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.
Eddie Charles Jones
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
Colonialism is the cousin of slavery.
Chadwick Boseman
Babies and young children are like the research and development division of the human species, and we grown-ups are production and marketing.
Alison Gopnik
Put the greatest emphasis on what's in you; your knowledge, your wisdom, your inner strength, your character, your tenacity and people will look through the box and always walk away with the product.
T. D. Jakes
No matter how hopeless or bleak things appear, the moment always comes when suddenly our spirit revives, and hope is reborn. That is why we must never give up.
Daisaku Ikeda
Let no man of us budge one step, and let slaveholders come to beat us from our country. America is more our country, than it is the whites-we have enriched it with our blood and tears. The greatest riches in all America have arisen from our blood and tears.
David Walker
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
