Johnnie To Quotes & Sayings

The successful possess the courage to walk each day toward something; after coming through everything. — Johnnie Dent Jr.

Don't quit. A wind from nowhere could turn it. — Johnnie Dent Jr.

When you are not accepted, dare to be exceptional. — Johnnie Dent Jr.

It took six days from start to finish for the totality of Creation; but within three days He cut His schedule in half to save you. — Johnnie Dent Jr.

At some point we all play by the rules, whether it's the rules of all mankind, the rules of Father who is time, or the rules of nature who is Mother — Johnnie Dent Jr.

We've got to be judged by how we do in times of crisis. — Johnnie Cochran

Seek to understand before you speak as if you understand. — Johnnie Moore

God will not allow you to add the words "next time" to now faith. — Johnnie Dent Jr.

Disappointment is a natural part of the schedule if you plan on winning. — Johnnie Dent Jr.

The rewards of tomorrow are safely hidden in the belief of never quitting and not giving up on yourself today — Johnnie Dent Jr.

Adversity will always show up but it doesn't always have to come up. — Johnnie Dent Jr.

A once-in-a-thousand-year threat to Christianity is being waged wildly in the heart of the birthplace of Christianity. — Johnnie Moore

Early is a priceless timepiece owned by the successful. — Johnnie Dent Jr.

So that's what you do? Compliment everyone, even the... unfortunate looking ones, and you get what you want?"

Johnnie shook his head, his smile turning more into a smirk. "Do you need to excuse yourself to the bathroom for a minute?"

"What?" I yelped, thrown off.

"Well with an attitude like that, I figured you must have your panties in a bunch, darlin'. Maybe you need to excuse yourself to... remedy that situation. — Jessica Gadziala

When you don't fit in, be sure to stand out. — Johnnie Dent Jr.

A dreamer must be discovered working or working on it or it is reduced to a wish. — Johnnie Dent Jr.

Hold it down until you come up — Johnnie Dent Jr.

I felt angry, frustrated. I felt I didn't belong, not in my church, not in my home, not in my skin. Amidst the chaos, i felt alone, in need of a friend instead of a sister, someone detached from my world. The "woman's role" theory disgusted me. I would soon be a woman, and I knew I could never perform as expected. I was tired of my mom's submission to her religion, to her husband's sick quest for an heir, to his abuse. I was sick of my dad, of reaching for him as he fell farther away from us and into the arms of Johnnie WB. — Ellen Hopkins

Who's Johnnie Walker?"
"It's a drink. For grown-ups."
"Is it nice?"
"Makes you drunk."
"What's it like being drunk?"
"Like being awake and asleep at the same time."
"Sounds nice."
"It was meant to sound terrible," he said looking down his glasses at her. "You get sick and stagger around. People actually vomit sometimes. — Tom Rachman

Neither gold nor diamonds mine themselves. — Johnnie Dent Jr.

You lose what individualism you have, if you have enough of course, you retain some of it, but most don't have enough, so they become watchers of game shows, y'know, things like that. Then you work the 8 hour job with almost a feeling of goodness, like you're doing something, and you get married, like marriage is a victory and you have children like having children is a victory, but most things people do are a total grind, marriage, birth, children, it's something they HAVE to do because they have nothing else to do. There is no glory in it, no esteem, no fire, their lives are flat and the earth is full of them. Sorry, but thats the way I see it. I could not accept the snail's pace 8-5, Johnnie Carson, merry christmas, happy new year, to me it's the sickest of all sick things. — Charles Bukowski

Relationship math suggests that It is rare for two people to enter marriage and one person is to blame for everything that goes wrong — Johnnie Dent Jr.

Every act of love is a dagger in the heart of ISIS. May they bleed to death. — Johnnie Moore

And the moral of this story, according to Johnnie Larch, was this: don't piss off people who work in airports. "Are you sure it's not something like 'The kind of behavior that works in a specialized environment, such as prison, can fail to work and in fact become harmful when used outside such an environment'?" said Shadow, when Johnnie Larch told him the story. "No, listen to me, I'm telling you, man," said Johnnie Larch, "don't piss off those bitches in airports. — Neil Gaiman

Be you. It's life's best offer to others. — Johnnie Dent Jr.

Never be afraid to offer a smile; sure the risk is that a few foolish people may misinterpret your kindness as weakness, but the reward in their error be that at least they cannot blame you because you did show your teeth. — Johnnie Dent Jr.

As parents we have a tendency to overprotect; it's okay to try and show them all positives but we cannot forget that the real world has teeth — Johnnie Dent Jr.

The power a wife is not to prove her husband but to improve him. — Johnnie Dent Jr.

