John Quotes
...the kind of weather that reminds you after a long winter that while the world wasn't built for humans, we were built for the world.
God didn't create the fear, fear created the God.God didn't create humans, Humans created the God because of their fear.
The longer I do my job ... the more I realize that humans lack good mirrors. It's so hard for anyone to show us how we look, and so hard for us to show anyone how we feel.
Momentarily drained of lust, he stares at the remembered contortions to which it has driven him. His life seems a sequence of grotesque poses assumed to no purpose, a magic dance empty of belief.
She ran into the bathroom and powdered her face and the front of her dress, drew a surrealistic version of a mouth beneath her nose, and dashed into her bedroom to find a coat.
I have learned that as soon as you introduce controls on human behavior, you lose the game, particularly when those controls are at odds with the work.
...I'm not in control and without a firm spot, like Archimedes I can't move the world - let alone your heart..
...freedom of conscience does not mean being uncontrolled - we have to control ourselves and at times submit to others...
...I'm a modern mountebank - I believe in Physiognomy - after all, we are in control of our face - it's the map of where we've been...
It doesn't matter who you love, where you love, why you love, when you love or how you love, it only matters that you love!
It is clear that corporate America has an obligation to create a fairer, more equitable, more sustainable economy for no other reason than self-preservation.
Most of the students there, he said, don't know what they think. You tell 'em, they'll think it. I plan to tell 'em.
If the old saying is true, that what one generation learns in school is the philosophy of the next, then the philosophy of the next generation will be totalitarianism.
I am a practitioner of the science of deduction, of using the known facts in a case to unveil the unknown.’ - Sherlock Holmes, Sherlock Holmes and the Whitechapel Murders
They were shot with a shotgun and put in garbage bags and thrown under a bridge, " Shrake said. "If it wasn't murder, it was a really weird accident.
So Jesus confronts us with himself, sets before us a radical choice between obedience and disobedience, and calls us to an unconditional commitment of mind, will and life to his teaching.
...You won't age? I promise you this - your hands will go shiny and transparent and at the slightest bruise they'll bleed...
Researchers have found there is simply no correlation between hurry or Type-A behavior and productivity.
Authority—when abused through micromanagement, intimidation, or verbal or nonverbal threats—makes people shut down & productivity ceases.
One of the Great Rules of Economics According to John GreenIf you are rich, you have to be an idiot not to stay rich. And if you are poor, you have to be really smart to get rich.
In economics, it is often professionally better to be associated with highly respectable error than uncertainly established truth.
Experiment and reason, tempered by intuition, were to him preferable to solid plodding in the well-trodden paths of experience.
The science of public happiness was how Keynes saw his work as an economist.
At present", Keynes said in 1926, "everything is politics, and nothing policies.
Practical men who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist.
Serving Leaders work hard to get obstacles out of the way so others can make progress.
Where affluence is the rule, the true threat is the loss of desire.(...) What is new is not that prosperity depends on stimulating demand. It is that it cannot continue without inventing new vices.
Dear Mrs. Black: On seven prior occasions this company has denied your claim in writing. We now deny it for the eighth and final time. You must be stupid, stupid stupid, stupid!
Last night, lost in spaces between star—bays and lakes of clouds, I tossed and turned looking for you
... going out late at night and laying in the dewy field and reading a Kurt Vonnegut book by moonlight.
Friendship is earned by those who accepted each other for what they are and for what they have. Trust and respect flows in each other to make it lasting.
If you don’t know what your barriers are, it’s impossible to figure out how to tear them down.
When a word of God is spoken it will always be personal and yet we will find it touching the lives of others in some most amazing ways
O, the sheer magnificence of words that come together like waves upon a beach, each telling its own story is a life worthy to be read
“Your Tim is so unmistakably a healthy extravert type. Mens stulta in corpore sano, and all that.”“Exactly, ” she agreed.
What if, " replied Inspector Fry in the same maddeningly curteous tone, "we were all to construct daisy chains and drape them so as to shield the words from public view?
All right. The snow may be falling in the winter of my discontent, but at least I've got sarcastic company.
Everyone wanted me to feed them that story—darkness to light, weakness to strength, broken to whole. I wanted it, too.