J. P. Blake Quotes

Without minute neatness of execution, the sublime cannot exist! Grandeur of ideas is founded on precision of ideas.

I am a passionate believer that Britain has benefited the whole world and that our heritage, our culture, our values and more importantly our people who created those things, are worth fighting for.

The countless gold of a merry heart, The rubies and pearls of a loving eye, The indolent never can bring to the mart, Nor the secret hoard up in his treasury.

For the Eye altering alters all; The Senses roll themselves in fear And the flat Earth becomes a Ball.

We all got a hillbilly bone down deep inside.

The world of imagination is the world of eternity. It is the divine bosom into which we shall all go after death of the vegetative body.

Mercy is the golden chain by which society is bound together.

To generalize is to be an idiot. To particularize is the alone distinction of merit. General knowledge are those knowledge that idiots possess.

Never touch another man's button.

Be grateful for luck.

The most important step of all is the first step. Start something.

If you still want to kill him, do me a favor and take him outside. Those are new sheets.

I must create a system, or be enslav'd by another man's.

Once you become complacent and once you're happy with your performance or whatever it is, I don't think you'll get better as quickly.

If you break a discipline once, the next transgression becomes much easier.

Maybe instead of buying myself another Barbie, I could donate that to the Kmart Wishing Tree.

The cistern contains: The fountain overflows.

This is our great covenant: To dwell together in peace, To seek the truth in love, And to help one another.

In every cry of every man, In every infant's cry of fear, In every voice, in every ban, The mind-forg'd manacles I hear.

To create a little flower is the labour of ages.

All wholesome food is caught without a net or trap.

The Angel that presided o'er my birth Said, 'Little creature, formed of joy and mirth, Go love without the help of any thing on earth'.

People gossip. People are insecure, so they talk about other people so that they won't be talked about. They point out flaws in other people to make them feel good about themselves.

What seems to be, is, to those to whom it seems to be, and is productive of the most dreadful consequences to those to whom it seems to be, even of torments, despair, eternal death.

I don't need to scare the other athletes. When I'm running, I will scare them.

Travelers repose and dream among my leaves.

Truth can never be told so as to be understood and not be believed.

people share a common nature but are trained in gender roles.

I have mental joys and mental health, Mental friends and mental wealth, I've a wife that I love and that loves me; I've all but riches bodily.

Make the most out of every single day you have on earth and be thankful for them.

My goal is to let people see who I am as a person, not just a basketball player. Many people see athletes in a certain way - flat and one dimensional. I want to change that view.

First thought is best in Art, second in other matters.

I give you the end of a golden string, Only wind it into a ball, It will lead you in at Heaven's gate Built in Jerusalem's wall.

The eye sees more than the heart knows.

Mere enthusiasm is the all in all... / Passion and expression are beauty itself.

Shame is pride's cloak.

There's so few people in this town with a conscience.

Come live, and be merry, and join with me, To sing the sweet chorus of 'Ha ha he!

He who loves his enemies betrays his friends; this surely is not what Jesus meant.

When you guys are sleeping at night, I am out there working.

The idea that a child doesn't have the opportunity to be a child is devastating.

Poetry fettered fetters the human race.

That very aggressive, unapologetic leadership style is needed in Washington, D.C., and I'm not afraid to tackle big issues.

I think certain people are the way they are for certain reasons that we can't necessarily judge without knowing.

My mom modeled and made clothes, so I always had such an appreciation for design. And then Gossip Girl completely blew open the door to fashion for me.

Tools were made and born were hands, Every farmer understands.

If the lion was advised by the fox, he would be cunning.

He who does not imagine in stronger and better lineaments, and in stronger and better light than his perishing and mortal eye can see, does not imagine at all.

And priests in black gowns were walking their rounds and binding with briars my joys and desires. (from 'The Garden of Love')

What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children.