John Ruskin Quotes

The only way to understand these difficult parts of the Bible, or even to approach them with safety, is first to read and obey the easy ones.

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• Quitting law school was the most difficult decision of my life. But I felt this great relief that this is my life and I can do what I want with it.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Life
  • Great
  • School

• San Francisco lags behind other communities in providing a vital, vibrant and ecologically sustainable urban canopy, as well as open space in the city.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • City
  • Space
  • Sustainable

• This Islam business kidnapped me.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Business
  • Me
  • Islam

• I will always do what I can to help others, but when I retire, I want to be a dad and a husband. I want a house and a dog in the yard. I want to have barbecues.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Help
  • House
  • Dad

• My dad has always been really helpful. He taught me that talent is a bonus, but persistence is what wins out.

  

  Zosia Mamet
  • Me
  • Talent
  • Taught

• A lot of what the 'Culture' is about is a reaction to all the science fiction I was reading in my very early teens.

  

  Iain Banks
  • Science
  • Culture
  • Reading

• In China, the rules of the market are not always that transparent. So it's very hard. Also, the national TV networks are all owned by the government, so our shows are subject to censorship by the networks. Every now and then, we are told that certain subjects cannot be talked about. There are frustrations.

  

  Yang Lan
  • Government
  • Now
  • Censorship

• A pulp story without a detective and, obviously, somebody for him to do battle with is unthinkable, and I can't remember reading a pulp story that didn't have a dame - either a good girl or a bad girl.

  

  Otto Penzler
  • Good
  • Remember
  • Bad

• I don't like to be feared, and I can't work in conflict, I'm very bad with conflict. I try to avoid it, it paralyzes me.

  

  Nadine Labaki
  • Work
  • Bad
  • Me

• Touch'd either the Passions of Rage or Grief to a Miracle.

  

  Barton Booth
  • Grief
  • Miracle
  • Rage

• As you do on any cable series, if they introduce you as the villain, then you better start working towards making him a really good guy, or if they introduce you as a really good guy, then you better start working towards being the villain. Your character has to go somewhere, or else they become very uninteresting.

  

  Zach McGowan
  • Good
  • Character
  • Guy

• We may be coming to a new golden age of instrument making.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • May
  • Age
  • Golden

• In life, there's a ladder sometimes, and maybe at the top, there's a mirror. You take a step up, then maybe three steps down... just because you don't want to face the decloaking in the mirror.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Life
  • Up
  • Mirror

• As a Christian, I'm passionately opposed to American pretensions that we have special standing with God; to political office-seekers who play on our religious differences; and to the religious arrogance that says, 'Our truth is the only truth.'

  

  Parker Palmer
  • God
  • Truth
  • American

• I think trying to maintain a classic pretty style is the way I like to go, like Margot Robbie's style.

  

  Hailey Bieber
  • Trying
  • Think
  • Pretty

• 'True Detective' was the last show I got crazy about, with its 'Silence of the Lambs'-style landscape and those strip mall badlands of America.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • America
  • True
  • Crazy

• Dilip Kumar was the only Bollywood hero who could make a girl shiver just by looking at her. If you don't believe it, ask your mom!

  

  Imtiaz Ali
  • Believe
  • Girl
  • Mom

• Gracious dying is a huge, macabre and expensive joke on the American public.

  

  Jessica Mitford
  • American
  • Dying

• In films, you will be judged by your last hit or, let's say, your last film.

  

  Dulquer Salmaan

• Great entrepreneurs focus intensely on an opportunity where others see nothing. This focus and intensity helps to eliminate wasted effort and distractions. Most companies die from indigestion rather than starvation, i.e., companies suffer from doing too many things at the same time rather than doing too few things very well.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Time
  • Great
  • Opportunity

• The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Work
  • Art
  • Think

• To understand yourself is the key to wisdom.

  

  Confucius
  • Wisdom
  • Understand
  • Key

• We definitely had our opportunities to still win the game. There is no ill feeling other than we didn't get across the line.

  

  Paul Williams The Temptations
  • Game
  • Feeling
  • Opportunities

• The only way to understand these difficult parts of the Bible, or even to approach them with safety, is first to read and obey the easy ones.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Understand
  • Bible
  • Safety