John Stuart Mill Quotes

Is there any moral enormity which might not be justified by imitation of such a Deity?

John Stuart Mill

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• On my best days, such as when I was a junior in high school coming off a 42-point performance and near triple-double, my dad was there to tell me I haven't arrived yet and bring me back to reality.

  

  Candace Parker
  • School
  • High
  • Reality

• If I wasn't a pro-athlete, I would probably eat any dessert dish every day!

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Day
  • Everyday
  • Athlete

• I am a midfielder who is mainly involved in the defensive phases, even if I also like to help build moves - I would say that my foremost quality is my generosity.

  

  Yaya Toure
  • Quality
  • Generosity
  • Defensive

• I think I've become the go-to mustache man. It works in period pieces. Modern-day mustaches are probably creepy. But I get compliments - everyone's like, 'Wow, love the 'stache, dude.'

  

  Jack Huston
  • Think
  • Man
  • Like

• Greatness in art is always a by-product.

  

  Harold Rosenberg
  • Art
  • Greatness

• Barack Obama's inspirational whoosh to the presidency in 2008 was unusual. Most campaigns are less exhilarating; indeed, they are downright disappointing - until someone wins.

  

  Joe Klein
  • inspirational

• We have to engineer devices that are going to work in space stations. Those same things are going to work in the most remote regions on Earth.

  

  Kathleen Rubins
  • Work
  • Earth
  • Space

• Ninety percent of the time, when I put on my headphones, I forget to turn on my music. Literally 10 minutes will go by before I realize that there's no music.

  

  Alex Morgan
  • Time
  • Music

• The first piece of 'long' fiction I wrote was a novella parody of Stephen King's 'Christine.' I was in high school, and my version was about a kid with a possessed locker instead of a possessed car. It was also my first attempt at humour, which fell completely flat because no one who read it realized it was a parody!

  

  Kelley Armstrong
  • Long
  • School
  • High

• I mean, there's chemistry in life and there's acting chemistry. I'm not saying they're the same thing, but they're as mysterious.

  

  David Duchovny
  • Life
  • Mysterious

• I urge everyone - men, boys, women and girls - to join me in standing up for girls' rights with Plan U.K.

  

  Lena Headey
  • Up
  • Men
  • Women

• As I look at the barn in my ninth decade, I see the no-smoking sign, rusted and tilting on the unpainted gray clapboard. My grandfather, born in 1875, milked his cattle there a century ago.

  

  Donald Hall
  • Smoking

• Paradox is the technique for seizing the conflicting aspects of any problem. Paradox coalesces or telescopes various facets of a complex process in a single instant. (p. 106)

  

  Marshall McLuhan
  • Single

• I believe that the evidence will show that there was not so much a conspiracy, but a convergence of interests with three different groups that had an interest in eliminating [Malcolm X] voice and his vision.

  

  Manning Marable
  • Believe
  • Different
  • Vision

• God loves all those who love him: I love them that love Me.

  

  Alphonsus Liguori
  • God
  • Love

• It is not just the more talented player who wins. Some players may try a little harder.

  

  Arthur Ashe
  • May
  • Player
  • Wins

• Every day I wear my Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth medallions around my neck. When I think I'm having a bad day, I try to think about their day, and I get up.

  

  Marian Wright Edelman
  • Up
  • Truth
  • Bad

• Rappers are in danger

  

  Omar Credle

• The spread of personal ownership is in harmony with the deepest instincts of the British people. Few changes have done more to create one nation.

  

  Nigel Lawson
  • Harmony
  • Nations
  • Instinct

• Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism.

  

  Wendell Phillips
  • Criticism
  • Form
  • Boredom

• The wise man looks back into the past, and does not grieve over what is far off, nor rejoice over what is near; for he knows that time is without end.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Wise Man
  • Rejoice
  • Grieve

• Tell you the truth, the night before, I don't sleep. It's exciting to be in postseason, you fight one-hitter 62 games, you make it.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • Truth
  • Night
  • Sleep

• Beethoven, Wagner, Bach, and Mozart settled down day after day to the job in hand. They didn't waste time waiting for inspiration.

  

  Ernest Newman
  • Job
  • Hand
  • Inspiration

• Is there any moral enormity which might not be justified by imitation of such a Deity?

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • Imitation
  • Justified
  • Enormity