John Turner Quotes
In any democracy, there is always a tug-of-war between policies to achieve equality and policies to promote excellence. I am certain that Canada can achieve both equality and excellence.
Quotes to Explore
-
Mum and Dad were very much friends and up for life. There was no anxiety for anything when I was growing up; they just taught me to be me.
-
Even when we have physical hardships, we can be very happy.
-
I build community. However, I do it wearing a number of hats.
-
People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.
-
It gets very tiring when you are filming and then taken to a room to do school work. I never get any rest time. It is either work or school. Once you are an adult, you get to take a nap in between shots.
-
All I want is an education, and I am afraid of no one.
-
Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal.
-
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
-
That's one of the things that I've loved about 'Spider-Man' and Marvel in general. The characters all have dimension.
-
If I can hit the ball the way I want to hit it on the range, I'd rather do that than play golf. I just love the feeling of hitting good golf shots.
-
Many people who no longer go to church end up falling prey to superstition.
-
As much as we need to approve the Keystone pipeline, we need to think far broader than that.
-
There's a place in me that can really relate to being the underdog.
-
My Welsh grandmother Mair didn't meet my grandfather until she was 28, quite old to be unmarried in the early '40s.
-
I say, you work eight hours, and you sleep eight hours - be sure they're not the same eight hours.
-
I kinda went through a semi-depression. Honestly. Like, I lost myself.
-
I want a society that provides decent jobs for those who can work and decent security for those can't.
-
Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society.
-
The most important, what I believe myself to do, is what is the interest of Lebanon, what is the interest of my country and my nation? And I'm going to do it fully.
-
I'm kind of a perfectionist about my songwriting. If I don't mean it, I don't think it's any good.
-
Buckley and Vidal were both stand-ins for what was happening on the streets of Chicago and the streets of America. I mean, they're representing these two different camps that are at war in the streets. And they're at war with their words. And each was looking for a knockout.
-
Democracy opens new vistas and opportunities. We should use the opportunities it offers to correct past mistakes not to blunder anew.
-
A guy as great as Brett Favre has been for the length of time he's been, you would hope that he would be able to leave the game with a positive flavor in his mouth.
-
In any democracy, there is always a tug-of-war between policies to achieve equality and policies to promote excellence. I am certain that Canada can achieve both equality and excellence.
