John Milton Quotes

With ruin upon ruin, rout on rout, Confusion worse confounded.

John Milton

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• I'm sort of the comic relief after a hard day at work. My message is that it's OK to relax.

  

  Larry King
  • Work
  • Day
  • Relax

• Whenever anything went wrong at home, because I was the only boy, I would get blamed for it straight away. Girls stick together.

  

  Zayn Malik One Direction
  • Home
  • Together
  • Boy

• One of the great things about music is that it has the capability of time travel - you smell a certain smell in the room and it takes you back to your childhood. I feel like music is able to do that, and it happens to me all the time.

  

  M. Ward
  • Time
  • Great
  • Music

• Greed has taken the whole universe, and nobody is worried about their soul.

  

  Little Richard
  • Soul
  • Universe
  • Taken

• Any life he'd ever heard of, his own included, was burdened with emotions - love, loss, jobs, jealousy, money, death, pain. But if you were Jewish, always there was this extra one, the added pull at your endurance, the one more thing. There was that line in Thoreau about 'quiet desperation' - that was indeed true of most men. But for some men and women, for some fathers and mothers and children, the world still contrived that one extra test, endless and unrelenting.

  

  Laura Z. Hobson
  • Life
  • World
  • Men

• Well, you might as well imitate your own program because if you don't, someone else will.

  

  Allan Sherman
  • Program
  • Imitate

• This massacre in Orlando is therefore a further reminder of how easy it is for someone to get their hands on a weapon that lets them shoot people in a school or in a house of worship or a movie theater or in a nightclub. And we have to decide if that's the kind of country we want to be. And to actively do nothing is a decision, as well.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Country
  • School

• It’s never overreacting to ask for what you want and need.

  

  Amy Poehler
  • Ask
  • Overreacting

• I wasn't trying to do a play or do what Kevin Spacey did. I was trying to do my own thing.

  

  Kiefer Sutherland
  • Trying
  • Play
  • Kevin Spacey

• When I see 16 year-olds waiting for me, I just want to spank them and give them guitars and tell them to start bands. It's a bummer that girls have to respond to rock artists sexually instead of, like, 'wow, me too!'.

  

  Courtney Love
  • Rock
  • Waiting
  • Artists

• There is no form of conviction more intimate and irresistible than that which arises from the inward teaching of the Spirit.

  

  Charles Hodge
  • Spirit
  • Conviction
  • Inward

• Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.

  

  Robert Frost
  • Difference
  • Roads
  • Traveled

• I love boxing and it did a lot for me. But sometimes it made me think how savage human beings could be to each other. That wasn't the kind of boxer I wanted to be. My strategy was to be as scientific as I could when I fought. I didn't want to be seriously hurt, and I didn't want to do that to anybody else either.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Hurt
  • I Love
  • Boxing

• Onstage, you just have to tell the absolute truth about the character you are playing. You hope you communicate it, and you hope it comes back like a tennis ball. If you're listening to the sound of your own voice, nobody else is. The audience knows, and they freeze on you.

  

  Carol Channing
  • Character
  • Listening
  • Theatre

• What hurts you, blesses you. Darkness is your candle.

  

  Rumi
  • Darkness
  • Hurts
  • Candle

• In general, fire is used to throw enemies into confusion so that you can attack them.

  

  Du Mu
  • Fire
  • Enemies
  • Confusion

• As a biologist, I can't think of myself as anything but an animal among animals and plant.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Myself
  • Animal
  • Plant

• With ruin upon ruin, rout on rout, Confusion worse confounded.

  

  John Milton
  • Confusion
  • Ruin
  • Rout