John Milton Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Art breathes into life a surplus that is both vital and extraordinary.
-
Obama has built his public image around his ability to bridge divisions - racial, ideological or generational. And that was his reputation, even at Harvard Law School, where he was the first black president of the 'Law Review.'
-
I'm not really that girl who dreams about her wedding day.
-
These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.
-
Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.
-
Any time there's a scandal, we always try and get involved.
-
I wasn't popular in the home office because I wasn't chicken. I'm just a risk taker. I have gut instincts.
-
Issues are never simple. One thing I'm proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify the issues.
-
The choice that frees or imprisons us is the choice of love or fear. Love liberates. Fear imprisons.
-
If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on.
-
It may well be our brains are wired up to be slightly more optimistic than they should be.
-
Twenty20 is cricket on speed. In an era of hectic lifestyles and falling attention spans, it gives spectators more drama and intensity in three hours that they would get from a whole-day match. And even though it is a heady cocktail of money, entertainment and media, at its core it is cricket.
-
I found in one of the tombs an inscription saying, 'If you touch my tomb, you will be eaten by a crocodile and hippopotamus.' It doesn't mean the hippo will eat you, it means the person really wanted his tomb to be protected.
-
One time I went into a restroom and a girl followed me in. I signed an autograph for her in the sink. It was pretty funny because she was in a guy's restroom and she wasn't embarrassed at all.
-
I don't wanna be Courtney Love - I wanna be Kurt Cobain.
-
I'm a happily married man and I think to get married you have to be optimistic.
-
Now here is a departure from the first principle of true ethics. Here we find ideas of moral wrong and moral right associated with something else than beneficial action. The consequent is, we lose sight of the real basis of morals, and substitute a false one.
-
I wasn't thinking of a sequel when I finished 'Life Class.' What changed my mind was the perception that the characters had a lot of life left in them, a lot of unresolved conflicts, and also I became interested in the Tonks pastel portraits of facially disfigured soldiers and in the whole area of facial reconstruction.
-
Star performers are my favorite to manage and lead. Star performers are critical to any organization, and the key is how can you capture their heart-share and their mind-share when they're on this fast track.
-
I don't believe in religion. I believe the example of Christ. I believe in the example of a perfect human being that if you can live for other people away from yourself you will be happy. If you live for yourself you will be unhappy and then you will not be able to sleep or do anything else... finally. I think insofar, and I really believe this, insofar as people do live with the other fellow [God] in mind, they have to be happy you know? Because it raises you up.
-
The purpose of our lives is to give birth to the best which is within us.
-
Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed, one never has to look far to see the campfires of gentle people.
-
Apt words have power to suage the tumors of a troubled mind.
