John Sheffield Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
If I was being paid thirty-thousand dollars a year, the very least I could do was hit .400.
-
A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable.
-
In my eyes, there's no one better than Stevie Wonder. He's a top dude.
-
We grow small trying to be great.
-
I was just never discouraged from doing something wacky like trying to be a comedian.
-
It is what makes the reform process an art, not just a science. You have to develop a strategy that tells you what reform measures you should follow and in what sequence.
-
I find it shameful that in nearly all the universities of Europe, Palestinian students sponsor and nurture anti-Semitism.
-
You can't force chemistry. It's either there or it's not. You can't create it.
-
If you're going to America, bring your own food.
-
The biological evolutionary perception of life and of human qualities is radically different from that of traditional religion, whether it's Southern Baptist or Islam or any religion that believes in a supernatural supervalance over humanity.
-
Kids don't hesitate to ask questions. And it's a great honor to have the kids say, 'Your books have made me trust you.'
-
Armenians and Azerbaijanis in Stepanakert, capital of the Nagorno-Karabakh autonomous region, rioted over much needed spelling reform in the Soviet Union.
-
One of the annoying things about believing in free will and individual responsibility is the difficulty of finding somebody to blame your problems on. And when you do find somebody, it's remarkable how often his picture turns up on your driver's license.
-
You know, the way I'm accepted, I almost feel like Judy Garland, truly. It makes no sense to me because I don't think that I've been any more outspoken... Or maybe I have, I don't know. But everyone I know supports anything that has to do with raising money or with AIDS.
-
Not an inch of the land belongs to you, but every inch could easily imprison you.
-
It's unlikely that the organized religions will get more sectarian... or is it? I am not at all sure.
-
When I was a prosecutor in Kansas City, my job was to fight for justice and safety for all citizens in my community. Equal access to justice under the law is an American value embedded in the fabric of our legal and political system - the idea that anybody, powerful or not, can have their day in court.
-
If we hit the debt ceiling, that's... essentially defaulting on our obligations, which is totally unprecedented in American history. The impact on the economy would be catastrophic.
-
I think anybody who has been in the theater, prefers it. Television is a... factory. You turn out things on a revolving assembly line. You don't have time to perfect anything in television.
-
Better be with the dead, Whom we to gain our peace, have sent to peace, Than on the torture of the mind to lie In restless ecstasy.
-
The shallow consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise man sees in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws.
-
The story of practically every great fortune starts with the day when a creator of ideas and a seller of ideas got together and worked in harmony.
-
Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.
