J.H. Lee Quotes

I give you bitter pills in sugar coating. The pills are harmless: the poison is in the sugar.

We have fought this fight as long and as well as we know how. We have been defeated. For us as a Christian people there is now but one course to pursue. We must accept the situation.

If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties it may be too late.

It seems that we learn lessons when we least expect them but always when we need them the most and the true "gift" in these lessons always lies in the learning process itself.

We all choke and the man who says he doesn't choke is lying like hell. We all leak oil.

We all choke and the man who says he doesn't choke is lying like hell.

He who limps still walks.

A man who accustoms himself to buy superfluities is often in want of necessities.

It is possible to own too much. A man with one watch knows what time it is a man with two watches is never quite sure.

Happiness is not a station to arrive at but a manner of traveling.

The devil's name is Dullness.

Any event once it has occurred can be made to appear inevitable by a competent historian.

In America an acquittal doesn't mean you're innocent it means you beat the rap. My clients lose even when they win.

After fifteen years of marriage my wife wants us to recommit our vows. As a man I don't understand her need to get married again. We've got our toaster let's move on.

Happiness is not a state to arrive at but a manner of traveling.

For years I stopped reading beauty magazines because I couldn't look at one without wanting to blow my brains out. How can those women look so good?

When everything has to be right something isn't.

Is it progress if a cannibal uses knife and fork?

I have a hard time believing that billions of years ago two protozoa bumped into each other under a volcanic cesspool and evolved into Cindy Crawford.

What a terrible round. I only hit two good balls all day and that was when I stepped on a rake in a bunker.

We have fought this fight as long and as well as we know how. We have been defeated ... there is now but one course to pursue. We must accept the situation.

Television is the literature of the illiterate the culture of the low-brow the wealth of the poor the privilege of the underprivileged the exclusive club of the excluded masses.

Television is a gold goose that lays scrambled eggs and it is futile and probably fatal to beat it for not laying caviar.

It is well that war is so terrible - we would grow too fond of it.

While information is the oxygen of the modern age, disinformation is the carbon monoxide that can poison generations.

Everybody's always doing the same old things--- you know, doing unto others before they can do unto you.

The leader who exercises power with honor will work from the inside out, starting with himself.

What we actually learn, from any given set of circumstances, determines whether we become increasingly powerless or more powerful.

The truth is, I think country music... there's a lot of great people, and just being raised the way a lot of country boys and girls are, hopefully there's just a lot of respect.

Talk to people in their own language. If you do it well, they'll say, 'God, he said exactly what I was thinking.' And when they begin to respect you, they'll follow you to the death.

This is my advice to entrepreneurs. It's easy to give up, but believe in your ideas. Surround yourself with people you respect and are smarter than you.

A Bond movie falls into a specific genre, and you have to provide certain elements. You must respect the fact it's essentially about girls, guns, gadgets, and big action.

I've done a lot of albums and I kinda know when I'm onto something that was inspirational for me to record and create, and this was one of those projects where I really enjoyed making the album.

My mission is to let black kids know that their dreams can happen.

There are so many people who try so hard and have such big dreams, and it doesn't happen for them.

A lot of the entrepreneurs and founders have big dreams and are on a mission to build things that the world has never seen before.

'The Impossible Dream' is, in my opinion, one of the greatest songs ever written. Here is a man, an old man, a very old man full of daring, bravery, courage, determination, romanticism and dreams.

I don't think I would describe my sense of humor. Doesn't sound like the kind of thing I'd do.

I do not have a sense of humor of any recognizable sort.

Certainly my personality, my sense of humor, my outlook on life was informed by the experiences of my parents and the stories they shared with me.

If you look at 'The Best Man, ' there's a lot of humor in that, but I never consider that movie a comedy. I felt that it was a drama with comedic elements and comedic parts to it.

It is well that war is so terrible, otherwise we should grow too fond of it.

If we are to assume that North Korea becomes a nuclear-power state, of course the danger of having an all-out nuclear war, that possibility is very slim.

I guess it's the fear of failure and not knowing how the films are going to do that just drives us to work really hard to make them the best they can possibly be.

My worldview, my philosophy, my attitudes, my relationships, my parenting, my marriage - everything has been transformed by my relationship with Christ.

The most rewarding aspect of parenting is seeing my children be authentic. The most rewarding thing for me is to see them do anything that they're proud of.

It's the most gratifying thing to have young girls telling me, 'I love that you do a photo shoot in pants and a button up shirt, and you still look cool.'

I haven't experienced anything paranormal yet, but I did see what I think was a meteor light up the sky in a flash of red for a few seconds. That was really cool.

I grew up in New Jersey and played sports and rode my bike around. It was a really nice time - kids didn't have cellphones then - and you knew everyone in the town.

The video game market is huge, and the ability to tell stories, and tell different kinds of stories in the gaming space is quickly evolving and changing for the better.