John Ruskin Quotes

Society has sacrificed its virtues to the Goddess of Getting Along.

John Ruskin

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• When Mitt Romney talked about Putin expanding his sphere of influence, Obama mocked and said, 'The Cold War has been over 20 years, nothing to be worried about'... We keep making that mistake with Putin.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • War
  • Mistake
  • Cold

• All performances are different. I don't think it's necessary to compare one with another. I am just me playing the role of Lear. You're bound to get a Holm approach to it, whatever that may be. I just got out there and did it. I'm very much a doer in my acting.

  

  Ian Holm
  • Acting
  • Role
  • Performances

• If I was a bajillionaire, I would spend a lot of time at Barneys just buying all kinds of great things all the time. I would have so many black cashmeres it would be out of control. I like the way nice things feel very much.

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • Time
  • Great
  • Black

• I was in a really crummy pop-punk band. I think we did a whole bunch of Blink-182 covers, and we were on the fringe of losers and jocks. So we invited all the cool kids to come watch us play in our bass player's brother's bedroom. And it was terrible, but everyone thought we were so cool.

  

  Nate Ruess Fun.
  • Kids
  • Band
  • Cool

• We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Good
  • Nice
  • Dark

• Feminists have confused opportunity with outcome.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Opportunity
  • Confused

• In my state, over 17,000 households are going hungry on a regular basis.

  

  Patrick J. Kennedy
  • Going
  • Hungry
  • Over

• I've always been taught that hard work doesn't fail.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Work
  • Hard Work
  • Fail

• Twitter is all about user experience - the fact that it is so easy, so clean, so unencumbered has won it so many users and fans, for so many different reasons.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Different
  • Experience
  • Easy

• My father thought sport was something fun - he didn't know it was a way to make money. Then I won a Mercedes at the world championships and I gave it to him. From the moment it arrived my father said: 'Good, you can support not just yourself but me too'.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • World
  • Good
  • Money

• I just feel like growing up in Los Angeles, you learn, 'Well you're never gonna be the prettiest girl in the room, so just don't even try.' I mean, I care about being pretty, but it's not my most valued thing.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Up
  • Pretty
  • Girl

• All you needed back then was a blow dryer and a dream.

  

  Taylor Dayne
  • Dream
  • You
  • Blow

• I studied at a grammar school and later at the University of Vienna in the Faculty of Medicine.

  

  Karl von Frisch
  • School
  • Medicine
  • Grammar

• I steal scenes, I steal opportunities. I am the ultimate thief. I got sticky fingers, man. They all call me The Thief.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Opportunities
  • Scenes
  • Steal

• If you learn how to forgive others for not being strong, then people can learn how to forgive you for your own issues.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • People
  • Strong
  • Strength

• I'm a spiritual person, I'm an America, I'm a Jew, and all of those things influence every breath I take, everywhere I go.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • America
  • Spiritual
  • Influence

• With foreign officials come foreign merchants, and with foreign merchants come foreign soldiers. They will usurp our authority and influence to begin with, and in the course of time, our guests will have become our hosts.

  

  Zhang Zhidong
  • Time
  • Influence
  • Soldiers

• When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Religion

• When I left for college, I put Miami behind me and tried to have a life of the mind. I got a graduate degree. I traveled. I even married a fellow writer, whose only real estate was a dingy one-bedroom apartment in Paris, where we lived.

  

  Pamela Druckerman
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Real

• Strength, the American way, is not manifested by threats of criminal prosecution or police state methods. Leadership is not manifested by coercion, even against the resented. Greatness is not manifested by unlimited pragmatism, which places such a high premium on the end justifying any means and any methods.

  

  Margaret Chase Smith
  • American
  • High
  • Leadership

• My parents had three kids right after the Second World War, and we were all sort of sickly. Then I had a fourth sibling, with very serious asthma. The medical bills... So my parents always struggled.

  

  Patti Smith
  • World
  • Kids
  • War

• Things get much easier if one jumps on the bandwagon of existing trends.

  

  Lei Jun

• Europe, which gave us the idea of same-sex marriage, is a dying society, with birthrates 50 percent below replacement.

  

  Maggie Gallagher
  • Society
  • Marriage
  • Sex

• Society has sacrificed its virtues to the Goddess of Getting Along.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Society
  • Virtues
  • Goddess