John B Quotes

Why should I stay? Nor seed nor fruit have I, But, sprung at once to beauty's perfect round, Nor loss nor gain nor change in me is found, - A life-complete in death-complete to die.

So far from being an isolated phenomenon the late war is only an example of the disruptive result that we may constantly expect from the progress of science.

The idea of protoplasm, which was really a name for our ignorance, [is] only a little less misleading than the expression "Vital force".

I do not believe in the commercial possibility of induced radioactivity.

Good publishers – as one former publisher aptly put it – are market-makers in a world where it is attention, not content, that is scarce.

The extreme socialists desire to run every nation as a single business concern.

Make me, dear Lord, polite and kind, To everyone, I pray. And may I ask you how you find Yourself, dear Lord, today?

The Commission on Presidential Debates must be replaced if we want to have a democracy in this country.

There are more scriptural reasons to oppose homophobia than to oppose homosexuality.

No price is too great to preserve the health of the fleet.

Americans want to be exposed to the opportunities that a changing world can offer.

Americans count on the guaranteed benefits they paid for under Medicare.

I would rather be erring on the side of common-sense pragmatism and doing everything possible so that I felt that no stone was left unturned in terms of trying to protect school children.

It's dishonest to say we're doing everything we can for our seniors when there is so much more we can.

As all Americans head forward into the new reality globalization has created, they want leaders who will level with them and help level the playing field.

It's difficult for a society to have a healthy discourse on its future when people are afraid to gather to express themselves and authorities won't allow it.

An ounce of algebra is worth a ton of verbal argument.

I will give up my belief in evolution if someone finds a fossil rabbit in the Precambrian.

I have come to the conclusion that my subjective account of my motivation is largely mythical on almost all occasions. I don't know why I do things.

Science is as yet in its infancy, and we can foretell little of the future save that the thing that has not been is the thing that shall be; that no beliefs, no values, no institutions are safe.

If you want to succeed you must make your own opportunities as you go.

If you want to succeed in the world you must make your own opportunities.

Happiness is not in our circumstances but in ourselves. It is not something we see like a rainbow or feel like the heat of a fire. Happiness is something we are.

Why should we break up Our snug and pleasant party? Time was made for slaves But never for us so hearty.

Make me, dear Lord, polite and kind, To everyone, I pray.And may I ask you how you find Yourself, dear Lord, today?