John Ruskin Quotes
There is no process of amalgamation by which opinions, wrong individually, can become right merely by their multitude.John Ruskin
Quotes to Explore
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The Prophet Muhammad himself sought to erase any distinctions between the message he taught and that taught by Jesus, who he called God's 'spirit and word.'
Ibrahim Hooper -
Maybe I was unpopular a bit because I was a teacher's pet. But even the teachers complained about me. They would say to my parents, 'For every one question any pupil asks, Walter asks 10.'
Walter O'Brien -
The great thing in life is efficiency. If you amount to anything in the world, your time is valuable, your energy precious. They are your success capital, and you cannot afford to heedlessly throw them away or trifle with them.
Orison Swett Marden -
There is no empirical evidence to suggest that ageing in humans has been modified by any means, nor is there evidence that it is even possible to measure biological age. And nothing has been demonstrated to be true when it comes to anti-ageing medicines.
S. Jay Olshansky -
Ultimately, our goal was to be a band and be recognized for our songs and making records. And I think that has been the case.
Isaac Hanson Hanson -
The 90's are the 60's standing on their head.
Wavy Gravy
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I used to go with my parents and loved it, I was in school plays, and I started reading plays before I started reading novels. I'll defend it to the hilt. When theatre is good it is fabulous.
Patrick Marber -
The image we have would be impossible for Mickey Mouse to maintain. We're just... normal people.
Karen Carpenter The Carpenters -
If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it.
Abraham Lincoln -
If I felt that one of my operas did not come off I would certainly say so.
Carlisle Floyd -
You never really know baseball until you put on a pair of cleats and get out and play it; and if you play for five years, you still don't really know what it's about.
Waite Hoyt -
When I was little, I wasn't allowed to put sugar on my breakfast cereal because it made me so hyper.
Dan O'Brien
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I have a passion for animals and spend a lot of my spare time working with various organizations here in Toronto.
Lara Jean Chorostecki -
At this moment, by an undeserved stroke of fortune, I am the direct voice of the poets of my race and the indirect voice for the noble Spanish and Portuguese tongues.
Gabriela Mistral -
A tight structural form opens possibilities. Take a pattern, an established model or sub-genre, and write to it. In writing, limitation gives freedom
W. G. Sebald -
In the States, tennis is sixth or seventh on the totem pole as far as sports go.
Andy Roddick -
If I can get on to my sofa and occupy myself for four hours, at intervals through the day, scribbling my notes, and able to read the books that belong to me, in that they clarify the density, and shape the formless mass within, life seems inconceivably rich.
Alice James -
I am sorry my life is so marred and maimed by extravagance. But I cannot live otherwise. I, at any rate, pay the penalty of suffering.
Oscar Wilde
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The two systems slave and free-labor are incompatible. They have never permanently existed together in one country, and they never can.
William H. Seward -
I believe there is little to gain by exchanging opinions with other artists concerning either the ideology of art or technical methods.
Yves Tanguy -
Within our control are our own opinions, aspirations, and desires and the demons that distract us from these goals. Outside of our control are such things as what kind of body we have, whether or not we are born into wealth, and how we are regarded by others.
Epictetus -
All the knowing ones were consulted as to the issue, and they all agreed, to a man, in one of two opinions: either that Bob would flog Billy, or Billy would flog Bob.
Augustus Baldwin Longstreet -
There is no process of amalgamation by which opinions, wrong individually, can become right merely by their multitude.
John Ruskin