John Ralston Saul Quotes
Canada is either an idea or it does not exist. It is either an intellectual undertaking or it is little more than a resource-rich vacuum lying in the buffer zone just north of a great empire.
Quotes to Explore
-
Be present. Be meditative. Form real friendships. Stay away from business networking events or friendships where there is always an underlying business angle.
-
I simply adore getting dressed up for a special occasion. I feel incredible stepping out in luxurious fabrics and a bit of bling. That's also how I feel about special-occasion dining rooms. Because these aren't everyday spaces, they contain all sorts of drama for that once-in-a-while 'wow' event.
-
Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.
-
We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.
-
I just try to keep it simple, not let too many outside things influence me.
-
Whatever they did for democracy, the U.S. interventions in the Middle East and the vaunted Arab Spring have proved to be pure hell for Arab Christians.
-
The first song I did was over a Chief Keef beat – 'Understand Me.' I did that in, like, 2011 or 2012, I think.
-
A lot of actors know they want to be actors a little bit earlier on. I didn't even really start studying until I was about 22.
-
My lessons didn't come at my father's knee. Like all good lessons, they were learned from example.
-
I find it hard to focus looking forward. So I look backward.
-
We may define therapy as a search for value.
-
I love thinking about the film, the project and committing myself as much as possible.
-
I'm not on the radio all day long. I'm not on TV.
-
I'm really interested in playing my age.
-
Having robbed children of any sense that their Father is in Heaven and that they are His creation, we then launched an experiment in raising them without earthly fathers too. Having neither a Father in heaven or a father in the home, many young men make gangs their families.
-
We need to focus on building up our own nation and creating jobs here at home.
-
I'm trying to go with the flow, which is not what I used to do. I used to try to micromanage my career choices.
-
I had the most magical childhood, running free and going anywhere I wanted to in my head.
-
I'd love to believe in my government so I could trust law enforcement people again. I don't have that belief any more.
-
The thing I love about reporting is being able to blend in with any group, whether that's neo-Nazis or pedophiles.
-
Crouching down inside a deep ravine,Those angry cries pass quickly by, he can't be seen.So many ways spent hiding in so many undone plans;Forgetting what it's like to fight when no one understands.
-
I don't think you can make America great again by trying to go back to an old coal-based manufacturing economy that doesn't really exist anymore.
-
In most mills, only the best portions of the best trees are used, while the ruins are left on the ground to feed great fires which kill much of what is left of the less desirable timber, together with the seedlings on which the permanence of the forest depends.
-
Canada is either an idea or it does not exist. It is either an intellectual undertaking or it is little more than a resource-rich vacuum lying in the buffer zone just north of a great empire.
