J. R. Todd Quotes

How do you scare some sense into a child who doesn’t fear death?

Emotion constantly finds expression in bodily position.

Moral discipline is the consistent exercise of agency to choose the right because it is right, even when it is hard.

It's an old anarchist dream that people can take care of their own lives.

Jesus clearly viewed children as precious - and that if he loved kids enough to say that adults should be more like them, we should spend more time loving them too.

South Carolina put George H.W. Bush into the White House. But George W. Bush into the White House and sent Jeb Bush back to Miami.

Gaining trust is like filling a bucket one drop at a time.

When I want to show the kind of meanness people are capable of, to make it believable I find I have to tone it down. It's in real life that people are over the top.

I know that I could make this world peaceful and calm, if I only could get my hands on a hydrogen bomb.

The gospel of Jesus Christ opens the path to what we may become.

It's weird when you wake of from a bad dream and everything is still bad.

They want to go to the bar and eat a few snacks, have a couple of cocktails or glasses of wine, and go home. People don't sit down at the table and have a whole three or four courses.

Your direction is a result of your perception.

I try to sing and not worry about what's going to happen after I do. I'd add that in my experience, as a person who went to see singers, some people helped me to make some decisions about the world.

It is the opposite of ignorance—it is intellectual honesty: to be willing to accept reality and to call things what they are even when it is hard.

Freedom comes not from resisting truth, but from applying it.

We need to develop people rather than process them.

Maintaining checks and balances on the power of the Judiciary Branch and the other two branches is vital to keep the form of government set up by our Founding Fathers.

The gifts of the Holy Spirit are testimony, faith, knowledge, wisdom, revelations, miracles, healing, and charity, to name but a few.

The well-being and welfare of children should always be our focus.

So far, at least, I haven't found a way to tell my kind of stories without making them both sad and funny.

I'm tired of trying to get other people to see into my brain. I'm done.

In my ministry, I teach my disciples, "Power first, then the Word. Go in and prophesy first, or demonstrate the power of God first in some way."

If I ever do anything, it actually might be some fantasy elf thing or even some cute, funny thing. Just to do something a little bit out of the ordinary. I've done my superhero gig.

I think we need to prepare for the worst, and so I support energy efficiency measures.

I still do some inking here and there and I've actually got a book that I'm going to ink entirely.

My sister sometimes does a Todd Barry tribute act.

Given the scope of the tragedy from last week, I am glad to reassure the people of New York and Washington, D.C. that their air is safe to breath and their water is safe to drink.

I don't know any astronauts. There are a lot of people who say they want to be comedians.

Pop music can get inside us and enter our memory bubbles. It provides those true Proustian moments, unlocking sensations, unlocking our imaginations. Music inspired me as a filmmaker.

In fact, there are more homeowners today than ever before in the history of our Nation and more minority homeowners than ever before in the history of our Nation.

It seems like a totally gratuitous myth to tell people a giant rabbit comes round at night leaving candy in a haphazard way around the house... and the cover shows the bunny caught in the act.

You come there and hang out and have a drink before the show and eat, so it's not that brutal. It's only $6.

Some day, the public might actually revolt against the undemocratic system of seniority that allows Congress to keep the old ways of Washington ingrained into the culture of Congress.

Taiwan is a budding democracy, and the people have participated in multi-party democratic elections since 1996.

The climbing and soloing aren't worth dying for, but they are worth risking dying for.

The advent of self-government for the Iraqi people is a watershed moment in their history.

Usually the audience has no idea that the censored version of whatever movie they're watching isn't the original.

And that's just what I'm saying. I would never want to be like certain people, who change the way they dress, go out in disguise, wear a big floppy hat and dark shades. I would hate that.

Irrational beliefs are culturally accepted delusions.

Casting is everything. If you get the right people they make you look good.

I oppose any attempt to grant homosexual unions the same legal privileges that civil government affords to traditional marriage and family life.

I felt that if we, as the Met, were not intervening once one person starts digging up Parliament Square, then someone else is going to join in and you have a spiral.

American movies and music deliver themes of freedom, innocence, and power that appeal to others - partly because America itself was put together out of a multiplicity of national traditions.

Right now, for instance, we resist giving people extra time on exams or for assignments, as though it's unfair to the faster students.

Character is incredibly jagged, and incredibly contextualized, even to the point where I still feel uncomfortable thinking about it.

Human inertia makes the everyday environment, the furniture, as it were, appear to be a given.

Americas are, for a variety of reasons, the most adept at producing the kind of entertainment that delivers easy satisfactions.

No matter how well you do, no matter how successful you are, they're always going to criticize you.

The bottom line is that the death tax is a tax on the economy because it slows economic growth.