John Ruskin Quotes

Geology does better in reclothing dry bones and revealing lost creations, than in tracing veins of lead and beds of iron; astronomy better in opening to us the houses of heaven than in teaching navigation; surgery better in investigating organiation than in setting limbs; only it is ordained that, for our encouragement, every step we make in science adds something to its practical applicabilities.

John Ruskin

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• I never thought I wouldn't succeed. Not because I thought I was good-looking - I just thought I would make it.

  

  Babette March
  • Good
  • Thought
  • Just

• For a very long time now I've been saying to young women, 'You can have it all, but not all at the same time.' How important it is to take very good care of yourself, of your mental and physical and spiritual wellbeing; it's hard to do. It's easier to be a workaholic than to have a truly balanced life.

  

  Quentin Bryce
  • Life
  • Time
  • Good

• 'Girl, Interrupted' is one of my favorite movies.

  

  Halston Sage
  • Girl
  • Movies
  • Favorite

• A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Man
  • Become
  • Atheist

• You parents of the wilful and the wayward! Don't give them up. Don't cast them off. They are not utterly lost. The Shepherd will find his sheep. They were His before they were yours - long before He entrusted them to your care; and you cannot begin to love them as He loves them.

  

  Orson F. Whitney
  • Parents
  • Will
  • Utterly

• Hearing my songs in public freaks me out a bit. There was one restaurant I really liked in L.A., but I had to stop going there when they started playing my music. It felt kinda awkward.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Music
  • Songs
  • Playing

• Life is such a tragicomedy.

  

  Oleg Cassini
  • Life

• Our target is not negotiations, it is the end of the apartheid system. There can be no compromise about that.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • End
  • System
  • Compromise

• There are people who are surprised at my politics and being a conservative and the rest of it. But the truth of the matter is, to my knowledge, I have never been overlooked or turned down for anything that I wanted to do that was being offered to me.

  

  Wayne Newton
  • People
  • Truth
  • Knowledge

• I love horror, sci-fi and action, or I wouldn't make these kinds of movies, but those designations are Trojan horses to make these personal comedies.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Love
  • Action
  • Movies

• If not shown appreciation, it gets to you.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • You
  • Appreciation
  • Shown

• So, for instance, if you came to me, I'd ask, 'Do you want to write? Do you want to improvise? Why do you want to play this instrument? What do you want to do?'

  

  Ornette Coleman
  • Want
  • Play
  • Instrument

• Sometimes my colleagues joke and call me Hannah.

  

  Hanoi Hannah
  • Joke
  • Call
  • Colleagues

• When you are down and out something always turns up - and it is usually the noses of your friends.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Up
  • Friends
  • Always

• It's called 'Night Moves,' and it's my favorite 'Doc Ford' of all times. It's way too complicated, but it worked.

  

  Randy Wayne White
  • Night
  • Way
  • Favorite

• My grandchildren will be making money from the stories I write and sell as eBooks because they will continue to be making money.

  

  J. A. Konrath
  • Money
  • Will
  • Grandchildren

• Competition is such a virtue, and everybody's so busy competing, they have no time for compassion.

  

  Major Owens
  • Time
  • Competition
  • Compassion

• I believe Saudi Arabia is the only Muslim country in which churches are prohibited.

  

  Ibrahim Hooper
  • Believe
  • Country
  • I Believe

• Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Fire
  • Lead
  • Lit

• Only in the struggle between two philosophies can the weapon of brutal force, persistently and ruthlessly applied, lead to a decision for the side it supports.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Lead
  • Weapon
  • Philosophies

• We cannot lead a choiceless life. Every day, every moment, every second, there is a choice. If it were not so, we would not be individuals.

  

  Ernest Holmes
  • Lead
  • Individuals
  • Choiceless

• Further, for once, I like the idea that people who think I'm a constant voice for the furthering of the imagination have to see that interest in a more materialistic fashion.

  

  Peter Sotos
  • Imagination
  • Idea
  • Voice

• Geology does better in reclothing dry bones and revealing lost creations, than in tracing veins of lead and beds of iron; astronomy better in opening to us the houses of heaven than in teaching navigation; surgery better in investigating organiation than in setting limbs; only it is ordained that, for our encouragement, every step we make in science adds something to its practical applicabilities.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Lead
  • Encouragement
  • Surgery