John Ruskin Quotes
Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime.John Ruskin
Quotes to Explore
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I ended up going to college for visual arts but moved up to New York after I graduated from college in 2006 and started going gung ho to the Upright Citizens Brigade, and I realized that that was what I was really interested in and what I really wanted to do.
Abbi Jacobson -
I became interested in ocean issues in the 1980s when I couldn't take my daughters swimming because of pollution at our local beach. Twenty-five years later, I'm a board member of Oceana, the world's largest international organization dedicated to ocean conservation.
Ted Danson -
There's nothing scarier than unlimited choices.
Oscar Isaac -
In real terms, there is a greater disparity of earnings between the very rich and the very poor.
Ferdinand Mount -
Booksellers are the bartenders of the reading world. People share thoughts and interests they keep private from others in their lives.
Victor LaValle -
The capability of negotiating... is something that means you not only have to understand fully what you believe and what your national interests are but in order to be a really good negotiator, you have to try to figure out what the other person on the other side of the table has in mind.
Madeleine Albright
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At its heart, engineering is about using science to find creative, practical solutions. It is a noble profession.
Queen Elizabeth II -
For me, one of the important things about keeping vocally healthy is warming up and making sure I'm aware where my voice is at, drinking lots of water and getting plenty of sleep, and just taking care of myself with exercise and eating healthy.
Adam Lambert -
Creativity can only be anarchic, capitalist, Darwinian.
Umberto Eco -
I know that a Christmas tree farm in Pennsylvania is about the most random place for a country singer to come from, but I had an awesome childhood.
Taylor Swift -
I have some property. We have a few acres, so I like working on it, whether it's cutting stuff down, cleaning stuff up, building steps, or working with concrete, you know, brickwork.
Ed Harris -
Being a full human being is difficult, frightening, and problematical.
Abraham Maslow
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You should have certainty in what you do. Anyone who has done anything in this world was hated. If you're not hated, you've done nothing.
Yehuda Berg -
Few states, they have the international borders, state borders; in India, there is so much diversity in system. Unity in diversity is our system, so therefore, you cannot take for granted, whatever you do.
Mamata Banerjee -
I grew up in a house full of women. I have two older sisters and my mum who is a very strong woman.
Patrick Dempsey -
It's important to remember that, first and foremost, if not only, this is entertainment. 'The West Wing' isn't meant to be good for you.
Aaron Sorkin -
I enjoy my life. I think I have a very good life. And I think I'm very satisfied with the direction of my career and just my lifestyle and everything like that. So I wouldn't change a single thing.
Macaulay Culkin -
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
Mahatma Gandhi
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It is not raining rain to me, It's raining daffodils;In every dimpled drop I see Wild flowers on distant hills.
Rain -
'The Spy Who Came in from the Cold' was the work of a wayward imagination brought to the end of its tether by political disgust and personal confusion.
John le Carre -
We have since defined Gaia as a complex entity involving the Earth's biosphere, atmosphere, oceans, and soil; the totality constituting a feedback or cybernetic system which seeks an optimal physical and chemical environment for life on this planet.
James Lovelock -
So I am getting a little bored with defining one type of film as American and the other European or from somewhere else because the division is no longer true.
Wim Wenders -
Success in life, in anything, depends upon the number of persons that one can make himself agreeable to.
Thomas Carlyle -
Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime.
John Ruskin