John Ruskin Quotes

No individual rain drop ever considers itself responsible for the flood.

John Ruskin

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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.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • Life
  • Up
  • God

• 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.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Fall
  • Silence
  • Sky

• 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.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • World
  • America

• 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.

  

  Art Blakey
  • Music
  • Moving
  • River

• Even though I'm a pop singer, I really have more the life of a country singer.

  

  Kelly Clarkson
  • Life
  • Country
  • Singer

• He has had to make a few adjustments. He sacrifices himself for the team.

  

  Vanderlei Luxemburgo
  • Team
  • Sacrifices
  • Adjustments

• I ignore the jealous, I ignore the malicious, I ignore the ignorant and I ignore the paranoid.

  

  Rick Pitino
  • Ignore
  • Jealous
  • Paranoid

• 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.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • God
  • Influence
  • Creation

• 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.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Person
  • Merits
  • Glorify

• Hearts with one purpose alone/Through summer and winter seem/Enchanted to a stone/To trouble the living stream.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Heart
  • Purpose
  • Summer

• The expression to write something down suggests a descent of thought to the fingers whose movements immediately falsify it.

  

  William H. Gass
  • Writing
  • Movement
  • Expression

• Stiff-necked fools, you think you are cool to deny me for simplicity.

  

  Bob Marley
  • Cool
  • Simplicity
  • Fools

• My mom was a singer, and my dad had been playing in bands with my mom's brother. My dad married my mom, and so I was sorta surrounded by music from the get-go. Born right into it.

  

  Jay DeMarcus Rascal Flatts
  • Married
  • Singer
  • Bands

• If I haven't thought about six impossible things before breakfast, I consider the day wasted.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Impossible
  • Breakfast
  • Consider

• Men will consider deeply before they buy a tie or choose a meal; but when it comes to throwing aside their purpose in life, possibly life itself, they do not think at all. They consent to be marshalled, controlled, exposed to unimagined shock, mutilation and death, with barely a tremor, and their reasons for complying, if indeed they have any, would comparen most shamefully with their reasons for doing anything else.

  

  Elizabeth Jane Howard
  • Death
  • Purpose
  • Choose

• No individual rain drop ever considers itself responsible for the flood.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Consider
  • Flood
  • Rain Drop