John Quotes
1789 John quotes by 1273 unique authors
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I know Sir John will go, though he was sure it would rain cats and dogs.
— Jonathan Swift
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I cannot but be astonished that Sarsi should persist in trying to prove by means of witnesses something that I may see for myself at…
— Galileo Galilei
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Knox was engaged in a theological discussion with scientist John Scott Haldane. 'In a universe containing millions of planets,' reasoned Haldane, 'is it not inevitable…
— Ronald Knox
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It seems that, after nineteen centuries of extraordinary glorification, the small Host for which so many cathedrals have sprung up, the small Host that has…
— Francois Mauriac
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When one of your children tells a lie, be honest with him; tell him that you have told hundreds of them yourself. Tell him it…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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Human envy is certainly not one of the sources of discontent that a free society can eliminate. It is probably one of the essential conditions…
— Friedrich August von Hayek
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[John] Dalton was a man of regular habits. For fifty-seven years he walked out of Manchester every day; he measured the rainfall, the temperature-a singularly…
— Jacob Bronowski
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Sir John Templeton: "My ethical principle in the first place was: 'Where could I use my talents that God gave me to help the most…
— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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Gentlemen, haven't we learned anything from the music of John Lennon? All we need is love.
— Robin Williams
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I have decided to love. If you are seeking the highest good, I think you can find it through love. And the beautiful thing is…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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All that I am my mother made me. - John Quincy Adams. Children and mothers never truly part...
— Charlotte Gray
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My mother was a Northern woman, daughter of Hon. John Sergeant, a distinguished lawyer, and for many years representative in Congress from Philadelphia.
— John Sergeant Wise
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Thus, the apostles' adventure began as a gathering of persons who open to one another reciprocally. A direct knowledge of the Teacher began for the…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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Luke associates John with Peter in Acts, when, after the Resurrection, that strange boldness had come upon the disciples.
— Alfred Noyes
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Christ died. He left a will in which He gave His soul to His Father, His body to Joseph of Arimathea, His clothes to the…
— Matthew Henry
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If the elect could perish then Jesus Christ should be very unfaithful to His Father because God the Father hath given this charge to Christ,…
— Christopher Love
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In a comprehensive study of all public multiple shooting incidents in America between 1977 and 1999, economists John Lott and Bill Landes found that the…
— Ann Coulter
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Some physicists solve that problem of the necessity of finely tuned physical constants ... by invoking the anthropic principle, saying, well, here we are, we…
— Richard Dawkins
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The fields are still ripe for harvesting (cf. Jn 4:35); God continues to give the growth (cf. 1 Cor 3:6). We can and must believe,…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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John certainly gives it a good hit, doesn't he? My Sunday best is a Wednesday afternoon compared to him.
— Nick Faldo
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I'm old enough to remember John Kennedy sending a few advisers into Vietnam. I'm very worried we'll get in and we'll get mired down in…
— Jim McDermott
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My daddy, he was somewhere between God and John Wayne.
— Hank Williams, Jr.
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I have chosen for my emblem a Star, representing the Virgin Mary, and the Eucharist. Those who know me as a professor of theology will…
— Unknown Author
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Some years ago John Kenneth Galbraith wrote in an essay on his efforts at writing a history of economics: 'As one approaches the present, one…
— Abraham Pais
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In some ways more painful is the fact that their experience appears to be fading from the collective memory of humankind. Having never experienced an…
— Tadatoshi Akiba
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