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.John Ruskin
Quotes to Explore
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The only thing worse than an active conscience is one that's retroactive.
Harold Coffin -
I'm from New York, so I'm not a big driver.
Dan Fogler -
I am interested in the subject which is Russia.
Tatyana Tolstaya -
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.
Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy -
There's no musical landscape to poetry. It has somewhat of a higher standard than songs, I think.
J. D. Souther -
Laws are to be enforced justly but firmly, with an iron hand. This is the case anywhere, even in a family.
Abu Bakar Bashir
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I never thought of being disadvantaged.
Natalie du Toit -
One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.
K. A. Applegate -
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.
Tammy Blanchard -
People don't hear me talk. They don't expect me to.
Kate Moss -
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.
Zoe Foster Blake -
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.
Tariq Ramadan
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Being happy is of the utmost importance. Success in anything is through happiness.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi -
People come into your life and people leave it... you just have to trust that life has a road mapped out for you.
Orlando Bloom -
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?
T. S. Eliot -
We are robust when errors in the representation of the unknown and understanding of random effects do not lead to adverse outcomes -fragile otherwise.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb -
So many of the optimists in the world don't own a hundred dollars, and because of their optimism, never will.
E. W. Howe -
Jesus, give the wearyCalm and sweet repose.With Thy tend'rest blessingMay our eyelids close.
Sabine Baring-Gould
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Everything has a meaning, if only we could read it.
Philip Pullman -
When I was five years old, I told my parents that I wanted to take ballet. So, ballet was the focus of my life... until puberty. Then I discovered boys and started dating a guy with a mohawk who'd come to my ballet class and freak everybody out. Shortly after that is when I quit.
Chandra West -
The purpose of a business is to create customers.
Sam Wyly -
Billions have been spent for one purpose and one purpose only: to obscure and distract from the fact that Mitt Romney is backing the identical agenda George W. Bush did.
Adam McKay -
Possibly the Creator did not make the world chiefly for the purpose of providing studies for gifted novelists; but if He had done so, we can scarcely imagine that He could have offered anything much better in the way of material.
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward -
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.
John Ruskin