John Ruskin Quotes
It ought to be quite as natural and straightforward a matter for a labourer to take his pension from his parish, because he has deserved well of his parish, as for a man in higher rank to take his pension from his country, because he has deserved well of his country.
John Ruskin
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Home court changes everything. If you have home court, you're expected to win.
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Leaving all the glamour and air-kissing aside, at the end of the day, fashion is about operations and getting things done. The best way to be successful, therefore, is to learn from the people who do it best.
Imran Amed
In December 2004, I travelled on the road from Uzbekistan across the Oxus River on which the first Soviet convoys had rolled into Afghanistan 25 years before.
Pankaj Mishra
I went from 118 pounds to 135 pounds in a few months. But, I still didn't know anything about food.
Warren Cuccurullo
Duran Duran
There's a lot of projection that if you're in service then you shouldn't look good. I'm no different from anybody else. I like clothes, I like shoes, I like to go have nice dinners, I like to dance. Just because I've dedicated myself to serving women, why do you think I need to sacrifice myself?
Zainab Salbi
As far as I can remember, every dime I ever had went to something extravagant. I would rather spend more, buy fewer items and have them forever.
Rachel Zoe
It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
W. Somerset Maugham
Two days after returning from Montreal, I was training again, and I went on to win two more golds at the 1980 Moscow Olympics.
Nadia Comaneci
It's all about risk-taking when you're making an album. Don't be scared to do weird things sometimes.
Vic Fuentes
I always had the dream of flying, and the cheapest way is to become a skydiver.
Felix Baumgartner
I'm into Gucci a lot, like vintage '70s everything. I'm into Versace.
Kat Graham
I wrote a song several years ago while I was in college called 'Muscadine Wine.' I really didn't know if it had potential or not, if it was good or bad or what. I played it for my roommates - who I played ball with - one night, and I knew they would tell me the truth. They loved it, and that encouraged me.
Sam Hunt
When I was in my 20s, I learned not only how to work hard but about the importance of focus.
Dara Khosrowshahi
Technology and the Internet are not just changing politics here in the U.S. It's also happening abroad. In the Philippines, where I grew up, grassroots organizers used text messaging to help overthrow a president.
Jose Antonio Vargas
Many a man's tongue shakes out his master's undoing.
William Shakespeare
I used to be sick of the backroads of Minnesota. I had to drive 30 miles to get home every day, take the schoolbus for two hours. But to drive through America and see the backroads, from Nashville to Memphis, Lovick to New Mexico, was incredible. It was probably the greatest trip of my life.
Garrett Hedlund
I know them, yea,
And what they weigh, even to the utmost scruple;
Scambling, out-facing, fashion-mong'ring boys,
That lie, and cog, and flout, deprave, and slander,
Go antickly, and show outward hideousness,
And speak off half a dozen dangerous words,
How they might hurt their enemies, if they durst;
And this is all.
William Shakespeare
It ought to be quite as natural and straightforward a matter for a labourer to take his pension from his parish, because he has deserved well of his parish, as for a man in higher rank to take his pension from his country, because he has deserved well of his country.
John Ruskin
