Quotes of: John Keyword

Milton's learned vocabulary [...] and his distant perspectives, represent the authoritative unintelligibility of the parents' speech as heard by the child.

John Milton: Introductions

...if George Washington founded the nation, John Marshall defined it.

John Marshall: Definer of a Nation

Every possible thing that can happen or will happen has already happened somewhere. (Year 2036 John Titor)

John Titor A Time Traveler's Tale

What then is the intellectual advantage of civilization over primitive savagery? It is not necessarily that each civilized man has more knowledge but that he requires far less.

Knowledge And Decisions

The public's imagination is rarely captured by bland temperance.

The Kennedy Half-Century: The Presidency, Assassination, and Lasting Legacy of John F. Kennedy

When you get to be as old and as rich as I am, it’s hard to meet people.

The Stories of John Cheever

They called him John Storm: John after his grandfather, but Storm after his father and his mother.

Little, Big

Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.

Letters of John Wesley

Finishing a book has massive implications for the writer, an empty head and an empty bank account springs to mind.

The Sun Will Still Shine Tomorrow

...[I]t behooves a man who wants to see wonders sometimes to go out of his way.

The Travels of Sir John Mandeville

Logic is the last scientific ingredient of Philosophy; its extraction leaves behind only a confusion of non-scientific, pseudo problems.

The Unity of Science

Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.

The Wilderness World of John Muir

Once we recognize our shadow's existence we must resist the enticing step of going with its flow.

What It is Like to Go to War

I keep sailing on in this middle passage. I am sailing into the wind and the dark. But I am doing my best to keep my boat steady and my sails full.

Arthur Ashe

As best I can tell there was no advance warning of the attack on the World Trade Center in 1993, which was the first significant foreign terrorist activity in the U.S. No tip-offs that it was coming.

Bobby Ray Inman

Past experience with fiscal austerity at home and overseas strongly suggests that it is best for the economy's long-run performance to restrain government spending rather than raise taxes.

Mark Zandi

Well, when I was a kid, I grew up in San Diego next to the ocean. The ocean was my friend - my best friend.

Robert Ballard

We've all known a John Tucker. We've either known one, dated one or our best friend has dated one. I think a lot of men at one point or another have been a John Tucker.

Sophia Bush

Gravity is one variable in a lot of scientific processes. If you can remove gravity or minimize its effect, then you can understand the other processes that are going on.

Laurel Clark

The more we study the Indian's character the more we appreciate the marked distinction between the civilized being and the real savage.

Nelson A. Miles

It is unfair to suppose that one party has invariably acted rightly, and that the other is responsible for every wrong that has been committed.

Nelson A. Miles