John Milton Quotes

And add to these retired Leisure,That in trim gardens takes his pleasure.

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• The Treatise tries to analyze not only modern Western families, but also those in other cultures and the changes in family structure during the past several centuries.

  

  Gary Becker
  • Family
  • Past
  • Changes

• A lot happens in 20 years.

  

  Pat Morita
  • Years
  • Happens
  • Lot

• Then all of a sudden, Quentin Tarantino comes along and puts a song from 40 years ago in one of his films and they've suddenly discovered you. That was a real gift that Quentin gave me.

  

  Nancy Sinatra
  • Song
  • Me
  • Gift

• Abraham Lincoln is singular. Abraham Lincoln, before he was killed, stood up and, you know, for the first time from any sitting president, stood for the right for suffrage for African-American men who had served in the Civil War. And that's a limited suffrage, but it was quite radical at the time.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Up
  • Time
  • Men

• I went to high school in a steel town in Pennsylvania.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • School
  • High
  • High School

• I developed the habit of writing novels behind a closed door, or at my uncle's, on the dining table.

  

  Patrick White
  • Writing
  • Door
  • Habit

• You don't need to be a spook to care about encryption. If you travel with your computer or keep it in a place where other people can put their hands on it, you're vulnerable.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • People
  • Travel
  • Hands

• I always thought I was going to be a great poet, and go and live in New York, where the great poets lived - you know, where Whitman had walked the streets.

  

  Garth Risk Hallberg
  • Great
  • Live
  • Thought

• If journalism is the first draft of history, then talk radio provides an early glimpse into how the meaning of political events will be spun for ideological and partisan purposes.

  

  Jackson Katz
  • History
  • Political
  • Meaning

• Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • People
  • World
  • Fear

• I would have voted 'no' on the Iraq war and 'yes' to Afghanistan.

  

  Rand Paul
  • War
  • Afghanistan
  • Yes

• Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Food
  • Progress
  • Late

• The blue guitar And I are one.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Blue

• Every serious novel is, beyond its immediate thematic preoccupations, a discussion of the craft, a conquest of the form, a conflict with its difficulties and a pursuit of its felicities and beauty.

  

  Ralph Ellison
  • Serious

• Every text assumes a reader.

  

  Alberto Manguel
  • Text

• Your average game show host on TV, for instance, doesn't believe himself to be banal. He actually thinks that he's quite interesting. And if you look at the viewing figures, so do an enormous number of people in this country.

  

  Clive Barker
  • People
  • Believe
  • Country

• I have the right temperament. I have the right leadership. I've built an incredible company. I went to a great school. I came out - I built an incredible company. I wrote the number one selling business book of all time: 'Trump: The Art of the Deal.'

  

  Donald Trump
  • Time
  • Great
  • School

• I didn't want people to say his brother Bing sings better than he does.

  

  Bob Crosby
  • People
  • Brother

• There will be a 'Oops 100.'  They'll be plenty more oopses.  I'm not perfect.  I'm human.

  

  Britney Spears
  • Perfect

• The way of acquiescence leads to moral and spiritual suicide. The way of violence leads to bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers. But, the way of nonviolence leads to redemption and the creation of the beloved community.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Violence
  • Suicide
  • Destroyers

• We are living in uncertain times. In a world where peace seems to be in short supply, I feel like the world is desperate to see an example of "peace that passes understanding." When someone goes "all in" for God, committing their whole life to Him, peace is one of the gifts we are promised. Someone who is all in for God can take to heart that even though we will have trouble in this world, our lives are in the hands of the one who has overcome this world. When we've been filled with God's peace, only then can we turn around and become instruments of His peace to a hurting world. Desperate Whole Life

  

  Matthew West
  • World
  • Understanding
  • Overcoming

• I never look at a high point in my career. Everyone thinks about the Spinks fight, but that fight only lasted 91 seconds, so it's hard to say it defined my career.

  

  Mike Tyson
  • Career
  • Fight
  • Defined

• It's like creating an artificial loop saying, 'You didn't play the game the way I wanted you to play, so now you're punished and you're going to come back and play it again until you do what I want you to do.' In an action game, I can get that – why not? It's all about skills. But in a story-driven experience it doesn't make any sense.

  

  David Cage
  • Action
  • Stories
  • Sense

• And add to these retired Leisure,That in trim gardens takes his pleasure.

  

  John Milton