John Quotes

The Mathematics are Friends to Religion; inasmuch as they charm the Passions, restrain the Impetuosity of Imagination, and purge the Mind from Error and Prejudice.

Almighty Power, by whose most wise command, helpless, forlorn, uncertain, here I stand, take this faint glimmer of thyself away, or break into my soul with perfect day!

The laws of physics that we regard as 'sacred,' as immutable, are anything but.

For want of timely care Millions have died of medicable wounds.

Your friends avoid you, brutishly transform'd They hardly know you, or if one remains To wish you well, he wishes you in heaven.

Tis not too late to-morrow to be brave.

There are, while human miseries abound, A thousand ways to waste superfluous wealth, Without one fool or flatterer at your board, Without one hour of sickness or disgust.

Tis not for mortals always to be blest.

For pale and trembling anger rushes in With faltering speech, and eyes that wildly stare, Fierce as the tiger, madder than the seas, Desperate and armed with more than human strength.

Virtue and sense are one; and, trust me, still A faithless heart betrays the head unsound.

Without a battle there is no victory.

Somewhere someone is traveling furiously toward you, At incredible speed, traveling day and night.

A yak is a prehistoric cabbage; of that, we can be sure.

Extreme patience and persistence are required, Yet everybody succeeds at this before being handed The surprise box lunch of the rest of his life.

... the first step of the terrible journey toward feeling somebody should act, that ends in utter confusion and hopelessness, east of the sun and west of the moon.

Each servant stamps the reader with a look.

The gray glaze of the past attacks all know-how...

We must embrace the power of faith, but we must never confuse politics and piety. For me, may I say that it is against my religion to impose my religion.

I don't play full court anymore. I just play half-court.

Civilized people - Muslims, Christians and Jews - all understand that the source of freedom and human dignity is the Creator.

The charges of the hysterics are revealed for what they are: castles in the air built on misrepresentation, supported by unfounded fear, held aloft by hysteria.

The goal of terror is not traditional territorial enlargement; rather the war target of the terrorist is the dismemberment of the will of the community it terrorizes.

The liberties and freedoms which we hold dear and we recognize and cherish and respect guide the way we gather information in the United States

We are going to learn more by what we see than by what we hear. Our actions speak so loudly that we don't have to say a word.. Words only account for about seven percent of our communication.

You don't become a hero by choosing to become a hero. You become a hero by becoming an example, by being an example for what's possible, for being an example for one person.

Some things aren't to my taste and I wish they wouldn't have happened but they have been some of the best experiences to learn and grow from so I am grateful for every moment.

I think heroes are important in the lives of kids because it shows a child what to become, it shows a child what's possible; it shows a child not just by theory but by active example.

With friends like these, who needs hallucinations?

I think people really want to be happy.

Poe was a student of many things, and among those things he read and referred to in his work was the Bible.

If Solomon counts the day of one's death better than the day of one's birth, there can be no objection why that also may not be reckoned amongst one's remarkable and happy days.

The silver Thames takes some part of this county in its journey to Oxford.

Don't judge people you don't know. You have no idea what they've been through, and you may waste an opportunity to make a new friend.

Politics is history in the present tense.

The only way you can do that [decrease taxes, balance the budget, and increase military spending] is with mirrors.

When my friends were besotted with Jason Donovan, my heroes were Colm O'Rourke and Barney Rock

It's wrong to put the drug lobby's interests ahead of older Americans.

The advance of scientific knowledge does not seem to make either our universe or our inner life in it any less mysterious.

To the biologist the problem of socialism appears largely as a problem of size.

You can analyze a glass of water and you're left with a lot of chemical components, but nothing you can drink.

In fact, words are well adapted for description and the arousing of emotion, but for many kinds of precise thought other symbols are much better.

So many new ideas are at first strange and horrible though ultimately valuable that a very heavy responsibility rests upon those who would prevent their dissemination.

We do not know, in most cases, how far social failure and success are due to heredity, and how far to environment. But environment is the easier of the two to improve.

There are 400,000 species of beetles on this planet, but only 8,000 species of mammals.

It was a reaction from the old idea of "protoplasm", a name which was a mere repository of ignorance.

A time will however come (as I believe) when physiology will invade and destroy mathematical physics, as the latter has destroyed geometry.

I have seen one shrike occupy himself for hours in sticking up on thorns, a number of small fishes that the fishermen had thrown on the shore. The fishes dried up and decayed.

Technological things, that Germans and Japanese would get real excited about.

Phillip Harrison was the production designer, though, I think he's uncredited. He's done most of my films like Blue Thunder. Lots and lots over the years.

Canada doesn’t stand behind Israel; we stand shoulder-to-shoulder with it.