John Quotes

No poem is easily grasped so why should any reader expect fast results?

Sometimes poetry is inspired by the conversation entered into by reading other poems.

An experienced reader uses the poem as an agent of inquiry. This makes poetry very exciting, unstable, and interactive.

You don't have to suffer to be a poet adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.

We all write poems it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.

It's always good to show that poetry isn't the little depressed lyric people believe it to be, that it's something bigger.

As I got older and started moving up the ranking, the matches got more important, and my emotions ratcheted up. I guess I hid my real feelings behind the anger.

The difference between anger and deep remorse - remorse is much fatter. It's a deeper feeling altogether. Anger is too easy an escape for my money.

I've never felt that anger is a very powerful emotion.

An angry people cannot create anything that is not imbued with anger.

Anger is so constructive.

When I interviewed John McCain in 2000 about whether he had taken medication for his anger, I remember thinking, 'Let's see how this is going to work.'

There's a lot of anger in 'Queen of Denmark, ' and that's me getting political.

Climate change is the environmental challenge of this generation, and it is imperative that we act before it's too late.

The ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world are the ones who do.

Our only security is our ability to change.

A boycott is directed against a policy and the institutions which support that policy either actively or tacitly. Its aim is not to reject, but to bring about change.

It's better to get smart than to get mad. I try not to get so insulted that I will not take advantage of an opportunity to persuade people to change their minds.

And Seaman, just like a falling oak, manages to change direction.

I've been a conservative in West Virginia before that was popular. I've seen a change in West Virginia. Not a change in John Raese, but a change in West Virginia and a change in America.

We have nothing less to do than to get inside of whole peoples and change their motives and dispositions.

Given that, and assuming that we begin to adjust to issues like climate change and the greenhouse effect, Denver's location in the center of the country becomes a tremendous advantage.

Our soldiers have nobly fought to protect freedom since our country's birth, and have fought to protect those that could not protect themselves, even in foreign lands when called upon.

The combined results of several people working together is often much more effective than could be that of an individual scientist working alone.

It is said that man doesn't live by bread alone. Sometimes this is unfortunate, because people who cannot live by bread alone too often kill other people in consequence of the fights they get into.

When you sit down and watch something alone, you're going to watch it for what it is.

He never is alone that is accompanied with noble thoughts.

Lord of myself, accountable to none, but to my conscience, and my God alone.

I'm very concerned for the future of the earth and its amazing creatures. We've got to be careful and make sure we don't foul our own nest.

People, for reasons of their own, often fail to do things that would be good for them or good for society.

The emphasis on the birth of Christ tends to polarize our pluralistic society and create legal and ethnic belligerence.

I have the satisfaction of knowing I did something useful for society.

I feel that I'll be buried in Ireland and don't think I'll ever live in the U.S. I'm not comfortable with many aspects of U.S. society - especially the justice system.

If a woman chooses to have an abortion, it is legal to do that in this country, but I don't think taxpayers should be put in a position to have to pay for those abortions.

From your confessor, lawyer and physician, hide not your case on no condition.

I was a wedding singer as a teenager.

I love 3-D. I have been a big fan of 3-D for a long, long time. I took my 1988 wedding pictures in 3-D!

Most parents were, like, Little League coaches and all that. My dad was a wrestling fan. Instead of going out and playing home run derby with my old man, we just watched wrestling together.

When I first joined SAG, there was another John Reilly. My dad was John Reilly, too, but growing up I was John John. Nobody in life calls me John C. It's more like, 'Hey you, Step Brother!'

I'm a fun father, but not a good father. The hard decisions always went to my wife.

You never know what the future holds, so I am just enjoying being happy, healthy, and having my wonderful husband by my side.

Without ethics, man has no future. This is to say, mankind without them cannot be itself. Ethics determine choices and actions and suggest difficult priorities.

And all your future lies beneath your hat.

The future belongs to those who see possibilities before they become obvious.

If you do not think about your future, you cannot have one.

For the sake of future generations, we must continue to work together to realise a world without nuclear weapons.