Paul Johnson Quotations | Page 2

Once we got down into the technology, ... it was actually kind of scary. They made a lot of correct decisions and still ran into so many problems.

You would have a hard time not listening to those people, ... I'm not saying it would necessarily influence the way a person voted. But it is human nature if a vast majority of your campaign has been paid for by a relatively few number of people who contributed to it, you listen to them.

This is the first Emmy to be staged outside the USA and confirms our efforts to stay ahead of the curve as digital technology re-shapes our industry.

They're very incongruous, these great, big, sometimes 30-foot trees, in the middle of an otherwise barren landscape.

You can't make anything out of that. The conditions were tough and we've got a lot of guys hurt. Both teams made enough mistakes to lose 10 times. Everybody's got a lot of work to do.

There was some trucker guy and he said, 'How's the horses?' ... And I said, 'The horses are OK, but I'm about to run out of fuel.' So he let me siphon five gallons out of his truck. I don't know his name.

There's a lot of guys on this team who could be captains. There's going to be far more leaders than two if we're going to be any good.

There's a huge evolutionary shift going on in the biz. There's a richer array of windows for content than ever before, and that's why we decided to focus on mobile platform delivery at this event.

There's a reason they've won 39 games in a row. We don't recruit out of the same pool. We haven't had a Heisman winner here in a long time.

Absolutely. You can't be 33-0 without good coaching, good kids. I thought fundamentally they did some things very well, and they got all the loose balls we didn't get. ... Today, the better team won, I have no problem with that.

It's just part of our offense. They talked about us running the ball and that's all we did. So I thought they might be run-supporting. We took play-action and the safety got lost.

It's actually somewhat difficult for them not to be profitable.

It really impacts the whole team. The girls are still playing through the pain, but any time you have an injury, it affects your game.

That's one of the neat things about the academy. They're all guaranteed a job when they graduate.

That just really pumps the kids up. They let them know. They're doing something and they're actually behind them.

It's definitely affected the gulf grouper supply, because it limited fishermen from going out to fish,

It was amazing. That was my first finals and it was at state. To take first felt great.

It was like a tribal ritual for surfers to go to these dances to see Dick and the other bands.

A ruling like this will cause prejudice in people who have never been prejudiced before.

I'm not going to throw (Owens) out of practice because he's accused of something. Lamar is helping out. This is somewhat of a getaway for him. He can come out here and get away from things for a while.

I'm excited the team has achieved one of their goals, to have a chance to go to a bowl game. I'm excited to be going to San Diego. I was lucky enough when I coached in Hawaii to play there in the Holiday Bowl. It's a great city.

Indeed it is the protean ability of Western civilization to be self-critical and self-correcting - not only in producing wealth but over the whole range of human activities - that constitutes its most decisive superiority over any of its rivals.

I personally believe if we put it out to bid this year, our rates would go up substantially, ... I think people are grasping for issues. We want to do what's best for Southeast, not what's politically expedient.

In the past, the U.S. has shown its capacity to reinvent its gifts for leadership. During the 1970s, in the aftermath of the Nixon abdication and the Ford and Carter presidencies, the whole nation peered into the abyss, was horrified by what it saw and elected Ronald Reagan as president, which began a national resurgence.

In my mind, Adam hasn't proven anything. He still has a lot to prove to me.

I guess they didn't have any use for it.

Clients are looking for more flexibility as events change and become more difficult and complex.

He's probably the main difference between what they played like last year and the great stuff they're playing now,

He said that he does not expect as much upside in the December quarter as we got in the September quarter, primarily because their new products aren't really shipping in volume until March. I think the sales force interpreted that as meaning that maybe the quarter is at risk.

I don't see how we could not do this. The homework has been done. The (budgetary) needs we're going to face this year are astronomical.

I don't write huge books any more. I used to write 1,000 printed pages, but now I write short books. I did one on Napoleon, 50,000 words - enjoyed doing that. He was a baddie. I did one on Churchill, which was a bestseller in New York, I'm glad to say. 50,000 words. He was a goodie.

In the last generation, with public Christianity in headlong retreat, we have caught our first, distant view of a de-Christianized world , and it is not encouraging.

In the past, the U.S. has shown its capacity to reinvent its gifts for leadership. During the 1970s, in the aftermath of the Nixon abdication and the Ford and Carter presidencies, the whole nation peered into the abyss, was horrified by what it saw and elected Ronald Reagan as president, which began a national resurgence.

Conservation of energy. Never stand up when you can sit down, and never sit down when you can lie down.

A capitalist economy hums when leading businessmen are bubbling with animal spirits and are prepared to sink their money into risky ventures.

Long periods of recession, which tend to be self-perpetuating, are usually ended by war, or by preparations for it.

I very much wanted to be editor of the 'New Statesman!' But I never wanted to be prime minister, except maybe as a little boy.

I don't write huge books any more. I used to write 1,000 printed pages, but now I write short books. I did one on Napoleon, 50,000 words - enjoyed doing that. He was a baddie. I did one on Churchill, which was a bestseller in New York, I'm glad to say. 50,000 words. He was a goodie.

If we want foxes, to observe and delight in, we must have hunting.

Hell is being trapped in a night-club with the'beautiful people'and forced to live in a'luxury penthouse flat'.

