John Ruskin Quotes

That which seems to be wealth may in verity be only the gilded index of far reaching ruin.

John Ruskin

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• I'm a real common sense guy who caught a lot of good breaks and who has been very, very fortunate.

  

  Vince McMahon
  • Good
  • Real
  • Guy

• There's a good deal in common between the mind's eye and the TV screen, and though the TV set has all too often been the boobtube, it could be, it can be, the box of dreams.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Good
  • Mind
  • Eye

• I'm a fixer, unfortunately. I'm like, 'Oh, I can fix you.' But it's not just guys I'm dating anymore. It's this entire legion of young girls who tell me they need me to maintain any sort of sanity or peace.

  

  Halsey
  • Guys
  • Girls
  • Sanity

• I'm no Method actor. I've tried staying in character, and it's just exhausting.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Character
  • Actor
  • Just

• I have a grim outlook on the world, and in particular on humanity. Spent years denying it, but I am very misanthropic. And I live alone on a mountain for a reason.

  

  Caleb Carr
  • World
  • Live
  • Alone

• The truth is, I'm proud of the life I've lived so far, and though I've made my share of mistakes, I have no regrets.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Life
  • Truth
  • Proud

• I don't hit it as far as a lot of guys do, so I have to be in the right spot in the fairway to score, and that means driving it well. The two biggest keys for me are to make a good transition and to keep my hands ahead of the clubhead through impact. I want to feel as if my swing is two swings: one going back and another coming down.

  

  Zach Johnson The Fray
  • Good
  • Me
  • Driving

• Yoga carves you into a different person - and that is satisfying physically.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • Different
  • You
  • Person

• What makes Gucci Mane Gucci Mane is like what made Frank Sinatra Frank Sinatra - it's just him. He's trap's Frank Sinatra.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • Like
  • Him
  • Gucci

• Dancing doesn't have a language.

  

  Leighton Paul Walsh
  • Language
  • Dancing

• Well, more than me saying to the rest of the country music industry there is not enough traditional country music - that is not necessarily the statement in truth. I think more so that I, me, missed it more than anything else.

  

  Vince Gill
  • Music
  • Country
  • Truth

• The opponents of this process have always tried to vilify westernization as a poor imitation.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Always
  • Process
  • Imitation

• Community action is as valuable a principle on the international level as it has been domestically.

  

  Barney Frank
  • Community
  • Action
  • Principle

• As I have said many times - I like Facebook. I think it is well built and run. It's cool. I think it is, in its next-step way, even visionary.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Think
  • Cool
  • Run

• I love the game of basketball. I guess it started with 'Space Jam.' Right after that movie, I went out there to my little Flight hoop and tried to do every dunk in the movie.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Movie
  • Game
  • Space

• I've never had a cold Christmas, as I always spend it back home in Australia.

  

  Mallory Jansen
  • Home
  • Cold
  • Christmas

• I hated my father long before I knew there was a word for hate.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Long
  • Father
  • Hate

• But it seemed to me that as soon as you have computer storage you could put every point you wanted in – make the ones that are less relevant to your central topic, further away or allow the central topic to move as the reader proceeded.

  

  Ted Nelson
  • Computer
  • Point
  • Reader

• Literature is the most noble of professions. In fact, it is about the only one fit for a man.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe

• The Christian religion teaches me two points-that there is a God whom men can know, and that their nature is so corrupt that they are unworthy of Him.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • God
  • Teaches
  • Christian Religion

• Everything and everyone alive today is descended from an organism that somehow survived the impact. But it does not follow from this that they or we are any better adapted. In times of extreme stress, the whole concept of fitness, at least in a Darwinian sense, loses its meaning: how could a creature be adapted, either well or ill, for conditions it has never before encountered in its entire evolutionary history?

  

  Elizabeth Kolbert
  • Stress
  • Evolution
  • Creature

• We will bring back our jobs. We will bring back our borders. We will bring back our wealth. And we will bring back our dreams.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Dreams
  • Jobs
  • Wealth

• Modern medicine is not scientific, it is full of prejudice, illogic and susceptible to advertising. Doctors are not taught to reason, they are programmed to believe in whatever their medical schools teach them and the leading doctors tell them. Over the past 20 years the drug companies, with their enormous wealth, have taken medicine over and now control its research, what is taught and the information released to the public.

  

  Abram Hoffer
  • Control
  • Wealth
  • Research

• That which seems to be wealth may in verity be only the gilded index of far reaching ruin.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Wealth
  • Ruin
  • Verity