John Milton Quotes

And sing to those that hold the vital shears; And turn the adamantine spindle round, On which the fate of gods and men is wound.

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• The average Nigerian person has come to reconcile himself with the fact that his or her social progress remain essentially in his or her hands in collaboration with other fellow Nigerians and not merely relying on what government alone could provide for him or her.

  

  Ibrahim Babangida
  • Alone
  • Government
  • Progress

• I technically have two last names, which is a lot of fun when you're making airline reservations.

  

  Mackenzie Astin
  • Fun
  • You
  • Names

• One of these days, I'd like to put together a revue of all my music, which would probably turn into a marathon. There's a couple of hit songs from almost every phase of my career. At the same time, visually, if you don't handle it properly, it could be a cacophony of craziness, because there's just so many different kinds of music.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Time
  • Music
  • Different

• I have to be careful what I eat before going onstage, to avoid an upset stomach.

  

  Samantha Bond
  • Before
  • Upset
  • Be Careful

• You arrive at a village, and in this calm environment, one starts to hear echo.

  

  Yannick Noah
  • Environment
  • Calm
  • Village

• Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.

  

  Natalie Clifford Barney
  • Time
  • Tears
  • Faces

• I grew up doing musicals in my childhood at school, along with all the plays I used to be involved in.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Up
  • School
  • Childhood

• It’s not easy to know what is true for you or me at twenty-two, my age. But I guess I’m what I feel and see and hear, Harlem, I hear you.

  

  Langston Hughes
  • True
  • Age

• For all its problems, I found South Africa a beautiful country, interesting and inspiring.

  

  David Harewood
  • Country
  • Beautiful
  • Interesting

• A lot of people in America and Europe feel that their governments are not representing them very much.

  

  Angus Deaton
  • People
  • America

• I have long been a supporter of the Head Start program because each and every year I witness the dramatic positive impact that early intervention services have on children's lives in my congressional district.

  

  Lucille Roybal-Allard
  • Long
  • Children
  • Positive

• I legit can not parallel park. This is no joke!

  

  Jennifer Damiano

• It's a lot more important to get quality young men and good student-athletes that can be successful at the University of Georgia. That's my No. 1 goal.

  

  Kirby Smart
  • Good
  • Men
  • Important

• Immoral is choosing not to act when you hold in your hands the power to create perfection.

  

  Mark Crispin Miller
  • Power

• What I look for in a project or partner is integrity and character; I love the concept of family entertainment and crosses over the generations, where you can sit kids with their grandparents and everyone has a good time. Those are the qualities that I want to bring to viewers.

  

  Jodi Benson
  • Time
  • Good
  • Family

• I believe we need to lay race theories to rest: Democracy - and identity - is difficult enough without 'scientific' obfuscation.

  

  Jens Martin Skibsted
  • Believe
  • Rest
  • Democracy

• When it comes to determining child custody, however, sexism is the rule.

  

  Phyllis Schlafly

• Boxing's a sport that gives you licence to act like an idiot, I think.

  

  Anthony Joshua
  • Boxing

• Most people don't see half of what's in front of them. Your visual cortex does a shit load of imaging processing before the signal even gets to your brain, whose priorities are still checking the ancestral Savannah for dangerous predators, edible berries and climable trees. That's why a sudden cat in the night can make you jump and some people when distracted, can walk right out in front of a bus. Your brain just isn't interested in those large moving chunks of metal or the static heaps of brightly colored stuff that piles up in drifts around us. Never mind all that, says your brain, it's those silent fur-covered merchants of death you've got to watch out for.

  

  Ben Aaronovitch
  • Brain
  • Dangerous
  • Silent

• Listen, acting is not surgery, it's entertainment. You're doing something to hopefully move people, to make them laugh, to transport them. But actors are vulnerable, and the reason we're vulnerable is that we're always trying to recreate human behaviour.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • People
  • Trying
  • Acting

• Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.

  

  William Cowper
  • Pain
  • Pleasure
  • Virtue

• And sing to those that hold the vital shears; And turn the adamantine spindle round, On which the fate of gods and men is wound.

  

  John Milton
  • Round
  • VItal
  • Shears