John Ruskin Quotes

We have much studied and much perfected, of late, the great civilized invention of the division of labour; only we give it a false name. It is not, truly speaking, the labour that is divided; but the men.

John Ruskin

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• Speaking
• Studied
• False Name

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• Limitlessness is important for me; I want to be able to use every opportunity to push me forward onto the next thing.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • Important
  • Opportunity
  • Me

• Sometimes art is ahead of revolution.

  

  Ziad Doueiri
  • Art
  • Sometimes
  • Revolution

• Most Australians who've got an ear can do an American accent because we grow up listening to them on television and in movies.

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • Up
  • American
  • Listening

• America is a world leader, but we should not be its policeman or ATM.

  

  Rand Paul
  • World
  • America
  • Leader

• Cooking is for chefs. Science informs us and lets us cook while knowing what we are doing, but it is not a replacement for the skills of a chef.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Science
  • Cooking
  • Chef

• I was baptized alongside my mother when I was 8 years old. Since then I have tried to walk a Christian life. And now that I'm getting older I realize that I'm walking even closer with my God.

  

  Andy Griffith
  • Life
  • God
  • Mother

• With some people there is such a thing as the habit of betrayal.

  

  Han Suyin
  • People
  • Habit
  • Betrayal

• But Nightshirts aren't dangerous," Pippi assured her. "They don't bite anybody except in self defense.

  

  Astrid Lindgren
  • Defense
  • Nightshirts

• A system is a network of interdependent components that work together to try to accomplish the aim of the system. A system must have an aim. Without the aim, there is no system.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • Work
  • Together

• J-Hope always tries to cheer us up, and I'm so grateful. Actually, I like to call him a new leader for the group.

  

  Kim Nam-joon BTS
  • Up
  • Hope
  • Cheer

• I don't know about you, but when they first introduced bottled water, I thought it was so funny, I was like "Bottled water! Haha, they're selling bottled water! ... I guess I'll try it. Ah, this is good, this is more watery than water. Yeah, this has got a water kick to it."

  

  Jim Gaffigan
  • Trying
  • Funny
  • Water

• Historical awareness is a kind of resurrection.

  

  William Lewis Trogdon
  • History
  • Kind
  • Historical

• India is one vast prison with high walls of suppression clothing her mind and her body.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Mind
  • Prison
  • Suppression

• The pitcher has got only a ball. I've got a bat. So the percentage in weapons is in my favor and I let the fellow with the ball do the fretting.

  

  Hank Aaron
  • Weapons
  • Favor
  • Bat

• Finally, please remember this. If you EVER need something that you can stand behind, something to help you to take on and deflect all of the hatred of this often cruel world, you will ALWAYS have Black Veil Brides.

  

  Andy Biersack Black Veil Brides
  • World
  • Remember
  • Black

• As much land as a man tills, plants, improves, cultivated, and can use the product of, so much is his property. He by his labour does, as it were, enclose it from the common.

  

  John Locke Nazareth
  • Common
  • Property
  • Labour

• The whole result of continued labour is not often consumed and enjoyed in a moment; the result generally lasts for a certain length of time. We must then conceive the capital as being progressively uninvested.

  

  William Stanley Jevons
  • Moments
  • Certain
  • Results

• We have much studied and much perfected, of late, the great civilized invention of the division of labour; only we give it a false name. It is not, truly speaking, the labour that is divided; but the men.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Labour
  • Speaking
  • Studied