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Clearly the economy had a good head of steam on it right through the hurricane period.


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ALAN RUSKIN We ran into a very good team. They were on a roll. I think we eventually just ran out of gas. The he...
WALT JOCKETTY It highlights the imbalances that [Federal Reserve Chairman Alan] Greenspan has talked about the las...
HARVINDER KALIRAI I think the hurricane kind of passed through there and knocked the power out, but I wouldn't have go...
ANDY ESTEN We had all sorts of judgments about where the economy is heading before the hurricane. The hurricane...
HARVEY ROSENBLUM We're anticipating that the online release of the record builds up a real good head of steam, so tha...
AL TELLER I reluctantly soldiered on to the raccoon. It actually would have tasted quite good had I not had th...
LESTER HOLT You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part.
HENRY JAMES The wider impact of Hurricane Katrina on the national economy is now becoming evident and none of it...
PAUL ASHWORTH In the feasibility study, we assumed it would be a four-year construction period, but that may have ...
RON CARMAN The bottom line is -- we had a hurricane go through.
DEBBIE DEREK Right now, [our] leading indicators clearly show that the U.S. economy is in a window of vulnerabili...
LAKSHMAN ACHUTHAN Fortunately for India, it has got a growing economy. If it is doing the right things with taxation a...
BILL GATES People in life should not judge other people whoever they are whatever they do there religion or cre...
GARY F EVANS... As the dragon charged it released huge clouds of hissing steam through its nostrils. It was almost a...
HEYWOOD BROUN Even before the hurricane hit, rising energy prices were having a dampening effect on the economy,
NARIMAN BEHRAVESH Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C. Higher energy prices stemming from the hurricane season and fundamental energy supply shortages are ...
DAVID HUETHER What Greenspan did well is he steered through these crises and came out with minimal damage to the e...
GUS FAUCHER We got a full head of steam with the momentum we got from that inning.
DAVID WRIGHT She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I love my mom so much. I don't care if that's corny to say. I think on my next birthday, I'm going t...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY We Are All Infinite
STEPHEN CHBOSKY (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes...
JEAN SASSON You can't just sit there and put everyone's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I saw other people there. Old men sitting alone. Young girls with blue eye shadow and awkward jaws. ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY That one moment when you know you are not a sad story. You are ALIVE.
STEPHAN CHBOSKY Somos quienes somos por un montón de razones.Quizás nunca conozcamos la mayoría de ellas.Pero aun...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Ambos dijeron que tomara asiento y parecían hablar en serio, así que me senté.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I know these will all be stories some day, and our pictures will become old photographs. We all beco...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybewe'll never know most of them.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY There's nothing like the deep breathes after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore st...
STHEPHEN CHBOSKY no more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I don't know the significance of this, but I find it very interesting.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Maybe it’s sad that these are now memories. And maybe it’s not sad.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY We went into this hurricane with a strong economy, with a resilient economy and we'll have a short-t...
CARLOS GUTIERREZ The U.S. is the steam engine of the world's economy, so a slowdown in that market will hurt Asia's e...
BARRO LIAO If we don't buy a billion iPads, three-hundred million people will die of starvation. That's how the...
JUSTIN ALBERT PECOT III Given the uncertainty of the effect the hurricane may have on the economy, the Fed may take a pause ...
STUART THOMSON These are all steps in the right direction. Clearly the sale of the aircraft unit is a positive. I h...
ANTON SCHUTZ I felt we should have attacked the basket. It worked out perfect. We got the ball to Keith. He had p...
BILL SELF Had Hurricane Katrina not come through here, Rita would be the event of the decade.
GIL JAMIESON Alan Butcher is a Surrey man through and through,
ALEC STEWART We just ran out of steam (in the fourth period). We weren't hitting our shots and were tired in the ...
DAVID PIEHLER In a world in which the common rule which binds and regulates what the general masses feel is underm...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH The biggest story of the year is clearly the record-breaking hurricane season.
AGBELI AMEKO Right now the economy, especially on the lake, is very good. And there's plenty of work out there.
JASON TURNER Right before halftime, they stuck it to us and began to score at will. We went on a massive run begi...
BETH YOUNG Alan had a bumpy stretch when he was sick, but he had a really good game last week.
GRAHAM WHITEHOUSE A goal without real consequences is wishful thinking. Good follow-through doesn't depend on the righ...