No one whose steps are truly ordered by God will ever attempt to walk over another human being. — Johnnie Dent Jr.

Teedie and Johnnie didn't have much in common--but they shared a love of the outdoors. They both loved a good story, too. And that was enough to change America. — Barb Rosenstock

Although the traditional focus of Valentine's Day is on women and the gifts they desire, this survey found that not only do men like to get gifts for Valentine's Day, but they also like those gifts to be luxurious. Sixty-three percent of the people we surveyed agreed that this Valentine's Day, Johnnie Walker Blue Label is a great gift for the men in their lives. — Christopher Parsons

All good parents understand these three principles implicitly. If you want to stop little Johnnie from hitting his sister, you can't look away one time and scream at him another. You can't treat his sister differently when she hits him. And if he says he really didn't hit his sister, you have to give him a chance to explain himself. How you punish is as important as the act of punishing itself. — Malcolm Gladwell

Financial illiteracy is like being in a rain storm and trying to jump in between the raindrops ... eventually it all catches you at the same time. — Johnnie Dent Jr.

A hater is a person with a complete understanding of your destiny but assigns him or her self as a representative to work tirelessly on your misery. — Johnnie Dent Jr.

Life gets hard and we run out of options, or maybe we just get curious about faith again, or we simply can't find any other way to fix our problems. So we check ourselves in to Jesus' rehab center, frantically and desperately knocking on the door of Dr. Jesus in the middle of the night. We don't feel good enough. We don't feel adequate. We don't feel that God has any reason to pay attention to us. But suddenly we've reached the end of our options, so we pray, we plead, we cry, and we beg for him to pay attention to us and to help us in our crisis. And what do we find at the door of Dr. Jesus? We find grace. Even — Johnnie Moore

Old Glory in her majesty has so many promises in her wave that we have no choice but to keeping pledging and waving right back! — Johnnie Dent Jr.

Say you'll marry me." Sighing melodramatically, Tyler wound his free arm around Johnnie's neck. He pulled back enough to look again into Johnnie's eyes. "Fine. But why do I get the feeling I get to be the bride? — Jet Mykles

Denial exists when three beliefs
intersect:
1. It cannot happen.
2. It cannot happen to you.
3. It cannot happen to you now. — Johnnie Dent Jr.

It is impossible to make time but you can always make a commitment. — Johnnie Dent Jr.

I understand about this idea of terror and what it means to Americans and this idea that we can't just walk around free like we did; life has changed. — Johnnie Cochran

Money will determine whether the accused goes to prison or walks out of the courtroom a free man. — Johnnie Cochran

I'll never forget what she told us when we met with her: "I lived in America. Americans are wonderful people. It's shocking to me that they are so silent in the face of our genocide. Please help us. Raise your voice for us. Our children are dying. In America you care for your pets so well, can you care for your Christian brothers and sisters who are suffering? — Johnnie Moore

The church that took two thousand years to build in Iraq and Syria, started by the apostles themselves, has nearly been destroyed in the blink of an eye at the hands of manics who won't stop until they win or they die. At least that's what everyone I met in Iraq believes. Every single one of them. — Johnnie Moore

As the most romantic day of the year approaches, and as a brand that is uniquely male, we wanted to find out how men really feel about Valentines Day, and how they want to celebrate it. The Johnnie Walker Blue Label Luxury Survey tells us what gifts men really want versus what gifts women think men want for Valentine's Day - and the reality is that we're not as far apart as we like to think. — Christopher Parsons

The most difficult adversary I have ever faced happens to look just like me. — Johnnie Dent Jr.

To be the greatest; great test. — Johnnie Dent Jr.

I decided I wanted to be a lawyer when I was 11 years of age. — Johnnie Cochran

Tomorrow is always hiding — Johnnie Dent Jr.

Folks hear stories like that, they just stop trying to talk to these young cats out here. We start generalizing about 'em just like the white folks do. We see 'em hanging out, we head the other way. After a while, even the good kid starts realizing ain't nobody out here gonna look out for him. So he figures he's gonna have to look after himself. Bottom line, you got twelve-year-olds making their own damn rules. Johnnie — Barack Obama

Jurors want courtroom lawyers to have some compassion and be nice. — Johnnie Cochran

My personal definition of confidence is to keep believing that the stars in the solar system are actually watching and applauding you. — Johnnie Dent Jr.

