John McCain Quotes

Countries, not just their armies, win wars.

John McCain

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• I think a lot of playwrights have a script in their bottom drawer that hopefully no one will ever see about a bunch of young people sharing a flat and getting up to crazy stuff.

  

  Laura Wade
  • People
  • Up
  • Think

• You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

  

  Walker Percy
  • Great
  • Live
  • Age

• I've been in elementary education for years and my belief is that Christmas pageants in schools are little more than conditioning kids for the Christian religion.

  

  Jack Bowman
  • Kids
  • Education
  • Christian

• Quiet is the new loud.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • New
  • Quiet
  • Loud

• Most importantly, nothing has happened to change my conviction that freedom and the love of liberty remain the essential defining attributes of our national character as a people.

  

  Ibrahim Babangida
  • People
  • Love
  • Character

• I heard what was said of the universe, heard it and heard it of several thousand years; it is middling well as far as it goes - but is that all?

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Universe
  • Years
  • Said

• To find a man's true character, play golf with him.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Character
  • True
  • Man

• I just want get to as high as I can go. I think that's the safest and most politically correct thing I can say. I'm not trying to take anyone's spot. I want to create my own lane and shoot to the sky.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Trying
  • High
  • Want

• Long time ago, people would make the Bible, right? The guy said it, somebody wrote it down. And then if you wanted another copy of it, another human being wrote another one. It took a long, long time. Somebody created this thing called mimeograph paper and so you said, 'OK, we'll do it that way.' And so you could get three of them.

  

  Ursula Burns
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• I'm letting competition drive me, and when competition drives me, I don't think anyone can compete with me.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Think
  • Me
  • Competition

• With good coaching, proper motivation and the right club structure with organic growth, you can achieve an awful lot in football.

  

  Gary Neville
  • Good
  • Football
  • Growth

• When you're C.E.O., you have to have two conditions: first, shareholders need to trust you and want you to head your company. The second is that you need to feel the motivation to do the job. So, as long as both are reunited, you continue to do the job. And today, they are reunited.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • Long
  • Job
  • Today

• An element of exaggeration clings to the popular judgment: great vices are made greater, great virtues greater also; interesting incidents are made more interesting, softer legends more soft.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Great
  • Interesting
  • Popular

• There is no such thing as absolute proof. There is only evidence.

  

  G. Edward Griffin
  • Thing
  • Evidence
  • Only

• While there are many wonderful police investigators out there doing some very fine work, the majority of the time it is not brains that catches serial killers.

  

  Pat Brown
  • Time
  • Work
  • Police

• I feel like I was in the last graduating class of commercial actors. TiVo! I was out there before TiVo came out, man.

  

  Nate Torrence
  • Man
  • Feel
  • Class

• Be a lover. Choose love. Give love. Love everyone, always.

  

  Harry Styles One Direction

• I would have walked on the waterBut I wasn't fully insured.And the BMA sent a writ my wayWith the very first leper I cured.

  

  Adrian Mitchell

• That beautiful mild woman for whose sake There's many a one shall find out all heartache On finding that her voice is sweet and low Replied, 'To be born a woman is to know- Although they do not talk of it at school - That we must labor to be beautiful.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • School
  • Beautiful
  • Sweet

• Waiting for someone to propose to you only passes the "Really, it's tradition!" sniff test when both of you think it's the man's job to propose and both of you think that's awesome.

  

  Carolyn Hax
  • Thinking
  • Waiting

• To be influential in our conversations, we must first be aware of two things, 1 what do we want to bring to the conversation and 2 what do we want to bring out in others.

  

  Bill Crawford
  • Conversation

• I was pretty strict in high school about who I would listen to. Musicians like Neil Young, Cat Stevens, Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell... who were, in my opinion, great writers. The music mattered, but it held hands with the lyrics, and the personality was, overall, unsullied.

  

  Bill Clegg
  • Great
  • Music
  • School

• Countries, not just their armies, win wars.

  

  John McCain