TIMOTHY FERRISS VIEW FROM A HILL

I am not yet quite over it.
I am lying down on top of it.
Surv...
JOHN TOTTENHAM The Bush administration has run out of options when it comes to the economy, ... Clearly they don't ...
USHER We had watched the weather forecasts. We had lived through Hurricane Betsy. We figured the city was ...
HURLINE MAGEE I'm in the middle of the road, it seems vague of unclear way, of where I'm going but no matter what ...
HLONIM They stand uncertainly underneath immense skies, and everything about them is drowned.
JACK KEROUAC I heard the Denver and Rio Grande locomotives howling off in to the mountains. I wanted to pursue my...
JACK KEROUAC I read my copy of On the Road and dug the scenery whizzing past. On the Road is a semi-autobiographi...
CORY DOCTOROW Literary men now routinely tell their readers about their divorces. One literary man who reviews boo...
GEORGE W. S. TROW We try to tone down the 'Alan is so great' kind of stuff. We don't want him to get a big head, and h...
KEN CLARK There are signs the economy is trying to turn the corner. It is very difficult for communities to ge...
DANNY HEARN It was nice to get good support. You know, 7-0 in the second period. I had to check the clock to mak...
ROBERTO LUONGO I'm totally going through a rebel period right now. It's sort of waning, but ... ach, I'm allowed, r...
CLAIRE DANES I don't think (Fed Chairman Alan) Greenspan is ready to let the economy roll off the cliff.
ART CASHIN Clearly, Mayor Bloomberg did some things right. I think he did a very good job on public health. He ...
BILL DE BLASIO They're in the middle of a very solid time period right now. It's all good.
DAVID HAAS Roschach's Journal: October 12th, 1985

Dog carcass in alley this morning, tire tre...
ALAN MOORE When the kicker sees a flash of white facing him [on his approach], ... nothing good is going throug...
DERRICK FROST Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretche...
EMMA LAZARUS I was very grateful to have heard it again. Because I guess we all forget sometimes. And I think eve...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even if...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY It?s an excellent choice. There are some very good people on the board right now and clearly he is v...
CARL PARDOE The economy is neither roaring nor stalling; it's clearly out of the soft patch and moving along at ...
BILL CHENEY They did a good job of trying to get into my head. I think they accomplished that in the second peri...
ROBBIE EARL Like the rest of the economy, the housing market is clearly showing the effects of the Sept. 11 atta...
BRUCE SMITH Policy makers will observe the effects of the revaluation on the economy and the degree to which it ...
BA SHUSONG These two reports continue to suggest that the US economy was on fairly solid ground going into the ...
DEREK HOLT [In short, it's the good economy, stupid.] There is widespread perception that other forces have con...
BRUCE CAIN The first period was very good for us. We got two big goals and we had good defense in the third per...
JUSSI JOKINEN It went through the building like wildfire. Like a hurricane, literally.
DEANNA HINDENACH I knew in my head that I had to leave the period with a point. That was critical.
KORY BISSETT Clearly, Iowa is in a good place right now.
ROBERT BROWN We're here for such a short period of time. Live like you're already dead, man. Have a good ...
JEFF BRIDGES Gas prices are the classic pocketbook issue for the average person and the average family, and these...
CHARLIE BLACK Flying through a hurricane is the most fearsome shaking you will ever get. Everything has to be tied...
GREG MACGILLIVRAY The U.S. economy is kind of a juggernaut. Look at the last few quarters, how it shook off oil price ...
PAUL MERSKI Lord, I'm thankful for every stumble because it was then that You lifted me; I'm thankful for every ...
LISA MISCHELLE WOOD At any other time it's better. You can do the things you feel you should; you're an expert at going ...
DEXTER PALMER The administration seems like it's preoccupied with a lot of other issues from Iraq (to Hurricane) K...
DAVID MAKOVSKY As good as we were in Seattle over that five-year period, and that five-year period was as good a fi...
TERRY STOTTS You silly," said Abdul, "those clouds don' mean nothing. I see'd them plenty a'ready. It was jus' co...
THEO ENGELA I don't know if I have a favorite color.
KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl.
KATE MIDDLETON Ruskin believed that everyone had visual as well as verbal capacities that needed to be developed in...
ROBERT HEWISON We drove through resort areas along the coast where there the hurricane wrecked hotels, restaurants ...
BARB SCHREIER ...knew the futility of agonizing over why things had transpired as they had. What could have happen...