If the decline of Christianity created the modern political zealot - and his crimes - so the evaporation of religious faith among the educated left a vacuum in the minds of Western intellectuals easily filled by secular superstition. There is no other explanation for the credulity with which scientists, accustomed to evaluating evidence, and writers, whose whole function was to study and criticize society, accepted the crudest Stalinist propaganda at its face value. They needed to believe; they wanted to be duped.

As the CIA and KGB, like God and Satan, fight Miltonic battles across five continents...

A Stalin functionary admitted, Innocent people were arrested: naturally - otherwise no one would be frightened. If people were arrested only for specific misdemeanours, all the others would feel safe and so become ripe for treason.

You know you're an Arizona native when you have to look up "mass transit" in the dictionary.

Wisdom lies not in possessing knowledge - which quickly becomes outdated - but in perpetually seeking it.

The richness and variety, and indeed the advance, of our culture depend upon the continuation of this conflict [between conservatives and radicals], which is deeply rooted in human nature.

My grandfather used to say, "Learn to like art, music and literature deeply and passionately. They will be your friends when things are bad". It is true: at this time of year, when days are short and dark, and one hardly dares to open the newspapers, I turn, not vainly either, to the great creators of the past for distraction, solace and help.

The most socially subversive institution of our time is the one-parent family.

Scanning the newspapers and absorbing with a mixture of incredulity and indignation the enormities they report, I conclude that what England lacks today is, quite simply, sense.

John Major is what he is: a man from nowhere, going nowhere, heading for a well-merited obscurity as fast as his mediocre talents can carry him.

This book is dedicated to the people of America--strong, outspoken, intense in their convictions, sometimes wrong-headed but always generous and brave, with a passion for justice no nation has ever matched.

The word 'meaningful' when used today is nearly always meaningless.

The writer learns to write, in the last resort, only by writing. He must get words onto paper even if he is dissatisfied with them.

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.

It is one of the many ironies of this period that, at a time when the intelligentsia were excoriating Mellon for tax-evasion, and contrasting the smooth-running Soviet planned economy with the breakdown in America, he was secretly exploiting the frantic necessities of the Soviet leaders to form the basis of one of America's most splendid public collections

For me this is the vital litmus test: no intellectual society can flourish where a Jew feels even slightly uneasy.

It takes less than a decade for today's luxury to become a universal necessity.

Every good historian is almost by definition a revisionist. He looks at the accepted view of a particular historic episode or period with a very critical eye.

His (Lenin's)humanitarianism was a very abstract passion. It embraced humanity in general but he seems to have had little love for, or even interest in, humanity in particular. He saw the people with whom he dealt, his comrades, not as individuals but as receptacles for his ideas. On that basis, and no other, they were judged. He judged man not by their moral qualities but by their views, or rather the degree to which they accepted his.

I was very fond of Princess Diana. She used to have me over to lunch to ask my advice. I'd give her good advice, and she'd say: 'I entirely agree. Paul, you're so right.' Then she'd go and do the opposite.

The most intimidating world leader was Lyndon Johnson, who became U.S. President when John Kennedy was assassinated. He exulted in this power and liked to inspire fear.

The most evil person I ever met was a toss-up between Pablo Picasso and the publisher-crook Robert Maxwell.

In 1924 Mao took a Chinese friend, newly arrived from Europe, to see the notorious sign in the Shanghai park, 'Chinese and Dogs Not Allowed'.

If I see a door ajar, I push on it to see how far it will open, and if it opens wide I go through it.

Human beings are infinitely worth studying, especially the peculiarities that often go along with outstanding gifts.

Bismarck had cunningly taught the parties not to aim at national appeal but to represent interests. They remained class or sectional pressure-groups under the Republic. This was fatal, for it made the party system, and with it democratic parliamentarianism, seem a divisive rather than a unifying factor. Worse: it meant the parties never produced a leader who appealed beyond the narrow limits of his own following.

There are no inevitabilities in history

...the century's most radical vice... the notion that human beings can be shoveled around like concrete.

If you depart from moral absolutes, you go into a bottomless pit. Communism and Nazism were catastrophic evils which both derived from moral relativism. Their differences were minor compared to their similarities.

I've been having an affair, but I still believe in family values.

The Second World War took place not so much because no one won the First, but because the Versailles Treaty did not acknowledge this truth.

A deliberate plan is not always necessary for the highest art; it emerges.

The study of history is a powerful antidote to contemporary arrogance. It is humbling to discover how many of our glib assumptions, which seem to us novel and plausible, have been tested before, not once but many times and in innumerable guises; and discovered to be, at great human cost, wholly false.

Nothing appeals to intellectuals more than the feeling that they represent 'the people'. Nothing, as a rule, is further from the truth

The idea that human beings have changed and are changing the basic climate system of the Earth through their industrial activities and burning of fossil fuels - the essence of the Greens' theory of global warming - has about as much basis in science as Marxism and Freudianism.

Although Cisco's lowered stock price may be seductive to investors, we believe that there is still near term downside to the stock, ... It is clearer than ever to us that the current Cisco appears to be merely a shadow of its former self.

Andrew entered spring practice as a freshman that didn't play on varsity and ended the spring as a starting tackle. He is a hard worker and gives great effort during practice. He has a chance to be one of our best players.