J Quotes
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“John Frame's magnificent work on the Christian life fully endorses the authority of Scripture and practically addresses the need to consider the situations and people involved in ethical decisions.”
“John Frances, Entertainment Chair, of the Friars Club: Of all the roasts that I have produced for the Friars Club, this is the one that I am most excited about. Mickey is one of the Club's dearest friends, and we wanted to honor him in the way we know best.”
“John Galt is Prometheus who changed his mind. After centuries of being torn by vultures in payment for having brought to men the fire of the gods, he broke his chains—and he withdrew his fire—until the day when men withdraw their vultures.”
Source: Atlas Shrugged
“John Glenn craved the publicity. I think even John would admit that. When he went into politics, that became pretty obvious! He knew how to do public relations.”
“John Glenn's father, known as Herschel, was mostly deaf from injuries in World War I. To help out at home, young Glenn sold rhubarb all over town from the family garden.”
“John Goodman is more that just a big guy, he's a wonderful actor.”
“John Goodman isn't fat. He's in a category beyond fat. What does one call it? Whalelike.”
“John Goodman's pretty dark - I love John Goodman.”
“John Gottman is our leading explorer of the inner world of relationships. In The Relationship Cure, he has found gold once again. This book shows how the simplest, nearly invisible gestures of care and attention hold the key to successful relationships with those we love and work with.”
“John Grady, de pie ante la ventana del café vacío, observando las actividades de la plaza, dijo que era bueno que Dios ocultase las verdades de la vida a los jóvenes cuando empezaban pues de otro modo no tendrían ánimos para empezar.”
Source: All the Pretty Horses
“John Grady looked at the table. The paper cat stepped thin and slant among the shapes of cats thereon. He looked up again. Yessir, he said. Just me and him.”
Source: All the Pretty Horses
“John Grandin thought of himself as modern and civilized. To some extent he understood the neuroses of his fellow men. Perhaps they could not help themselves. But being uninhibited—the giving in to wayward impulse—is anarchy and chaos. Civilization means control; where would he be if he should let happen what was impossible and abhorrent to even think of? To hell with being “modern,” “civilized,” or “sophisticated.” Actually there was no such thing, beyond a self-induced or superimposed state of mind, unsound and superficial. The “twentieth century mind” was a euphemism which such persons as the glittering Arne Eklund used as a veneer for willful behavior, an excuse for self-indulgence. Even modern man was born a primitive and would always be a primitive so long as he had a feeling heart in his breast.”
Source: The Fall of Valor
“John Green has written a powerful novel—one that plunges headlong into the labyrinth of life, love, and the mysteries of being human. This is a book that will touch your life, so don’t read it sitting down. Stand up, and take a step into the Great Perhaps.”
“John Grisham writes with the effrontery of a gale, sweeping off the reader’s feet with whirlpools of gross expectations. He confronts his own plots and pushes towards paths of enclosed rills with which to wash off smudges of ascribable lethargy best imagined by wayward critics. His way with language blends with the aureole of fictional holiness.”
“John grows up normally, but doesn't talk, and this drives his parents to distraction. When he is about 16, at last, one teatime, he says: 'I'd like a little sugar. ' His mother is staggered and asks, 'But John, why have you never said anything up to now?' 'Up to now, everything was perfect.'
If everything is perfect, language is useless. This is true for animals. If animals don't speak, it's because everything's perfect for them. If one day they start to speak, it will be because the world has lost a certain sort of perfection.
'I desire you' is obscene.
'You make me feel very good' is more subtle - the other is here the subject of pleasure, not the object of desire.
Desire wants only orgasm; pleasure seeks to please.
There can't be any desire to please - 'pleasing' is implacable.
In days gone by, pleasing occupied the place of desire - today, desire discharges us from the need to please.
Even age may function as a 'natural' perversion. Women are not so much in search of their fathers as of the simple mystery of another generation, closer to death, but also to a previous life.
B.B.
- My understudy has had an operation for appendicitis.
- You're not going to sleep with the whole world. That's impossible, it's rape.
- I have a real understanding for wild animals who are hunted, by camera lenses, by machine-guns.
- A white Rolls and a black chauffeur.
Woman to the power of woman.”
Source: Cool memories
“John Guidetti is a typical English striker. Even though he is Swedish”
“John Gummer just did not have the political clout or credibility to rally the troops. I had appointed him as a sort of nightwatchman, but he seemed to have to sleep on the job.”
Source: As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations
“John H. Watson might have been many things - a doctor, a storyteller, and by most accounts a kind and decent man-but he clearly wasn't a zoologist. There's no such thing as a swamp adder. And the idea that Sherlock Holmes deduced its existence from a saucer of milk is ridiculous- snakes have zero interest in milk. They also can't hear anything but vibrations, so they wouldn't hear a whistle. But they do breathe, so a snake couldn't survive in a locked safe.”
Source: A Study in Charlotte
“John had been a footman nearly all of his adult life. He knew decorum and appropriate behavior for his situation. But when he glanced from one twin to another, he nearly ruined his reputation and self-respect forever with...a smile.”
