John Ruskin Quotes
But whether thus submissively or not, at least be sure that you go to the author to get at his meaning, not to find yours.
Quotes to Explore
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If we don't have God in our life, we're considered dead.
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My view is that innovation has declined in the everyday processes that businesses tinker with incrementally as they try to become more productive over time.
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Too many executives I've met over the years have the mentality of a bodybuilder; they've come to accept the idea that growth is synonymous with success.
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If you go back and watch 'The French Connection,' it's been cannibalized so many times. There are certain movies like that, where you see the original and think, 'This isn't so great.' And the reason it isn't so great is because everyone has copied it.
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I don't like controversy.
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When you're 21, you think, 'Oh God, when I'm 36, oh God, that's nearly 40 and I'll look really old and wrinkly by then.' And actually, I quite like the way I look.
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The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.
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I'm obsessed with 'Scandal.' I love, love, love it. I've gotten to meet all of the cast at this point, and they're all so, so nice.
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I've never rejected the world I came from. To be rejected by it is horrible.
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I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana's loss, and gratitude for her all-too-short life. It is a chance to show to the whole world the British nation united in grief and respect.
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Leadership comes in small acts as well as bold strokes.
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God, I can push the grass apart and lay my finger on Thy heart.
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Actors are just soldiers who follow commands.
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Jazz is the only music in which the same note can be played night after night but differently each time.
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If a strong government finds that it can, with impunity, destroy a weak people, then the hour has struck for that weak people to appeal to the League of Nations to give its judgment in all freedom. God and history will remember your judgment.
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'Runaround Sue' was a big record for me, as well as the music video for it.
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I just had to find something else to fulfill me. Always being a singer and writing, it was a blessing. My brother started making music that was the kind of music I always saw myself singing.
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In neurotics, worm phobias are usually found as well as snake phobias.
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We know what we are supposed to do and we don't want to do it, so we do the exact opposite anyway. And, it never goes well for us when we do that.
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People sometimes are so confident in their flawed beliefs that they get stuck - fixated - and as a result are blinded to insights that are right in front of them.
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Let us unite on the safe and sure ground of fact and experiment, and we can never err; yet better, we can never differ.
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No author's writing more influenced my own than that of Robert Louis Stevenson. My first steampunk story, 'The Ape-box Affair,' is a sort of melange of Stevenson and P.G. Wodehouse.
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But whether thus submissively or not, at least be sure that you go to the author to get at his meaning, not to find yours.
