John Ruskin Quotes

It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty.

John Ruskin

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• You begin to realize that the genius of our country is the constant push to be more inclusive and find new ways of engaging everyone.

  

  Maggie Hassan
  • Country
  • Genius
  • Push

• Let's start to have a grown up debate in this country about who we are and where we want to go and what kind of country we want to build.

  

  Ed Miliband
  • Up
  • Country
  • Start

• I love Billy Joel. I cry sometimes when I hear 'The Stranger.' 'You May Be Right' may be one of the greatest songs ever written.

  

  Adam Pally
  • Love
  • May
  • Sometimes

• It's just not my nature to go around idolizing people.

  

  Magnus Carlsen
  • People
  • Nature
  • Just

• Everyone should be good at what they do.

  

  Ian Hart
  • Good
  • Should
  • Everyone

• Stupidity is a talent for misconception.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Talent
  • Stupidity

• I've seen the power of the community. A young person can stand up, talk about his dream, and someone from the audience will come forth to help him make that dream come true. Great things can happen when you place the right ideas before the right audience!

  

  Lakshmi Pratury
  • Up
  • Great
  • Power

• The arts are an integral part of the city's economic progress.

  

  Karen Kain
  • City
  • Progress
  • Economic

• We, of our time, have played our part in the perseverance, and we have pledged ourselves to the dead generations who have preserved intact for us this glorious heritage, that we, too, will strive to be faithful to the end, and pass on this tradition unblemished.

  

  Eamon de Valera
  • Time
  • End
  • Perseverance

• Speaking for myself, my very integrity as a human being needs to include my freedom to explore who I am both spiritually and sexually. Not just to explore - but to practice.

  

  Malcolm Boyd
  • Freedom
  • Myself
  • Practice

• The stakes are very high for us in Haiti. We have many important interests there. Perhaps the most important to me is our interest in the promotion of democracy in this hemisphere.

  

  Warren Christopher
  • Important
  • Me
  • Democracy

• The ogres and witches and giants of fairytales stand in as metaphors for those obstacles that we all face in our own lives.

  

  Kate Forsyth
  • Face
  • Obstacles
  • Stand

• We book our exports forward for more than a year, and so we have a fixed rate. We do not get the spot rate that we see in the market every day.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • Book
  • Day
  • Everyday

• A lot of shorts spend too much time setting up the idea; sometimes they meander.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Up
  • Time
  • Sometimes

• The founder of the Mona Foundation actually knew my dad for years, and the more I learned about it, the more I realized I really found the perfect charity. It sponsors schools and educational initiatives all over the planet.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Dad
  • Perfect
  • Charity

• With courage and character, American soldiers continue to put themselves on the line to defend our freedom, and so many have paid the ultimate sacrifice.

  

  Dan Lipinski
  • Character
  • American
  • Freedom

• Frankly, most of my friends hold very different political beliefs. It's just a funny thing in this country that supposedly you can't sit down and have dinner and enjoy another person's company if you don't have the same beliefs. It's ridiculous.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Different
  • Country
  • Friends

• Joe Mauer's the real deal. He is absolutely wonderful. Not only is he a great player, but he's a great human being. He's the kind of guy you'd like to see... be your son.

  

  Harmon Killebrew
  • Great
  • Real
  • Guy

• We were all up there, Dick and Mary and Rosie and Larry Mathews and I looked around and I said, inadvertently, 'Look at this, we could do a show,'

  

  Carl Reiner
  • Up
  • Show
  • Inadvertently

• The language of faith is crucial because it affords human beings the privilege of intimacy with the ultimate.

  

  Michael Eric Dyson
  • Language
  • Humans
  • Intimacy

• I keep being surprised by the amount of archaeological sites and features that are left to find all over the world.

  

  Sarah Parcak
  • World
  • Find
  • Surprised

• My mom and dad got divorced, so it was one of those things where Sundays I'd go to Dad's apartment, and this was, say, 1970-whatever, and it had a pool table on the top floor in a very traditional kind of divorced-dad apartment building.

  

  Chris Eigeman
  • Dad
  • Mom
  • Pool

• It's important that you love and respect your body, understand what it needs, and accordingly give everything in appropriate proportion.

  

  Anushka Shetty
  • Important
  • Respect

• It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty.

  

  John Ruskin