Griffel Johnson Quotes

#1. Every day I run scared. That's the only way I can stay ahead. #Quote by John H. Johnson

#2. I battered the cordons around me
And cradled my wings on the breeze,
Then soared to the uttermost reaches
With rapture, with power, with ease! #Quote by Georgia Douglas Johnson

#3. It is not simply a theological treatise, a code of laws, a religious homily, but the Bible - the book - while the only book for the soul, the best book for the mind #Quote by Herrick Johnson

#4. When I'm on television, I'm talking to millions of people, so the conversation is totally different. My words are different. My diction is different because now I'm really talking American English and not homeboy English. #Quote by Keyshawn Johnson

#5. As the historian Tom Standage observes, they were among the first to recognize the importance of trademarks and advertising, of slogans, logos ... . Since the remedies themselves usually cost very little to make, it made sense to spend money on marketing. #Quote by Steven Johnson

#6. To make dictionaries is dull work. #Quote by Samuel Johnson

#7. All I had to do was notice the need, and then take some risk to meet it with God's power. I suppose that many believers are intimidated by the idea of ministering in God's supernatural power, because they just do not feel as though they have the necessary ability to confidently release the Kingdom. I want to propose, however, that all believers possess the potential to operate in this way if they want to. Every believer has the potential ability to heal the sick, prophesy, and set people free. I know that too many of us are unaware that we are actually anointed beyond our ability as disciples of Jesus. #Quote by Bill Johnson

#8. A fiery little cat you are, Caecelia. Like a lioness in heat, oh how you bloom. #Quote by Sai Marie Johnson

#9. Few men survey themselves with so much severity as not to admit prejudices in their own favor. #Quote by Samuel Johnson

#10. Just because society has done things the same way for many years, that's no reason to continue doing them. Women will be the harbingers of retirement transformations going forward and will be more creative and humanistic in the process. #Quote by Lee Johnson

#11. Hours and hours passed, with nothing to do but keep the compass on its course and the plane on a level keel. This sounds easy enough, but its very simplicity becomes a danger when your head keeps nodding with weariness and utter boredom and your eyes everlastingly try to shut out the confusing rows of figures in front of you, which will insist on getting jumbled together. #Quote by Amy Johnson

#12. Backstage passes at a middle school choir concert. I hang with a crew who knows how to live. #Quote by Hannah Johnson

#13. What I gained by being in France was learning to be better satisfied with my own country. #Quote by Samuel Johnson

#14. If we didn't have genetic mutations, we wouldn't have us. You need error to open the door to the adjacent possible. #Quote by Steven Johnson

#15. The equity of Providence has balanced peculiar sufferings with peculiar enjoyments. #Quote by Samuel Johnson

#16. A dalliance with poetry before we dance. #Quote by Delano Johnson

#17. There must always be a struggle between a father and son, while one aims at power and the other at independence. #Quote by Samuel Johnson

#18. The guys that are out there now like Calvin Johnson and Larry Fitzgerald they're making $16 million, $15 million a year, and I'm not looking for anything like that. A lot of that money goes to the quarterback position and rightfully so. #Quote by Brandon Marshall

#19. I decided to deflect her attitude by giving a long, Southern answer. I come from people who know how to draw things out. Annoy a Southerner, and we will drain away the moments of your life with our slow, detailed replies until you are nothing but a husk of your former self and that much closer to death. #Quote by Maureen Johnson

#20. David Halberstam quoted Lyndon Johnson saying of a staffer: I want him to kiss my ass in Macy's window at high noon and tell me it smells like roses. #Quote by David Halberstam

#21. Truth, such as is necessary to the reputation of life, is always found where it is honestly sought. #Quote by Samuel Johnson

#22. The Americans won't win. They're not fighting for their homeland. They just want to be good. In order to be good, they just have to fight awhile and then leave. #Quote by Denis Johnson

#23. Those who have no power to judge of past times but by their own, should always doubt their conclusions #Quote by Samuel Johnson

#24. The urge to distribute wealth equally, and still more the belief that it can be brought about by political action, is the most dangerous of all popular emotions. It is the legitimation of envy, of all the deadly sins the one which a stable society based on consensus should fear the most. The monster state is a source of many evils; but it is, above all, an engine of envy. #Quote by Paul Johnson

#25. 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. #Quote by John H. Johnson

