John Ruskin Quotes
What do we, as a nation, care about books? How much do you think we spend altogether on our libraries, public or private, as compared with what we spend on our horses?
John Ruskin
Quotes to Explore
We think that forgiveness is weakness, but it's absolutely not; it takes a very strong person to forgive.
T. D. Jakes
I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.
C. S. Lewis
When I was growing up, I was obsessed with 'Cagney and Lacey.'
Tamsin Greig
Whereas fiction is a continual discovery of what one wants to say, what one feels, what one means, and is, in that sense, a performance art, biography requires different skills - research and organization.
Edmund White
I decided that playing piano was a little bit too common, you know what I mean?
Barbara Lynn
That fellow seems to me to possess but one idea, and that is a wrong one.
Samuel Johnson
All those instances to be found in history, whether real or fabulous, of a doubtful public spirit, at which morality is perplexed, reason is staggered, and from which affrighted Nature recoils, are their chosen and almost sole examples for the instruction of their youth.
Edmund Burke
When Life does not find a singer to sing her heart she produces a philosopher to speak her mind.
Kahlil Gibran
Existence is as deep a verity: Without the dual, where is unity? And the 'I am'' cannot forbear to be;But from its primal nature forced to frame Mysteries, destinies of various name, Is forced to give that it has taught to claim.
Margaret Fuller
If in a community of the blind one man suddenly received the gift of sight, he would have much to tell which would not be at all scientific.
Arthur Eddington
Taken on the whole, I would believe that Gandhi's views were the most enlightened of all the political men in our time. We should strive to do things in his spirit... not to use violence in fighting for our cause, but by non-participation in what we believe is evil.
Albert Einstein
Every day is a new opportunity. You can build on yesterday's success or put its failures behind and start over again. That's the way life is, with a new game every day, and that's the way baseball is.
Bob Feller
Men like to provide for women and their families. It's in their DNA. I'm obviously no scientist, but I bet if you could hear a Y-chromosome talk, it would say, 'I want to provide and hunt.' When the woman is the primary breadwinner, it's going against nature. I'm not saying that it's bad or wrong, I'm just saying that it can feel off.
Patti Stanger
I believe that laughter is our greatest export.
Walt Disney
Humor is a great way to relieve stress.
Christina Maslach
It's so amazing. I mean talk about sexuality changing.
Judy Blume
I think that in any language when you have a real relationship, and there is love and respect between people, infidelity is always something difficult to accept - whether you are Chinese, British, French. I think that is a universal concept... or problem.
Jean-Michel Jarre
What do we, as a nation, care about books? How much do you think we spend altogether on our libraries, public or private, as compared with what we spend on our horses?
John Ruskin
