John Quotes
The difference between the reason of man and the instinct of the beast is this, that the beast does but know, but the man knows that he knows.
I wonder by my troth, what thou, and I Did, till we loved? were we not weaned till then? But sucked on country pleasures, childishly? Or snorted we in the seven sleepers' den?
Men have conceived a twofold use of sleep; it is a refreshing of the body in this life, and a preparing of the soul for the next.
Between these two, the denying of sins, which we have done, and the bragging of sins, which we have not done, what a space, what a compass is there, for millions of millions of sins!
Whilst my physicians by their love are grown Cosmographers, and I their map, who lie Flat on this bed.
That subtle knot which makes us man So must pure lovers souls descend T affections, and to faculties, Which sense may reach and apprehend, Else a great Prince in prison lies.
Dull sublunary lovers' love (Whose soul is sense) cannot admit Absence, because it doth remove Those things which elemented it.
I have done one braver thing than all the Worthies did, and yet a braver thence doth spring, which is, to keep that hid.
If every gnat that flies were an archangel, all that could but tell me that there is a God; and the poorest worm that creeps tells me that.
Let not thy divining heart Forethink me any ill; Destiny may take thy part, And may thy fears fulfill.
Great sins are great possessions; but levities and vanities possess us too; and men had rather part with Christ than with any possession.
Doubt wisely; in strange way To stand inquiring right, is not to stray; To sleep, or run wrong, is.
That which attempts to elevate the ugly to the level of beauty becomes neither; but an obscenity.
Poor heretics there be,Which think to establish dangerous constancy,But I have told them, ‘Since you will be true,You shall be true to them, who are false to you.
Man hath weaved out a net, and this net throwne upon the Heavens, and now they are his own.
There is in every miracle a silent chiding of the world, and a tacit reprehension of them who require, or who need miracles.
Oft from new truths, and new phrase, new doubts grow, As strange attire aliens the men we know.
The world is a great volume, and man the index of that book; even in the body of man, you may turn to the whole world.
Never start with tomorrow to reach eternity. Eternity is not being reached by small steps.
Adults don't get nearly the attention and support the kids do, maybe because they're not as cute or because people forget that autism is lifelong. But it is.
Social interactions can be enormously challenging for people on the spectrum. That's part of the reason that unemployment among autistic adults hovers near 80 percent.
Over the years, autism has almost been a diagnosis in the eye of the beholder, which allows for all kinds of arguments and dissension and theories and competing therapies to come into play.
Thanks to President Bush and Republican principles, businesses now have more confidence to hire workers.
As Americans, we can choose where we work and live, what we drive, which insurance plan is best for us, so why can we not give workers a choice when it comes to their retirement?
The United States invented the Internet and it has been our gift to the world, paid for by our taxpayers. The U.N.'s desire to take that gift as a means of increasing its power must be stopped.
In certain savage tribes in New Guinea, they put the old people up in the trees and shake them once a year in the spring; if they don't fall out they let them live another year.
The terrible thing about having New York go stale on you is that there's nowhere else. It's the top of the world.
There is a part of me in every character, naturally. That's why novelists rarely write good autobiographies. You start one and it becomes another novel.
