John Ruskin Quotes
The principle of all successful effort is to try to do not what is absolutely the best, but what is easily within our power, and suited for our temperament and condition.John Ruskin
Quotes to Explore
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One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community.
Ed Smith -
I don't know who Little Richard is.
Bar Refaeli -
I was thrilled one year when I was younger when not only did my brothers get hockey sticks for Christmas - but I did too!
Nancy Kerrigan -
I remember once I read a book on mental illness and there was a nurse that had gotten sick. Do you know what she died from? From worrying about the mental patients not being able to get their food. She became a mental patient.
Ornette Coleman -
I was a little adult for my age as a teenager, and I didn't feel like I socially fit in with my peers.
Rachel Miner -
I love Jen Meyer - she's a dear friend, and Tabitha Simmons as well.
Karen Elson
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Even if your novel occurs in an unfamiliar setting in which all the customs and surroundings will seem strange to your reader, it's still better to start with action. The reason for this is simple. If the reader wanted an explanation of milieu, he would read nonfiction. He doesn't want information. He wants a story.
Nancy Kress -
I like to smile. I smile even when I'm nervous since it calms me down and shows my friendliness.
Yani Tseng -
Everything that I design I would wear myself.
Victoria Beckham Spice Girls -
I like to do my own make-up.
Kate Winslet -
I try and groom myself, be it through fitness or dance.
Yami Gautam -
We need to start looking at having a way of managing the whole ecosystem, because you can't pick away at it piece by piece, you have to truly start being coordinated and managing our resources as a system. We haven't gotten to that point yet.
Ted Danson
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I live for the text. It's my job.
Ian Mckellen -
If people think I look good, it's the make-up.
Francesca Annis -
The emphasis should be on why we do a job.
W. Edwards Deming -
I felt privileged to be a facet of such a jewel in the crown of American cinema.
Tatum O'Neal -
Kabul is a walled city, which sounds romantic except the walls are pre-cast reinforced concrete blast barriers, 10 feet tall and 15 feet long and moved into place with cranes. The walls are topped with sandbags, and the sandbags are topped with guard posts from which gun barrels protrude.
P. J. O'Rourke -
I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.
Oscar Wilde
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I'm a risk-taker. I like to test myself.
Joanne Woodward -
We should preserve every scrap of biodiversity as priceless while we learn to use it and come to understand what it means to humanity.
E. O. Wilson -
When you meet someone you love, whether or not they love you back, something occurs in you that makes you want to improve yourself.
Patrick deWitt -
Everything you can touch and depend on in our society goes back to science.
Bill Nye -
We see death in the loss of sweet daughters and wives and fathers and old friends
Conn Iggulden -
The principle of all successful effort is to try to do not what is absolutely the best, but what is easily within our power, and suited for our temperament and condition.
John Ruskin