John Milton Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done.
-
I don't much care whether rural Anatolians or Istanbul secularists take power. I'm not close to any of them. What I care about is respect for the individual.
-
There is no self-knowledge but an historical one. No one knows what he himself is who does not know his fellow men, especially the most prominent one of the community, the master's master, the genius of the age.
-
Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
-
Whereas recessive traits require two bad copies of a gene to become noticeable, a dominant trait expresses itself no matter what the other copy does. A benign example of dominance: If you inherit one gene for sticky wet earwax and one gene for dry earwax, the sticky earwax gene wins out every time.
-
My professional dreams were coming true while I was living a personal nightmare.
-
English people are famous for never speaking out but only saying what they really feel about you behind your back. Americans believe the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. I like exploring those, er, differences in national snippiness.
-
There's a group of people - maybe the secular Taliban is a good name for them - who have morphed this idea, that you have to accept my values being every bit as cherished as your values. That's not tolerance... There are too many things in this world which we sit back and tolerate.
-
Remember: You are the common denominator in all your relationship problems. Wherever you go, your pesky repeated issues go - until you shed a blazing light of insight upon them.
-
With a film, you can get into it and love it. With music, you can listen to over and over again, but with music videos, they're like this short little stab.
-
America's grossly unfair tax system won't lead to class war. Or, if it does, the war will be brief.
-
People my age, we would hear from our parents and grandparents who were raised in Detroit about how great this city was from 1900 to the '60s.
-
I'm not somebody who gets teared up or anything, but I still look up at the stars, and it gives me hope, and it gives me energy. I think one of the things that we have to think about it is, we are all a part of this universe.
-
I don't understand why people really get upset about something that doesn't affect them at all.
-
You must enjoy the journey because whether or not you get there, you must have fun on the way.
-
I copied my brother. He was a natural dancer. Graceful. People always asked did we study ballet. We never did.
-
If the FBI gets the 'back doors' it wants, Internet services would be required to create a massive online infrastructure for law enforcement to spy on members of the public.
-
Is an out-of-control life challenge making you feel 'out of control' over your entire life? If so, stop lying around doing nothing. Stop sleeping late. Stop watching too much TV. Start recognizing that this lack of a disciplined schedule will only increase your feelings of being out of control of your life.
-
Why do the faithful have such a will, to believe in something? And call in the name they choose, having chosen nothing.
-
We spend our days, each one of us, in looking for the secret of life. Well, the secret of life is in Art.
-
It is impossible to believe the emotional and spiritual intensity and pure, classic beauty that can be produced by a man, an animal, and a piece of scarlet serge draped over a stick.
-
Sweet to me was not the voice of man, But the wind's voice was understood by me. The burdocks and the nettles fed my soul, But I loved the silver willow best of all.
-
I started feeling this little lump in my throat, like you would feel if you have swollen glands or something like that, like you'd feel if you have a cold, so I didn't really think it was anything.
-
Untwisting all the chains that tieThe hidden soul of harmony.
