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
  • Talented

• 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

• Two things, almost incompatible, are united in me in a manner which I am unable to understand: a very ardent temperament, lively and tumultuous passions, and, at the same time, slowly developed and confused ideas, which never present themselves until it is too late. One might say that my heart and my mind do not belong to the same person.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Heart

• How peacefully he sleep! Yet may his ever-questing spirit, freed at length from all the frettings of this little world, Wander at will among the uncharted stars. Fairfield his name. Perchance celestial fields disclosing long sought secrets of the past Spread 'neath his enraptured gaze And beasts and men that to his earthly sight were merely bits of stone shall live again to gladden those eager eyes. o let us picture him-enthusiast-scientist-friend- Seeker of truth and light through all eternity!

  

  Charles R. Knight
  • Truth
  • Sleep
  • Stars

• It sweetens every bit of work to think that I am doing it in humble, far-off, yet real imitation of Jesus.

  

  Elizabeth Prentiss
  • Work
  • Think
  • Jesus

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

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • Imitation
  • Justified
  • Enormity