John Ruskin Quotes

If you want knowledge, you must toil for it; if food, you must toil for it; and if pleasure, you must toil for it: toil is the law.

John Ruskin

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• I don't think the Middle East could afford another war.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • War
  • Think
  • Middle East

• I taught myself how to play the guitar. I never studied music.

  

  Dan Hawkins
  • Music
  • Myself
  • Guitar

• From when I was 7 until I was 22, I played football. That was always my struggle as a kid. I always wanted to be an artist, but my parents were divorced, and my dad really wanted me to play sports, and that's how I got to see him. He would come pick me up or take me to practice, and he was always at my games.

  

  Gavin O'Connor
  • Up
  • Parents
  • Dad

• What impresses men is not mind, but the result of mind.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Men
  • Mind
  • Result

• For me, visuals are as important as the music. I just love escapism and giving people something to escape to. To me, that's what art is.

  

  Iggy Azalea
  • People
  • Music
  • Important

• A manager's job is simple. For one hundred sixty-two games you try not to screw up all that smart stuff your organization did last December.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Up
  • Job
  • Simple

• It doesn't get any more underground, conscious or indie than Macklemore, Ryan Lewis, but because they got a couple of really big pop hits, actually some of the biggest pop hits that hip-hop has ever seen, people are missing that part of their story. People are not counting that blessing.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • People
  • Couple
  • Missing

• The flower which is single need not envy the thorns that are numerous.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Single
  • Flower
  • Envy

• If you want my answer about Donald Trump, you can Google it. It's everywhere. They've got this new thing called Google.

  

  Larry Hogan
  • Want
  • You
  • Trump

• As I've said before, time is short, and life is precious.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • Life
  • Time
  • Short

• I come from a council estate in Tower Hamlets, and by no means am I the only person who has done well - one of my friends is head of year in a great school in Twickenham. Another is a writer; another is an artist, a musician.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Great
  • School
  • Done

• I don't know what heavy penance I would not have gladly undertaken rather than practice prayer.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • Know
  • Practice
  • Prayer

• He bade me observe it, and I should always find that the calamities of life were shared among the upper and lower part of mankind; but that the middle station had the fewest disasters.

  

  Daniel Defoe
  • Life

• Human beings can imagine situations which are different from those in front of their eyes... because they make and hold in their minds images for absent things.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • Different
  • Eyes

• It was thinking about Casagemas's death that started me painting in blue.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Thinking
  • Death
  • Painting

• 'You have been a very foolish boy, wasting your time dreaming of impossible things when you speak of Mr. Pontellier setting me free! I am no longer one of Mr. Pontelliere's possessions to dispose of or not. I give myself where I choose. If he were to say, 'here Robert, take her and be happy; she is yours,' I should laugh at you both'

  

  Kate Chopin
  • Time
  • She
  • Happy

• Backbite, v.t. To speak of a man as you find him when he can't find you.

  

  Ambrose Bierce

• Memory, out of the mist, in a long slow rippleBreaks, blindly, against the shore.

  

  Alfred Noyes
  • Long

• I love fashion, beauty, glamour. It's the mark of civilisation.

  

  David LaChapelle
  • Fashion

• Can the knowledge deriving from reason even begin to compare with knowledge perceptible by sense?

  

  Louis Aragon
  • Knowledge

• Classrooms cannot and should not be coerced into adopting federal academic standards. That's not just my belief; it's federal law.

  

  Jeff Duncan
  • Law

• Everybody likes to go to Geneva. I used to do it for the Law of the Sea conferences and you'd find these potentates from down in Africa, you know, rather than eating each other, they'd just come up and get a good square meal in Geneva.

  

  Fritz Hollings
  • Law
  • Likes
  • Meals

• What I remain opposed to is the idea that David Cameron could go around and give up workers' rights, give up environmental protection, give up a whole load of things that are very important.

  

  Jeremy Corbyn
  • Up
  • Important

• If you want knowledge, you must toil for it; if food, you must toil for it; and if pleasure, you must toil for it: toil is the law.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Knowledge
  • Law
  • Toil