John Ruskin Quotes

... no human actions ever were intended by the Maker of men to be guided by balances of expediency, but by balances of justice.

John Ruskin

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• In order to raise money from somebody, you have to understand who is this person, not to deceive them but to understand them. What would be their motives for contributing money? Why do these people contribute money to some places, but not to others? That's attunement - treating everybody well, but not treating everybody the same.

  

  Dan Pink
  • People
  • Money
  • Why

• I was a huge fan of comedy in high school.

  

  Adam McKay
  • School
  • High
  • Comedy

• Only buy clothes that you plan to keep forever. It's important to see trends for what they are: a game.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Important
  • Game
  • Forever

• It was a difficult second record. I had moments where I couldn't write; had moments where I was writing lots. It was just a massive learning process for me.

  

  Flume
  • Writing
  • Learning
  • Moments

• I still can't believe that I've achieved what I have. It's like I've lived a dream for about five years now.

  

  Karrie Webb
  • Believe
  • Dream
  • Now

• My hope is that shows like 'Fresh Off the Boat' open the door for even more of those kinds of characters for Asian actors and actresses.

  

  Randall Park
  • Hope
  • Door
  • Boat

• We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.

  

  Quintilian
  • Difficulty
  • Sloth
  • Pretext

• Certainly, a lot of the films I've worked on have ended up good movies, but they haven't always been the best experiences.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Up
  • Good
  • Best

• Nothing is impossible in this world. Firm determination, it is said, can move heaven and earth. Things appear far beyond one's power, because one cannot set his heart on any arduous project due to want of strong will.

  

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo
  • World
  • Heart
  • Power

• Ultimately, what interests me is using exotic sounds in my songs.

  

  Washed Out
  • Me
  • Songs
  • Interests

• A relationship is sent by God and accident.

  

  Fiona Shaw
  • God
  • Relationship
  • Accident

• Coal is a portable climate.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

• Today we are visitors to the airport, tomorrow we will come here as travellers.

  

  Mahmoud Abbas
  • Today

• Politics is the business of getting power and privilege without possessing merit. A politician is anyone who asks individuals to surrender part of their liberty- their power and privilege- to State, Masses, Mankind, Planet Earth, or whatever. This state, those masses, that mankind, and the planet will then be run by ... politicians.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Business
  • Power
  • Earth

• For he who fights and runs awayMay live to fight another day;But he who is in battle slainCan never rise and fight again.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Live

• Charisms are not distributed at random but are dispensed by God to supply what is needful and lacking in his Church at each historical moment. If they are from God, they usually do not flow with the latest fashionable trend but much more likely contain an antidote and remedy for the perils of the time.

  

  Hans Urs von Balthasar
  • Time
  • God
  • Church

• Instruct me how to thank thee! Oh, to shoot My soul's full meaning into future years, That they should lend it utterance, and salute Love that endures, from life that disappears!

  

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning
  • Life
  • Future
  • Soul

• This is the epitaph I want on my tomb: 'Here lies one of the most intelligent animals who ever appeared on the face of the Earth.'

  

  Benito Mussolini
  • Earth
  • Lies
  • Intelligent

• When I saw the snow for the first time in my life, I felt very excited. The weather condition was much better than I thought, and I became accustomed to it soon.

  

  Han Xiaopeng
  • Life
  • Snow
  • Weather condition

• The fundamental criterion for judging any procedure is the justice of its likely results.

  

  John Rawls
  • Justice
  • Judging

• Debs is greater than Lincoln. Debs is the spokesman of the great struggling working class of all races, nationalities, creeds, sexes.

  

  A. Philip Randolph
  • Great
  • Working
  • Class

• It is said there is no happiness, and no love to be compared to that which is felt for the first time. Most persons erroneously think so; but love like other arts requires experience, and terror and ignorance, on its first approach, prevent our feeling it as strongly as at a later period.

  

  Lady Caroline Lamb
  • Time
  • Experience
  • Feeling

• ... no human actions ever were intended by the Maker of men to be guided by balances of expediency, but by balances of justice.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Justice
  • Guided
  • Balances