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People Quotes by John Ruskin
- You will find that the mere resolve not to be useless, and the honest desire to help other people, will, in the quickest and delicatest…
- There's no music in rest, but there's the making of music in it. And people are always missing that part of the life melody, always…
- On the whole, it is patience which makes the final difference between those who succeed or fail in all things. All the greatest people have…
- Science lives only in quiet places, and with odd people, mostly poor.
- People cannot live by lending money to one another.
- 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,…
- Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think.
- How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it?
- At every moment of our lives we should be trying to find out, not in what we differ with other people, but in what we…
- People are eternally divided into two classes, the believer, builder, and praiser...and the unbeliever, destroyer and critic.
- I cannot but think it an evil sign of a people when their houses are built to last for one generation only.
- Depend upon it, the first universal characteristic of all great art is Tenderness, as the second is Truth. I find this more and more every…
- 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…
- There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider…
- The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual…
- Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it.
- In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do…
- Nearly all the powerful people of this age are unbelievers, the best of them in doubt and misery, the most in plodding hesitation, doing as…
- The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something and tell what it saw in a plain way. Hundreds…
- The entire object of true education is to make people not merely do the right things, but enjoy the right things — not merely industrious,…
- The entire object of true education, is to make people not merely do the right thing, but to enjoy right things; not merely industrious, but…
- Noone can do me any good by loving me, I have more love than I need or could do any good with, but people do…
More People Quotes
- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do. — J. J. Abrams
- As far as we are concerned, we are ready to leave today, tomorrow, at any time, to join the people of Haiti,… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- I know how the American people care for that democratic principle. They want to see their vote respected. As we in Haiti… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle