John Ruskin Quotes

In the utmost solitudes of nature, the existence of hell seems to me as legibly declared by a thousand spiritual utterances as that of heaven.

John Ruskin

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• I use other cookbooks for inspiration. I must say I tend to cook from my own cookbooks for parties.

  

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• I would dodge, not lie, in the national interest.

  

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• Now that I work as a professional model, I advise people to stay away from any television shows. It's a waste of your time; it's just entertainment. It's not the fashion that we now know.

  

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• I don't sleep well. I rehash everything in bed. The mind's still working.

  

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• What is more comforting to the terrorists around the world: the failure to pass the 9/11 legislation because we lacked a majority of the majority,' or putting aside partisan politics to enact tough new legislation with America's security foremost in mind?

  

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• My own military background is wholly un-distinguished. I was a sergeant.

  

  W. E. B. Griffin
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• My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.

  

  Tadao Ando
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• But the leaders of the OIC could not even accept Mahathir's proposal, yet they talk about respect and honour.

  

  Abu Bakar Bashir
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• I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, 'Give, give.'

  

  Abigail Adams
  • Man
  • Dangerous
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• Smaller families mean we have more time and money to lavish on each child. Parents are more anxious because small families give them less experience of parenting and put their genetic eggs in fewer baskets.

  

  Carl Honore
  • Time
  • Money
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• I had cut a typing class because I hated to type, and I still don't know how to type, but now I can afford to have people type for me.

  

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• I had a productive day, without the distraction of conversation.

  

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• Perseus wore a magic cap that the monsters he hunted down might not see him. We draw the magic cap down over eyes and ears as a make-believe that there are no monsters.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Believe
  • Eyes
  • Magic

• Young people, especially, are looking for religion so desperately that they are inventing new ones. They should not have to invent new ones; the old religions are pretty good.

  

  Irving Kristol
  • People
  • Good
  • Pretty

• We were like a moth right next to the flame. It's like, do any more and you go down. We were so tired. One final lap, and then have a rest.

  

  Meg White The White Stripes
  • Rest
  • Tired

• Politics, n. A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.

  

  Ambrose Bierce

• I love being around people that are smarter than me, that think faster than me. So even if you're a dork, and you wear stupid clothes, and you make a fool of yourself, and everyone makes fun of you, and you're just an idiot-I don't care about the context. I don't care. If you're genius and I recognize it, I kind of dig that.

  

  Courtney Love
  • People
  • Fun
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• I obey nature, I never presume to command her. The first principal in art is to copy what one sees.

  

  Auguste Rodin
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• You’ll lie again, you’ll do it again. Friends, not friends, friends, not friends, I’m on your dime, I’m on your time, and I don’t exist where there is a YOU.

  

  Coco J. Ginger
  • Time
  • Friends
  • Lie

• Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.

  

  Sophocles
  • Nothing
  • Fortune
  • Aid

• Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Heaven

• The people who influence us most are not those who buttonhole us and talk to us, but those who live their lives like the stars in heaven and the lilies in the field, perfectly simply and unaffectedly. Those are the lives that mould.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • People
  • Live
  • Heaven

• You know, eternal life does not start when we go to heaven. It starts the moment you reach out to Jesus. He never turns His back on anyone. And He is waiting for you.

  

  Corrie Ten Boom
  • Life
  • Jesus
  • Heaven

• In the utmost solitudes of nature, the existence of hell seems to me as legibly declared by a thousand spiritual utterances as that of heaven.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Heaven
  • Existence
  • Solitude