John Ruskin Quotes

No peace was ever won from fate by subterfuge or argument; no peace is ever in store for any of us, but that which we shall win by victory over shame or sin--victory over the sin that oppresses, as well as over that which corrupts.

John Ruskin

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• Through every victory and every setback, I've insisted that change is never easy and never quick; that we wouldn't meet all of our challenges in one term, or one presidency, or even in one lifetime.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Change
  • Challenges
  • Victory

• There is no finer sensations in life that which comes with victory over one's self. Go forward to a goal of inward achievement, brushing aside all your old internal enemies as you advance.

  

  Vash Young
  • Life
  • Victory
  • Achievement

• The strangest thing about the low quality of Internet argument is that effective argument isn't really so difficult. Sure, not everyone can be Clarence Darrow, but anyone who wants to be at least competent at argument can do it.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • Quality
  • Argument
  • Effective

• To have prevented one single sin is reward enough for the labors and efforts of a whole lifetime.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • Single
  • Sin
  • Reward

• I'm not going to get in to an argument with anyone about the relative merits of Judaism and Christianity, and what it means for a Jewish kid to be a Christian - I'm just not interested in that argument.

  

  T Bone Burnett
  • Christian
  • Just
  • Argument

• There is a peculiar gratification in receiving congratulations from one's squadron for a victory in the air. It is worth more to a pilot than the applause of the whole outside world.

  

  Eddie Rickenbacker
  • World
  • Air
  • Victory

• Shell Oil's decision to pull the plug on drilling for oil in the Chukchi Sea is a major victory for the Arctic.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Decision
  • Sea
  • Victory

• There is no question that what we are seeing - the horrible advance of ISIS - goes back, if you will, to the original sin of the invasion of Iraq.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Question
  • Sin
  • Seeing

• Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Taken
  • Just
  • Argument

• Every woman must live by some sense of victory over disappointments, and Olympias was not the sort of woman to find compensation in her own powers of self-control and endurance.

  

  Laura Riding
  • Live
  • Control
  • Victory

• Happiness is not pleasure - it is victory.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Victory

• Truly England and the church of God hath had a great favour from the Lord, in this great victory given us.

  

  Oliver Cromwell
  • Great
  • God
  • Church

• Most of my issues that mankind sets out to settle, it never does settle… The dispute fades into the past unsolved, though perhaps it may be renewed as history and fought over again. It disappears because it is replaced by some compromise that, although not wholly acceptable to either side, offers a tolerable substitute for victory…

  

  Learned Hand
  • May
  • History
  • Past

• It was announced as a French victory by the French Minister of War. I did not see any sign of victory but only the retreat of the French forces engaged in the battle.

  

  Philip Gibbs
  • War
  • Victory

• The thrill, believe me, is as much in the battle as in the victory.

  

  David Sarnoff
  • Believe
  • Victory

• Sometimes the results of a first free election will find the moderates so poorly organized that extreme groups can eke out a victory, as Hamas did when it gained a 44-to-41 percent margin in the Palestinian election of 2006.

  

  Elliott Abrams
  • Free
  • Victory

• Thus they have an idol that they petition for victory in war; another for success in their labors; and so for everything in which they seek or desire prosperity, they have their idols, which they honor and serve.

  

  Hernan Cortes
  • War
  • Success
  • Desire

• You may succeed in your policy and ensure your own damnation, by your victory.

  

  James Larkin
  • May
  • Victory

• It makes a big difference to recycle. It makes a big difference to use recycled products. It makes a big difference to reuse things, to not use the paper cup - and each time you do, that's a victory.

  

  Emily Deschanel
  • Time
  • Victory

• You should not quarrel with your neighbour, for he will remain where he is, but your high handedness will become the talk of the people.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • People
  • High
  • You

• I never wanted to make movies just for me. I want to make movies that people watch.

  

  Jeff Nichols
  • People

• Journalism, spooked by rumors of its own obsolescence, has stopped believing in itself. Groans of doom alternate with panicked happy talk.

  

  Maureen Dowd
  • Happy
  • Rumors

• You don't want your marriage to be sustainable. You want to be evolving, nurturing, learning.

  

  Mitchell Joachim
  • Learning
  • Evolving
  • Nurturing

• No peace was ever won from fate by subterfuge or argument; no peace is ever in store for any of us, but that which we shall win by victory over shame or sin--victory over the sin that oppresses, as well as over that which corrupts.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Victory
  • Sin
  • Argument