RAYMOND E. FEIST ...and I realized no matter what you do it’s bound to be a waste of time in the end so you might a...
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"I know t...
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ALAN RUSKIN We have a peculiar situation in which the shoppers seem to feel there is plenty to be cheerful about...
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ALAN RUSKIN Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the pre...
JOHN RUSKIN God has lent us the earth for our life; it is a great entail. It belongs as much to those who are to...
JOHN RUSKIN Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts, the book of their deeds, the book of...
JOHN RUSKIN It is excellent discipline for an author to feel that he must say all that he has to say in the fewe...
JOHN RUSKIN Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disor...
JOHN RUSKIN Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.
JOHN RUSKIN He who can take no great interest in what is small will take false interest in what is great.
JOHN RUSKIN It takes a great deal of living to get a little deal of learning.
JOHN RUSKIN Man's only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to b...
JOHN RUSKIN The common practice of keeping up appearances with society is a mere selfish struggle of the vain w...
JOHN RUSKIN The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions.
JOHN RUSKIN Nearly all the evils in the Church have arisen from bishops desiring power more than light. They wan...
JOHN RUSKIN The root of almost every schism and heresy from which the Christian Church has suffered, has been be...
JOHN RUSKIN What right have you to take the word wealth, which originally meant well-being, and degrade and narr...
JOHN RUSKIN Success by the laws of competition signifies a victory over others by obtaining the direction and pr...
JOHN RUSKIN To watch the corn grow, or the blossoms set; to draw hard breath over the plough or spade; to read, ...
JOHN RUSKIN Men are more evanescent than pictures, yet one sorrows for lost friends, and pictures are my friends...
JOHN RUSKIN Let every dawn of morning be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its...
JOHN RUSKIN It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and ...
JOHN RUSKIN The best work never was and never will be done for money.
JOHN RUSKIN The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.
JOHN RUSKIN A book worth reading is worth buying.
JOHN RUSKIN You should read books like you take medicine, by advice, and not by advertisement.
JOHN RUSKIN Be sure that you go to the author to get at his meaning, not to find yours.
JOHN RUSKIN Books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time.
JOHN RUSKIN How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot ...
JOHN RUSKIN To use books rightly, is to go to them for help; to appeal to them when our own knowledge and power ...
JOHN RUSKIN It is not how much one makes but to what purpose one spends.
JOHN RUSKIN One who does not know when to die, does not know how to live.
JOHN RUSKIN Freedom is only granted us that obedience may be more perfect.
JOHN RUSKIN You may chisel a boy into shape, as you would a rock, or hammer him into it, if he be of a better ki...
JOHN RUSKIN The distinctive character of a child is to always live in the tangible present.
JOHN RUSKIN In great countries, children are always trying to remain children, and the parents want to make them...
JOHN RUSKIN Children see in their parents the past, their parents see in them the future; and if we find more lo...
JOHN RUSKIN Give little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.
JOHN RUSKIN The beginning and almost the end of all good law is that everyone shall work for their bread and rec...
JOHN RUSKIN The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced.
JOHN RUSKIN Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can n...
JOHN RUSKIN The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.
JOHN RUSKIN One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that beca...
JOHN RUSKIN They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.
JOHN RUSKIN Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies, for ...
JOHN RUSKIN The secret of language is the secret of sympathy and its full charm is possible only to the gentle.
JOHN RUSKIN Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little need of reform in our prisons. -John Ruskin.
JOHN RUSKIN In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.
JOHN RUSKIN Mountains are to the rest of the body of the earth, what violent muscular action is to the body of m...
JOHN RUSKIN Of all the things that oppress me, this sense of the evil working of nature herself --my disgust at ...
JOHN RUSKIN The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man.
JOHN RUSKIN Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts -- the book of their deeds, the book ...
JOHN RUSKIN No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases.
JOHN RUSKIN No good work whatever can be perfect, and the demand for perfection is always a sign of a misunderst...
JOHN RUSKIN People are eternally divided into two classes, the believer, builder, and praiser, and the unbelieve...
JOHN RUSKIN You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil; buy it, by compromise with e...
JOHN RUSKIN Your labor only may be sold, your soul must not.
JOHN RUSKIN What do we, as a nation, care about books? How much do you think we spend altogether on our librarie...
JOHN RUSKIN How false is the conception, how frantic the pursuit, of that treacherous phantom which men call Lib...
