John Green Quotes

Life that only a few hours before had glowed with enthusiasm and exultation, suddenly paled and sickened.

Every time I start a new novel, it seems like an impossible undertaking. If I tried to do too much too quickly, I would get lost and feel overwhelmed. I have to go slow, and give things a chance to take form and grow.

We have crossed the bridge to this transition in only 24 hours, in complete civility and complete calm. That has left the whole world surprised.

The idea of meeting my former girlfriend's current boyfriend seemed insane and absolutely bizarre to me in the beginning. But I am glad I gave it a shot!

I originally went up for a role on the spinoff show, 'Legends of Tomorrow,' and that led me to audition for Wally West in 'The Flash'. I enjoy auditioning in general, but this was a particularly fun process because it was so unexpected.

That was perfect. It was just the opposite from what I said yesterday.

Baseball ought never be hurried. It is the only unhurried institution we have left, which is one reason, I think, we love it.

In my joy I thrust my hand into the live embers, but quickly drew it out with a cry of pain. How strange, I thought that the same cause should produce such opposite effects.

We had no idea what we were getting into. We thought we were just doing this little vampire movie in Portland. There was just a lot of silliness, a lot of hijinks and bad behavior.

The good are better made by ill, As odours crushed are sweeter still.

The opposite of love is indifference, and the opposite of happiness is boredom.

There is nothing which so certifies the genuineness of a man's faith as his patience and his patient endurance, his keeping on steadily in spite of everything.

Anytime I was challenged and told I couldn't do something, I would absolutely have to prove the opposite. And I did.

I like making images that from a distance seem kind of seductive, colorful, luscious and engaging, and then you realize what you're looking at is something totally opposite. It seems boring to me to pursue the typical idea of beauty, because that is the easiest and the most obvious way to see the world. It's more challenging to look at the other side.

You should never hesitate to trade your cow for a handful of magic beans.

There is no well-doing, no Godlike doing, that is not patient doing.

If you attempt an actual argument with a modern paper of opposite politics, you will have no answer except slanging or silence.

A patient doesn't select his physical ailments. They happen to him. You could just as well ask when you are eaten by a crocodile, 'How did you select that crocodile?'. Nonsense. He has selected you. The patient doesn't even select the symptoms unconsciously. That is an extraordinary exaggeration of the subject to say he was choosing such things. They get him.

If something doesn't creep into a drawing that you're not prepared for, you might as well not have drawn it.

This was the great clarity of being beyond emotion, after the reward of having felt everything one could feel.

In this sequestered nook how sweet To sit upon my orchard seat And birds and flowers once more to greet. . . .

We have hitherto considered only two possibilities: that the received opinion may be false, and some other opinion, consequently, true; or that, the received opinion being true, a conflict with the opposite error is essential to a clear apprehension and deep feeling of its truth. But there is a commoner case than either of these; when the conflicting doctrines, instead of being one true and the other false, share the truth between them.

Gout, a physician's name for the rheumatism of a rich patient

Death is not the opposite of life. Life has no opposite. Death is the opposite of birth.

I had never expected that the China initiative would come to fruition in the form of a Ping-Pong team.