine, I would be hanging out with him.

  

  Kate Fleetwood
  • Time
  • Read
  • Elegant

• Man will never be enslaved by machinery if the man tending the machine be paid enough.

  

  Karel Capek
  • Man
  • Enough
  • Machine

• Whenever I visit a city, I like to see what classical music concerts are on offer.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Music
  • City
  • Like

• The higher people get, the more evolved and psychologically healthy people get, the more will enlightened management policy be necessary in order to survive in competition and the more handicapped will be an enterprise with an authoritarian policy.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • People
  • Competition
  • Management

• Fire may be represented as the destroyer of all sophistry, and as the image and demonstration of truth; because it is light and drives out darkness which conceals all essences or subtle things.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • May
  • Truth
  • Light

• I always knew, even as a kid, that my mom had a really rough life, and I always wanted to make her feel happy and to make her feel good.

  

  Cristela Alonzo
  • Life
  • Good
  • Happy

• I used to get called Lady Penelope at school because the other kids thought I spoke nicely.

  

  Penny Lancaster
  • School
  • Kids

• By offering individuals ownership and control of their health care coverage, we return control to the patients; and that is exactly where it should be.

  

  Chris Chocola
  • Control
  • Health

• In Jamaica, you're never very far away from people who don't have very much, and in Wilmette, pretty much everybody had a lot.

  

  Peter Blair Henry
  • People
  • Pretty

• I tend to prefer the shelter of fiction.

  

  Armistead Maupin

• On the surface, you think you wouldn't have to think at all about being asked to play Bilbo in 'The Hobbit.' It's not prison; it's a good gig. But you know it's going to take a long time, and it does. There are times when you thought: 'Gee, I've not seen my house for months.'

  

  Martin Freeman
  • Time
  • Good
  • Long

• I think, as a founder and entrepreneur, you just keep hustling through it.

  

  Payal Kadakia
  • Entrepreneur

• I'm really lucky that I can control my nerves; it doesn't seem to get to me.

  

  Charlotte Dujardin
  • Control

• The Internet is not pervasive as it could be, or democratic.

  

  Chris Sacca

• Growing up, I was listening to a ton of Motown music, Otis Redding, Aretha, and then there was the Beatles and Led Zeppelin and Janis Joplin. These were all people that I felt as though they truly felt every single lyric they said, and they weren't afraid of imperfection.

  

  Bishop Briggs
  • People
  • Up
  • Music

• I do - very specifically, I remember Bessie Smith; I used to collect 78 records that I would buy from the St Vincent de Paul store at five cents apiece, and I did this indiscriminately. I would just take whatever was there. And I listened to Patti Page and Walter Huston, 'September Song.'

  

  August Wilson
  • Remember
  • Song
  • September

• I'm praying for 'Ice Age' 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10. Because I really think we can run those characters into the '60s, and I'm talking the 1960s, you know? The Civil Rights Movement. That's what I'm praying for, because then I wouldn't have to do anything else.

  

  Denis Leary
  • Age

• If it is presumed that the Kenyans will democratise in order to eat the peanuts of development assistance from the European Union... it would be a big mistake.

  

  Meles Zenawi
  • Mistake

• "Moderate" Republicans such as Arnold Schwarzenegger like to boast that they're fiscal conservatives and social liberals. But the social liberalism always ends up burying the fiscal conservatism.

  

  Mark Steyn
  • Up
  • Republican
  • Liberalism

• I would never claim this. People who boast about their IQ are losers.

  

  Stephen Hawking
  • People
  • Losers
  • Boast

• Come, Let's have one other gaudy night. Call to me All my sad captains. Fill our bowls once more. Let's mock the midnight bell.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Night
  • Retirement
  • Farewell

• Go through the moral demands...one by one and you will find that man could not live up to them; the intention is not that he should become more moral, but that he should feel as sinful as possible. If man had failed to find this feeling pleasant - why should he have engendered such an idea and adhered to it for so long?... Man was by every means to be made sinful and thereby become excited, animated, enlivened in general. To excite, animate, enliven at any price.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Moral
  • Price
  • Demands

• Everyone has their invisible cloak of all things past.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Past
  • Everyone
  • Invisible

• Boast not of what thou would'st have done, but do.

  

  John Milton
  • Boast