John Milton Quotes

For such kind of borrowing as this, if it be not bettered by the borrower, among good authors is accounted Plagiarè.

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• Team synergy has an extraordinary impact on business results.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Business
  • Team
  • Impact

• I am not content to entrust our free-speech rights to the good graces and whims of Congress and hope that politicians don't abuse their power.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Good
  • Power
  • Hope

• Once you have commitment, you need the discipline and hard work to get you there.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Work
  • Discipline
  • Commitment

• I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.

  

  Parker Posey
  • People
  • Heart
  • Think

• I never smoked. I never drank and I never took drugs. The funny thing is, nothing is more boring, people like this. For me, it's OK. But most of my friends, at least they smoke and drink.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • People
  • Friends
  • Funny

• I enjoy getting gussied up for an event or date night.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Up
  • Night
  • Enjoy

• Since we can't count on the meat, egg, and dairy industries to protect animals from the most egregious forms of cruelty, what can we, as consumers, do? Opting out of paying someone to allow animals to die in a barn fire or at the slaughterhouse seems pretty reasonable.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Pretty
  • Die
  • Fire

• I like to have fun, but I don't think of myself as being funny. But I'm a big jokester, so I make fun of myself a lot!

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Fun
  • Funny
  • Myself

• I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.

  

  Ted Danson
  • People
  • Love
  • Guy

• In writing a series of stories about the same characters, plan the whole series in advance in some detail, to avoid contradictions and inconsistencies.

  

  L. Sprague de Camp
  • Writing
  • Plan
  • Detail

• Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.

  

  Maimonides
  • Man
  • Education
  • Day

• I don't mind going back to daylight saving time. With inflation, the hour will be the only thing I've saved all year.

  

  Victor Borge
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Year

• I prefer to make movies which not only have a message for 'then' but a message for 'now.'

  

  Nate Parker
  • Movies
  • Now
  • Message

• Beware how you take away hope from another human being.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Hope
  • You
  • Human

• In fact, because of their connection to the land, farmers do more to protect and preserve our environment than almost anyone else. They are some of the best environmentalists around.

  

  Ike Skelton
  • Best
  • Environment
  • Connection

• Birth was the death of him.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Death
  • Birth
  • Him

• People don't have a good intuitive sense of how to weigh new information in light of what they already know. They tend to overrate it.

  

  Nate Silver
  • People
  • Good
  • Light

• Don't tell God they were only little globs of tissue.  They were real live persons, being formed in their mother;s womb.

  

  Jack Chick
  • God
  • Live
  • Real

• I do not write about nice people. I am not nice people. Neither is anyone I have ever cared deeply about.

  

  Dorothy Allison
  • People
  • Nice

• I'm very happy with the response for everything I've done, but, you know, sometimes you get things like, 'Oh, 'Spaced' Series One wasn't as good as 'Spaced' Series Two.' Or 'Shaun of the Dead' is not as good as 'Spaced,' or, 'Hot Fuzz' is not as good as 'Shaun.' Or, now, 'The World's End' is not 'Shaun of the Dead.'

  

  Edgar Wright
  • World
  • Good
  • Done

• In reality, it si more fruitful to wound than to kill. While the dead man lies still, counting only one man less, the wounded man is a progressive drain upon his side.

  

  B. H. Liddell Hart
  • Man
  • Reality
  • Lies

• For such kind of borrowing as this, if it be not bettered by the borrower, among good authors is accounted Plagiarè.

  

  John Milton
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