Their faith is not an Islamic one, but a satanic one. The threat of ISIS is a threat to the livelihood of every sensible person on the planet, and in its crosshairs is the faith of the world's two billion Christians and nearly all of its Muslims, Jews, Hindus, and Buddhists. If they have their way, you won't live another day. — Johnnie Moore

I was very proud of that, of taking women and making them vulnerable and so I continued doing that. Right after Beaches I did "Pretty Woman", then I did "Frankie and Johnnie" and then I did "Other Sister" and "Princess Diaries" so that helped me get into the vein there of understanding women and trying to make them very pretty and very interesting. — Garry Marshall

IT HAS ALWAYS been a mystery to me why so many Christians in the West struggle to live for what so many Christians in persecuted countries are willing to die for. — Johnnie Moore

The three-part whats to winning:
1. What you have.
2. What you need.
3. What you believe. — Johnnie Dent Jr.

The earth is round for a reason. Your minimum effort starts you at the top of the world; your maximum effort keeps you there. — Johnnie Dent Jr.

I want to describe myself, not be described by others. — Johnnie Cochran

It is a better to have your own plan to make it happen;
Since something is going to happen either way. — Johnnie Dent Jr.

How soon do you want to move in?" "As soon as possible after school is out. In about six or seven weeks." "Are you a teacher too?" AJ asked. Shelby shook her head. "I have a first grader. And a three-year-old." "You're married?" As AJ's brown eyes flitted to her left hand, she self-consciously folded it into her waist. It'd been over a year since Gary's death, but she still wore her wedding band. More for her daughters' sakes than her own. "I was. — Johnnie Alexander

On the road to nowhere there are many people who lack the vision to get you anywhere. — Johnnie Dent Jr.

If your faith doesn't remove the mountain ... Get to climbing. — Johnnie Dent Jr.

You have the choice to either pray then plan or pray and wait; but keep in mind miracles are usually accessed somewhere between the 11th hour and resurrection. — Johnnie Dent Jr.

It is sad to fill a grave with a person full of potential yet completely emptied of anymore possibility to try it once again. — Johnnie Dent Jr.

If you commit perjury in a so-called first-degree murder case, and you're caught red-handed for the entire world to see, and you get only a $200 fine, what kind of message does that send about lying in our courts? — Johnnie Cochran

An excuse is the most expensive brand of self defeat you will ever purchase. — Johnnie Dent Jr.

A wife's power is not to prove her husband but rather to improve him. — Johnnie Dent Jr.

The successful have the courage to walk each day toward something;only after coming through something. — Johnnie Dent Jr.

The idea of a vision is revolutionary and ground breaking but achieving it may be back breaking. — Johnnie Dent Jr.

Never give up on you. In order to make a difference you would have to somehow be different. — Johnnie Dent Jr.

There are three perquisites for living:
1. Be yourself.
2. Get over yourself (Things people have done to you; things you have done to others)
3. Have a strong commitment to something greater than yourself. — Johnnie Dent Jr.

God would not bring you through a Red Sea and turn around and allow you to perish in a fish pond. — Johnnie Dent Jr.

Do not waste time attempting to make sense out of nonsense. — Johnnie Dent Jr.

By the time others begin to make moves, you should be mastering maneuvers — Johnnie Dent Jr.

Johnnie Cochran hasn't spent 20 years serving people in low-income, minority neighborhoods, ridding them of gangs and narcotics. I have. He hasn't been shot at and punched. I have. I've paid my dues to be able to say I'm not a racist. — Mark Fuhrman

To many people fall short of their goals because they mistakenly believe that losing is just another comfortable place to sit. — Johnnie Dent Jr.

You are too important to the bigger picture to just fall off the canvas. — Johnnie Dent Jr.

The Swimmer's Advantage:
1)The goal is measured first by seeing; The distance is accomplished by the strategy of believing that the same set of repetitious acts will get them there.
2)Even when the elements around you are overwhelming, have the confidence to keep your head the above water.
3) Though at times you may not even see it, faith is knowing that the shore is always straight ahead.
4) By consistently reaching out over and over, you are bound to be rewarded by touching something worth more than when you started. — Johnnie Dent Jr.

May 20, '95 - Mississippi calls. She says, "All my working life I have done things to help black people. I can drive into the black part of town where no white person would dare to go. I have nothing to fear. They say, 'Hi there, Mizz Mississippi.' I still call them niggers, but only because of the way they act. I'd have an affair with Johnnie Cochran in a minute." Once she said to me, "I don't see why I should have to feel guilty about the Holocaust. It's not my fault." I hadn't been talking or thinking about the Holocaust, and hadn't told anyone to feel guilty. Her remark came out of nowhere. We were in a diner, about to have a sandwich and suddenly the moment was explosive. Simply being a Jew arouses a peculiar expectation mixed with resentment, even in a highly intelligent woman. Amazing to me is that she doesn't do much but watch television, drink beer, and smoke Marlboros, and yet seethes with dark thoughts and tumultuous feeling. — Leonard Michaels