John Florio Quotes

Patience is the best medicine.

John Florio

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• I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage. But when you start playing around with constitutions, just to prohibit somebody who cares about another person, it just seems to me that's not what America's about. Usually, our constitutions expand liberties, they don't contract them.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Believe
  • America
  • Man

• People have always thought of me as being something, but I'm just a human being like everyone else.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • People
  • Me
  • Thought

• There is no finer sonic-producing weapon for a guitar slayer than a hand crafter Gibson masterpiece.

  

  Ted Nugent
  • Hand
  • Guitar
  • Masterpiece

• Even if a unity of faith is not possible, a unity of love is.

  

  Hans Urs von Balthasar
  • Love
  • Faith
  • For Her

• My vision of the border with Mexico is that a truck from the United States going into Mexico and a truck coming from Mexico into the United States will pass each other at the border going 60 miles an hour. Yes, we should have open borders.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Vision
  • United States
  • Truck

• Raw fish suppers admittedly require a little planning, not least in the acquisition of the main ingredient.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Planning
  • Little
  • Fish

• There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Great
  • May
  • Distance

• High school is the time to find yourself and to explore with fashion and create your own identity.

  

  India de Beaufort
  • Time
  • School
  • High

• America is the world of peace and must be made the continent of its definite consequence.

  

  Carlos Saavedra Lamas
  • World
  • America
  • Peace

• Barack Obama's victories in 2008 and 2012 were dismissed by some of his critics as merely symbolic for African Americans. But there is nothing 'mere' about symbols.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Nothing
  • Some
  • Symbols

• The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Literature
  • Difference
  • Read

• I definitely used to write a lot at school. Comic poetry and drawings about people.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • People
  • School
  • Poetry

• You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Know
  • Kindness
  • Late

• I've never been one to stay still. I was born a nomad, and I still am a nomad and always will be.

  

  Waris Dirie
  • Always
  • Never
  • Born

• I'm often stunned when I come up over Mulholland, and I'm looking down at the Valley, and I can see for thirty miles; I can see the mountains, or all the way to the ocean.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
  • Up
  • Ocean
  • Down

• The bureaucracy is not great. I don't think Rick Santorum who is not one for being a big proponent of large bureaucracies would be as enthusiastic a supporter of it.

  

  Harold Ford, Jr.
  • Great
  • Think
  • Enthusiastic

• There are, of course, all sorts of other unpleasant regimes outside the walls as well - the military dictators of Latin America and the apartheid regime of South Africa.

  

  Barbara Amiel
  • America
  • Military
  • Latin

• On the one hand, Porto Monenegro is shape-shifting - it replaced a naval shipyard with a new marina - but it's also mind-shifting, opening up an array of other small business opportunities. And this shape-shifting and mind-shifting, it is exactly what we're trying to do in Montenegro.

  

  Igor Luksic
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Trying

• And again, President Obama's health care plan really is another drag on the economy. Until we get Washington out of the way, this president's recovery is going to continue to rank dead last.

  

  Kevin Brady
  • Health
  • Recovery

• At intervals between the songs, more especially after the trances have begun, the dancers unclasp hands and sit down to smoke or talk for a few minutes.

  

  James Mooney

• Do you realize how much better the world would be if we all just treated each other the same way black dudes treat magicians?

  

  Aziz Ansari
  • World
  • Black
  • Dudes

• When you are young, you are a little naive.

  

  Maria Sharapova

• Architecture is, to a certain extent, a sensual gratification. It addresses itself to the eye, and affords the best scope for the parade of barbaric pomp and splendour. It is the form in which the revenues of a semi-civilized people are most likely to be lavished. The most gaudy and ostentatious specimens of it, and sometimes the most stupendous, have been reared by such hands. It is one of the first steps in the great march of civilization.

  

  William H. Prescott
  • People
  • Sometimes
  • Architecture

• Patience is the best medicine.

  

  John Florio
  • Patience