Ben Jonson Quotes

Ambition, like a torrent, ne'er looks back; And is a swelling, and the last affection A high mind can put off; being both a rebel Unto the soul and reason, and enforceth All laws, all conscience, treads upon religion, and offereth violence to nature's self.

Ben Jonson

• Mind
• Nature
• High
• Soul
• Violence
• Ambition
• Rebel

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• 'Heroes' really changed the game for me in a way that nothing before it had.

  

  Zachary Quinto
  • Game
  • Way
  • Me

• The second I met Zac, I thought he was a really cool guy. It's hard not to have chemistry with someone who is so attractive.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Guy
  • Cool
  • Thought

• I believe a lot in monogamy, let me tell you.

  

  Candice Bergen
  • Believe
  • Me
  • Tell

• Things are simple, it is us human beings that make it difficult.

  

  Caprice Bourret
  • Simple
  • Human
  • Difficult

• 'Punk' doesn't mean Mohawks and safety pins. It's about not conforming.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Mean
  • Safety
  • Punk

• God is each truly and exalted thing, therefore the individual himself to the highest degree. But are not nature and the world individuals?

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • World
  • God
  • Nature

• If you're out for two years, and you beat one guy with a full-time job, without disrespect, but we're talking about fighting for a world title. You can't just beat a guy that went there to cover some guy that got injured, and then this guy, after two and a half years, gets a title shot.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Time
  • World
  • Job

• You can't take yourself too seriously; it's important to poke fun at yourself. Once in a while, it is great to show your inadequacies, too.

  

  Ram Kapoor
  • Great
  • Important
  • Fun

• I like to keep my private life private.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Life
  • Like
  • Private Life

• If you're on a road trip, you need driving music.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Music
  • Road
  • Driving

• English people are famous for never speaking out but only saying what they really feel about you behind your back. Americans believe the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. I like exploring those, er, differences in national snippiness.

  

  Rachel Johnson
  • People
  • Believe
  • English

• September 11 was a wake-up call to me. I don't want to contribute to the hate in any shape or form. I now regret in the past being silent about what I have heard in the Islamic discourse and being part of that with my own anger.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • Up
  • Past
  • Hate

• We've never been anti-Semitic.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • Never
  • Been
  • Anti-Semitic

• I do like being busy. I'm not the kind of person who just sits around and goes to a spa when I'm not working.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Kind
  • Working
  • Busy

• EO 11110 did not order the printing of Silver Certificates. It ordered the amendment of a previous executive order so that the United States Code would authorize or 'empower' the Secretary of the Treasury to issue Silver Certificates if the occasion should arise.

  

  G. Edward Griffin
  • Silver
  • Secretary
  • Empower

• Myth is a powerful medium because it talks to the emotions and not the head. It moves us into an area of mystery.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Powerful
  • Mystery
  • Emotions

• If we want to talk about freedom, we must mean freedom for others as well as ourselves, and we must mean freedom for everyone inside our frontiers as well as outside.

  

  Wendell Willkie
  • Want
  • Freedom
  • Inside

• Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Never
  • Independent
  • Fruit

• Working with Sukumar was amazing. He's someone who trusts his actors and allows them to experiment with dialogues and scenes. When you're working with him, you learn a lot subconsciously, and that helped me in discovering the actor within.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Amazing
  • Actor
  • Working

• There at the moment in Honfleur.. .Boudin and Jongkind are here; we get on marvelously. There's lots to be learned and nature begins to grow beautiful.. .I shall tell you I'm sending a flower picture to the exhibition at Rouen; there are very beautiful flowers at present.

  

  Claude Monet
  • Nature
  • Beautiful
  • Present

• Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Stop
  • Effort

• Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.

  

  Marcus Tullius Cicero
  • Friends

• Ambition, like a torrent, ne'er looks back; And is a swelling, and the last affection A high mind can put off; being both a rebel Unto the soul and reason, and enforceth All laws, all conscience, treads upon religion, and offereth violence to nature's self.

  

  Ben Jonson
  • Mind
  • Nature
  • High