John Hancock Quotes

I urge you by all this is dear, by all that is honorable, by all that is sacred, not only that you pray but also that you act!

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• I do not deal with threats and ultimatums.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Deal
  • Threats
  • Ultimatums

• There is a role and function for beauty in our time.

  

  Tadao Ando
  • Time
  • Beauty
  • Role

• I'm very easily distracted unless I have music on. Listening to music while I brainstorm makes me think of scenes that would fit the mood of the music I'm playing.

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
  • Music
  • Think
  • Listening

• One of the things the novel can do is address big questions in ways that are accessible to people. It's not that I want to teach people, but these are the things that interest me, and this is my medium for exploring ideas, and I think the potential of novels to do that is massive.

  

  Samantha Harvey
  • People
  • Ideas
  • Questions

• There have been many times when I've been asked to appear and I'd say to myself, what am I going to talk about? Early on, when I did interviews, I'd tell everyone, Don't ask me about dates. I don't even remember what I did yesterday.

  

  Otis Blackwell
  • Remember
  • Me
  • Myself

• From Mark's standpoint, when he was playing last year we weren't as good certainly as we are now, ... I think we're better now. And hopefully that will prove out to be the case.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Good
  • Game
  • Strategy

• The good and wonderful thing about my whole career is that I've always felt that the audience, if I do it well, will track wherever I go, whether it's President or a lawyer or bad guy or good. All I have to do is execute the material enough where they buy into it. I've had the great luxury of the audiences accepting that.

  

  John Travolta
  • Good
  • Great
  • Bad

• The golden rule for understanding spiritually is not intellect, but obedience. If a man wants scientific knowledge, intellectual curiosity is his guide; but if he wants insight into what Jesus Christ teaches, he can only get it by obedience.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Knowledge
  • Understanding
  • Jesus

• We're going to live on the edge. My spikes will have chalk on them.... We're pretty aggressive within the law. As a professional, I'm troubled if I'm not using the full authority allowed by law.

  

  B. R. Hayden
  • Live
  • Pretty
  • Law

• Is the universe 'elegant,' as Brian Greene tells us? Not as far as I can tell, not the usual laws of particle physics, anyway. I think I might find the universal principles of String Theory most elegant - if I only knew what they were.

  

  Leonard Susskind
  • Universe
  • Physics
  • String Theory

• The good thing about acting is that it always keeps you on your toes... It's not like any other job where you can go in and do the same thing as yesterday.

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
  • Good
  • Job
  • Acting

• We know how popular it is in the States, and I think the bill looks very interesting. California is probably our biggest market in the States, so we're looking forward to that.

  

  Andrew Fletcher
  • Interesting
  • Popular
  • California

• I will not bare my soul to their shallow prying eyes. My heart shall never be put under their microscope.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Heart
  • Soul
  • Eyes

• He who trades pacing for gimmicky open-world freedom deserves neither.

  

  Yahtzee Croshaw
  • World
  • Freedom
  • Trade

• Last weekend a young man asked me how I remain so positive. “It seems all the negativity in the world doesn’t affect you,” he said. I had no more than a minute with the young man so I offered this: It’s all about where you choose to put your attention, and I choose to be happy.

  

  Jason Mraz
  • World
  • Men
  • Happy

• I had no idea what I was going to do when they threw me out of school.

  

  Don Johnson
  • School
  • Idea
  • Going To

• I don't want to get involved in the culture war. Religion's iffy.

  

  Jim Gaffigan
  • War
  • Culture

• The universal hold used to be $1, ... Obviously that figure is rising along with gas prices.

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • Price
  • Figure
  • Gas

• We still have it in our power to rise above the fears, imagined and real, and to shoulder the great burdens which destiny has placed upon us, not for our country alone, but for the benefit of all the world. That is the only destiny worthy of America.

  

  Helen Keller
  • World
  • Country
  • Real

• I wanted to write something in a voice that was unique to who I was. And I wanted something that was accessible to the person who works at Dunkin Donuts or who drives a bus, someone who comes home with their feet hurting like my father, someone whos busy and has too many children, like my mother.

  

  Sandra Cisneros
  • Writing
  • Children
  • Mother

• I urge you by all this is dear, by all that is honorable, by all that is sacred, not only that you pray but also that you act!

  

  John Hancock
  • Praying
  • Sacred
  • Dear