John Quotes

A man can be prevented from breaking into other persons' houses by shutting him up, but shutting him up may not alter his disposition to commit burglary.

There is more than a verbal tie between the words common, community, and communication.

Imposing an alleged uniform general method upon everybody breeds mediocrity in all but the very exceptional. And measuring originality by deviation from the mass breeds eccentricity in them.

By object is meant some element in the complex whole that is defined in abstraction from the whole of which it is a distinction.

When men think and believe in one set of symbols and act in ways which are contrary to their professed and conscious ideas, confusion and insincerity are bound to result.

The reactionaries are in possession of force, in not only the army and police, but in the press and the schools

Every thinker puts some portion of an apparently stable world in peril.

I have always been a House of Commons man.

Mr. Dingell is just plain Mr. Dingell. And when he gets to be chairman of the Commerce Committee, he doesn't let it go to his head. However, he thinks he would be a very, very good chairman.

I can support going in after Saddam Hussein, but I want to make sure I don't go alone.

If you talk to any of my Democratic colleagues who lost that year, they would tell that gun control was one of the major contributory factors in the loss of their seats.

Everything in our foreign and domestic policy is a question of issue for the American people to vote on.

I still think it would be a great mistake to go into a war without support of our friends and allies.

Nobody in this country realizes that cap and trade is a tax, and it's a great big one.

The mistake that was made was, of course, leaving Saddam Hussein in charge of affairs.

The Congress has now become a fairly evenly divided entity.

I have enormous respect for Tom Daschle. The NRA has not yet taken a formal position on which I'm aware of on this matter, and I think Tom may be just getting a little ahead of things.

To photograph is often compared to an act of redemption - to select from an infinite number of choices that which is to be remembered.

The photograph as an object has a relationship to that which it represents something like the relationship the snake skin has to the snake that sheds it.

No conflict, no interest.

There's never been a better time than now to start or accelerate a greentech venture.

Change the way we teach; Empower teachers

It's actually not unlike Google at that stage of development. They had an up-and-running site. It wasn't losing very much money, it wasn't making very much money, but it was growing.

Chastity is not chastity in an old man, but a disability to be unchaste.

Pleasure is none, if not diversified.

Then love is sin, and let me sinful be.

Be more than man, or thou'rt less than an ant.

Thy face is mine eye, and mine is thine.

I shall die reading; since my book and a grave are so near.

A man that is not afraid of a Lion is afraid of a Cat .

God affords no man the comfort, the false comfort of Atheism: He will not allow a pretending Atheist the power to flatter himself, so far, as to seriously think there is no God.

How great love is, presence best trial makes, But absence tries how long this love will be.

Poetry is a counterfeit creation, and makes things that are not, as though they were

All occasions invite His mercies, and all times are His seasons.

When I died last, and, Dear, I die As often as from thee I go Though it be but an hour ago, And lovers' hours be full eternity.

Love is a growing, or full constant light; And his first minute, after noon, is night.

Die not, poore death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

This only is charity, to do all, all that we can.

Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it. No man hath affliction enough that is not matured and ripened by it and made fit for God.

In best understandings, sin began, Angels sinned first, then Devils, and then Man.

From rest and sleep, which but thy pictures be, Much pleasure, then from thee much more, must flow, And soonest our best men with thee do go, Rest of their bones, and soul's delivery.

I long to talk with some old lover's ghost, Who died before the god of love was born.

True and false fears let us refrain, Let us love nobly, and live, and add again Years and years unto years, till we attain To write threescore ; this is the second of our reign.

And swear No where Lives a woman true, and fair.

All our life is but a going out to the place of execution, to death.

Can there be worse sickness, than to know that we are never well, nor can be so?

O how feeble is man's power, that if good fortune fall, cannot add another hour, nor a lost hour recall!

I neglect God and his angles for the noise of a fly, for the rattling of a coach, for the whining of a door.

Sleep is pain's easiest salve, and doth fulfil All offices of death, except to kill.

If poisonous minerals, and if that tree, Whose fruit threw death on else immortal us, If lecherous goats, if serpents envious Cannot be damned; alas; why should I be?