John Milton Quotes

The pious and just honoring of ourselves may be thought the fountainhead from whence every laudable and worthy enterprise issues forth.

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• I have struggles in screenwriting that lead me to a third act that's always more or less efficiently wrapped up in a fourth act that's trying to give closure to too many things.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Always
  • Struggles
  • Screenwriting

• If the world were perfect, it wouldn't be.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • World
  • Perfect
  • Wisdom

• But we want peace, I would move all my people down this way. I could then keep them all quietly near camp.

  

  Black Kettle
  • People
  • Peace

• My wife looks at the person Park Jae Sang and the singer who goes up on stage, Psy, as different people.

  

  Psy
  • People
  • Up
  • Different

• I just think that, for my particular personality, feeling slightly invisible is always a help.

  

  Jennifer Egan
  • Help
  • Feeling
  • Personality

• No one wants to be the kid who allies with the weird kid.

  

  Kristin Cast
  • Weird

• Even the pallid daughters of Albion forget for a moment their Pre-Raphaelite poses by burying themselves in the sonorous sortilege of the Antilles.

  

  Alejo Carpentier

• I'm into anything that really helps children.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • Children
  • Helping

• I've just got to maintain my passion for what I do.

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
  • Passion
  • Maintain

• Do good under all circumstances, but with no care for any profit, or any blessedness, or any damnation, or any salvation, or any martyrdom; but all you do or omit should be for the honor of Love.

  

  Hadewijch
  • Good
  • Honor

• Flexibility in a time of great change is a vital quality of leadership.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Time
  • Great
  • Quality

• Some people have youth, some have beauty – I have menace.

  

  Edward G. Robinson
  • People
  • Youth
  • Menace

• The masculine DOES while the feminine IS. Major in the feminine, but minor in the masculine.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Feminine
  • Masculine
  • Does

• This is a perfect snapshot of the West at twilight. On the one hand, governments of developed nations microregulate every aspect of your life in the interests of 'keeping you safe.' ... On the other hand, when it comes to 'keeping you safe' from real threats, such as a millenarian theocracy that claims universal jurisdiction, America and its allies do nothing. ... It is now certain that Tehran will get its nukes, and very soon. This is the biggest abdication of responsibility by the Western powers since the 1930s.

  

  Mark Steyn
  • Life
  • Real
  • America

• Leisure of itself gives pleasure and happiness and enjoyment of life, which are experienced, not by the busy man, but by those who have leisure.

  

  Aristotle
  • Life
  • Happiness
  • Pleasure

• So," she went on, "it got me thinking about what cost beauty. Or for that matter, what cost anything? Would you trade love for beauty? Or happiness for beauty? Could a gorgeous person with a mean streak be a worthy trade? And if you did make the trade, decide you'd take that beautiful swan and hope it wouldn't turn on you, what would you do if it did?

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Thinking
  • Beautiful
  • Mean

• For an Italian peasant a telegram from anywhere is a wondrous thing; and a cable from the terrestrial paradise of America is not lightly to be disregarded.

  

  Howard K. Smith
  • Paradise
  • Peasants
  • Cables

• Ours is the age of substitutes: Instead of language we have jargon; instead of principles, slogans; and instead of genuine ideas, bright suggestions.

  

  Eric Bentley
  • Ideas
  • Language
  • Substitutes

• The pious and just honoring of ourselves may be thought the fountainhead from whence every laudable and worthy enterprise issues forth.

  

  John Milton
  • Worthy
  • Enterprise
  • Forth