Source: The Apprentices
“John had Julian and I had Zak so we'd try to do the fatherly things. We'd try to do manly things too; we'd go to the pub and bring Maureen and Cynthia a Babycham or something- a real Liverpool attitude”
“John Hall, my geography teacher at school inspired me to a lifelong interest in geography and a curiosity about our world which has stayed with me through my life. Geography is a living, breathing subject, constantly adapting itself to change. It is dynamic and relevant. For me geography is a great adventure with a purpose.”
“John has a narrow mind. For him, neither the beauty nor the prosperity of the city of Ephesus is worth a second glance. Ephesus was situated at the end of the Silk Road from China and the caravan route from India which used to pass through the Parthian Empire en route to the West. But the prophet is quite unaware that this particular world exists at all. Even culture means absolutely nothing to him; for example, in 18:22 he rejoices that not only song but also the sound of the flute have disappeared. The world which he knows is limited to the seven churches whose Christianity corresponded with his own; and that in but a single province of the Roman Empire, namely Asia. As to the rest, he is only familiar with the mother church in Jerusalem and the sister church in Rome.
John is utterly obsessed by Rome. The fact that this particular metropolis had bestowed both law and peace upon no less than one-half of the world never got through to him at all. He is also quite oblivious of the fact that Rome oppresses nations and exploits slaves. He could not care less about national or social considerations. He abominates the "whore on the seven hills" simply because Rome is persecuting Christians. This is precisely what the Apocalypse is all about: innocent suffering.”
Source: The Secret Book of Revelation: The Apocalypse of St John the Divine
“John: 'Have mercy. I don't want to die!'
Sita: 'Then you should never have been born.”
Source: Phantom
“John Hay indicates that dealing with people directly as a holder of political office "requires a stronger heart and a more obedient nervous system than I possess.”
Source: All the Great Prizes : The Life of John Hay, from Lincoln to Roosevelt
“John Hay on Lincoln: "He always worked with things as they were, while never relinquishing the desire to make them better.”
Source: All the Great Prizes : The Life of John Hay, from Lincoln to Roosevelt
“John Hay points to our our history of getting lost in suffering when, "so close together were pain and antidote.”
Source: All the Great Prizes : The Life of John Hay, from Lincoln to Roosevelt
“John Henry Lloyd is the man I gave the credit to for polishing my skills. He taught me how to play third base and how to protect myself. John taught me more baseball than anyone else.”
“John Hodgson can describe Richard Dawkins's atheism as vacuous only because 'atheist' is a term which non-believers use purely as a polemical convenience when we have to define concisely what we don't believe [...]. No atheist is principally that. What we'd want to call ourselves is humanist or materialist, or biologist or linguist, or for that matter socialist, because one or more of these, or something else again, is what we do and think and are. We have 'purely and simply finished with God', to adapt a phrase of Engels's.”
“John Howard Davies was not a very human person ... if you made a mistake of any kind, any sort of pause in speech, he would treat you rather as if he was a schoolmaster.”
“John Howard has gone a bridge too far by not going far enough”
“John Howard turned the prime ministership into something like a state police minister. He's at the scene of every crime, twice a day on radio, the guy did no thinking.”
“John Howard's credibility on the entire Iraq war has been torpedoed by John Howard's own intelligence agency.”
“John Hughes had such a huge impact on filmmaking.”
“John Hughes loved improvisers.”
“John Hughes made a certain type of high school movie, and then it stayed static for 30 years. The only thing that changed was that maybe it was found footage or maybe it's a little snarkier, but the actual language that kids live in today, like with texting, motion graphics, the internet and that whole hashtag culture doesn't exist in movies today. It's left on the floor.”
“John Hurt was incredible to work with.”
“John Huston is more of a creative director than most.”
“John Huston was a superb master. He knew how to make good films. I did three things with him. One is called Independence. It plays in Philadelphia, for free. It's been playing there for 25 years.”
“John Huston was the kind of director that totally left you alone. Not every actor always does it right, every time, but most of the time he was re-directing someone. He was making tight adjustments, and not even in terms of interpretation because he knew that by the time that the character had been filmed... well, he got it right when he cast you.”
“John, if you please. I assume I may continue. Or is planchette to be dismissed without a hearing? Thank you.”
Source: The Haunting of Hill House
“John Irving once told me he doesn't start a novel until he knows the last sentence. I said, 'My God, Irving, isn't that like working in a factory?'”
“John is a man of his word. And so am I.”
“John is very aware of the responsibilities that come with being a landowner. I also feel that way. We both see landownership as a personal investment, but also an opportunity to contribute to the well-being of our planet and its inhabitants.”
“John Jones may be described as 'one of the has beens'.”
“John K. Samson is fluent in the inexpressible. Find him on the page or find him in the ether-just find him”
“John Keats / John Keats / John / Please put your scarf on.”
“John Kennedy put a man on the moon, and Obama put a man in the ladies' room.”
“John Kennedy really did extend the reach of the American people and said, like Lincoln said in a way, that our reach is farther than our grasp - and we should aim high.”
“John Kenneth Galbraith and Marshall McLuhan are the two greatest modern Canadians that the U.S. has produced.”
“John Kerry accused President Bush of catering to the rich. You know, as opposed to John Kerry who just marries them.”