John G. Diefenbaker Quotes

We must vigilantly stand on guard within our own borders for human rights and fundamental freedoms which are our proud heritage......w e cannot take for granted the continuance and maintenance of those rights and freedoms.

John G. Diefenbaker

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• I've never felt more comfortable in my skin, I've never enjoyed life as much and I feel so lucky.

  

  Candice Bergen
  • Life
  • Never
  • Lucky

• One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Time
  • Good
  • Music

• Music is universal too. Even deaf people like to dance, love rhythm, and can kind of pick it up.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • People
  • Up
  • Music

• There isn't a person on Earth who couldn't use a connection with nature.

  

  Nalini Nadkarni
  • Nature
  • Earth
  • Connection

• Michael Vick may enjoy watching dogs fight. Someone else may find that repulsive but see nothing wrong with eating an animal who has had a life as full of pain and suffering as the lives of the fighting dogs. It's strange that we regard the latter as morally different from, and superior to, the former.

  

  Gary L. Francione
  • Life
  • Different
  • May

• I lied to everybody. I lie very well, being an actress, naturally.

  

  Lynn Fontanne

• I lose faith and I lose ground, but then I see you and remember unconditional love.

  

  Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
  • Remember
  • Faith
  • Lose

• The greatest sound in the theater is silence.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Silence
  • Sound
  • Theater

• Christian scholars often say that Sufi theories are close to those of Christianity. Many Moslems maintain that they are essentially derived from Islam. The resemblance of many Sufi ideas to those of several religious and esoteric systems are sometimes taken as evidence of derivation. The Islamic interpretation is that religion is of one origin, differences being due to local or historical causes.

  

  Idries Shah
  • Taken
  • Christian
  • Religious

• In the secret of night, my prayer climbs like the liana, My prayer is, and I am not. It grows, and I perish. I have only my hard breath, my reason and my madness. I cling to the vine of my prayer. I tend it at the root of the stalk of night.

  

  Gabriela Mistral
  • Night
  • Prayer
  • Secret

• Piano playing is more difficult than statesmanship. It is harder to awake emotions in ivory keys than it is in human beings.

  

  Ignacy Jan Paderewski
  • inspirational
  • Difficult
  • Emotion

• But Piglet is so small that he slips into a pocket, where it is very comfortable to feel him when you are not quite sure whether twice seven is twelve or twenty-two.

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Small

• Fascism was little more than terrorist rule by corrupt gangsters. Mussolini was not corrupt himself but he did nothing except to rage impotently.

  

  A. J. P. Taylor
  • Littles
  • Rage
  • Fascism

• That Beatle euphoria has always been there, and it's hard to be in a room with a Beatle and try to be totally natural. You never shake that off.

  

  Alan Parsons
  • Natural
  • Shake
  • Euphoria

• She was nothing more than a mere good-tempered, civil and obliging Young Woman; as such we could scarcely dislike her -- she was only an Object of Contempt...

  

  Jane Austen
  • Woman
  • Young
  • Object

• Being a mentor is something that's new for me but a role that I take very seriously.

  

  Nicole Richie
  • New
  • Mentor
  • Seriously

• I paint the way I do because I can keep on putting more and more things in - like drama, pain, anger, love, a figure, a horse, my ideas of space. It doesn't matter if it differs from mine, as long as it comes from the painting, which has its own integrity and intensity.

  

  Willem de Kooning
  • Long
  • Pain
  • Drama

• Why should nutrition matter less in the creation of young humans than it does in young plants? I'm sure that it doesn't.

  

  Ina May Gaskin
  • Humans
  • Creation
  • Plants

• We must vigilantly stand on guard within our own borders for human rights and fundamental freedoms which are our proud heritage......w e cannot take for granted the continuance and maintenance of those rights and freedoms.

  

  John G. Diefenbaker
  • Humans
  • Granted
  • Fundamentals