John Milton Quotes

By a certain fate, great acts, and great eloquence have most commonly gone hand in hand, equalling and honoring each other in the same ages.

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• The whole of our national sport is not doing very well.

  

  Ted Dexter
  • Doing
  • Very
  • Well

• It's so hard for me to kind of fall in love with comedy, but if something comes my way... I mean, I loved 'Weird,' I thought that was a really fun character.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Love
  • Character
  • Fun

• I'm an old trial lawyer.

  

  Patrick Leahy
  • Old
  • Lawyer
  • Trial

• Maybe one of the only things I do well: I cook like a maniac! I would be a chef if I weren't an actor.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • Things
  • Actor
  • Chef

• Unless you consider yourself some sort of human brand, which I don't, you have to deal with the fact that different people are going to like different aspects of your work. It's not consistent. I am not consistent. But I feel OK with that.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Work
  • Human
  • Brand

• I want to do to you what spring does with the cherry trees.

  

  Pablo Neruda
  • Nature
  • Spring
  • Trees

• I feel that World Cup cricket should be played like football in which all the 160 countries take part. If only a handful of countries are going to keep on playing in the World Cup without making the game popular, I will be a sad man.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • World
  • Game
  • Man

• Have you seen that show on Lifetime about that woman...?

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • You
  • Woman
  • Show

• One is taught by experience to put a premium on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.

  

  Gail Godwin
  • People
  • Experience
  • You

• I'm not the sort of writer who can walk into a party and take a look around, see who's sleeping with whom and go home and write a novel about society. It's not the way I work.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Work
  • Home
  • Society

• I really like 'The Three Kings' DVD. I love that movie and all the extra footage and documentaries.

  

  A. J. Cook
  • Movie
  • Like
  • Footage

• Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Living
  • Dead
  • Labor

• I think it need realness, you should speak on thing that you know about, that you being from, that you experienced or that you been around, you know. I think you need a good hook, good beats and good lyrics.

  

  Obie Trice
  • Good
  • Know
  • Speak

• I know that the Lord is always on the side of the right; but it is my constant anxiety and prayer that I and this nation may be on the Lord's side.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • May
  • Know
  • Prayer

• If you get conquered by ego, then you are losing the fight.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Fight
  • Ego
  • Losing

• Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Good
  • Never

• 'In Praise of Slowness' chronicles the global trend towards deceleration that has come to be known as the Slow Movement. Don't worry, though: it is not a Luddite rant. I love speed. Going fast can be fun, liberating and productive. The problem is that our hunger for speed, for cramming more and more into less and less time, has gone too far.

  

  Carl Honore
  • Time
  • Fun
  • Problem

• A general problem with much of Western theology... is that the God portrayed is too small. It is a god of a tiny world and not a god of a galaxy, much less a universe.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • World
  • God
  • Small

• To be honest, I was Mum's boy. Always was, always will be.

  

  Frank Lampard
  • Boy

• I was kind of a cross between Kristy and Mary Anne among 'The Baby-Sitters Club' characters. I was shy, but I was also kind of a tomboy, and I was really good at sticking my foot in my mouth even though I was shy.

  

  Raina Telgemeier
  • Good
  • Kind
  • Baby

• Would but some wing'ed Angel ere too late Arrest the yet unfolded Roll of Fate, And make the stern Recorder otherwise Enregister, or quite obliterate!

  

  Omar Khayyam
  • Fate
  • Angel

• Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Artist
  • Travel
  • Possible

• Any defense of common sense must allow that it is revisable.

  

  Ernest Sosa
  • Defense
  • Common Sense
  • Allow

• By a certain fate, great acts, and great eloquence have most commonly gone hand in hand, equalling and honoring each other in the same ages.

  

  John Milton
  • Fate
  • Acts
  • Honoring