John Ruskin Quotes
If a great thing can be done, it can be done easily, but this ease is like the of ease of a tree blossoming after long years of gathering strength.John Ruskin
Quotes to Explore
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The great thing about writing is that it has to work without that invisible layer of the reader's added knowledge.
Rachel Kushner -
The apartheid system renounces no violence.
Oliver Tambo -
OKCupid's model is almost entirely based on advertising, which is the way most online media is monetized these days, whether it's the news or whether it's sports, and we think online dating is going to evolve in the exact same way.
Sam Yagan -
My favorite big city would have to be Chicago. I lived in Indiana for several years and would always go into the city with my family for Cubs games or to visit the aquarium and museums on field trips.
Karen Fairchild Little Big Town -
I had never really felt settled in Brooklyn. I think it had to do with growing up in New Jersey and being someone who her whole life wanted to live in the city, and the city meant Manhattan.
Dani Shapiro -
Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.
Oscar Wilde
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I became a novelist because of 'Gone With the Wind,' or more precisely, my mother raised me up to be a 'Southern' novelist, with a strong emphasis on the word 'Southern' because 'Gone With the Wind' set my mother's imagination ablaze when she was a young girl growing up in Atlanta.
Pat Conroy -
Find your own style. Don't spend your savings trying to be someone else. You're not more important, smarter, or prettier because you wear a designer dress.
Salma Hayek -
I knew everything in the forest. I had a secret home tree, where I pretty much lived. I also liked rooftops and streetlamps. My parents would get calls saying 'He's out there again.'
Bas Rutten -
Climate change does not respect border; it does not respect who you are - rich and poor, small and big. Therefore, this is what we call 'global challenges,' which require global solidarity.
Ban Ki-moon -
I don't feel like I have to apologize for being a technophile, ever. Technology is awesome and lets me do so much. Nor do I feel like I have to apologize for loving my work.
Rachel Sklar -
We must oppose programs that would take food from the mouths of younger generations to buy prescription drugs for old people, and we must do it... for the children.
L. Neil Smith
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'I keep hoping you’ll tell me. You’re the god, after all. If I prayed to you for guidance, and you decided to answer, what would you tell me?''I wouldn’t answer.''Because you don’t care? Or because you wouldn’t know what to say?'More silence.
N. K. Jemisin -
There is nothing so eternally adhesive as the memory of power.
Isaac Asimov -
I'm playing a cat burglar. I've made it. This is the high point of my career. I'm really chuffed.
Sam Neill -
Dignity is central to the sustainability of history.
Nayef Al-Rodhan -
I would like to be remembered as a man who had a wonderful time living his life, and who had good friends, a fine family. I don't think I could ask for anything more than that, actually.
Frank Sinatra -
Activism is the rent I pay for living on the planet.
Alice Walker
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Companies that are publicly held have a fiduciary duty to their shareholders to try to maximize their profits within ethical reasons.
Evan Bayh -
I don't believe in simply accumulating money, but I have the luxury to say that, because I have enough for all my needs.
Kathleen Turner -
And when I look back I recognize now that I indeed do come from a large family of artists. Whether they necessarily realize it or not.
E. J. Bonilla -
And our dreams are who we are.
Barbara Sher -
Would a real man get caught eating a twinkie?
Andy Rooney -
If a great thing can be done, it can be done easily, but this ease is like the of ease of a tree blossoming after long years of gathering strength.
John Ruskin