John Stuart Mill Quotes
In this age, the mere example of nonconformity, the mere refusal to bend the knee to custom, is itself a service.John Stuart Mill
Quotes to Explore
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I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
e. e. cummings -
You know, people always ask, 'What are you like offstage?' And I always say, 'Well, I'm completely normal and mellow.'
Florence Welch Florence and the Machine -
I have a deep and ongoing love of Iceland, particular the landscape, and when writing 'Burial Rites,' I was constantly trying to see whether I could distill its extraordinary and ineffable qualities into a kind of poetry.
Hannah Kent -
I gravitate to the roles, not necessarily television or film. It's just the fact that, for me, the most interesting roles have been in television.
Octavia Spencer -
If you are a businessman or a politician in Iran, you can get a visa as quickly as you ask for it.
Abbas Kiarostami -
September 11 stands on its own as a terrible tragedy.
Vernon Jordan
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Action fiction is driven more by what than by who. Put that ticking nuclear suitcase under Manhattan, and it's relatively easy to create suspense. Literary fiction is driven more by who than by what.
Barry Eisler -
If we focus on loving others the way God does, scripture says that we will be fulfilling His whole law.
Victoria Osteen -
Nobody can stop you but you. And shame on you if you're the one who stops yourself.
Damon Wayans -
Especially in technology, we need revolutionary change, not incremental change.
Larry Page -
That's the great thing about art. Anybody can do it if you just believe. With practice, you can make great paintings.
Damien Hirst -
I believe in that old adage that 'as goes California, so goes the country.'
Kamala Harris
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The past speaks to us in a thousand voices, warning and comforting, animating and stirring to action.
Felix Adler -
A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.
D. Elton Trueblood -
Redemption just means you just make a change in your life and you try to do right, versus what you were doing, which was wrong.
Ice T -
Autumn in New York, why does it seem so inviting?
Vernon Duke -
People in Russia adapt to misery by a deep, deep humor.
Ian Frazier -
What the cops did to Rodney King was wrong, and the officers who beat him should be sent straight to prison.
Eric Lynn Wright
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I've come to terms with the fact that I'm not convincing as an American.
David Anders -
The essence of a man is found in his faults.
Francis Picabia -
During the course of filming 'Top Chef,' I gain 15 lbs., so I'm used to needing two dress sizes.
Padma Lakshmi -
A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper proposing reliable overnight delivery service: The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be feasible.
Frederick W. Smith -
Only the highway of useful service leads to the city of happiness.
Napoleon Hill -
In this age, the mere example of nonconformity, the mere refusal to bend the knee to custom, is itself a service.
John Stuart Mill