John Ruskin Quotes

We are only advancing in life, whose hearts are getting softer, our blood warmer, our brains quicker, and our spirits entering into living peace.

John Ruskin

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• If you love a young writer, maybe the best thing you can do is give them a little bit of space.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Space
  • Best
  • Thing

• Any writer will be happy and good only if they know what they're doing and why they're doing it.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Good
  • Why
  • Happy

• As a musician usually music is your way out.

  

  Damon Albarn Gorillaz
  • Music
  • Way
  • Musician

• We may define therapy as a search for value.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • May
  • Value
  • Search

• Remember that whatever may be said by a lady or her friends, it is not part of conduct of a gallant or generous man to take up arms against a woman.

  

  Sam Houston
  • Up
  • May
  • Friends

• I think we need people with stronger ideals than John Kerry or Bill Clinton. I think we need people with more courage and vision.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • People
  • Vision
  • Courage

• When Nandita expressed a desire to write about me, I couldn't stop her because she's my wife, but she has forgotten who she is.

  

  Om Puri
  • Me
  • Desire
  • Wife

• I am not hungry for roles on TV or in films. I am happy being a social media sensation.

  

  Qandeel Baloch
  • Happy
  • Media
  • Social Media

• The middle of 'America's Women' is about the Civil War, and how women, black and white, confronted slavery and abolition. As in every other period of crisis, the rules of sexual decorum were suspended due to emergency.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Women
  • America
  • War

• Music in movies is all about dissonance and consonance, tension and release.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Music
  • Movies
  • Release

• The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • People
  • Best
  • Genius

• When they put me on ESPN and they talk about negative things, or when they put me on TMZ and they talk about negative things, I'm just glad that I'm relevant; to have lasted this long being relevant.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Me
  • Things
  • Negative

• I wasn't thinking that I was two horrors back to back; I was thinking these were characters that I want to play.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Thinking
  • Want
  • Play

• I just want my kids to have the space of childhood to explore themselves as fully as possible.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Kids
  • Space
  • Childhood

• I'm looking forward to getting back to my house and my Ugg boots and not washing sometimes, and getting back to writing.

  

  E. L. James
  • Writing
  • House
  • Looking Forward

• Everybody keeps saying that India's a poor country. Yes, we have poverty. But I blame the government of India, the political establishment, for their failure to educate and therefore their failure to control the poverty.

  

  Vijay Mallya
  • Country
  • Political
  • Control

• I wanted to make the album I always needed to make. I had to say the things I never could.

  

  Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
  • Wanted
  • Albums
  • Needed

• If someone says: "I don't want to have a cochlear implant, because I want my child to grow up with a rich sense of deaf culture," he must acknowledge that the deaf culture that exists in the world today has a different scale than the deaf culture that's likely to exist in the world 50 years from now.

  

  Andrew Solomon
  • Up
  • World
  • Different

• History is one damn thing after another.

  

  Herbert Albert Laurens Fisher
  • History
  • Damn
  • Another Life

• You take the pen, and the lines dance. You take the flute and the notes shimmer. You take the brush, and the colors sing. So all things have meaning and beauty in that space beyond time where you are. How, then, can I hold back anything from you?

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Time
  • Space
  • Dance

• What fates impose, that men must needs abide; it boots not to resist both wind and tide.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Men
  • Needs
  • Wind

• The propitious smiles of Heaven, can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right, which Heaven itself has ordained...

  

  George Washington
  • Heaven
  • Addresses
  • Disregard

• I like people. Rightwingers don't. They like business, they don't care about people. I like education, they seem not to care much about it.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • People
  • Care
  • Seems

• We are only advancing in life, whose hearts are getting softer, our blood warmer, our brains quicker, and our spirits entering into living peace.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Blood
  • Spirits
  • Advancing