Paul Johnson (Paul Bede Johnson) Quotes

The word 'meaningful' when used today is nearly always meaningless.

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• A lot of people asked me if it was frustrating not having a clear specific diagnosis, but I didn't mind, I just chose the most optimistic diagnosis.

  

  Karen Duffy
  • People
  • Mind
  • Optimistic

• Never speak to an invalid from behind, nor from the door, nor from any distance from him, nor when he is doing anything. The official politeness of servants in these things is so grateful to invalids, that many prefer, without knowing why, having none but servants about them.

  

  Florence Nightingale
  • Why
  • Door
  • Speak

• My government has the challenge of addressing the issue of gas. The issue of gas cannot be addressed today without the participation of all Bolivians alike.

  

  Carlos Mesa
  • Today
  • Government
  • Challenge

• I've wanted to be an actor for such a long time that I haven't had anything else in my thoughts. I think my family would have quite liked me to be a lawyer.

  

  Ed Speleers
  • Time
  • Long
  • Family

• I look for my opportunities, not trying to go outside of my genuine realm, because leadership has to be genuine and authentic.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • Trying
  • Leadership
  • Opportunities

• Any organization or any individual that targets civilians and kills them for political agenda is a terrorist organization.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • Political
  • Organization

• I think I became a Catholic to annoy my father.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Father
  • Think
  • Catholic

• I love snacks, but I'm kind of growing out of them. I'm getting into fruit and Clif Bars.

  

  Maddie Ziegler
  • Growing
  • Kind
  • Getting

• Being Jewish is a big part of my artistic sensibility and my humor... I think it gives me a certain take on the world on a literary level.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • World
  • Think
  • Humor

• That balance between involvement and detachment is what novelists do. It's the ideal relationship between a novelist and a character, I think, total involvement and identity and empathy, stopping short of being autobiographical - in my case, anyway - but also quite detached.

  

  Pat Barker
  • Character
  • Relationship
  • Balance

• I don't drink tea or coffee. I'm like a child: I like fruit juices and sodas and creamy hot chocolate.

  

  Talulah Riley
  • Child
  • Coffee
  • Tea

• I had to make peace with my past because I can't change it.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Past
  • Change
  • Peace

• Memory is a net: one finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Water
  • Memory
  • Fish

• I completely scorn the falsifying, the sanctimonious, the cheap and the shoddy.

  

  Ralph Thomas Walker
  • Cheap
  • Scorn
  • Shoddy

• Once I feel I'm right, I have enjoyed provoking.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Feel
  • Right
  • Once

• I get to know my regular fans, and they inspire me.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Know
  • Me
  • Inspire

• At a earlier age, I was kind of into a pretty large scope or range of music from Hieroglyphics and the Hobo Junction guys and all that to like a lot of stuff that was in New York like Diamond D, Nas, Brand Nubian, of course Biggie, OC, Organized Confusion, Tribe Called Quest, De La Soul, Digable Planets, who I just saw recently, and they killed it.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Music
  • Age
  • Soul

• People don't want to embrace culture shifts because it's not going to happen in the next 20 minutes.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • People
  • Want
  • Culture

• I know how much parents love buying clothes for their kids and how they want to give them something new in the closet.

  

  Liya Kebede
  • Kids
  • Parents

• Harlem exists in retrospect, in the memory of grandparents or elderly cousins, those 'old-timers' ever ready with their geysers of remembered scenes. The legends of 'Black Mecca' are preserved in the glossy musicals of Times Square and in texts of virtually every kind.

  

  Darryl Pinckney
  • Black
  • Grandparents

• My favorite composers are the ones that tell the story. I love Wagner. I love Mahler. Prokofiev. The programmatic music. I listen more to classic rock because I don't like the contemporary music very much.

  

  Patti LuPone
  • Music
  • Rock

• I would not necessarily say that scientists and artists need to collaborate with one another, but it would be helpful for them to talk to one another to, perhaps, give rise to specific ideas that may or may not be carried out together.

  

  Eric Kandel
  • May
  • Together

• The word 'meaningful' when used today is nearly always meaningless.

  

  Paul Johnson
  • Today
  • Meaningful
  • Meaningless