John Ruskin Quotes
I used to lie down on the grass and draw the blades as they grew - until every square foot of meadow, or mossy bank, became a possession to me.
John Ruskin
Quotes to Explore
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You're stronger, and you're better, and you're
ready for whatever.
Alicia Keys
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If I couldn't laugh, I just would go insane. If we couldn't laugh, we just would go insane. If we weren't all crazy, we would go insane.
Jimmy Buffett
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Words are but the shell; meditation is the kernel.
Bahya ibn Paquda
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I think, as a president, you have to want respect. You can't look for love from the American people. You have to just do what you think is right. Some people will hate you, but others, in the long run, will respect you for what you've done.
Doris Kearns Goodwin
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In good speaking, should not the mind of the speaker know the truth of the matter about which he is to speak.
Plato
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Authority is never without hate.
Euripides
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What little recognition the idea of obligation to the public obtains in modern morality, is derived from Greek and Roman sources, not from Christian; as, even in the morality of private life, whatever exists of magnanimity, high-mindeness, personal dignity, even the sense of honour, is derived from the purely human, not the religious part of our education, and never could have grown out of a standard of ethics in which the only worth, professedly recognized, is that of obedience.
John Stuart Mill
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Zeal will do more than knowledge.
William Hazlitt
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If I am virtuous and worthy, for whom should I not maintain a proper concern?
Confucius
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If there could only be more time, he thought. But, of course, there never was. There was not the time right now and there would never be. No matter how many centuries he might be able to devote, there'd always be so much more knowledge than he'd gathered at the moment that the little he had gathered would always seem a pittance.
Clifford D. Simak
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The only time I've been arrested was in opposing the Marble Hill nuclear power plant in Indiana. That was in 1979.
Wendell Berry
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You saw how long the grass was, it was very long and it spoiled the game.
Vanderlei Luxemburgo
