John Ruskin Quotes

Nearly all the evils in the Church have arisen from bishops desiring power more than light. They want authority, not outlook.

John Ruskin

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• If I asked for a cup of coffee, someone would search for the double meaning.

  

  Mae West
  • Search
  • Coffee
  • Meaning

• I teach my children that in life, there is no control of what tomorrow is going to bring. There really isn't. But in whatever it brings, we have choices, and I'm glad because I made more right choices than wrong, but in the wrong choices, there are lessons to be learned.

  

  BeBe Winans
  • Life
  • Children
  • Control

• I love 'The X-Men;' that was the first comic series that I was dedicated to, because I feel like you can pick your player. 'I'm the most like Gambit... or I'm totally a Storm.'

  

  Taran Killam
  • Men
  • Like
  • Player

• I had $20,000, and I started up JYSK.

  

  Lars Larsen
  • Up
  • Started
  • Had

• Even Apple, notorious for keeping a tight grip on its products, allows fierce competitors like Google, Amazon, Spotify, and Microsoft to offer their apps on its phones and tablets.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Fierce
  • Apple
  • Google

• I had my father, and he was an amazing man and an amazing role model, so I always wanted to mirror that.

  

  Lance Gross
  • Father
  • Man
  • Amazing

• I've seen it again and again in my consulting: Most teams are too large to be innovative, despite their leaders' best intentions.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Best
  • Most
  • Intentions

• I hate rats. I had a pet rat to try and overcome it. I even gave him mouth-to mouth resuscitation when he had a heart attack. But I couldn't conquer it.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Heart
  • Hate
  • Pet

• Where there is no temple there shall be no homes.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Where
  • Temple
  • Shall

• I'm crazy about Dublin. If you went back 3,000 years in my ancestry you wouldn't find a drop of Irish blood in the veins, but I love the place.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Love
  • Crazy
  • Find

• I adored my father.

  

  Nancy Wake
  • Father
  • Adored

• We cannot have that relationship if we only dictate or threaten and condemn those who disagree.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Relationship
  • Only
  • Threaten

• I think it's good to have surprises in fashion because we always see the same things.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Good
  • Fashion
  • Same

• If you have an opportunity to use your voice you should use it.

  

  Samuel L. Jackson
  • Opportunity
  • You
  • Voice

• In ninth grade, I played wide receiver.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Grade
  • Receiver
  • Ninth

• We’ve arranged a society based on science and technology, in which nobody understands anything about science and technology. And this combustible mixture of ignorance and power, sooner or later, is going to blow up in our faces. Who is running the science and technology in a democracy if the people don’t know anything about it?

  

  Carl Sagan
  • People
  • Up
  • Power

• In the Holy Book of Islam, Allah says:

  

  Abdus Salam
  • Book

• We are not smart enough to leave things to the market.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Smart

• Galileo - the father of modern physics - indeed of modern science.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Father
  • Science
  • Modern

• Morality is the weakness of the mind.

  

  Arthur Rimbaud
  • Mind
  • Weakness
  • Morality

• I understand perfectly well why the Catholic Church preaches against abortion. But it shouldn't be the purpose of the Catholic Church to prevent non-Catholics from having abortions if they feel that abortions are morally acceptable. They can certainly only argue for what they believe to be right in the court of public opinion and try to persuade people.

  

  Andrew Solomon
  • People
  • Believe
  • Trying

• Get well soon, Castro. pause Actually, no, don't; die, you bastard!

  

  Craig Ferguson
  • Die

• My very first acting job ever, the first time I got paid to be an actress, was in 2001, right between my sophomore and junior year in college, when I was just 19 years old. I got paid $250 every two weeks, 10 shows a week, to be in the Utah Shakespearean Festival. I was Calpurnia in 'Julius Caesar.'

  

  Katy Mixon
  • Time
  • Job
  • College

• Nearly all the evils in the Church have arisen from bishops desiring power more than light. They want authority, not outlook.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Church
  • Authority
  • Desiring