John Tapper Quotes & Sayings

If there's one thing I can't stand, it's somebody doing something because I pushed them in that direction. — Leslie Fiedler

The occurrence of a highly improbable event is the equivalent of the nonoccurrence of a highly probable one — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

My heart wants to read the Bible, wants to obey God. When you have Jesus in your life, when you have God in your life, like the thing in this world is not important to your heart. The more important is God in your heart. That's how God changed my life. — Manny Pacquiao

There was no black line separating Colorado from Utah. There was no black line between friendship and whatever might come next. — Rebecca Stead

Luke diagnosed himself to be in love, and sought no cure for the disease. — Sarah Perry

Anglo-Saxon kings often used to favour their sister's son to their own - for at least you could guarantee there was your own blood in your sister's son! — Kate Williams

I am a big fan of Adam Sandler and Ben Stiller, who have carved a niche for themselves. I think doing different kind of films gives you longevity and the ability to set yourself apart. — Vir Das

He saw Kathleen sitting in the middle of a long white table alone.Immediately things changed. As he walked toward her the people shrank back against the walls till they were only murals; the white table lengthened and became an altar where the priestess sat alone. Vitality welled up in him and he could have stood a long time across the table from her, looking and smiling. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Having a strong intent and purposes makes life worthwhile. — Steven Redhead

No, it happened. And right when your song ended, I knew - just like your mother - I was a goner,' Peeta says. — Suzanne Collins

Nature creates nothing without a purpose. — Aristotle.

My attitude. It's what I fed off of as well. It's what made people like me. — Penelope Douglas

Mine is a very matter-of-fact approach to the problem. If you can select a population and they're educated and they're properly brought up, then you don't have to use too much of the stick because they would already have been trained. It's like with dogs. You train it in a proper way from small. It will know that it's got to leave, go outside to pee and to defecate. No, we are not that kind of society. We had to train adult dogs who even today deliberately urinate in the lifts. — Lee Kuan Yew

One often feels as though something had happened before, I remember. It comes quite close to you and stands there and you know it was just this way once before, exactly so; for an instant you almost know how it must go on, but then it disappears as you try to lay hold of it like smoke or a dead memory. "We could never remember, Isabelle," I say. "It's like the rain. That has also become one, out of two gasses, oxygen and hydrogen, which no longer remember they were once gasses. Now they are only rain and have no memory of an earlier time. — Erich Maria Remarque