#26. Learning to live with wounded places is a mission threaded with find¬ing and making beauty. If I'm open to the likelihood of it, I can always find beauty under any circumstances, whether it's in a kindly gesture from a stranger or the first shoot of greenery shoving up through the waste of a calamitous event. Beauty is the antidote to grief and despair, and it is the one sure thing I can bring to bear when I confront a place that has fallen on hard times. #Quote by Trebbe Johnson

#27. It has long been observed, that an atheist has no just reason for endeavouring conversions; and yet none harass those minds which they can influence, with more importunity of solicitation to adopt their opinions. In proportion as they doubt the truth of their own doctrines, they are desirous to gain the attestation of another understanding: and industriously labour to win a proselyte, and eagerly catch at the slightest pretense to dignify their sect with a distinguished name. #Quote by Samuel Johnson

#28. In some ways the ACL tear was a blessing. I had hesitated to return to elite gymnastics after the 2008 Olympics. I told myself I had already accomplished so much, and the road was just going to get harder if I continued. #Quote by Shawn Johnson

#29. We feared pain much earlier than we apprehended guilt, and were delighted with the sensations of pleasure, before we had capacities to be charmed with the beauty of rectitude. To this power, thus early established, and incessantly increasing, it must be remembered that almost every man has, in some part of his life, added new strength by a voluntary or negligent subjection of himself; for who is there that has not instigated his appetites by indulgence, or suffered them, by an unresisting neutrality, to enlarge their dominion, and multiply their demands? #Quote by Samuel Johnson

#30. You know why Rabbit rhymes with Habit? Because it takes your whole life down a fucking bunny hole. #Quote by Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson

#31. The Remain campaign ... I've never seen a more miserable offering. All they are saying is stay in and we'll do our best to make sure that Britain's Parliamentary independence isn't eroded faster than we can possibly imagine. #Quote by Boris Johnson

#32. The authors that in any nation last from age to age are very few, because there are very few that have any other claim to notice than that they catch hold on present curiosity, and gratify some accidental desire, or produce some temporary conveniency. #Quote by Samuel Johnson

#33. You cannot, by all the lecturing in the world, enable a man to make a shoe. #Quote by Samuel Johnson

#34. My bottom is my deliquent daughter. I lavish praise upon her cheeks when she's well behaved and when she gets out of control, I pretend she isn't mine. #Quote by Anna Johnson

#35. Normal life is a gift. #Quote by Melinda Johnson

#36. A man estimable for his learning, amiable for his life, and venerable for his piety. Arbuthnot was a man of great comprehension, skilful in his profession, versed in the sciences, acquainted with ancient literature, and able to animate his mass of knowledge by a bright and active imagination; a scholar with great brilliance of wit; a wit who, in the crowd of life, retained and discovered a noble ardour of religious zeal. #Quote by Samuel Johnson

#37. Intelligent men do not decide any subject until they have carefully examined both or all sides of it. Fools, cowards, and those too lazy to think, accept blindly, without examination, dogmas and doctrines imposed upon them in childhood by their parents, priests, and teachers, when their minds were immature and they could not reason. #Quote by James Hervey Johnson

#38. I am hoping very much to get re-elected but it is going to be a tough fight. #Quote by Boris Johnson

#39. Some people tell me that the worried blues ain't bad. Worst old feelin' I most ever had. #Quote by Robert Johnson

#40. Mutual cowardice keeps us in peace. #Quote by Samuel Johnson

#41. Bullshit is Truth, Truth Beauty #Quote by Moctezuma Johnson

#42. If we will have the kindness of others, we must endure their follies #Quote by Samuel Johnson

#43. A compassionate government keeps faith with the trust of the people and cherishes the future of their children. Through compassion for the plight of one individual, government fulfills its purpose as the servant of all the people. #Quote by Lyndon B. Johnson

#44. SPIRITUAL FARTS Reverend Michael Beckwith2 tells us that if we simply study and talk about spiritual truths but never actually LIVE the stuff, we're gonna get spiritual indigestion and constipation. Spiritual farts. It's not a pretty thing. Seriously. #Quote by Brian Johnson

#45. College dropouts with significant debt struggle with repayment over the course of their lives and do not receive the benefits afforded to their peers who have debt but obtain higher-paying jobs as a result of college completion. #Quote by Hank Johnson

#46. Love isn't some unavoidable destiny, some fate you can't sidestep - It's a choice you make - and keep making - every day of your life. #Quote by Julie Johnson