John Milton Quotes

Now conscience wakes despair That slumber'd,-wakes the bitter memory Of what he was, what is, and what must be Worse.

John Milton

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• Ancient Egyptians went to great lengths to avoid change; they couldn't entirely do so, of course, but did preserve a cultural continuity for almost four thousand years.

  

  Pamela Sargent
  • Great
  • Change
  • Years

• There were wonderful moments when I was singing for the first time in the Olympia Theatre and I was pregnant with my son, which was very, very strange for a singer.

  

  Nana Mouskouri
  • Time
  • Moments
  • Singing

• But I have to say I'm incredibly proud of the Panther Racing National Guard Team, and in my IndyCar career there's not many races where I've honestly left the track feeling that we've executed everything perfectly. And I have to say, I thought they did an absolute phenomenal job. The pit stops were just first class.

  

  Dan Wheldon
  • Job
  • Career
  • Feeling

• The biggest public mistake I ever made was that I chose to do 'Criminal Minds' in the first place.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Mistake
  • Place
  • First

• I do all these various activities like painting and writing, comedy and films probably because not that I'm good at everything but because I'm not good at any of these things.

  

  Takeshi Kitano
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Comedy

• I don't take breaks, man. In the past, I used to spend my free time getting in trouble, and now I spend it working on my music. If I'm not playing drums with my cover band, Chevy Metal, I'm working on songs for myself.

  

  Taylor Hawkins Foo Fighters
  • Time
  • Music
  • Free

• There is no grievance that is a fit object of redress by mob law.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Law
  • Fit
  • Object

• I think a film set is a quite controlled environment and you feel like you can trust them and it is going to be a safe place to work, but I really don't think about it.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Work
  • Trust
  • Environment

• We have a human rights interest. Then there is the immigration problem. The human-rights violations have caused people to take to boats and flood not only the United States, but other countries in the region, creating great instability.

  

  Warren Christopher
  • People
  • Great
  • Problem

• Our globalized, automated economy is full of magic - Everyday Low Prices and next-day delivery on that single Gatorade you one-clicked. But it is also full of loss - of jobs, of the dignity of steady work, of chances to rise.

  

  Anand Giridharadas
  • Work
  • Single
  • Magic

• If you're going to play a woman, you might as well play a woman that you liked, and someone sexy.

  

  John Travolta
  • Play
  • Sexy
  • Might

• I'm the most successful bad player ever.

  

  Andy Roddick
  • Bad
  • Player
  • Successful

• What I know for sure is that behind every catastrophe, there are great lessons to be learned. Among the many that we as a country need to get is that as long as we play the "us and them" game, we don't evolve as people, as a nation, as a planet.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • People
  • Great
  • Long

• There's that weird and cool line that music can cross where it still gives you the goosebumps and you think it's cool but on the other hand it's sort of like also letting you off the hook a little bit with the ironic aspects of the thing. I think that's the inexplicable, the smell of a movie. That's the taste of the movie.

  

  Zack Snyder
  • Music
  • Movie
  • Hand

• Great people do things before they're ready. They do things before they know they can do it. Doing what you're afraid of, getting out of your comfort zone, taking risks like that - that is what life is. You might be really good. You might find out something about yourself that's really special and if you're not good, who cares? You tried something. Now you know something about yourself.

  

  Amy Poehler
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• It was kind of unique and great to have two films coming out within a week. It certainly was a different experience for me.

  

  Elijah Wood
  • Great
  • Different
  • Experience

• For some reason, we've just lost it. I know we still have it. Everyone has got to find it.

  

  Ashley Smith
  • Lost
  • Reason

• One half of the pleasure experienced at a theatre arises from the spectator's sympathy with the rest of the audience, and, especially from his belief in their sympathy with him.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Theatre
  • Pleasure
  • Experienced

• People say human nature is a very vague expression, people tend to say human nature is corruptible anyway and it comes from a theological point of view, goes back to the Garden of Eden, that there is always this corrupt gene waiting to be activated that we inherited from the very beginning. I don't believe in that theological excuse.

  

  Wole Soyinka
  • People
  • Waiting
  • Garden

• I know of no pursuit in which more real and important services can be rendered to any country than by improving its agriculture, its breed of useful animals, and other branches of a husbandman's cares.

  

  George Washington
  • Important
  • Country
  • Real

• It's better to oversleep and miss the boat than get up early and sink.

  

  Elizabeth Jane Howard
  • Boat
  • Miss
  • Sink

• I'm talking about technical goofs. I'm pretty much on top of it. The kind of picture you're referring to would have to be more about the effects of technical things, technical phenomena, and I'm just not interested in that kind of work at all.

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • Work
  • Pretty
  • Kind

• Now conscience wakes despair That slumber'd,-wakes the bitter memory Of what he was, what is, and what must be Worse.

  

  John Milton
  • Conscience
  • Despair
  • Wakes