John Ruskin Quotes

It is impossible to tell you the perfect sweetness of the lips and closed eyes, nor the solemnity of the seal of death which is set upon the whole figure. It is, in every way, perfect--truth itself, but truth selected with inconceivable refinement of feeling.

John Ruskin

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• I think that all things, in their way, reflect heavenly truth, the imagination not least.

  

  C. S. Lewis
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• The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • People
  • Up
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• The genuine truth, and I do think about this a lot, is that I'm one of the least competitive people you'll ever meet. Except with myself.

  

  Daniel Craig
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• When I saw corruption, I was forced to find truth on my own. I couldn't swallow the hypocrisy.

  

  Barry White
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• A wonderful but kind of a terrible truth about acting is that you actually get to a point where you become content with an impossible task: it is really impossible to properly prepare. You kind of have to start over every time.

  

  Val Kilmer
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• The idea that there is a rational truth out there that is not embodied in a person's politics is something I can't understand or subscribe to.

  

  Natalie Jeremijenko
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• Everyone, left to his own devices, forms an idea about what goes on in language which is very far from the truth.

  

  Ferdinand de Saussure
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• I am a free spirit. I tell the truth, and I like to mix it up.

  

  Ed Rendell
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• Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.

  

  Samuel Johnson
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• War is wrong. Conscription for war is inconsistent with freedom of conscience, which is not merely the right to believe but to act on the degree of truth that one receives, to follow a vocation which is God-inspired and God-directed.

  

  Bayard Rustin
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• Our most urgent problem just now is how to preserve in a positive and critical form the soul of truth in the two great traditions, classical and Christian, that are crumbling as mere dogma.

  

  Irving Babbitt
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• When truth and reason cannot be heard, then must presumption rule.

  

  Barbara W. Tuchman
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• If we have truth, it cannot be harmed by investigation. If we have not truth, it ought to be harmed.'

  

  J. Reuben Clark
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• 'No matter how fast a lie runs, the truth will someday overtake it.'

  

  T. B. Joshua
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• No words suffice the secret soul to show, For truth denies all eloquence to woe.

  

  Lord Byron
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• The deepest thinking is humble. It is only concerned that the flame of truth which it keeps alive should burn with the strongest and purest heat; it does not trouble about the distance to which its brightness penetrates.

  

  Albert Schweitzer
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• Truth be told, I didn't want to be on T.V. I was going to be a writer or producer or a director, and at the end of my sophomore year, my department chairman put me up for a job doing weekend weather in Syracuse, New York.

  

  Al Roker
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• The first accepted piece of writing is the most exciting. No other publishing experience matches it. Perhaps jaundice sets in, or expectations are raised, or one starts to think that one is better than is the truth.

  

  David Bergen
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• There is obviously a power and a truth in action that doesn't lie, which words easily can do.

  

  Twyla Tharp
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• Punk is always something that's going to be with us and to try and explain that would be stupid at this point.

  

  Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
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• I'm so Republican, my first name starts with 'R.' I'm so right-wing - well, Randy Weber. You do the math.

  

  Randy Weber
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• I believe good plans are the best way to maximize fun, avoid disaster, and possibly, save the world. I spend a lot of my time making them.

  

  Katherine Hannigan
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• It is impossible to tell you the perfect sweetness of the lips and closed eyes, nor the solemnity of the seal of death which is set upon the whole figure. It is, in every way, perfect--truth itself, but truth selected with inconceivable refinement of feeling.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Truth
  • Lips
  • Refinement