Alex Johnston Quotes

The Irish seem to want their artists to function as surrogate priests – sources of authority, founts of wisdom, people who will offer us free-range organic consolation, you name it. It’s not a position I feel comfortable with.

Alex Johnston

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• Outside of hip-hop, it was in comics that I most often found the aesthetics and wisdom of my world reflected.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • World
  • Wisdom
  • Hip Hop

• Much of the conventional wisdom associated with Vietnam was highly inaccurate. Far from an inevitable result of the imperative to contain communism, the war was only made possible through lies and deceptions aimed at the American public, Congress, and members of Lyndon Johnson's own administration.

  

  H. R. McMaster
  • American
  • War
  • Wisdom

• The sweetest of all sounds is praise.

  

  Xenophon
  • Wisdom
  • Praise
  • Sounds

• If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • Problem
  • Wisdom
  • See

• I feel comfortable with the ball in my hands.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Feel
  • Hands
  • Comfortable

• It is hard to imagine an area in which Congress has more express constitutional authority to act than in protecting the right of minorities to vote.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Act
  • Authority
  • Vote

• The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Wisdom
  • Journey
  • Step

• Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Great
  • Together
  • Wisdom

• Directing is more comfortable for me because, as an actor, there's always something inherently false. Because I'm not that person.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Person
  • Actor
  • Comfortable

• It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Wisdom
  • Healthy
  • Wisest

• One man's justice is another's injustice; one man's beauty another's ugliness; one man's wisdom another's folly.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Wisdom
  • Justice

• Modernity: we created youth without heroism, age without wisdom, and life without grandeur.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Life
  • Age
  • Wisdom

• All the mystery and wisdom of the Masters, when it’s out in the daylight, doesn’t amount to so much, you know. Tricks of the trade-wonderful illusions. But people don’t want to know that. They want the illusions, the mysteries. Who can blame them? There’s so little in life that’s beautiful or worthy.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • People
  • Life
  • Beautiful

• We have assembled inside this ancient & insane theatre To propagate our lust for life & flee the swarming wisdom of the streets

  

  Jim Morrison The Doors
  • Life
  • Wisdom
  • Theatre

• We are, as a sex, infinitely superior to men, and if we were free and developed, healthy in body and mind, as we should be under natural conditions, our motherhood would be our glory. That function gives women such wisdom and power as no male can possess.

  

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  • Men
  • Women
  • Mind

• My country has in its wisdom contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived; and as I can do neither good nor evil, I must be borne away by others and meet the common fate.

  

  John Adams
  • Good
  • Country
  • Wisdom

• Don't gain the world and lose your soul Wisdom is better than silver and gold.

  

  Bob Marley
  • World
  • Soul
  • Wisdom

• I think it's nice to age gracefully. OK, you lose the youth, a certain stamina and dewy glow, but what you gain on the inside as a human being is wonderful: the wisdom, the acceptance and the peace of mind. It's a fair exchange.

  

  Cherie Lunghi
  • Mind
  • Age
  • Peace

• For those of you who pray, I ask that you pray that I will always judge with wisdom and integrity as a faithful servant of the law.

  

  Charles T. Canady
  • Law
  • Wisdom
  • Judge

• Men tell us we are womanly when we love but once. Men! They have told us a lot of things to make life comfortable for themselves.

  

  Blanche Willis Howard
  • Life
  • Men
  • Love

• There are people that regardless of what it is, if it's something that's stressful, whatever it may be, they don't eat, they lose a lot of weight, a divorce, they get real thin. I'm the opposite.

  

  Janet Jackson
  • People
  • Real
  • May

• It seems to me, correct me if I'm wrong, that there are an awful lot of people in Manhattan. And it's getting worse.

  

  Cynthia Heimel
  • People
  • Seems
  • Awful

• The Irish seem to want their artists to function as surrogate priests – sources of authority, founts of wisdom, people who will offer us free-range organic consolation, you name it. It’s not a position I feel comfortable with.

  

  Alex Johnston
  • Wisdom
  • Authority
  • Position