John R. Allen Quotes

To ISIS and others: We will defeat you.

John R. Allen

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• To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • World
  • Accomplishment
  • Be Yourself

• Honest honey, I feel like crying every time I sit down to write you a letter... I am so unlucky.

  

  Eddie Slovik
  • Write
  • Crying
  • Letter

• Trust me, you have to fight. When people are wrong, you've got to let them know it.

  

  Orlando Cepeda
  • People
  • Trust
  • Fight

• I'm a rock singer, but I love soul, I love blues, and I love theatrical stuff, too, like theatrical rock like Queen and Meat Loaf.

  

  Caleb Johnson
  • Love
  • Soul
  • Rock

• I was playing little league baseball when Bruce Jenner was winning the gold, but I don't think I was really paying attention at that time. It wasn't until 1980 - I think I was 12 years old - that I thought, 'Wow that's what I want to do. I want to be on the Olympic team.'

  

  Dan O'Brien
  • Time
  • Team
  • Attention

• If any human being is to reach full maturity both the masculine and feminine sides of the personality must be brought up into consciousness.

  

  M. Esther Harding
  • Up
  • Personality
  • Reach

• Even more than dying itself, I'm scared of the horror-movie changes that happen to the human body as it ages. I think of it as a sort of haunted-house effect, living inside a crumbling, creaking structure that is full of ghosts and will, some day, fall down.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Movie
  • House
  • Day

• Psychoanalysts believe that the only 'normal' people are those who cause no trouble either to themselves or anyone else.

  

  A. J. P. Taylor
  • People
  • Believe
  • Trouble

• When a noble life has prepared for old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.

  

  Madame de Stael
  • Life
  • Age
  • Old Age

• I'm a big fan of Elvis, man. I got 'Heartbreak Hotel' tattooed on my chest.

  

  Ed Westwick
  • Man
  • Hotel
  • Heartbreak

• I thought using the Ayatollah's money to support the Nicaraguan resistance was a neat idea.

  

  Oliver North
  • Money
  • Support
  • Thought

• I first arrived in New York in 1979. I was 19 and I was going to University in Houston, Texas, and I decided that I knew what I wanted to do and it was time to go and do it. I literally ran away from college.

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • Time
  • College
  • New York

• The only fear I have is that I will wake up one day and nobody will allow me to do films. This is a fear every actor has.

  

  Abhishek Bachchan
  • Up
  • Fear
  • Day

• Some people say they use images to help them remember intricacies. Others say they just remember. If they are able to form an image of the face, it is because they remember how it was: it is not that an image guides memory, but that memory produces an image, or the sense of imaging. We have no agreed way to talk clearly about such things.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • People
  • Remember
  • Help

• Artists often become vocal advocates of freedom of expression because we depend on it so heavily in our work. But it is an inalienable right that belongs to everyone on an equal basis.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • Work
  • Freedom
  • Expression

• If it feels like we're re-creating something rather than creating something, we don't do it.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Like
  • Something
  • Creating

• Chess problems are the hymn-tunes of mathematics.

  

  G. H. Hardy
  • Chess

• You can will an act of service but you cannot will love.

  

  Anthony de Mello
  • Service

• I write all my sermons.

  

  Joel Osteen

• All companies that grow really big do so in only one way: people recommend the product or service to other people.

  

  Sam Altman
  • People
  • Service
  • Grow

• As the liberty lads o'er the sea Bought their freedom, and cheaply, with blood, So we, boys, we Shall die fighting or live free, And down with all kings but King Ludd!

  

  Lord Byron
  • Live
  • Free
  • Freedom

• When Jesus prayed the model prayer we call the Lord's Prayer, his first requests were that God's name be shown reverence, that his kingdom come, that his will be done.

  

  Bill Hybels
  • God
  • Done
  • Jesus

• Some of the people in my caucus, some of the people in the state party in Minnesota have basically said, "We don't want to deal with these guys because they're too conservative," or "We don't agree with them on social issues."

  

  Collin Peterson
  • Deal
  • State
  • Conservative

• To ISIS and others: We will defeat you.

  

  John R. Allen