John Quotes

The huge capacity to purchase submission that goes with any large sum of money, well, this we have. This is a power of which we should all be aware.

In the conventional wisdom of conservatives, the modern search for security is regularly billed as the greatest single threat to economic progress.

It is possible that people need to believe they are unmanaged if they are to be managed effectively.

It was Herbert Spencer, not Charles Darwin, who coined the phrase Survival of the Fittest.

A businessman who reads Business Week is lost to fame. One who reads Proust is marked for greatness.

Banking may well be a career from which no man really recovers.

There is a common tendency to ignore the poor or to develop some rationalisation for the good fortune of the fortunate.

In the autumn of 1929 the mightiest of Americans were, for a brief time, revealed as human beings.

You will find that [the] State [Department] is the kind of organisation which, though it does big things badly, does small things badly too.

In central banking as in diplomacy, style, conservative tailoring, and an easy association with the affluent count greatly and results far much less.

Few can believe that suffering, especially by others, is in vain. Anything that is disagreeable must surely have beneficial economic effects.

People who are in a fortunate position always attribute virtue to what makes them so happy.

There's a certain part of the contented majority who love anybody who is worth a billion dollars.

Ideas are inherently conservative. They yield not to the attack of other ideas but to the massive onslaught of circumstance with which they cannot contend.

A drastic reduction in weapons competition following a general release from the commitment to the Cold War would be sharply in conflict with the needs of the industrial system.

I think without a doubt, that what is called "financial genius" is merely a rising market.

I think the role of the Federal Reserve is enormously exaggerated.

The American colonies, all know, were greatly opposed to taxation without representation. They were also, a less celebrated quality, equally opposed to taxation with representation.

I have never understood why one's affections must be confined, as once with women, to a single country.

If we were not in Vietnam, all that part of the world would be enjoying the obscurity it so richly deserves.

We have escapist fiction, so why not escapist biography?

In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.

Inventions that are not made, like babies that are not born, are rarely missed.

There can be no question, however, that prolonged commitment to mathematical exercises in economics can be damaging. It leads to the atrophy of judgement and intuition. . .

Inflation does not lubricate trade but by rescuing traders from their errors of optimism or stupidity.

Man, at least when educated, is a pessimist. He believes it safer not to reflect on his achievements; Jove is known to strike such people down.

The pessimistic coach complains about the play. The optimistic coach expects it to change. The realistic coach adjusts what he can control.

Nothing makes a player more productive than the last minute.

An advantage to volleyball is that you have a scoreboard to tell how you have done as a team. The thing is, in life there is no scoreboard, at least not one that you can see.

It would be stupid of me to rule out ever being the leader because that's an impossible thing to rule out. I can't predict future events.

If our salmon are not healthy, then our watersheds are not healthy-and if our watersheds our not healthy, then we have truly squandered our heritage and mortgaged our future.

States, virtually all of them, have a constitutional requirement to operate on a balanced budget.

Everyone has a moment in history which belongs particularly to him.

I lost part of myself to him then, and a soaring sense of freedom revealed that this must have been my purpose from the first: to become a part of Phineas.

Nothing endures. Not a tree. Not love. Not even death by violence.

Life is fighting. In life, it's the look ahead that counts. We are all born equally far from the sun. There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love.

But I was used to finding something deadly in things that attracted me; there was always something deadly lurking in anything I wanted, anything I loved.

So the more things remain the same, the more they change after all.

Sarcasm... the protest of those who are weak.

We actually try our best to be non-biased, but for me, that was the best movie ["Sicario"], filmmaking-wise and storytelling-wise, and connected to me the most. I thought it was great.

My name was originally John Collins, but I just didn't think it had the flair I needed. I found out the poet laureate of Poland was named Krasinski and so it seemed like a shoe-in for show business.

I'm a sucker where I love shifting tides.

I fell in love with the book [ Brief Interviews with Hideous Men] and always wanted to do something with and fought to get the rights, which was pretty fun and an incredible experience in itself.

I'm really not feeling one way or the other with comedy or drama, I'm just sort of doing projects that I've been finding really fun to be a part of.

The single biggest mistake, I think, is giving up too soon.

Kids cannot follow stories. They don't know what the hell is going on in a cartoon. They like to see funny visual things happening.

Schools are really bad now. Schools are not only bad in reading, writing and arithmetic, they're worse in cultural aspects, like in music and art. They don't teach you anything.

The only character I ever remember actually creating in a flash of inspiration was George Liquor. God planted that in my head in an instant.

One guy records the voices, another guy times the storyboard, another guy times the sheets, one guy is the story editor. All these jobs should be covered by the director.

The generic Canadian style of illustration is different from the generic American style.