John Oliver Quotes

I would much rather America was a more stable, wonderful place. You know, I love it.

John Oliver

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• There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Hope
  • Fear
  • No Fear

• The attitude and identity that we want to play with doesn't change.

  

  Dan Quinn
  • Change
  • Attitude
  • Identity

• I've stopped reading about the death of books because it's wasteful and morbid and insulting to the authors, agents, publishers, booksellers, critics, and readers that keep the world community of fiction interesting.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • World
  • Death
  • Interesting

• Any organization or any individual that targets civilians and kills them for political agenda is a terrorist organization.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • Political
  • Organization

• I had an ethnic preference, if you will, for the warm weather, coming from Chennai. So I finally said, 'Look, can I move to California?' because every time I come here, it would be in the 70s or 80s, and there would be beautiful blue sky and warm.

  

  Ram Shriram
  • Time
  • Beautiful
  • Sky

• I'm trying to sell every audience something; that something is me.

  

  Eddy Arnold
  • Trying
  • Me
  • Audience

• I'll tell you, there is nothing better in life than being a late bloomer. I believe that success can happen at any time and at any age.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Life
  • Time
  • Believe

• I have been in meetings where a head of state will say, 'I like your tie,' to a man... or, 'I like your country because the weather's good,' or whatever. So for me, the pins in some ways were openers.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Good
  • Country
  • Man

• The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Life
  • Important
  • Problems

• It should be no surprise that religion in the non-western world has failed to disappear under the juggernaut of industrial capitalism, or that liberal democracy finds its most dedicated saboteurs among the new middle classes.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • World
  • Democracy
  • Religion

• On behalf of NARAL Pro-Choice America - and our one million member activists - I am honored to be here to talk to you about what's at stake for women in 2012. I am proud to say that the Democratic Party believes that women have the right to choose a safe, legal abortion with dignity and privacy.

  

  Nancy Keenan
  • Women
  • America
  • Party

• All great rebellions are born of private acts of civil disobedience that inspire rebel bands to plot together.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Great
  • Together
  • Inspire

• 'Shkoff' is to eat. 'Shkiaff' is to slap. Like, 'Gettouttahere I'm gonna give you a couple of shkiaffs,' or, 'Forget presentation, just shkiaff the food onto the plate.'

  

  Nadia Giosia
  • You
  • Food
  • Couple

• Stuart Blumberg is suddenly an authority on the modern - or, dare we say, post-modern - family, thanks to the critically-acclaimed debut of his new film, 'The Kids Are All Right.'

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Family
  • Kids
  • Film

• Even though the society that Marx foresaw is far from being an historical reality, Marxism has penetrated so deeply in history that we are all Marxists, one way or another, even unknowingly.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • History
  • Society
  • Reality

• I've written short stories in first person, but you have so much more control writing in third person. Third person, you know what everybody's thinking. First person is very limiting, and I could never sustain a first person novel before.

  

  Tamora Pierce
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Control

• The only time some people work like a horse is when the boss rides them.

  

  Gabriel Heatter
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• Well - I was brought up as a Southern Baptist.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Up
  • Well
  • Southern

• People just want to know something, anything. It's all the stuff you never want to talk about, the private stuff.

  

  Emily Blunt
  • People

• The Aristocratic Institutions of England had acted much like the Slavery Institutions of America...in demoralising large classes outside their own special boundaries...in producing a long habit of submission...and in enfeebling by corrupting those who should assail them.

  

  John Bright
  • Long
  • America
  • Habit

• I don't know why so many people in America hate Hillary Clinton; I found her to be one of the most gracious, intelligent, perceptive, and, yes, classy women I have ever met.

  

  Peter Navarro
  • People
  • Women
  • Why

• The United States of America is the richest country in the world; yet we're the worst at taking care of poor people.

  

  Unita Zelma Blackwell
  • People
  • World
  • Country

• Just then, with a wink and a sly normal lurch,The owl very gravely got down from his perch,Walked round, and regarded his fault-finding critic(Who thought he was stuffed) with a glance analytic.

  

  James Thomas Fields
  • Owl

• I would much rather America was a more stable, wonderful place. You know, I love it.

  

  John Oliver
  • America