John McCain Quotes

Make no mistake: I do not valorize our military out of some unfamiliar instinct. I grew up in a military family, and have my own record of service, and have stayed closely engaged with our armed forces throughout my public career. In the American system, the military has value only inasmuch as it protects and defends the liberties of the people.

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• I see my role as a scholar announcing that women's feelings of unworthiness and insecurity often may be traced to training in a male-oriented religion, and I'm trying to investigate a richer spiritual life for both sexes.

  

  Barbara G. Walker
  • Life
  • Women
  • Trying

• Catholics and evangelicals need to remain allied, and in solidarity, against the increasingly aggressive secularism of our age.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Age
  • Need
  • Solidarity

• You are important enough to ask and you are blessed enough to receive back.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Important
  • You
  • Blessed

• I love surfing more than cricket, more interesting and you meet great people.

  

  Hansie Cronje
  • People
  • Great
  • Love

• I love the idea of thinking of cinema as not that far from music. A lot of my favourite movie makers, the way they move their cameras or the way they cut just feel very musical - even if the movies have no music in them at all.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Music
  • Thinking
  • Love

• One of the first major storylines that 'All My Children' featured was Erica Kane, a rebellious daughter, and her mother, sort of a matriarchal type, who was trying to guide her daughter to a safer place.

  

  Eden Riegel
  • Children
  • Trying
  • Mother

• 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

• We just here to do our job.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Job
  • Just
  • Here

• Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity; for if man's power is increased, the checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened.

  

  Madame de Stael
  • Power
  • Man
  • Moral

• Judges can determine fair justice far better than any inane federal mandate.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Justice
  • Better
  • Judges

• It's very hard to put forth a film that's about love and the joy of love and for it not to be patronising and not make people nauseous or make them roll their eyes.

  

  Laura Linney
  • People
  • Love
  • Joy

• A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Man
  • Looks
  • Flowers

• I never carry a purse. My iPhone is always with me, a credit card, and a piece of mint chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream gum.

  

  Rachel G. Fox
  • Chocolate
  • Credit
  • Ice

• Change is a continuous process. You cannot assess it with the static yardstick of a limited time frame. When a seed is sown into the ground, you cannot immediately see the plant. You have to be patient. With time, it grows into a large tree. And then the flowers bloom, and only then can the fruits be plucked.

  

  Mamata Banerjee
  • Time
  • Change
  • Tree

• 'Runaround Sue' was a big record for me, as well as the music video for it.

  

  G-Eazy
  • Music
  • Record
  • Well

• You get steely nerves playing poker.

  

  Nate Silver
  • You
  • Playing
  • Poker

• For a while, I became an atheist; now that I'm grown up, though, I'm not hard-edged enough to be an atheist. Even though I live with a flaming atheist, I love going to temple. I love all the rituals.

  

  Padma Lakshmi
  • Up
  • Live
  • Love

• I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Want
  • Name
  • Albums

• If you create a movie that is only character driven, with a weak plot, then you - as a director, you have to make sure you keep pushing the tempo.

  

  Daniel Espinosa
  • Character
  • Movie
  • You

• I'm competitive with anyone who writes a good song - I don't care if it's a band or solo artist or whoever.

  

  Chris Martin Coldplay
  • Good
  • Song
  • Band

• Any spending should be debated openly on the floor of the House and voted on in open session, with the American people having a chance to watch and listen.

  

  Marsha Blackburn
  • People
  • American
  • House

• I want to see children curled up with books, finding an awareness of themselves as they discover other people's thoughts. I want them to make the connection that books are people's stories, that writing is talking on paper, and I want them to write their own stories. I'd like my books to provide that connection for them.

  

  Patricia Reilly Giff
  • People
  • Up
  • Writing

• I'm the descendant of enslaved black people in this country. You could've been born in 1820 if you were black and looked back to your ancestors and saw nothing but slaves all the way back to 1619. Look forward another 50 or 60 years and saw nothing but slaves.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • Country
  • Black

• Make no mistake: I do not valorize our military out of some unfamiliar instinct. I grew up in a military family, and have my own record of service, and have stayed closely engaged with our armed forces throughout my public career. In the American system, the military has value only inasmuch as it protects and defends the liberties of the people.

  

  John McCain
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