John Ruskin Quotes
When we build, let us think that we build forever. Let it not be for present delight nor for our use alone. Let it be such work as our descendants will look upon with praise and thanksgiving in their hearts.John Ruskin
Quotes to Explore
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When my first child was born in 1962, I wrote a letter to my grandfather telling him how happy I was but how concerned; concerned because there were so many visions which were not very good.
Harri Holkeri -
It's astounding the degree to which these communities are intermarried. Iraq is a crazy quilt of ethnicities and religious sects.
H. R. McMaster -
Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone.
A. R. Ammons -
On 'Paranormal Activity,' it worked to my advantage not to have much of a crew, but on a bigger movie, where you have to work with a larger group of people who basically become your second family for a few months, it can be a great experience. Even though all of my projects are small scale compared to most Hollywood productions.
Oren Peli -
I'm not very bright about money. I'm not domestic either. If I don't learn how to cook, maybe I won't have to.
Natalie Wood -
If the United States is treating Afghanistan as a sovereign country it has to prove it.
Hamid Karzai
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You can tell all our songs come from us and from our artists, the people we write with and travel with.
Zac Brown Band -
Footage of people camped out at Best Buy or elsewhere is not remotely a celebration. Rather, it's a reminder of just how economically distressed a large percentage of our populace is.
Barry Ritholtz -
We discover and invent new ways of finding out the same old things.
Hal Hartley -
I believe the new machine of the Wrights to be the most promising attempt at flight that has yet been made.
Octave Chanute -
Chopsticks or no chopsticks, it was the Chinese who first used knives and forks.
L. M. Boyd -
I have always tried to do everything that's been in my power to defend and sustain our institutions. I have demonstrated in my public life that I loyally serve my country and that I love freedom. It has been my sole purpose to propose what I think best for your highest interests, which are to strengthen peace in the future and strengthen our institutions.
Benito Juarez
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It's very hard for someone who makes $1,000 a year or some who makes less than $1 a day to care about the environment.
Ian Bremmer -
Let the dream go. Are there not other dreams In vastness of clouds hid from thy sight That yet shall gild with beautiful gold gleams, And shoot the shadows through and through with light? What matters one lost vision of the night? Let the dream go!
Ella Wheeler Wilcox -
Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. Sometimes you run over a drunk who's lain down and fallen asleep on the warm pavement. I mean, do you keep going, or what?
E. L. Doctorow -
Refinement is the lifting of one's self upwards from the merely sensual; the effort of the soul to etherealize the common wants and uses of life.
Henry Ward Beecher -
Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.
Heraclitus -
Failure to meet market expectations here will reinforce the market perception that the peak in US rates is clear, putting the dollar under renewed pressure.
Ian Stannard
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My motto is never to hold on to anything. I accept and then let go: not just the negatives, but the praise, too. Or it'll get to my head.
Nargis Fakhri -
People really seem to forget there's people in Bahrain or Saudi Arabia who are there for a year or whatever, ... In their hearts, they're there to protect the people of America and what we stand for.
Darius Rucker Hootie & the Blowfish -
Artists and creative workers - people who have accomplished work worthwhile have had a very high sense of the way to do things. They haven't been contented with mediocrity. They haven't confined themselves to the beaten tracks; they have never been satisfied to do things just as others do them, but always a little better. Few are those who see with their own eyesand feel with their own hearts.
Albert Einstein -
When we build, let us think that we build forever. Let it not be for present delight nor for our use alone. Let it be such work as our descendants will look upon with praise and thanksgiving in their hearts.
John Ruskin