John Ruskin Quotes
That admiration of the 'neat but not gaudy,' which is commonly reported to have influenced the devil when he painted his tail pea green.
Quotes to Explore
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Oh yes, I love to do shoes. I'm not a fetishist but I love to do shoes.
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I would probably say that being a commissioner in sports is one of the hardest jobs in the world.
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The last thing the NFL wants to do is make problems for the colleges.
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It's really cool when, in every genre of music, you can listen to a song and know what era it was from.
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I say to my team all the time that this is how I grew up: Always thinking that, at any minute, I could be unemployed. You have to scramble. You have to work hard and get ahead of things.
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Desiring is a part of dreaming.
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I'm a bad guy. But if I was a good guy, nobody would want to pay to see me fight.
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The United States is no more a Christian nation because most of its citizens are Christians than it is a 'white' nation because most of its citizens are white. We are Americans because we practice democracy and believe in republican government, not because we practice revealed religion and believe in Bible-based government.
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Liberty is to be free from restraint and violence from others.
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What will tell in the end will be character and not a knowledge of letters.
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People in a democracy should be satisfied with drawing the Government's attention to a mistake, if any.
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Her blood is settled, and her joints are stiff; Life and these lips have long been separated: Death lies on her like an untimely frost Upon the sweetest flower of all the field.
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The whole aesthetics of computers very much feeds into my OCD. They fill my head with obsessionalities and my actions become very repetitive. It seems quite inimical to the dreamy state out of which fiction comes which seems so much less causally repetitive than the way one works on computers.
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The more a believer wishes to live the absolute call of God, the more essential it is to do so in the heart of human distress.
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Life has shown me all too often that there is no rhyme or reason to the cruelty inflicted upon humanity.
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The majesty of the Scriptures strikes me with admiration, as the purity of the gospel has its influence on my heart.
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My feeling about seeing the world is that its going to change you necessarily, just the very fact of being out there and meeting people from different cultures and different ways of life.
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When I was born again, I received the very life of the risen Lord from Jesus Himself.
