John Ruskin Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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God just doesn't throw a life preserver to a drowning person. He goes to the bottom of the sea, and pulls a corpse from the bottom of the sea, takes him up on the bank, breathes into him the breath of life and makes him alive.
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To preserve the silence within--amid all the noise. To remain open and quiet, a moist humus in the fertile darkness where the rain falls and the grain ripens--no matter how many tramp across the parade ground in whirling dust under an arid sky.
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I want people around the world to hear me. To all those who would do us harm, no act of terror will go unpunished. It will not dim the light of the values that we proudly present to the rest of the world. No act of violence shakes the resolve of the United States of America.
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Jazz, I mean, music will always move, because it can't become stagnant. Because if it becomes stagnant, it's like a river, it'll kill us all. It has to keep moving, music will always flow.
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Even though I'm a pop singer, I really have more the life of a country singer.
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He has had to make a few adjustments. He sacrifices himself for the team.
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I ignore the jealous, I ignore the malicious, I ignore the ignorant and I ignore the paranoid.
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I cannot conceive of a personal God who would directly influence the actions of individuals, or would directly sit in judgment on creatures of his own creation.
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There are two merits that glorify a person: being courageous for a man and being virtuous for a woman. Besides these two, there is another merit that glorifies both man and woman: so much loving the homeland to an extent with being ready to sacrifice his/her life, if needed. Turks are such courageous and virtuous people. That is why you can kill a Turk but you can never defeat them.
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Hearts with one purpose alone/Through summer and winter seem/Enchanted to a stone/To trouble the living stream.
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The expression to write something down suggests a descent of thought to the fingers whose movements immediately falsify it.
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But I think I know just as many creative people who've never taken drugs in their life as I do who have taken a lot of drugs.
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We must come to understand our past, our history, in terms of the soil and water and forests and grasses that have made it what it is.
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I would rather listen to plays in the car than read them.
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There won't be any changes until we have another depression like in the 1930s, which we have not approached yet in the present recession.
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No individual rain drop ever considers itself responsible for the flood.
