John Chancellor Quotes

#1. While the Constitution is what the judges say it is, a public issue is something that Walter Cronkite or John Chancellor recognizes as such. The media by themselves do not make the decisions, but on behalf of themselves and larger interests they certify what is or is not on the nation's agenda.

Fred W. Friendly

#2. I've been an agnostic for as long as I can remember ... so I don't know where we go. But if it turns out that the lights are just turned off and nothing happens, well, that's okay.

John Chancellor

#3. Reason is a permanent blessing of God to the soul. Without it there can be no large religion.

Henry Ward Beecher

#4. I know of no one who would be a good High Commissioner of Palestine except God.

John Chancellor

#5. It's not that nothing else is possible, but nothing else was nurtured.

Ransom Riggs

#6. Becoming a millionaire is not the end goal; your growth and development en-route is what matters.

Mark Victor Hansen

#7. Hadst thou but tasted once the thousandth part
Of joys, which bless the loved and loving heart,
Your words repentant and your sighs would prove,
Lost is the time which is not past in love.

Torquato Tasso

#8. Action based only on principles isnt always good even if it feels good.

John Chancellor

#9. The avenues in my neighborhood are Pride, Covetousness and Lust; the cross streets are Anger, Gluttony, Envy and Sloth. I live over on Sloth, and the style on our street is to avoid the other thoroughfares.

John Chancellor

#10. If he could have been reembodied, at that moment a black wind would have rushed through the Villa Fioretta, wrenching the shutters off and tearing the pictures down, or an earthquake cracked the floors, or the olivey hill above the villa erupted, showering hot choking ash.

Elizabeth Bowen

#11. You can't share an emotional experience you don't understand. Accessing feelings brings you a step closer to using emotions more effectively in your relationship.

Brent A. Bradley

#12. Write first. Worry about getting an agent or publisher later. Write it first. Prove you can do it and then others will listen. Tons of people talk about books they want to write. Far fewer are those who actually complete that vision. Don't be a talker.

Po Bronson

#13. The skeletons of the plants are for me as important as the flowers.

Piet Oudolf

#14. I'm not hiding. I'm wearing my heart on my sleeve. Everything anyone wants to know about me is right in front of their faces. Most just don't bother to look.

Teresa Mummert

#15. The most successful people do not make up the rules as they go. They have a set of rules that they follow and they stick to them.

John Chancellor

#16. You don't go to a town to present the play and have applause at the end of it, but that's benign conquest. It's a glorious way of exploring other landscapes and other cultures in a very life-affirming way.

Ben Kingsley

#17. There's the Ronald Reagan cupped-ear gambit. The press is deliberately and systematically kept away from him. All you hear is a bunch of monkeys screaming at him when they could easily have been brought right up and the president could have stood and talked in a conversational tone.

John Chancellor

#18. Painters are amongst the priests - worker priests of the cult of man - searching to understand but never know.

Brice Marden

#19. The function of good journalism is to take information and add value to it.

John Chancellor

#20. Imperial Navy had been in existence by that name for less than a decade, since Chancellor Palpatine put down the traitorous Jedi and transformed the Republic into the Galactic Empire.

John Jackson Miller

#21. ...what only hurts me now would torture and kill me then!

Thomas Hardy

#22. Follow your heart, not the crowd ...

Ian Tucker

#23. We did not treat the Americans badly. They left Iran in a relaxed mood. The embassy was active here after the revolution. We didn't have any problem with them. They started it.

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

#24. In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die.

John Chancellor

#25. I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in either of them: Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden.

Augustine Of Hippo