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Been Quotes by John Ruskin
- All things are literally better, lovelier, and more beloved for the imperfections which have been divinely appointed, that the law of human life may be…
- A man is one whose body has been trained to be the ready servant of his mind; whose passions are trained to be the servants…
- Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution; it represents the wise choice…
- The root of almost every schism and heresy from which the Christian Church has suffered, has been because of the effort of men to earn,…
- My entire delight was in observing without being myself noticed,- if I could have been invisible, all the better. . . to be in the…
- When I have been unhappy, I have heard an opera... and it seemed the shrieking of winds; when I am happy, a sparrow's chirp is…
- The greatest glory of a building is not in its stones, nor in its gold. Its glory is in its Age, and in that deep…
- If men lived like men indeed, their houses would be temples -- temples which we should hardly dare to injure, and in which it would…
- All real and wholesome enjoyments possible to people have been just as possible to them since first they were made of the earth as they…
- The greatest efforts of the race have always been traceable to the love of praise, as the greatest catastrophes to the love of pleasure.
- Never has interest in art been so high, and never has quality been so low.
- Whereas it has long been known and declared that the poor have no right to the property of the rich, I wish it also to…
- It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I…
- No human face is exactly the same in its lines on each side, no leaf perfect in its lobes, no branch in its symmetry. All…
- One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it…
- I had no companions to quarrel with, nobody to assist, and nobody to thank... the evil consequence of all this was not, however, what might…
More Been Quotes
- I don't think about my previous success. I'm happy that the work I've done has been very successful. — Aaliyah
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt
- Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think… — Asia Argento
- On the field, blacks have been able to be super giants. But, once our playing days are over, this is the end… — Hank Aaron
- He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled. — Aristotle
- Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered. — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle
- Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there… — Aristotle
- I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come… — Paul Auster
- Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that filmmakers, novelists, playwrights, painters have been… — J. J. Abrams
- Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or… — Richard Armour