John Quotes
If each human being is to have liberty, he cannot also have the liberty to deprive others of their liberty.
People forget that when you’re 16, you’re probably more serious than you’ll ever be again. You think seriously about the big questions.
They believed that Britain was in Ireland defending their own interests, therefore the Irish had the right to use violence to put them out. My argument was that that type of thinking was out of date.
I think, you have to forget about intellect, to a degree. Intuition is very important when you're working with a lens, I believe, for what the lens is doing, too.
I don't approve of censorship. I like the French theatre idea. Put on the play, and if the audience doesn't care for it, or feels offended by it, they rip up the seats.
But who can distinguish between falling in love and imagining falling in love? Even genuinely falling in love is an act of the imagination.
The only way you get Americans to notice anything is to tax them or draft them or kill them.
Dark furrow lines grid the snow, punctuated by orange abacus beads of pumpkins - now the crows own the field.
Father and son are natural enemies and each is happier and more secure in keeping it that way.
I am impelled, not to squeak like a grateful and apologetic mouse, but to roar like a lion out of pride in my profession.
One day we'll sit and you'll lay it out on the table, neat like a solitaire deck, but now - why, you can't find all the cards.
What a frightening thing is the human, a mass of gauges and dials and registers, and we can only read a few and those perhaps not accurately.
Long may Louis de Broglie continue to inspire those who suspect that what is proved by impossibility proofs is lack of imagination.
It is difficult for me to believe that quantum mechanics, working very well for currently practical set-ups, will nevertheless fail badly with improvements in counter efficiency.
The modern world detests authority but worships relevance. Our Christian conviction is that the Bible has both authority and relevance, and that the secret of both is Jesus Christ
The essence of apostasy is changing sides from that of the crucified to that of the crucifier.
The Christian community is a community of the cross, for it has been brought into being by the cross, and the focus of its worship is the Lamb once slain, now glorified.
He who lets the world choose his plan of life for him has need of no other faculty than that of ape-like imitation.
The ne plus ultra of wickedness ... is embodied in what is commonly presented to mankind as the creed of Christianity.
There is a growing consensus that Globalization must now be reshaped to reflect values broader than simply the freedom of capital.
Outperforming the majority of investors requires doing what they are not doing. Buying when others have despaired, and selling when they are full of hope, takes fortitude.
Often it feels like we are at a home match when we have so many fans there. The singing, the cheering helps the players. (on Chelsea playing on the road)
I grew up wanting to be a musician, but my parents were sure I would starve to death. So, they put me in physics and chemistry. That eventually blew up, and I got into radio.
Every day my mother had tea. My dad has his ritual cigar. They had their evening cocktail. Those rituals were done nicely, with flair and feeling.
In the society of illusion, reality must manifest itself. The story songs of Joel Rafael are that manifestation... the essence of minstrel.
In any democracy, there is always a tug-of-war between policies to achieve equality and policies to promote excellence. I am certain that Canada can achieve both equality and excellence.
Games sometimes can reveal things. To watch someone in movement, unconscious movement, can be very stimulating and revealing, whether they win or not
The world keeps ending but new people too dumb to know it keep showing up as if the fun's just started.
That's the trouble with caring about anybody, you begin to feel overprotective. Then you begin to feel crowded.
America's greatness has been the greatness of a free people who shared certain moral commitments. Freedom without moral commitment is aimless and promptly self-destructive.
It's all flags, fireworks, family, food and fun That's July Four July Five, the fun is done The fireworks are no more
You really must stop acting Like a 20-year-old, gold plated In a midlife crisis You just graduated Happy 60th
Being vintage like a fine wine Should make you proud of being old And being mature like a cheese Certainly explains the mould! Fester on undaunted into your 7th decade
There's right and there's wrong. You got to do one or the other. You do the one and you're living. You do the other and you may be walking around, but you're dead as a beaver hat.