John Howard Quotes

A conservative is someone who does not think he is morally superior to his grandfather.

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• You know, for one glorious half hour, I was the mother of the president-elect.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Mother
  • You
  • Know

• The only thing that permits human beings to collaborate with one another in a truly open-ended way is their willingness to have their beliefs modified by new facts. Only openness to evidence and argument will secure a common world for us.

  

  Sam Harris
  • World
  • Facts
  • Argument

• Leaders cannot work in a vacuum. They may take on larger, seemingly more important roles in an organization, but this does not exclude them from asking for and using feedback. In fact, a leader arguably needs feedback more so than anyone else. It's what helps a leader respond appropriately to events in pursuit of successful outcomes.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • Work
  • Important
  • May

• Every once in a while, something happens to you that makes you realise that the human race is not quite as bad as it so often seems to be.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Bad
  • You
  • Race

• I think a lot of Bernstein - but not as much as he does.

  

  Oscar Levant
  • Think
  • I Think
  • Lot

• My friends tease me about the fact that if someone seems bad or shady or like they have a secret, I find them incredibly interesting.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Friends
  • Bad
  • Secret

• The San Gabriel Mountains rise like a rampart at the edge of the city, safeguarding more than 500,000 acres of mature forests, mountain streams, dramatic waterfalls, and towering peaks that reach over 9,000 feet. These untamed places attract bighorn sheep, mountain lions, and other threatened or endangered species.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • City
  • Mountain
  • Mountains

• I cannot cure myself of that most woeful of youth's follies - thinking that those who care about us will care for the things that mean much to us.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Thinking
  • Myself
  • Youth

• When television came along, I'd already done more than 10 years of radio work and I thought everyone would want me. I sat around waiting for the phone to ring - and it didn't.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Work
  • Done
  • Waiting

• I love being a mother. My children fill me up in many ways, and inspire me in many ways, but I need a partner in my life, and I think most people feel that way.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • People
  • Life
  • Children

• There are tons of examples of U.K. and European mistakes. A classic one is pensions. That's obviously not an America-specific thing. The British and European economies are suffering under the weight of what is to come. The next great Ponzi scheme after Madoff is probably pensions.

  

  Dambisa Moyo
  • Great
  • America
  • Suffering

• I think of myself as an actor.

  

  Oliver Platt
  • Think
  • Myself
  • Actor

• The Beltway Right has entered into a civil union with Big Brother.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Brother

• The sea is superb, but the cliffs don't match up to those at Fecamp. Here I'll be certain to do more boats.

  

  Claude Monet
  • Up
  • Sea

• There is such a difference between life and theory.

  

  Anthony Trollope
  • Life

• People are supposed to fear the unknown, but ignorance is bliss when the knowledge is so damn frightening.

  

  Laurell K. Hamilton
  • People
  • Fear
  • Knowledge

• Mo: My sister-in-law had her baby! I'm an aunt! My brother's a father! My mother's a grandma! My dad's a...Sydney: I think I can generalize from there.

  

  Alison Bechdel
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Law

• We cannot exert our understanding without from time to time understanding something of importance; and this act of understanding may be accompanied by the awareness of our understanding, by the understanding of understanding, by noesis noesos, and this is so high, so pure, so noble an experience that Aristotle could ascribe it to his God.

  

  Leo Strauss
  • Time
  • God
  • May

• I think that if the novel's task is to describe where we find ourselves and how we live now, the novelist must take a good, hard look at the most central facts of contemporary life - technology and science.

  

  Richard Powers
  • Technology
  • Describe
  • Contemporary

• For every benefit conferred, God is to be praised in his gifts. Otherwise when the time of judgment comes, that man will be punished as an ingrate who cannot say to God: 'Your statutes were my song in the land of exile.'

  

  Saint Bernard
  • Time
  • God
  • Song

• I've really gained an appreciation for what coaches do since I returned to the NFL.

  

  Mike Singletary
  • Appreciation
  • Coaches

• I often feel that I have a split personality. I love more than anything to be in my study writing, but when it's time to do a book tour, I love that extroverted part, too - talking to people, reading, traveling, going out into the world.

  

  Ann Hood
  • People
  • Time
  • World

• In a movie you have all these logistical problems; all these practical problems. But you're also going to have people come who can do things that you can't do, and you get to direct their talents.

  

  John Sayles
  • People
  • Movie

• A conservative is someone who does not think he is morally superior to his grandfather.

  

  John Howard