JOHN RUSKIN The secret of language is the secret of sympathy and its full charm is possible only to the gentle.
JOHN RUSKIN An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study ...
JOHN RUSKIN We may live without her, and worship without her, but we cannot remember without her. How cold is al...
JOHN RUSKIN No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a sculptor or pai...
JOHN RUSKIN No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.
JOHN RUSKIN When we build, let us think that we build for ever.
JOHN RUSKIN No person who is well bred, kind and modest is ever offensively plain; all real deformity means want...
JOHN RUSKIN The anger of a person who is strong, can always bide its time.
JOHN RUSKIN No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.
JOHN RUSKIN The principle of all successful effort is to try to do not what is absolutely the best, but what is ...
JOHN RUSKIN When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.
JOHN RUSKIN Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.
JOHN RUSKIN Fit yourself for the best society, and then, never enter it.
JOHN RUSKIN Civilization is the making of civil persons.
JOHN RUSKIN I look upon those pitiful concretions of lime and clay which spring up, in mildewed forwardness, out...
JOHN RUSKIN We have seen when the earth had to be prepared for the habitation of man, a veil, as it were, of int...
JOHN RUSKIN The imagination is never governed, it is always the ruling and divine power.
JOHN RUSKIN Imaginary evils soon become real one by indulging our reflections on them.
JOHN RUSKIN An unimaginative person can neither be reverent or kind.
JOHN RUSKIN It is eminently a weariable faculty, eminently delicate, and incapable of bearing fatigue; so that i...
JOHN RUSKIN Men cannot not live by exchanging articles, but producing them. They live by work not trade.
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JOHN RUSKIN Tell me what you like and I'll tell you what you are.
JOHN RUSKIN No lying knight or lying priest ever prospered in any age, but especially not in the dark ones. Men ...
JOHN RUSKIN People cannot live by lending money to one another.
JOHN RUSKIN Out of suffering comes the serious mind; out of salvation, the grateful heart; out of endurance, for...
JOHN RUSKIN Every great man is always being helped by everybody; for his gift is to get good out of all things a...
JOHN RUSKIN Life without industry is guilt. Industry without Art is Brutality.
JOHN RUSKIN A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort.
JOHN RUSKIN The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don't mean doubt of his powers or...
JOHN RUSKIN To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.
JOHN RUSKIN If men lived like men indeed, their houses would be temples -- temples which we should hardly dare t...
JOHN RUSKIN Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing...
JOHN RUSKIN When a man is wrapped up in himself he makes a pretty small package.
JOHN RUSKIN It is far better to give work that is above a person, than to educate the person to be above their w...
JOHN RUSKIN You cannot get anything out of nature or from God by gambling; only out of your neighbor.
JOHN RUSKIN Large fortunes are all founded either on the occupation of land, or lending or the taxation of labor...
JOHN RUSKIN It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty.
JOHN RUSKIN The higher a man stands, the more the word vulgar becomes unintelligible to him.
JOHN RUSKIN Along the iron veins that traverse the frame of our country, beat and flow the fiery pulses of its e...
JOHN RUSKIN The last act crowns the play.
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JOHN RUSKIN Summer is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces up, snow is exhilarating; there is no such thin...
JOHN RUSKIN Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces up, snow is exhilarating; there is no such th...
JOHN RUSKIN They are good furniture pictures, unworthy of praise, and undeserving of blame.
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JOHN RUSKIN Obey something, and you will have a chance to learn what is best to obey. But if you begin by obeyin...
JOHN RUSKIN No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish.
JOHN RUSKIN It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great o...
JOHN RUSKIN It is not, truly speaking, the labor that is divided; but the men: divided into mere segments of men...
JOHN RUSKIN The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love color the most.
JOHN RUSKIN Of all God's gifts to the sighted man, color is holiest, the most divine, the most solemn.
JOHN RUSKIN What is the cheapest to you now is likely to be the dearest to you in the end.
JOHN RUSKIN Whether for life or death, do your own work well.
JOHN RUSKIN Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.
JOHN RUSKIN The distinguishing sign of slavery is to have a price, and to be bought for it.
JOHN RUSKIN Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition.
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JOHN RUSKIN Bigotry's birthplace is the sinister back room of the mind where plots and schemes are hatched for ...
BAYARD RUSKIN You cannot hammer a girl into anything. She grows as a flower does, she will wither without sun; she...
