John Ruskin Quotes
Sky is the part of creation in which Nature has done more for the sake of pleasing man, more for the sole and evident purpose of talking to him and teaching him, than in any other of her works, and it is just the part in which we least attend to her.
Quotes to Explore
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The only thing worse than an active conscience is one that's retroactive.
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Do not say, 'It is morning,' and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a newborn child that has no name.
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I'm from New York, so I'm not a big driver.
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I am interested in the subject which is Russia.
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All of the agreed-upon pariahs throughout pop-culture history put their identities into the thing we decry. And yet we derive our own identities from the act of hating. We connect on the things we are disappointed in. Some may argue that nothing in history gathers a crowd like complaining about Lady Gaga's meat dress.
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There's no musical landscape to poetry. It has somewhat of a higher standard than songs, I think.
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Laws are to be enforced justly but firmly, with an iron hand. This is the case anywhere, even in a family.
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I never thought of being disadvantaged.
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One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.
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Even when you are playing someone who is real, you get their mannerisms and you get their little quirks, but, it still has to be something inside of you that connects with the role, or else you will not be any good.
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People don't hear me talk. They don't expect me to.
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At 9 P.M., everything goes off - and it's hard. But it's something you've got to do. I'm wasting my life.
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It is of the highest importance to provide equal access to the labour market. Governments should act to establish equitable employment standards and penalise racial discrimination.
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Being happy is of the utmost importance. Success in anything is through happiness.
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People come into your life and people leave it... you just have to trust that life has a road mapped out for you.
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And I have known the eyes already, known them all - The eyes that fix you in a formulated phrase,And when I am formulated, sprawling on a pin,When I am pinned and wriggling on the wall,Then how should I beginTo spit out all the butt-ends of my days and ways?
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We are robust when errors in the representation of the unknown and understanding of random effects do not lead to adverse outcomes -fragile otherwise.
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So many of the optimists in the world don't own a hundred dollars, and because of their optimism, never will.
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If to serenade almost to man Is to miss, by that, things as they are, Say that it is the serenade Of a man that plays a blue guitar.
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We Are All in the Same Boat.
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Republicans let this happen over and over, and there is never anyone to stick up for them. They spend too much time defending themselves.
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I'm trying to throw a big broad net to try to get people interested in God and believe that He's for them and has a purpose.
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What a different story men would have to tell if only they would adopt a DEFINITE PURPOSE, and stand by that purpose until it had time to become an all-consuming obsession!
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Sky is the part of creation in which Nature has done more for the sake of pleasing man, more for the sole and evident purpose of talking to him and teaching him, than in any other of her works, and it is just the part in which we least attend to her.
