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

• 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

• 'You don’t seem the superstitious type.''I’m not,' Ben said. 'I’m careful. There’s a difference.'

  

  Patrick Rothfuss

• Logic, like whiskey, loses its beneficial effect when taken in too large quantities.

  

  Logic
  • Taken
  • Logic
  • Whiskey

• I had a job, I got ill, I left the job to get better, and while I was getting better, I wrote some stories. I sent them to some publishers and the fifth one who replied said they'd take them. Then they went bankrupt. Then that bankrupt publisher got bought by a bigger firm. Story: in the end is the beginning, and in the beginning is the end.

  

  Ali Smith
  • Job
  • Beginning

• I have had issues with depression all my life, and it's probably true to say there was a tendency towards it even when I was very young, during my schooldays. There was often - and this is quite common with comics - a sense of not feeling as if I belonged anywhere.

  

  Jack Dee
  • Life
  • True
  • Feeling

• The entrance into Jerusalem has all the elements of the theatre of the absurd: the poor king; truth comes riding on a donkey; symbolic actions - even parading without a permit!

  

  David Kirk
  • Truth
  • Theatre
  • King

• I find politicians globally are somewhat disappointing, not just in Ireland.

  

  Martin Naughton

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

  

  John W. Gardner