John Quotes

I will argue that in the literal sense the programmed computer understands what the car and the adding machine understand, namely, exactly nothing.

Berkeley had a liberal element in the student body who tended to be quite active. I think that's in general a feature of intellectually active places.

Conversation is a catalyst for innovation

Practice provides the rails on which knowledge flows.

Humility is a virtue all preach, none practice; and yet everybody is content to hear.

'Tis not the eating, nor 'tis not the drinking that is to be blamed, but the excess.

Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain.

Abundance consists not alone in material possession, but in an uncovetous spirit.

The Parish makes the constable, and when the constable is made, he governs the Parish.

Prayer should be short, without giving God Almighty reasons why he should grant this, or that; he knows best what is good for us.

Commonly we say a judgment falls upon a man for something in him we cannot abide.

A king is a thing men have made for their own sakes, for quietness sake. Just as in a family one man is appointed to buy the meat.

Tis not seasonable to call a man traitor, that has an army at his heels.

Religion is like the fashion, one man wears his doublet slashed, another lashed, another plain; but every man has a doublet; so every man has a religion. We differ about the trimming.

Thou little thinkest what a little foolery governs the world.

In the year 1857, passing through Washington on our return from the annual visit to Philadelphia, I had the distinguished honor of visiting a President for the first time.

However the Southern man may have been master of the negro, there were compensatory processes whereby certain negroes were masters of their masters' children.

I really don't have any secrets. I've never met a photographer whose work I respected that had a secret because the secret lies within each and every one of us.

When I'm about ready to press the cable release on the View camera, I've tried to anticipate some of the challenges I'm going to encounter in the darkroom.

The education of the doctor which goes on after he has his degree is, after all, the most important part of his education.

The Sins of Scripture is an interesting title; most people don't put sins and scripture together in the same title. It jars people.

I experience God as the power of life, the power of love and the ground of being. I don't say that's what God is; I say that's my experience of God.

[Charles] Darwin, for example, is the one who made us face the fact that the primary way we tell the Christ story doesn't work anymore.

Terrorism is a real despair. These are people for whom life has been so negative that they're willing to die if they can take down some of their enemies.

I don't think massification and globalization and all those other 'izations' are necessarily hostile to regionalism.

If you're falling off a cliff, you may as well try to fly. You've got nothing to lose.

Put your money where your mouth is.

I never initiated nor did the FBI ever initiate any conversation or correspondence with me.

So if we decrease the use of carbon dioxide, are we not taking away plant food from the atmosphere?

Robert Creely's poems have two main characteristics. 1) They are short; 2) they are not short enough.

Diana Rigg is built like a brick mausoleum with insufficient flying buttresses.

Failure is a bruise, not a tattoo.

Someone else doesn't have to be wrong for you to be right.

When you have to start compromising yourself and your morals for the people around you, it's probably time to change the people around you.

My definition of success: When your core values and self-concept are in harmony with your daily actions and behaviors.

Sometimes people don't notice the things others do for them until they stop doing them.

Saying someone is ugly doesn't make you any prettier.

Remember: everyone you meet is fighting a mighty battle. Be kind. Be understanding.

Your Day Is Your Life

I'm not so think as you drunk I am !

I have no desire whatsoever to desecrate the grave of seminal Manchester pop group the Stone Roses.

Not having a father helping you grow into manhood and teaching you those things about how to be a man hurts. It hurt my brothers because their fathers weren't involved in their lives.

There were butterflies, otherwise, you're not really ready to play. The locker room, I remember, was quiet and we were very focused on playing that game.

Problems are not my problem. It's not what happens to me but what happens in me that matters.

The size of your miracle depends on the size of your problem.

We all stand on the shoulders of the past generation.

A leader's lasting value is measured by succession.

Our destiny is determined, not by what we possess, but by what possess us.

Adversity is a crossroads that makes a person choose one of two paths: character or compromise. Every time he chooses character, he becomes stronger, even if that choice brings negative consequences.

Without leadership ability,a person's impact is only a fraction of what it could be with good leadership.