Paul Johnson (Paul Bede Johnson) Quotes

Euphemism is a human device to conceal the horrors of reality.

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• I'm very proud of my love for Whitney Houston. She really changed my life. She made my life a better life. She was so beautiful in her love for God, her love for her family and her love for music. She truly loved her music. She could do everything! She had flawless rhythm, flawless pitch, flawless feeling, and flawless beauty.

  

  Narada Michael Walden
  • Life
  • God
  • Family

• We need to ask who is the enemy, and the enemies are terrorists.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Enemy
  • Need
  • Ask

• When the Bible was first published, bathhouses were mandatory, no one could read, and only the people in the Church could write.

  

  Taylor Negron
  • People
  • Church
  • Bible

• I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.

  

  Barry Goldwater
  • War
  • Look
  • Month

• Children refuse to compromise. Adults learn how.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Children
  • Learn
  • Compromise

• I'm not really a food connoisseur.

  

  Aasif Mandvi
  • Food
  • Really
  • Connoisseur

• A family has its own rituals and its own superstitions.

  

  Tea Obreht
  • Family
  • Own
  • Superstitions

• He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder.

  

  M. C. Escher
  • Wonder
  • Wonders
  • Itself

• Review your work. You will find, if you are honest, that 90% of the trouble is traceable to loafing.

  Ford Frick
  • Work
  • Find
  • Trouble

• My father was an air officer in the Second World War. My brother was a marine in Vietnam. When I was given this opportunity, I leapt at the chance because I thought it would be a hell of a lot more interesting than what my friends were doing.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • World
  • Friends
  • War

• Don't be surprised at Fortune's turns and twists: That wheel has spun a thousand yarns before.

  

  Hafez
  • Fortune
  • Wheel
  • Twists

• As obvious as it sounds, I strongly recommend shopping at a specialty bike store. They are the experts, and they will be able to help you decide which bike is best for you.

  

  Patrick Dempsey
  • Help
  • Best
  • Shopping

• I've always been interested in technology, but specifically how we can use machines to engage the imagination. I started using computers when I was young and was fascinated by creating rules and instructions that allow a computer to engage in a dialogue with humans. The stories found in the data all around us can do just that.

  

  Aaron Koblin
  • Technology
  • Imagination

• Militat omnis amans

  

  Ovid

• The bird stabs the worm, the big cat breaks the bird’s neck, the man casts his spear into the heart of the cat. That is how the world is. Even the man had better look behind him; the wolf may be near, or another man, or fate, the hungriest hunter of them all.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • World
  • Heart
  • May

• Diplomacy, n. The patriotic art of lying for one's country.

  

  Ambrose Bierce
  • Country
  • Art
  • Patriotic

• I will not concede for a moment that old privileges should not dwindle. They cannot dwindle fast enough.

  

  Anand Giridharadas

• When you first arrive in India, you think, 'God, these Indians treat their servants so badly! How awful!' It's something in the air, and something about the way people are, that very few people hold out. I wasn't able to. Everybody goes local. You stop saying 'thank you' and things like that.

  

  Anand Giridharadas
  • People
  • God
  • Stop

• For 70 nights, right across America, I've been getting out there with two ex-lovers and we've been playing songs which are so specific about each of us, you just wouldn't know. We're friends now but we can't forget what happened between us.

  

  Stevie Nicks Fleetwood Mac
  • America
  • Songs
  • Ex-lovers

• No one wakes up and says, "Yay I get to mow the lawn!" But if I can find meaning there, then there's nowhere I can't find meaning.

  

  Ian Bogost
  • Up
  • Wake Up
  • Lawns

• Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Support
  • Need
  • Manners

• Many people have been pontificating, and patronizing, and moralizing, and scapegoating, saying you Greeks, you are the problem. I would say we Greeks have a problem. We are not the problem.

  

  George Papandreou
  • People

• The kids from the streets don't want preaching or messages. They want what they can identify with. They want to hear about the reality of their situation, not fairy tales. They don't care if it's ugly; they just want reality.

  

  Eric Lynn Wright
  • Kids
  • Reality
  • Care

• Euphemism is a human device to conceal the horrors of reality.

  

  Paul Johnson
  • Reality
  • Conceal
  • Euphemism