John Ruskin Quotes

Success by the laws of competition signifies a victory over others by obtaining the direction and profits of their work. This is the real source of all great riches.

John Ruskin

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• As you get older, challenges arise that you aren't prepared for, but what got me through it was music.

  

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• I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage. But when you start playing around with constitutions, just to prohibit somebody who cares about another person, it just seems to me that's not what America's about. Usually, our constitutions expand liberties, they don't contract them.

  

  Barack Obama
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• In recording, you're trying to make something work sonically - getting the right inflection on the right guitar sound - and maybe a part that would be musically great doesn't sound as cool.

  

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• In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
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• The reason I did the book about holidays is that you're a different person on holiday. You're sleeping somewhere unfamiliar, knocking about with people you've never met and for 10 days you're someone else. You're out of your comfortable zone.

  

  Karl Pilkington
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• We want to bridge the digital gap to provide broadband access to 100 per cent of our educational institutions and to make it widely available to all people.

  

  Laura Chinchilla
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• When I was younger I wanted to be a gymnast, but they have to be quite short - I was tall.

  

  Tamara Ecclestone
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• I consider myself somewhat spiritual, but not practicing.

  

  J. C. Chandor
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• When I was young, I had this contrarian thing, and my music for a long time was an extension of that. I didn't want to entertain people; I had too much vanity to be an entertainer. I think that some layers of vanity came off.

  

  J. Tillman
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• The most important thing to realise is that everyone is capable of telling a story. It doesn't matter where we were born or how we grew up.

  

  Maeve Binchy
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• Making the record was tons of fun, the most fun I've ever had.

  

  Iris DeMent
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• Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Good
  • None
  • Toleration

• Theater owners are exerting a lot of power over the studios to withhold access to content that people want to see. That's bad for consumers, that's bad for studios, and ultimately, I think it will be bad for theaters.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • People
  • Power
  • Bad

• When President Ronald Reagan negotiated some significant arms reduction deals with the then-Soviet Union, he was considered a real hero, someone who was advocating for peace.

  

  Valerie Plame
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• I used to be fast and loose with the term 'country' because I didn't know what else to call my music. I still don't.

  

  Caitlin Rose
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  • Country
  • Know

• We want to make sure that women have a way to use all their gifts in society, to get educated, to be all they can be in the workforce, to really develop as people in all the ways that they can. We want this for men too! And we want this for children. Well this can't happen if this can be sandbagged by an ill-timed and unwanted pregnancy.

  

  Katha Pollitt
  • People
  • Men
  • Women

• In this hectic life, we have no time to take care of ourselves, hence massage is needed for rejuvenation and stress reduction. A lot of people are looking for quick fixes: like, they are taking medications, and they are doing other things which are not healthy. But massage is very holistic and natural.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• I took physics, and lo and behold, there's a lot of physics in 'Lost.' I think for most people, liberal arts educations are more abstract, but for me, it's been a chance to apply the things I've learned more directly. I also took some Folklore and Mythology classes, and I think that a lot of that influenced me.

  

  Carlton Cuse
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• I'm excited about turning 40. I've been an adult for a long time, but there is a difference between being an adult and being a grown-up. I'm someone's mummy now and I'm enjoying that. I feel as if I'm about to hit my peak.

  

  Jill Scott
  • Up
  • Time
  • Long

• The way to solve problems in the world is to become scientists and technologists and build things that haven't been built before and discover things that people really don't know about.

  

  Rana el Kaliouby
  • World
  • Problems
  • Really

• I should just put it bluntly, because we're all sort of friends here now - it's exceedingly likely that my greatest success is behind me. Oh, so Jesus, what a thought! You know that's the kind of thought that could lead a person to start drinking gin at nine o'clock in the morning, and I don't want to go there.

  

  Elizabeth Gilbert
  • Friends
  • Success
  • Morning

• I think Joshua has been doing a good job winning his fights and beating the guys in front of him. You got to congratulate him for his success.

  

  Deontay Wilder
  • Good
  • Job
  • Success

• You can live with victory over the desires of your flesh. Habits, attitudes, desires, worries, and dissipation must yield as you exercise authority over your mind, emotions, and will.

  

  Adrian Rogers
  • Live
  • Mind
  • Worry

• Success by the laws of competition signifies a victory over others by obtaining the direction and profits of their work. This is the real source of all great riches.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Success
  • Victory
  • Laws