John Milton Quotes

I sung of Chaos and Eternal Night, Taught by the heav'nly Muse to venture down The dark descent, and up to reascend.

John Milton

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• I'm a mother of three. I don't really have the time to put very elaborate outfits together, so I keep it casual but dress it up with shoes, a bag, and jewellery.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Up
  • Time
  • Together

• My sisters used to learn dance, and I used to stand behind them and dance. So my guruji suggested that I also learn, as I seemed interested. I started learning at the age of three and was always on stage for something or the other. My mother is proud of me, and clearly my artistic bent comes from her.

  

  Madhuri Dixit
  • Mother
  • Age
  • Learning

• Helping out in your kid's classroom is a great way to get involved with your child's school.

  

  Tamra Davis
  • Great
  • School
  • Child

• What I think I have in common with the school of deconstruction is the mode of negative thinking or negative awareness, in the technical, philosophical sense of the negative, but which comes to me through negative theology.

  

  Harold Bloom
  • Thinking
  • School
  • Negative

• When I find the right information, the Web is a blessing; when I don't, it's a distraction.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • Find
  • Information
  • Blessing

• Ever since happiness heard your name, it has been running through the streets trying to find you.

  

  Hafez
  • Trying
  • Running
  • Happiness

• The Spirit of the Holy Ghost is the teacher in the temple. He teaches principles of eternal significance. It is during these instructions that we see the relationship between the earthly and the eternal. We must remember that the Spirit teaches only those who are teachable.

  

  L. Lionel Kendrick
  • Remember
  • Relationship
  • Teacher

• My experience is that's rare - that you have a script that is... what they call 'film-ready.'

  

  Laura Linney
  • Experience
  • You
  • Rare

• The Arab Awakening or Arab Spring has transformed the geopolitical landscape.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Spring
  • Landscape
  • Awakening

• Remember, you can always find East by staring directly at the sun.

  

  Nancy Cartwright
  • Remember
  • Sun
  • Find

• Twenty-first century war adds new risks: more and more often there are no front lines, no central command, no rules of engagement - only a chaotic collision of politics, power, faith and bloodlust. Victims are as likely to be civilians as soldiers.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Power
  • War
  • Faith

• Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Opportunity
  • Dance
  • Floor

• Am I grumpy? I might be. But I think maybe sometimes it's misinterpreted.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Think
  • Sometimes
  • Grumpy

• I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • Courage
  • Sick
  • Nobody

• Frankly, I thought we would have lost the House by now.

  

  Ed Gillespie
  • House
  • Lost
  • Thought

• I can mourn internally, just be quiet about it. I have my moments but I'm not a real, expressive person, especially when it comes to like sadness.

  

  Faith Evans
  • Real
  • Moments
  • Sadness

• I like singer-songwriters, and I find sad songs comforting rather than depressing. It makes you realise you're not alone in the world.

  

  Natalie Imbruglia
  • World
  • Alone
  • Sad

• Whoever removes the Cross and its interpretation by the New Testament from the center, in order to replace it, for example, with the social commitment of Jesus to the oppressed as a new center, no longer stands in continuity with the apostolic faith.

  

  Hans Urs von Balthasar
  • Faith
  • Jesus
  • Commitment

• I have thousands of tapes, and photos and fliers, letters, posters, artwork - basically everything that ever happened, I kept. I'm not a hoarder, though. I'm sort of a librarian.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Everything
  • Letters
  • Ever

• You come out of a working-class environment, you know, working-class kids always put them themselves together because it's one of the only things they had. You had control of your image.

  

  Ian Astbury The Cult
  • Kids
  • Together
  • Control

• I don't need to hear Bill to go through a song. I need to hear Keith to go through a song. I know Bill will be playing what I'm playing anyway. I need to hear Keith because it's all there: the time, the chord changes, and all the licks you have to follow.

  

  Charlie Watts The Rolling Stones
  • Time
  • Song

• On the rare occasions when I spend a night in Oxford, the keeping of the hours by the clock towers in New College, and Merton, and the great booming of Tom tolling 101 times at 9 pm at Christ Church are inextricably interwoven with memories and regrets and lost joys. The sound almost sends me mad, so intense are the feelings it evokes.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Great
  • Night
  • Lost

• How does Love speak? In the faint flush upon the telltale cheek, And in the pallor that succeeds it; by The quivering lid of an averted eye – The smile that proves the parent to a sigh Thus doth Love speak.

  

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  • Love
  • Parent
  • Succeeds

• I sung of Chaos and Eternal Night, Taught by the heav'nly Muse to venture down The dark descent, and up to reascend.

  

  John Milton
  • Night
  • Chaos
  • Eternal