John Green Quotes (374 Quotes)

I ran like a cheetah - well, like a cheetah that smoked too much.

It was not an eventful day. I should have done extraordinary things. I should have sucked the marrow out of life. But on that day, I slept eighteen hours out of a possible twenty-four.

She's just playing a trick on us. This is just an Alaska Young Prank Extraordinaire. It's Alaska being Alaska, funny and playful and not knowing when or how to put on the brakes.

We are as indestructible as we believe ourselves to be.

A Margo for each of us--and each more mirror than window.

Do you guys remember that time when we were all definitely going to die and then Ben grabbed the steering wheel and dodged a ginormous freaking cow and spun the car like the teacups at Disney World and we didn't die?

I'm not up for laughing, but their laughter makes the room feel safer, so we begin to explore.

Maybe all the strings inside him broke.

Talking to a drunk person was like talking to an extremely happy, severely brain-damaged three-year-old.

We can hear others, and we can travel with them without moving, and we can imagine them, and we are all connected one to the other by a crazy root system, like so many leaves of grass. But the game makes me wonder wheter we can really ever fully become another.

At some point, I realized I was Kaitlyning the encounter, so I decided to text Kaitlyn and ask for some advice.

He called out to his fellow monks,'Come quickly I am tasting stars.

I like this world. I like drinking champagne. I like not smoking. I like Dutch people speaking Dutch.

It's almost as if the way you imagine my dead self says more about you than it says about either the person I was or the whatever I am now.

People will say it's sad that she leaves a lesser scar, that fewer remember her, that she was loved deeply but not widely. But it's not sad, Van Houten. It's triumphant. It's heroic. Isn't that the real heroism? Like the doctors say: Frst, do no harm.

That's what we should do, Hazel Grace: We should team up and be this disabled vigilante duo roaring through the world, righting wrongs, defending the weak, protecting the endangered.

They were angry, I thought. Horrified. These teenagers, with their hormones, making out beneath a video broadcasting the shattered voice of a former father.

You have a choice in this world, I believe, about how to tell sad stories, and we made the funny choice.

The plan is to talk about corruption and to present the amendments as a way to clean it up. Putting Taft front and center is also a good idea given the governor's recent problems.

Some Democrats are beginning to salivate too much, ... They still have to make good on their opportunity.

It's not at all untypical for multiple groups to form among Christian conservatives or other groups as well. There may be slightly different goals.

There's very little to gain from a debate and there's always a possibility they'll make a mistake and give the other candidate a chance to get back in.

It's still early in the process, ... Senator Inhofe is going to have to sit up and listen.

The basic idea that God is in charge and he expects people to behave and he isn't happy when they don't - that's a very common idea.

I feel glad it all came to an end. I never intended to hit anyone. The day I threw the cup I forgot about the laws of physics. I hope that no one ever throws anything at The Palace again.

Their very success has brought extra criticism that feeds this sense of being persecuted, ... Before, they felt a lack of respect. Now, they feel some hostility.

Any evaluation of Robertson would be fairly mixed. If you're in the White House, you wouldn't want Robertson on his TV program attacking you. On the other hand, you probably wouldn't want to be closely aligned with him.

There is some fear that they might perhaps, on some issues like abortion, carry out a kind of Catholic jurisprudence rather than reflecting a broader point of view.

I think overall there is some disenchantment with the president's tax cuts -- not themselves, but because it doesn't seem to be doing what he claims it's doing, which is to overcome the job loss and create new jobs.

For many years, the Taft name in Ohio has been greatly respected. The Tafts were men of sober and conservative temperament. They were somewhat seen as stodgy, but they were men of principle and integrity.

Issues are really a way of invoking values. To a lot of ordinary citizens, policy discussions are way beyond them or they are too worried about their own situation to follow the specifics ... Many argue that elections now are all about values, in the broadest sense.

It's really hard to tell whether this will be a blip on the radar screen or whether it reflects a deep change in public opinion. A lot will depend to what extent Sheehan and her vigil link up with the disquiet we're seeing in public polls, especially with the people who haven't been opposed to the war in the past.

It's like they're saying, 'Some people see it this way, some see it that way, so just teach it all and let the kids figure it out.' It seems like a nice compromise, but it infuriates both the creationists and the scientists,

We've seen each party try to invoke the values most commonly associated with the other party,

He's conservative by temperament many of his policy positions, such as cutting taxes, are on the right side of the political spectrum. But he doesn't have a consistent set of conservative principles. That's what a lot of the complaint has been about, especially after the State of the Union.

A lot has changed between 2004 and 2006. President Bush is not nearly as popular. There are scandals in Washington. The war in Iraq is lingering on. And there are other policy problems. So it may very well be that Republicans will look to social issues, and phenomena like the marriage amendments, as being especially important in an environment where they don't have as many things going for them.

Other people are going to have to make the case for him. He's not in a position to do it himself.

My sense is that at least in this state, Kerry is playing to tie on the foreign policy questions and the so-called values issues, the shorthand for which is God and guns. He comes into Ohio and he talks about being a sportsman, he talks about his military record, he talks about his faith, but he probably can't win on those issues,

People want to feel good about the person they vote for. Candidates use values to evoke a positive impression.

The Catholic hierarchy has become more conservative. What we don't know is whether Catholic voters will become increasingly conservative, or ... stay swing voters.

It would seem that this is the best place to test the 'culture of corruption' argument, which Democrats are trotting out around the country. It may not work everywhere, but if it's going to work anywhere, it's going to be Ohio, with the problems the Republicans have had.

When the new executive meeting center is complete, we intend to more aggressively target group business, with a goal of assuming a leadership position in this area.

A lot of Republicans think there's enough controversy on the table anyway, without having to add the abortion issue.

It may go away after this year, but long-term this topic's going to be with us for many years to come.

It was an exciting time with all the boys out at the 18th cheering him on.

It is very hard to handicap this kind of race because it is likely to be won by just a plurality of the vote. And perhaps a relatively small plurality at that.

He's a demon. He said he needed money for Christmas gifts. It's the lamest excuse I could hear.

Given what has come out, it seems very likely that Bob Ney would draw a strong opponent. If one were tempted to run against Bob Ney, this would certainly be seen as the time.

He wanted to serve his country, ... If that's what he had to do, that's what he had to do.

The Taft name has always meant men who are conservative, even stodgy, but always ethical. These investigations are a blow to the magic of the great family name.