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
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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.
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Even when we have physical hardships, we can be very happy.
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I build community. However, I do it wearing a number of hats.
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People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.
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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.
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All I want is an education, and I am afraid of no one.
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Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal.
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Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
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That's one of the things that I've loved about 'Spider-Man' and Marvel in general. The characters all have dimension.
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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.
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Many people who no longer go to church end up falling prey to superstition.
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As much as we need to approve the Keystone pipeline, we need to think far broader than that.
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There's a place in me that can really relate to being the underdog.
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My Welsh grandmother Mair didn't meet my grandfather until she was 28, quite old to be unmarried in the early '40s.
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I say, you work eight hours, and you sleep eight hours - be sure they're not the same eight hours.
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I kinda went through a semi-depression. Honestly. Like, I lost myself.
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I want a society that provides decent jobs for those who can work and decent security for those can't.
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Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society.
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Most of us are at war with ourselves, are our own worst enemies. We expect a great deal of ourselves, yet we do not put ourselves in a condition to achieve great things. We are either too indulgent to our bodies, or we are not indulgent enough.
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We must continue to do the utmost to avoid war in Macedonia. This is a crucial week ... We hope we will be able to resolve these constitutional difficulties.
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A vibrant civil society can challenge those in power by documenting corruption or uncovering activities like the murder of political enemies. In democracies, this function is mostly performed by the media, NGOs or opposition parties.
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Religious poetry, civic poetry, lyric or dramatic poetry are all categories of man's expression which are valid only if the endorsement of formal content is valid.
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Nothing is as frustrating as arguing with someone who knows what he's talking about.
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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.
