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.
Quotes to Explore
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I don't think the Middle East could afford another war.
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I taught myself how to play the guitar. I never studied music.
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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.
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What impresses men is not mind, but the result of mind.
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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.
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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.
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The older I get, the less I know. By that I mean the less I am sure of. I view people with strong opinions on the big stuff with distrust. I don't think we should have certain certainties on faith and politics; I think we should be open-minded.
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I know now that what countries do at summits has the power to help girls in Pakistan, Nigeria or Afghanistan.
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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.
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The flower which is single need not envy the thorns that are numerous.
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If you want my answer about Donald Trump, you can Google it. It's everywhere. They've got this new thing called Google.
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As I've said before, time is short, and life is precious.
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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.
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I don't know what heavy penance I would not have gladly undertaken rather than practice prayer.
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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.
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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.
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It was thinking about Casagemas's death that started me painting in blue.
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'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'
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Coming up in the streets, I had to learn how to read people early on. I'm a very analytical person. I observe a lot of the things that people don't notice.
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Yesterday was the New York City Marathon. The marathon was won in record time by a Democrat candidate running away from President Obama.
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When a man's cause is good, it will sufficiently plead for itself, yea, and for its master too.
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People say that you're going the wrong way when it's simply a way of your own.
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I have published so many books in so many years. I can't complain about any lack of attention. But I've never been placed as a Southern writer, which I really am. So I was happy finally to be published by someone in the South.
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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.
