John Ruskin Quotes

Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.

John Ruskin

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• The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.

  

  Pablo Neruda
  • Great
  • Book
  • Truth

• Where liberals see as an ever-more-splendid diversity of colors, creeds, ethnicities, ideologies, beliefs and lifestyles, the Right sees the disintegration of a country, a nation, a people, and its replacement with a Tower of Babel. Visions in conflict that democracy cannot reconcile.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • People
  • Country
  • Democracy

• The great photographers of life - like Diane Arbus and Walker Evans and Robert Frank - all must have had some special quality: a personality of nurturing and non-judgment that frees the subjects to reveal their most intimate reality. It really is what makes a great photographer, every bit as much as understanding composition and lighting.

  

  Caleb Deschanel
  • Life
  • Great
  • Reality

• I have always looked at my competencies before accepting any responsibility.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • Responsibility
  • Always

• It is my absolute belief that Indians have unlimited talent. I have no doubt about our capabilities.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Doubt
  • Talent
  • Belief

• Camp Southern Ground is a lot more than a camp. It's more of a campus.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • More
  • Ground
  • Southern

• You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Never
  • Courage
  • Sins

• I am Parisian. I don't love the French.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Love
  • French
  • Parisian

• Once a disease has entered the body, all parts which are healthy must fight it: not one alone, but all. Because a disease might mean their common death. Nature knows this; and Nature attacks the disease with whatever help she can muster.

  

  Paracelsus
  • She
  • Help
  • Nature

• I feel growing up in Mumbai is an advantage, as we grow up speaking so many languages that when we go abroad, it becomes easier to learn new languages.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Up
  • Growing
  • New

• I think we have become obsessed with beauty and personally I'm really saddened by the way women mutilate their faces today in search of that.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Women
  • Today
  • Beauty

• I grew up thinking that renting is perfectly normal. And then, strangely enough, I never did buy a house. I live in New York City, and I'm still renting. My own personal narrative shows that it is possible to live a respectable life without ever having owned a home.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Life
  • Up
  • Thinking

• I want to position my books as premium-priced versions on the reasonably-priced scale, if that makes sense, to find a sweet spot between the high-end of what my brand can support and the low end that results in impulse purchases and maximum sales volume.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • High
  • Support
  • End

• Money is power and power gives you choice.

  

  Sam Rockwell
  • Money
  • Power
  • Choice

• You can expect nothing in being a musician, and you have to be just very thankful every time it goes positively for you.

  

  Halsey
  • Time
  • You
  • Thankful

• In a well-functioning democracy, citizens have the option of voting their political masters out of office. Not so in most companies.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Political
  • Democracy
  • Option

• Anyone can like their job... To love your job is not enough, you must give your passion to your job.

  

  Zahi Hawass
  • Job
  • Passion
  • Like

• If no one knows your book is out there, no one will think about buying it. It's as simple as that.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Book
  • Think
  • Simple

• I know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at.

  

  Frank Moore Colby
  • Feeling
  • Angry

• You want to know if we're animals? When I'm on stage with the volume rippling my body like a glass of water and thousands of people are generating heat in my direction, there's no time for thought. My basement facilities take over completely. Sure it's animal. People might like to talk about art, but look where art is, in the gutter.

  

  David Lee Roth Van Halen
  • Body
  • Stage
  • Volume

• I happen to think it's the politics that makes you electable, but the reason for that is politicians sometimes talk about electability as if it's just a matter of conning the public. Actually, it's a matter of persuading the public, and in my experience, usually, the public gets it right.

  

  Tony Blair
  • Reason
  • Sometimes
  • Matter

• When I see a woman who looks her age, she's radiating something, and it's life.

  

  Kim Cattrall
  • Life
  • She
  • Age

• What's good about writing is that when you write novels or fiction, people can see that the problems in one region are similar to problems in another region.

  

  Ngugi wa Thiong'o
  • Writing
  • Problems
  • Region

• Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.

  

  John Ruskin