John Jay Chapman Quotes

People who love soft methods and hate iniquity forget this; that reform consists in taking a bone from a dog. Philosophy will not do it.

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• I can create institutions, but I can't rewrite the chips in people's heads.

  

  Paddy Ashdown
  • People
  • Create
  • I Can

• Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama.

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • Culture
  • Drama
  • Painting

• If I'm daring at all, I guess it would be emotionally. I try to keep things interesting for myself and to do things that challenge me.

  

  Ed Harris
  • Interesting
  • Me
  • Challenge

• All of the characters in my films, they share one commonality. It doesn't matter whether they are good or bad, it doesn't matter whether they are smart or stupid, these characters all take responsibility for their own behavior. I'm much the same.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Responsibility

• I like to be underdressed rather than overdressed. For an event or a premiere, it's fun to dress up more - then I like to experiment.

  

  Gabriella Wilde
  • Up
  • Fun
  • Dress

• I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.

  

  Damien Rice
  • Want
  • Stage
  • Flow

• The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • World
  • Money
  • Value

• Working with the dying is like being a midwife for this great rite of passage of death. Just as a midwife helps a being take their first breath, you help a being take their last breath.

  

  Ram Dass
  • Great
  • Help
  • Death

• I'm in the music business for one purpose - to make money.

  

  Nat King Cole
  • Music
  • Money
  • Business

• To many a man, and sometimes to a youth, there comes the opportunity to choose between honorable competence and tainted wealth. The young man who starts out to be poor and honorable, holds in his hand one of the strongest elements of success.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Success
  • Man
  • Opportunity

• I'm always singing and dancing and getting up in people's faces.

  

  Taye Diggs
  • People
  • Up
  • Singing

• I like the challenge of creating a world with only sentences.

  

  Dana Spiotta
  • World
  • Challenge
  • Creating

• I've been saying for years that readers want inexpensive ebooks.

  

  J. A. Konrath
  • Want
  • Years
  • Saying

• We are all born mad. Some remain so.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Funny
  • Mad
  • Born

• You remember Donnie Brasco? It's the most notorious undercover movie ever; it's so street and so real. If you ever imagined yourself doing cop work, you imagined yourself getting pushed to that limit - seeing the furthest you can push yourself while still upholding the law.

  

  Manny Montana
  • Work
  • Real
  • Remember

• God bless McNally, it's got some fantastic stuff in it, but it's no easy task to make a movie out of.

  

  Faye Dunaway
  • God
  • Movie
  • Easy

• Obviously, after every film you do, you wonder what you're going to do next.

  

  Madhur Mittal
  • You
  • Wonder
  • Film

• A woman should have the right to carry a gun.

  

  Vicky Hartzler
  • Woman
  • Right
  • Gun

• A statesman... must wait until he hears the steps of God sounding through events, then leap up and grasp the hem of His garment.

  

  Otto von Bismarck
  • Up
  • God
  • Wait

• Iraq is a country that has been invaded. It's not a failing state that you want to help. It's a country that was functioning good or bad, with a horrible dictator, but you have invaded.

  

  Lakhdar Brahimi
  • Good
  • Country
  • Bad

• Rome is burning, Jesus says. Drop your fiddle, change your life and come to Me. Let go of the good days that never were - a regimented church you never attended, traditional virtues you never practiced, legalistic obedience you never honored, and a sterile orthodoxy you never accepted. The old era is done. The decisive inbreak of God has happened.

  

  Brennan Manning
  • God
  • Change
  • Church

• If today were my last day, would I do what I'm doing?...If the answer was 'No' too many days in a row, I'd make a change.

  

  Steve Jobs
  • Change
  • Last Day

• People, your Government has returned to you!

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • People
  • You
  • Government

• People who love soft methods and hate iniquity forget this; that reform consists in taking a bone from a dog. Philosophy will not do it.

  

  John Jay Chapman
  • People
  • Hate
  • Dog