John Milton Quotes

Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay To mould me man? Did I solicit thee From darkness to promote me?

John Milton

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• I am more mature now and know how to deal with certain situations in football. It's not all about highs; there are also lows, but I can deal with it. Football is a hard business.

  

  Bastian Schweinsteiger
  • Business
  • Football
  • Hard

• Photography is an accident.

  

  Patrick Demarchelier
  • Photography
  • Accident

• Violence is a big problem. Too many children are dying. Too many children. We must do something.

  

  Gabrielle Giffords
  • Children
  • Problem
  • Violence

• Robert de Niro has always been fascinating to me. And if John Cazale were still alive, that would be a man I'd love to work with. I'm a big fan of Paul Thomas Anderson's films - I would be honored to work with him. I think he's a brilliant director, and he gets such compelling stories out of his actors and out of his crew.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Work
  • Love
  • Man

• As society diversifies, the number of people who read literature is decreasing. It will be difficult for readers to digest my ideas through literature.

  

  Cao Yu
  • People
  • Society
  • Ideas

• If there was no ladies, I wouldn't wanna be on the planet. Ladies, friends, and music - without those three, I wouldn't wanna be here.

  

  B. B. King
  • Music
  • Friends
  • Three

• I've always been fascinated by young women who come to New York. The characters in 'Lipstick Jungle' were once young women who came to New York and we see their early experiences through flashbacks.

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • Women
  • New York
  • Lipstick

• That I am today the face of Louis Vuitton almost seems like a twist of fate. You dream back to front, wanting the rewards before putting the work in. And then you work, get on with life, and just sometimes these childhood dreams have a way of catching up with you. This is a true privilege for which I am eternally grateful.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Life
  • Up
  • Work

• I started writing when I was 9 years old. I was like this weird kid who would just stay in my room, typing little funny magazines and drawing comic strips.

  

  R. L. Stine
  • Writing
  • Funny
  • Weird

• Most people who go to Rajasthan go to Udaipur, Jodhpur or Jaipur.

  

  Gautam Singhania
  • People
  • Most
  • Go

• The audience, the place youre in, has everything to do with how your performance goes.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Audience
  • Performances

• My uncle is from Trinidad, so, ever since I was 7, I grew up listening to Soca, the genre that's from there. It's my favorite sound.

  

  Meghan Trainor
  • Up
  • Listening
  • Uncle

• Science and religion are both the same thing. They're there; they're life. If it's not science, it's not a fact.

  

  Chuck Berry
  • Life
  • Science
  • Religion

• Everybody's talking about the President, we all chipped in for a bag of cement.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • Politics
  • President
  • Talking

• I said roughly that I was starting all over again. I don't think the past buys you anything.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Past
  • Starting
  • Again

• Mine the long night The secret place Where lovers meet In long embrace In purple dark In silvered kiss Forget the world And grasp your bliss

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • World
  • Long
  • Night

• Weave me a rope from this dark despair, from this dull-eyed pain... Weave me a rope from this endless night, from this distant shore... Weave me a rope that will pull me through these impossible times.

  

  Tim Finn Crowded House
  • Night
  • Pain
  • Dark

• Good taste is the worst vice ever invented.

  

  Edith Sitwell
  • Good
  • Worst
  • Good Taste

• Like any well designed software product, Windows is designed, developed and tested as an integrated whole.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Windows
  • Software product

• A thinking man is the worst enemy the Prince of Darkness can have; every time such an one announces himself, I doubt not there runs a shudder through the nether empire; and new emissaries are trained with new tactics, to, if possible, entrap and hoodwink and handcuff him.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Enemy
  • Darkness
  • Prince

• Thus day was turned into night and light into darkness. Some thought that the Giants were rising again in revolt (for at this time also many of their forms could be discerned in the smoke and, moreover, a sound as of trumpets was heard), while others believed that the whole universe was being resolved into chaos or fire.

  

  Cassius Dio
  • Night
  • Light
  • Day

• Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay To mould me man? Did I solicit thee From darkness to promote me?

  

  John Milton
  • Darkness
  • Promote
  • Solicit