John Ruskin Quotes

... A power of obtaining veracity in the representation of material and tangible things, which, within certain limits and conditions, is unimpeachable, has now been placed in the hands of all men, almost without labour. (1853)

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• One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.

  

  Eduardo Chillida
  • Know
  • Never
  • Lies

• To most boys with growing limbs and swelling sinews, physical activity is a natural instinct, and there is no need to drive them into the football field or the fives court: they go there because they like it, and there is no need to make games compulsory for them.

  

  E. F. Benson
  • Growing
  • Football
  • Games

• The idea of a soulmate is beautiful and very romantic to talk about it in a movie or a song, but in reality, I find it scary.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Movie
  • Beautiful
  • Song

• Most of the important composers in our country are clustered in the Northeast.

  

  Carlisle Floyd
  • Important
  • Country
  • Most

• It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Good
  • Beautiful
  • Better

• Michael Jordan and Magic and myself all learned how to play the game in college programs that emphasized the team.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Game
  • Team
  • College

• Many times, when you do what I do or work in journalism in general, people try to not explicitly present their opinions on topics.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • People
  • Work
  • Present

• I don't want to be involved in endless media gossip.

  

  Kate Adie
  • Want
  • Media
  • Gossip

• Scriptures reveal the divine desires of the Lord in our behalf. Each of us should have a burning desire to search the scriptures diligently and daily to seek the will of the Lord in our life. For some, it may be necessary to develop the discipline to search the scriptures daily.

  

  L. Lionel Kendrick
  • Life
  • May
  • Desire

• Religion and modernity are not necessarily mutually exclusive.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Religion
  • Modernity

• I was truly honored to work with legendary DJ and producer DJ Premier. I still can't believe I have a track with Premier; it really is one of the best songs I've written in a long time.

  

  Yuna
  • Time
  • Work
  • Believe

• If there's something dangerous, sauces are dangerous for the body.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Body
  • Something
  • Dangerous

• The biggest challenge in New Orleans has been to find workers who can climb a ladder after lunch.

  

  Harry Anderson
  • Challenge
  • Lunch
  • Climb

• There's a right way of doing things and a wrong way. If you've made up your mind to be different from everybody else, I don't suppose I can stop you, but I really don't think it's very considerate.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Up
  • Different
  • Mind

• If you you're in the United States, sometimes you can feel lazy and think we're so big we don't have to really know anything about other people.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Lazy

• Our Soviet writer must be guided in his world only by the need of the people, useful for the society.

  

  Vasily Grossman
  • People
  • World
  • Society

• Jesus Christ-who, as it turns out, was born of a virgin, cheated death, and rose bodily into the heavens-can now be eaten in the form of a cracker.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Death
  • Jesus
  • Rose

• Oh mercy, mercy me.Ah things ain't what they used to be.What about this overcrowded land?How much more abuse from man can she stand?Oh, na na...My sweet Lord... No.

  

  Marvin Gaye
  • She
  • Sweet
  • Abuse

• I believe we should utilise any power we have for important issues that are bigger and beyond us. Whether it's with refugees or working to educate kids. I don't think you need to have gone through a civil war to do something. I believe as human beings, we can look out for each other.

  

  Alek Wek
  • Believe
  • Important
  • Kids

• Someone I've always admired is Catherine O'Hara... I think she's one of the best actresses in the country, not only comedy. I just think she's just a step aside from everybody, she's just wonderful.

  

  Fred Willard
  • Country
  • She
  • Comedy

• It is foolish to claim, as some do, that emigration into space offers a long-term escape from Earth's problems. Nowhere in our solar system offers an environment even as clement as the Antarctic or the top of Everest.

  

  Martin Rees
  • Long
  • Earth
  • Space

• ... A power of obtaining veracity in the representation of material and tangible things, which, within certain limits and conditions, is unimpeachable, has now been placed in the hands of all men, almost without labour. (1853)

  

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