John Ruskin Quotes

So far as I have myself observed, the distinctive character of a child is to live always in the tangible present.

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• We are living in difficult times. There are a lot of people out of work - am I going to stand there and whinge? No, because I am lucky to have such a wonderful job.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • People
  • Work
  • Job

• Los Angeles is peopled by waiters and carpenters and drivers who are there to be actors.

  

  Patrick Duffy
  • Los Angeles
  • Angeles
  • Los

• I think the paradigm is shifting with regard to women and what we bring to the industry. I feel very blessed.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Women
  • Think
  • Blessed

• I can't say I'm having trouble with my husband or that I have a stubborn child.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Husband
  • Child
  • Stubborn

• Don't be afraid to convince yourself that your business is incredible, but don't expect others to be convinced without solid data to back it up. Ideas can be a worth a lot, but they are usually not. Execution is everything.

  

  Palmer Luckey
  • Up
  • Business
  • Ideas

• Especially in comedies, I think a lot of time the female characters are there to provide a balance for guys.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Time
  • Think
  • Balance

• I've really had two heroes in my life. My father and Ronald Reagan.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Life
  • Father
  • My Life

• In the end, you have to protect yourself at all times.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • You
  • End
  • Yourself

• Whatever I think the song sounds like is what I'll name it. It's a feeling thing; it's not logical at all.

  

  Thebe Neruda Kgositsile
  • Think
  • Song
  • Feeling

• The only shoes that look futuristic are Crocs, but they would be terrible to use in a futuristic movie.

  

  Olivier Theyskens
  • Movie
  • Look
  • Shoes

• I have no advice for anyone on how to live.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Live
  • Advice
  • How

• When someone holds a knife to your throat it's easy to be scared. It's not hard to imagine what it would be like.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Easy
  • Someone
  • Knife

• Distance doesn't exist, in fact, and neither does time. Vibrations from love or music can be felt everywhere, at all times.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Time
  • Music
  • Love

• Hip-hop in the '90s began moving towards the Nation of Islam and the 5 Percenters, black nationalist movements; very much so, these movements embraced a form of Islam: Malcom X's form of Islam prior to his change.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Black
  • Change
  • Moving

• All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.

  

  Daniel Boone
  • Good
  • Wife
  • Happiness

• In the face of excruciating pain and uncertainty, I never lost hope, and it never occurred to me to stop fighting - not ever.

  

  Farrah Fawcett
  • Hope
  • Lost
  • Stop

• I think sometimes when you play those extra shifts, it gets you into the game a little bit more and gets you a little bit more involved.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Think
  • Game
  • Sometimes

• Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Value
  • Politics
  • Ignorant

• I wish there were more true conversion, and then there would not be so much backsliding, and, for fear of suffering, living at ease, when there are so few to contend for Christ and His cause.

  

  Donald Cargill
  • True
  • Fear
  • Wish

• Before we had airplanes and astronauts, we really thought that there was an actual place beyond the clouds, somewhere over the rainbow. There was an actual place, and we could go above the clouds and find it there.

  

  Barbara Walters
  • Thought
  • Clouds
  • Rainbow

• I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have-life itself.

  

  Walter Inglis Anderson
  • Character
  • Being
  • Thankful

• Conservatives believe government's principal functions are the preservation of freedom and removal of restraints on the individual. Liberalism's ascent in the first two-thirds of this century reflected the new belief that government should also confer capacities on individuals. Liberalism's decline in the final third of this century has reflected doubts about whether government can be good at that, or whether government that is good at that is good for the nation's character.

  

  George Will
  • Believe
  • Character
  • Doubt

• So far as I have myself observed, the distinctive character of a child is to live always in the tangible present.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Character
  • Present
  • Child