John Quotes

Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain.

To guarantee the individual maximum freedom within a social frame of minimal laws ensures - if not happiness - its hopeful pursuit.

I do what I do merrily out of curiosity because I want to know how the brain works. That will get me up early in the morning and keep me going all day long.

Quite often, while I'm getting up in the morning, I think my warranty is running out on these body parts because it's not working quite the way it used to.

Success, for me, is being able to wake up in the morning and feel like a 12 year old.

Obama is the New Generation and the hot light of a dawn that goes way beyond clever talk of morning in America.

Foolishness is rarely a matter of lack of intelligence or even lack of information.

Having emotional intelligence allows you to manage your emotions, show empathy, and prevent you from getting distracted. It also helps you solve problems and be a more likable person.

Your intelligence doesn't override your desire to destroy yourself.

I've had nothing to do with the intelligence world since I left it, in any shade or variety.

I sought Ben Affleck because I needed an everyman for this role. Ben appeals to men and women. He gives you a sense of intelligence, the notion of a guy who can think on his feet.

Pride in boasting of family antiquity, makes duration stand for merit.

To me, architecture is an art, naturally, and it isn't architecture unless it's alive. Alive is what art is. If it's not alive, it's dead, and it's not art.

The substance of fictional architecture is not bricks and mortar but evanescent consciousness.

It has always been the aim of royalty and aristocracy to lower the individual liberty and independence of the common people. A baron and a minute-man could not breathe the same air.

We must develop energy independence we must Make It In America.

Love of learning led to monasteries, which became the cradle of academic guilds.

Learning about and from your customers isn't always easy and requires a commitment to continual observation.

About 20 per cent of the population believe themselves to have a food allergy and only about five per cent actually do.

You can do good work simply staying up all night and eating nothing but junk food, but probably not in the long term.

People need to eat whole food plant foods, primarily... whole grains, fruits, vegetables, nuts and seeds. That diet supports our lives. We ought to live to be 90 or 100 without getting any diseases.

We do take seriously our responsibility, and growing ability, to educate people about healthy eating and giving them greater access to nourishing and affordable fresh food.

The French cook we open tins.

Most people are enduring a marginalized isolation. One of the great obstacles to modern friendships is the 'religion of rush.' People are rushing all the time through time. Friendship takes time.

We need great prophetic leaders in religion and in spirituality... what we are getting is lacking in vision... not able to engage with the diversity of the culture.

To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.

Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat.

Time and memory are true artists they remould reality nearer to the heart's desire.

As you grow older, you learn a few things. One of them is to actually take the time you've allotted for vacation.

We're all just passing time and occupy our chair very briefly.

When in doubt, take more time.

I like to think of myself as the host at a party, and, if everybody is having a good time, so much the better.

My time is now.

A women under stress is not immediately concerned with finding solutions to her problems but rather seeks relief by expressing herself and being understood.

All men and women have an equal need for love. When these needs are not fulfilled it is easy to have our feelings hurt, for which we blame our partner.

Men are motivated and empowered when they feel needed. Women are motivated and empowered when they feel cherished.

I don't love dolls. I love women. I love their bodies.

I still believe that 'No Smoking' is one of my best performances.

Being in love is the best thing in my life.

Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him.

Any tool can be used for good or bad. It's really the ethics of the artist using it.

Live fast, die young, and leave a good looking corpse.

All holidays can be good times.

My reading of history convinces me that most bad government has grown out of too much government.

History never looks like history when you are living through it.

This is an exciting time. A new chapter in our history.

The Gospel is not a theory the Gospel is not a philosophy or an idea the Gospel is not a way of thinking or feeling. The Gospel is an event in history.

In human history, the desire for revenge and the desire for loot have often been closely associated.

I think that's not a question that one can answer accurately. I read a whole range of books, quite a lot of history at the time, and still do read a lot. I read very widely.

Since I wrote to you last we have got our chapel beautifully lighted with gas and have had our anniversary.