John Quotes
Some tourist think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a ciry of freedom. And in freedom, most people find sin.
It occurred to me that the voracious ambition of humans is never sated by dreams coming true, because the is always the thought that everything might be done better and again
...once I saw you in moonlight and I can tell you - the silvery dust of the stars doesn't shimmer like you...
...you ask me why I compare you to stars - it's simple - that's where your goddess has fled...
...I can’t grasp the stars, but I love them – in the same way, I love you...
...when you look at the stars, you should tremble - only dullards have become callous to this frisson ...
....my sacred landscape is the foothills of the stars - I go there often to sleep ...
It is remarkable how often the first interpretations of new evidence have confirmed the preconceptions of its discoverers.
A Serving Leader who creates a powerful churn of productivity needs a team that can put itself at the service of others.
Colonization is the key to our race’s survival. It’s as simple as that. We must colonize or be closed off and contained by other races.
The way I came to miss the end of the world – well, the end of the world I had known for close on thirty years – was sheer accident: like a lot of survival, when you come to think of it.
He felt like normal. Filled with anxiety, dread, sure. But even that wasn't unusual...
He had to pause for his usual misgivings.
Faith enables you to hold on loosely without letting go.
Americans no longer experience vacations. They simply Sony them so they can ignore them for the rest of the year.
Here (in Thomas Aquinas) is the mind that prepared the way for the scientific and industrial revolutions. Here is the mind that was Catholic enough to embrace any good idea, from wherever it came.
Mechanism! Everywhere -- mechanism! Devices for getting away from life so complete that there seemed no life to get away from.
Your professional physicist opinion?" I ask.She smiles. "I believe the cat to be alive. And what says my esteemed colleague?""Alive, " I say.
and then I couldn't wait anymore, and my hand was on the back of her head, and then her lips on mine, the cold air gone and replaced with the warmth of her mouth, soft and sweet and hash-brown-tastic
You used, " he said, and then took a sharp breath, "to call me Augustus.
The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something and what it saw in a plain way. To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion--all in one.
...everybody should have true love, and it should last at least as long as your life does.
You pay by the hour, even if the job only takes five minutes. I don’t do fractions.
Although he too was heading to work, Shahid was glad he wasn't dragging himself off to some office job. Shahid's view: anybody who had to wear a suit to work died a little inside, every day.
Taking him for all and all, I think it will be conceded that Michael Faraday was the greatest experimental philosopher the world has ever seen.
For as long I can remember I have wanted to die. So that started around age 6. I think. My earliest clear memories start at age 140.
Serving Leaders build teaching organizations to create excellence at every level.
Serving Leaders teach others the knowledge, skills, and strategies they need to succeed.
If you are trying to get information across to someone, your ability to create a compelling introduction may be the most important single factor in the later success of your mission.
The more personal an example, the more richly it becomes encoded and the more readily it is remembered.
The more handles one creates at the moment of learning, the more likely the information is to be assessed at a later date. The handles we can add revolve around content, timing, and environment.
In a relationship, no amount of extra effort on your part can make up for a lack of effort on theirs.
Adulthood’s full of ghosts... High-functioning sleepwalkers, essentially.
Sleep's what we need. It produces an emptiness in us into which sooner or later energies flow.
...at dawn, the grains of sleep turn to floating black spots, then out of focus the world tilts, and the cat scratches at the door...
How blest was the created stateOf man and woman, ere they fell, Compared to our unhappy fate:We need not fear another hell.
To look out at this kind of creation out here and not believe in God is to me impossible.
The law doesn't require truth, only the appearance of it. Most cases simply rest on a version of it that's acceptable to both sides. You want to know the only truth is? Everybody lies.--Elwin Stark
There is no one in the United States over the age of 18 who cannot be indicted for some federal crime. That is not an exaggeration.