John Lewis (John Robert Lewis) Quotes

You have to have the capacity and the ability to take what people did, and how they did it, and forgive them and move on.

John Lewis

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• I'm feeling incredibly Botox-tempted as my face collapses around my shoulders.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • Feeling
  • Face
  • Shoulders

• I have lots of friends and, like me, they're not married. So my kids have lots of godparents - men and women, gay and straight. My loft is always filled with people helping me out with them and loving them.

  

  Edie Falco
  • People
  • Men
  • Women

• If you spend 72 hours in a place you've never been, talking to people whose language you don't speak about social, political, and economic complexities you don't understand, and you come back as the world's biggest know-it-all, you're a reporter. Either that or you're President Obama.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • World
  • Political

• Writing 'Native Guard,' I didn't know I was working on a single book. I began writing that book because I was interested in the lesser-known history of these black soldiers stationed off the coast of my hometown.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Writing
  • Book
  • History

• Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Nature
  • Eyes
  • Wisdom

• I am Jewish, Italian, American, Catholic.

  

  Lapo Elkann
  • American
  • Catholic
  • Italian

• Being a celebrity can be very intoxicating and very addicting. And I've always been afraid of that, because I've grown up post-almost every child star out there who has gone wayward.

  

  Malcolm-Jamal Warner
  • Up
  • Star
  • Child

• Everything changes with age. The parts change with age, your feelings about them change, roles that I would've wanted to play 10 years ago, I don't want to play now.

  

  Al Pacino
  • Age
  • Feelings
  • Changes

• We tried it different ways in the first half of the season and now we just have to do it the way Mo Cheeks wants it done every night.

  

  Allen Iverson
  • Different
  • Done
  • Night

• It is my firm belief that it will be in the interests of the United States, especially our economic interests, to pursue comprehensive immigration reform.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Immigration
  • United States
  • Reform

• Read a thousand books, and your words will flow like a river.

  

  Lisa See
  • Words
  • Books
  • River

• The one who follows the thought is also a thought! The one who follows the thought IS in thought. When you know that both are thoughts, you are home. You are not at home, you ARE home. Then allow thoughts to arise and allow them to be followed. You remain as That unmoved and unconcerned Being. This is the highest understanding.

  

  H. W. L. Poonja
  • Home
  • Understanding
  • Thoughts

• I'm not an experimental artist. I have no talent for that. I need a certain kind of antecedent form to follow.

  

  Tony Kushner
  • Kind
  • Artist
  • Talent

• This report is not true. We are going to continue with the same strategy, the strategy of the air campaign.

  

  Javier Solana
  • Strategy
  • Report
  • Not True

• Is there anything more insane in this life than being called Pablo Neruda?

  

  Pablo Neruda
  • Insane
  • This Life

• Actually the idea of having Mexico pay for the wall on the southern border is a nonstarter. That seems to be generally pretty much recognized on both sides of the border. What you find, though, is that logistically it's not impossible.

  

  Evan Osnos
  • Idea
  • Impossible
  • Recognized

• Vampires as creatures have evolved over time as different vampire bloodlines have hit different populations of humans. Every once in a while the blood will make something new and mutate into a new species with different powers, abilities, weakness, physical characteristics, and so on. I don't want to give anything away, but there are whole species and branches that date all the way back to pre-modern times.

  

  Scott Snyder
  • Different
  • Giving
  • Ability

• I still have the dress I wore on the first date with my husband, which was more than 66 years ago. I still have it, and it still fits.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Husband
  • First
  • Dress

• Anybody can put sexual content to music, but I feel like I took it to a next level where it's a mood or feel.

  

  Willie Taylor
  • Feels
  • Mood
  • Next

• You have to have the capacity and the ability to take what people did, and how they did it, and forgive them and move on.

  

  John Lewis
  • Ability
  • Capacity
  • Move On