Tuesday, December 03, 2024 Text is available under the CC BY-SA 3.0 licence.

John Ruskin

« All quotes from this author
 

There is nothing so small but that we may honor God by asking His guidance of it, or insult Him by taking it into our own hands.
--
P. 264.

 
John Ruskin

» John Ruskin - all quotes »



Tags: John Ruskin Quotes, Authors starting by R


Similar quotes

 

 : And it goes against the grain of building small tools.
Innocent, Your Honor. Perl users build small tools all day long.

 
Larry Wall
 

Masculinity is not something given to you, but something you gain. And you gain it by winning small battles with honor. Because there is very little honor left in American life, there is a certain built-in tendency to destroy masculinity in American men.

 
Norman Mailer
 

People can go to the extreme like what we saw during the Cultural Revolution. For instance, in China, when people take everything into their own hands, then you cannot govern the place. ... [It] was the people taking power into their own hands. Now that is what you mean by democracy if you take it to the full swing.

 
Donald Tsang
 

In the little world in which children have their existence whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice. It may be only small injustice that the child can be exposed to; but the child is small, and its world is small, and its rocking-horse stands as many hands high, according to scale, as a big-boned Irish hunter.

 
Charles Dickens
© 2009–2013Quotes Privacy Policy | Contact