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JOHN RUSKIN If it is the love of that which your work represents--if, being a landscape painter, it is love of ...
JOHN RUSKIN Conceit may puff a man up, but never prop him up. - John Ruskin,
JOHN RUSKIN October's foliage yellows with his cold.
JOHN RUSKIN When you've walked up the Rue la Paix at Paris, Been to the Louvre and the Tuileries, And to V...
JOHN RUSKIN When I have been unhappy, I have heard an opera... and it seemed the shrieking of winds; when I am h...
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JOHN RUSKIN There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little che...
JOHN RUSKIN I have a dog of Blenheim birth, With fine long ears and full of mirth; And sometimes, running ...
JOHN RUSKIN You were made for enjoyment, and the world was filled with things which you will enjoy, unless you ...
JOHN RUSKIN Whether the weather be fine, Whether the weather be not, Whether the weather be cold, Whether the we...
JOHN RUSKIN Bad men excuse their faults; good men abandon them
JOHN RUSKIN Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of intelligent effort.
JOHN RUSKIN Nothing is ever done beautifully which is done in rivalship: or nobly, which is done in pride.
JOHN RUSKIN Nothing is ever done beautifully which is done in rivalship: or nobly, which is done in pride.
JOHN RUSKIN Spiritual power begins by directing animal power to other than egoistic ends.
JOHN RUSKIN In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes. - John Ruskin,
JOHN RUSKIN There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.
JOHN RUSKIN Painting with all its technicalities, difficulties, and peculiar ends, is nothing but a noble and e...
JOHN RUSKIN Our duty is to preserve what the past has had to say for itself, and to say for ourselves what shall...
JOHN RUSKIN The path of a good woman is indeed strewn with flowers; but they rise behind her steps, not before t...
JOHN RUSKIN In health of mind and body, men should see with their own eyes, hear and speak without trumpets, wal...
JOHN RUSKIN No one can become rich by the efforts of only their toil, but only by the discovery of some method o...
JOHN RUSKIN Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation.
JOHN RUSKIN If a great thing can be done, it can be done easily, but this ease is like the ease of a tree blosso...
JOHN RUSKIN Spiritual power begins by directing animal power to other than egoistic ends.
JOHN RUSKIN To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.
JOHN RUSKIN Taste is not only a part and index of morality, it is the only morality. The first, and last, and cl...
JOHN RUSKIN Every increased possession loads us with new weariness.
JOHN RUSKIN There is never vulgarity in a whole truth, however commonplace. It may be unimportant or painful. It...
JOHN RUSKIN Men were not intended to work with the accuracy of tools, to be precise and perfect in all their act...
JOHN RUSKIN To give alms is nothing unless you give thought also.
JOHN RUSKIN A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.
JOHN RUSKIN Whereas it has long been known and declared that the poor have no right to the property of the rich,...
JOHN RUSKIN The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.
JOHN RUSKIN There are no such things as Flowers there are only gladdened Leaves.
JOHN RUSKIN Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.
JOHN RUSKIN The essence of lying is in deception, not in words.
JOHN RUSKIN Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you.
JOHN RUSKIN There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little che...
JOHN RUSKIN Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.
JOHN RUSKIN We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then th...
JOHN RUSKIN Every great person is always being helped by everybody; for their gift is to get good out of all thi...
JOHN RUSKIN I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility.
JOHN RUSKIN The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love colour the most.
JOHN RUSKIN Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.
JOHN RUSKIN Let every dawn be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close.
JOHN RUSKIN It is written on the arched sky; it looks out from every star. It is the poetry of Nature; it is tha...
JOHN RUSKIN Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.
JOHN RUSKIN Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery.
JOHN RUSKIN All violent feelings have the same effect. They produce in us a falseness in all our impressions of ...
JOHN RUSKIN I believe the right question to ask, respecting all ornament, is simply this; was it done with enjoy...
JOHN RUSKIN Man's only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something ...
JOHN RUSKIN All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul.
JOHN RUSKIN It is better to lose your pride with someone you love rather than to lose that someone you love with...
JOHN RUSKIN Cursing is invoking the assistance of a spirit to help you inflict suffering. Swearing on the other ...
JOHN RUSKIN Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book o...
JOHN RUSKIN The first duty of a state is to see that every child born therein shall be well housed, clothed, fed...
JOHN RUSKIN Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really ...
JOHN RUSKIN