John G. Diefenbaker Quotes
In Pierre Trudeau, Canada has finally produced a Prime Minister worthy of assassination.
Quotes to Explore
-
The mill cannot grind with the water that is past.
-
I'm confident in who I am. I've come to a place in my life where I've accepted things that are me, as opposed to feeling pressure to explain myself to people around me. That's just the way I've always tried to be. It didn't change when I became a star.
-
Experience by itself is not science.
-
What I would ask the Democrat Party is to put your plan on the table, because most people agree with the facts, and the facts are that Social Security is running out of money.
-
The Koran was revealed at a time of great change in the Arab world, the seventh-century shift from a matriarchal nomadic culture to an urban patriarchal system.
-
It is possible to tolerate anything as long as it only affects you. But the method of collective punishment is bigger than that.
-
Life is like a movie-since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the bathroom in the middle of it.
-
I was into basketball, but then once I found contact sports, it was over. I never played basketball again in my life.
-
To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.
-
I was in love with the British 'The Office', so even though I love Steve Carell, when they were going to remake it, I was like, 'This is not going to work. I'm going to completely veto this show. I am not going to watch this show.' But now, I love it.
-
In the five months I wrote the final draft of 'The Association of Small Bombs,' I never fell out of the book. The world was real to me: plausible and powerful.
-
We're in the same ghettos, same inner cities, and we're suffering from the same problems. Every problem the blacks have, the Latinos have.
-
After all, it is style alone by which posterity will judge of a great work, for an author can have nothing truly his own but his style.
-
My childhood ambition was to be an Olympic swimmer like my aunt, but that died a quick death when I discovered other sports. I swam very competitively till I was 15, then I swam for fun until I was 18. But athletics remain a very big part of my life.
-
I knew I wanted considerable education so that I wouldn't have to work as hard as my parents.
-
Perhaps the truest axiom in baseball is that the toughest thing to do is repeat.
-
The fantasy that appeals most to people is the kind that's rooted thoroughly in somebody looking around a corner and thinking, 'What if I wandered into this writer's people here?' If you've done your job and made your people and your settings well enough, that adds an extra dimension that you can't buy.
-
I left my mark on 'Dark Shadows.' One day I was doing my lines perfectly from Act 3. Everyone else was doing Act 2.
-
Authority and place demonstrate and try the tempers of men, by moving every passion and discovering every frailty.
-
When I was right out of college, I felt competitive with some of the guys in my class over career stuff. It's funny now to think about it - that a friend getting a job or something had anything to do with me... I think that my relationship with my wife has played a pivotal role in the chilling out of Aaron.
-
What can I tell you about things like Circus of Horrors except that I get killed by the bear?
-
Texting is incredibly anxiety-laden, but I know people who will have a full-blown panic attack if you call them. I'm one of those nightmare humans where the little mailbox has an ellipsis on it because I have 1000 unread emails. So texting is the most immediate yet least anxious of all the incredibly anxious ways that we talk to each other.
-
The truth of faith is a slender, glowing element that runs through even the seemingly ordinary and undramatic moments of existence. Even at low intensity, it is a steady source of illumination. Such religious truth is powerful even when it seems faint, even when it seems obscured by the larger events of history.
-
In Pierre Trudeau, Canada has finally produced a Prime Minister worthy of assassination.
