John W. Gardner Quotes

Our problem is not to find better values but to be faithful to those we profess.

John W. Gardner

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• Seventy years old! How did that happen? I was part of the generation that wasn't going to die.

  

  Ian McShane
  • Die
  • Old
  • Generation

• The pressure suit helps if something goes wrong during launch or re-entry - astronauts have a way to parachute off the shuttle. The suits protect you from loss of pressure in case of emergency.

  

  Sally Ride
  • Pressure
  • Loss
  • Suits

• I think that the idea that I'm writing for many more people than I ever imagined has created a certain general responsibility that is literary and political. There's even pride involved, in not wanting to fall short of what I did before.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • People
  • Writing
  • Political

• I'm not going to change the world overnight. It's one person at a time, and hopefully they're people in positions of power who can help people get in those roles and really, truly embrace colorblind casting.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • People
  • Time
  • World

• My freshman year at Harrison High School, I saw a journalism class where students were putting out a weekly newspaper. It touched a responsive chord in me.

  

  Irv Kupcinet
  • School
  • High
  • Year

• If you are a researcher and want to publish a paper, if you are applying for money either from a private or public foundation, you have to have a DSM code.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Money
  • Want
  • Foundation

• I prefer being as far from the centre of celebrity as possible.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • Celebrity
  • Possible
  • Far

• 'Fallen Too Far' was my first NYT bestseller. That changed my life.

  

  Abbi Glines
  • Life
  • My Life
  • First

• I was born in 1950, so there were tons of Westerns on TV by the time I was 6, 7, 8 years old. In terms of television, 'Maverick' and 'Have Gun - Will Travel.' But filmically, classics like 'High Noon' and 'The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance' - that's one of my favorite films.

  

  Ed Harris
  • Time
  • High
  • Man

• Affirmative action based on quotas is wrong - wrong because it is antithetical to the genius of the American idea: individual liberty.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • American
  • Action
  • Genius

• All those lessons that I've learned on the court, I have applied them to my life outside of the court in business, my company, called V Starr interiors, an interior design company, and EleVen, which I wear on court.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Life
  • Business
  • Design

• Thank God I'm in touch with my emotions enough to be able to pick up my children, kiss them all over and say 'I love you' over and over.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Up
  • God
  • Children

• I've love the challenge of doing something new. Bollywood is magical.

  

  Indira Varma
  • Challenge
  • New
  • Magical

• People, including me, can get so detached from everything, but when you can focus on a defined place, a home, it gets you back in touch.

  

  Tawni O'Dell
  • People
  • Home
  • Me

• I believe education is much more important than we assume.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Believe
  • Important
  • Education

• But for me to have the opportunity to stand in front of a bunch of executives and present myself, I had to hustle in my own way. I can't tell you how frustrating it was that they didn't get that. No joke - I'd leave meetings crying all the time.

  

  Kanye West
  • Time
  • Opportunity
  • Myself

• All ordinary expression may be explained causally, but creative expression which is the absolute contrary of ordinary expression, will be forever hidden from human knowledge.

  

  Carl Jung
  • May
  • Knowledge
  • Forever

• The gash in its throat was shocking, but not pathetic.

  

  Ted Hughes

• The arrival of thousands of Muslim infiltrators to Israeli territory is a clear threat to the state's Jewish identity. The refugees' place is not among us, and the initiative to transfer them to Australia is the right and just solution.

  

  Danny Danon
  • Identity

• I can relate to having those people in your life that you feel are moving on to this great, big, normal life and you're like, 'What's wrong with me?'

  

  Kristen Wiig
  • People
  • Life
  • Great

• The Iraq war was always a long shot. But it was made immeasurably longer by its principal architects in Washington, including Douglas Feith, who ignored expert advice, reserved most of their effort for fighting each other in ideological battles, and regarded the Iraqi people as an afterthought.

  

  George Packer
  • People
  • Long
  • War

• I learned so much about love from the movies. For a couple of hours, I would allow myself to dream about love and a life that, for me, ordinarily, felt out of reach. So, it was with deep gratitude that I watched the drama 'Call Me by Your Name,' knowing what a beautiful teacher it would be for boys like me.

  

  Wilson Cruz
  • Life
  • Love
  • Beautiful

• Our problem is not to find better values but to be faithful to those we profess.

  

  John W. Gardner