John Ruskin Quotes

One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.

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• I did a film called 'Fire with Fire.'

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Film
  • Fire
  • Did

• I have fallen in love so many times. If one relationship ended, I would search for another girl. I was always madly in love with all the girls that I dated.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Love
  • Girl
  • Relationship

• I'm twitchy. I think I've got ADD. I find it hard to sit down. I need to be constantly challenged; otherwise, I get very... well, I guess 'bored' is the word.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Think
  • Find
  • Down

• Personally, it was a big honor for me meeting so many families of the fallen soldiers and hearing their stories.

  

  Dan Quinn
  • Honor
  • Meeting
  • Soldiers

• Of course, when strangers see me, they're star-struck because of who I am, but my friends take me as a friend because I'm their friend - not because I'm a movie star.

  

  Quvenzhane Wallis
  • Movie
  • Friend
  • Star

• Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.

  

  Oliver Herford
  • Something
  • Leisure
  • Haste

• Floyd Mayweather is in the sport to give great performances.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Great
  • Give
  • Floyd

• We are exactly where we have chosen to be.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Where
  • Chosen
  • Exactly

• Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Earth
  • Child
  • Spring

• Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion.

  

  Abraham Cowley
  • Great
  • Religion
  • Sin

• The thing about it is almost everyone could pass that way, but we were kept from doing it by our coaches.

  

  Oscar Robertson
  • Way
  • Doing
  • Everyone

• I played a million different sports when I was growing up. I started when I was probably five or six, and we'd just go from activity to activity to activity. I think, finally, my parents just realized that we were missing something in our lives. They realized that it was time for us as a family to start going to church.

  

  Sam Bradford
  • Up
  • Time
  • Different

• I wasn't unhappy, but I was a little like: 'Is this it? Really?' I was thirsty.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Like
  • Unhappy
  • Thirsty

• When you're on set, the crew are like your family because you see them every day, six days a week.

  

  Naomie Harris
  • Family
  • Day
  • Week

• Earn your success based on service to others, not at the expense of others.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Success
  • Service
  • Others

• I did 'Nobody Walks' right after 'Dredd.' Well, actually, I got off the plane from Capetown where we shot 'Dredd' and tested for 'Being Flynn' that same day. Then I came out to L.A. to make this film right after that so it was all very back to back.

  

  Olivia Thirlby
  • Day
  • Same
  • Nobody

• The whole world, as we experience it visually, comes to us through the mystic realm of color.

  

  Hans Hofmann
  • World
  • Experience
  • Color

• What is the Tao Te Ching? Five hundred years before the birth of Jesus, a God-realized being named Lao-tzu in ancient China dictated 81 verses which are regarded by many as the ultimate commentary on the nature of existence.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • God
  • Nature
  • Jesus

• I have always thought beach weddings are beautiful. A sunset ceremony with a beautiful sky, white drapes and fire lanterns.

  

  Ricky Whittle
  • Beautiful
  • Ceremony
  • Weddings

• It is a fundamental principle of criminal law that an imputed offense must correspond exactly to the type of crime described by law. If no law applies exactly to the point in question, then there is no offense.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Law
  • Question
  • Crime

• THIS dust was once the Man, / Gentle, plain, just and resolute—under whose cautious hand, / Against the foulest crime in history known in any land or age, / Was saved the Union of These States.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • History
  • Crime
  • Dust

• I think that the over-incarceration of black and brown folk is one of the great crimes of American society.

  

  Michael Eric Dyson
  • Black
  • Crime

• Once you've figured out how to wait on people and clean toilets, it makes you very mindful of how you treat the people who are serving you.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • People
  • Treat
  • Wait

• One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Crime
  • Long Time
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