Hefferon John Quotes

#1. We are in danger of valuing most highly those things we can measure most accurately, which means that we are often precisely wrong rather than approximately right #Quote by John Banham

#2. In increments both measurable and not, our childhood is stolen from us
not always in one momentous event but often in a series of small robberies, which add up to the same loss. #Quote by John Irving

#3. God sees with utter clarity who we are. He is undeceived as to our warts and wickedness. But when God looks at us that is not all He sees. He also sees who we are intended to be, who we will one day become. #Quote by John Ortberg

#4. Gentlemen use books as Gentlewomen handle their flowers, who in the morning stick them in their heads, and at night strawe them at their heeles. #Quote by John Lyly

#5. When asked why he doesn't believe in astrology, the logician Raymond Smullyan responds that he's a Gemini and Geminis never believe in astrology. #Quote by John Allen Paulos

#6. A God-centered theology has to be a missionary theology #Quote by John Piper

#7. Politics, after all, is largely about power. And power goes to the core of our issues of control and narcissism and need to be right and tendency to divide the human race into 'us' vs. 'them.' #Quote by John Ortberg

#8. In the winter of wet years the streams ran full-freshet, and they swelled the river until sometimes it raged and boiled, bank full, and then it was a destroyer. #Quote by John Steinbeck

#9. God is the one being in the universe for whom self-exaltation is the most loving thing. Anyone else who exalts himself distracts us from what we need, namely, God. #Quote by John Piper

#10. I want to be there when you question him." "No you don't." "I really do." "Let me put it another way, Lord Marce. Fuck you, go away. #Quote by John Scalzi

#11. Use affirmations as statements of becoming, not statements of being. #Quote by John Tarnoff

#12. Being immortal is grand and all but I don't really remember half of what I did. The human brain was not made to hold this much information. So it doesn't. #Quote by John Kennebrew

#13. Utopia means elsewhere. #Quote by John Malkovich

#14. George Bush, Dick Cheney, every one of the speakers praised John Kerry's war record. No one said he was unfit. They said he has terrible judgment, and that's his record as a senator. Nobody questioned his military record. #Quote by Peter T. King

#15. She felt if she ever had children she would love them no less when they were twenty than when they were two; they might need you more at twenty, she thought. What do you really need when you're two? In the hospital, the babies were the easiest patients. The older they got, the more they needed; and the less anyone wanted or loved them. #Quote by John Irving

#16. I'm very generous. #Quote by Elton John

#17. How many people came and stayed a certain time,
Uttered light or dark speech that became part of you
Like light behind windblown fog and sand
Filtered and influenced by it, until no part
Remains that is surely you. #Quote by John Ashbery

#18. Oh, God, help me! And I walked faster, my thoughts pursuing me, and I began to run, my frozen shoes squealing like mice, but running didn't help, the thoughts to the left and right and behind me. But as I ran, The Arm, that good left arm, took hold of the situation and spoke soothingly: ease up, Kid, it's loneliness, you're all alone in the world; your father, your mother, your faith, they can't help you, nobody helps anybody, you only help yourself, and that's why I'm here, because we are inseperable, and we'll take care of everything. #Quote by John Fante

#19. John took his fucking time in Xhex's shower , washing himself thoroughly not because he was dirty, but because he figured two could play at the whole whip-the-state-clean, what-happened-didn't-happen thing. #Quote by J.R. Ward

#20. There are no benefactors in Canada because there is no incentive. #Quote by Lara St. John

#21. I never was in love - yet the voice and the shape of a woman has haunted me these two days. #Quote by John Keats

#22. The men in the steel industry who sacrificed their all were nor merely aiding their fellows at home but were adding strength to the cause of their comrades in all industry. #Quote by John L. Lewis

#23. Love lives with Nature, not with lust. Go find her in the flowers. #Quote by John Clare

#24. I'm a good dad and a fair husband and I work quite a bit. That takes up a fair amount of time. #Quote by John Schneider

#25. At Varanasi, according to Ferishta, Muhammad of Ghor and Qutb-ud-din Aybak demolished the idols in a thousand temples and then rededicated these shrines 'to the worship of the true God'. #Quote by John Keay

#26. Photography, of course, is the perfect medium for the investigation. It can reveal the truth of present day specifics and particularities, while at the same time, by conscious choice of lighting and pictorial structure, suggest the aesthetic legacy of the past. #Quote by John Pfahl

#27. Faith's like a goddess to the Marines, and she's actually good at her job, especially given she'd just finished seventh grade. Which is an important job. She does really important shit.

"Right now, you're just getting your head together. Like the pamphlet says, maybe you decide to help out. We can use people who know how to get shit done. Not just as military. I only took the Lieutenancy they offered cause I have to work with the Navy and Marines to get my job done and it helps. But there's lots of ways a guy with your background and work ethic and general get-it-done attitude could help. Problem being, even if you wanted to, right now the only reason the Marines haven't gotten together to kick the crap out of you is that they're too busy. When they get less busy or, for example, this evening when they break from killing zombies, I would not want to be in your shoes."

"So what is this?" Zumwald said. "A military dictatorship? Beatings for free?"

"Yeah," Isham said, looking at him as if he was nuts. "We're on ships. And they are all officially US Navy vessels. Even most of the dinky little yachts. The commanders, including this one, are all Navy officers, even if the ink is still wet on the commissions. And even if they weren't, captains of vessels at sea have a lot of legal control in any circumstances. By the way, I talked Captain Graham, boss of this boat, out of pressing charges against you for assault. Because you don't get how badly you f #Quote by John Ringo

#28. When your team questions your motives and methods, you have lost their trust and you will not be able to influence them. #Quote by John Fairclough

#29. Your success in investing will depend in part on your character and guts, and in part on your ability to realize at the height of ebullience and the depth of despair alike that this too shall pass. #Quote by John C. Bogle

#30. We know they are doing their job in committee, that they are brilliant men, smart men, and that they are on the job all the time. We're just human beings down here-all different. We take all these things into consideration. You can't help it. #Quote by John William McCormack

#31. With the presidential debates right around the corner, John Kerry is going to play Mitt Romney to help the President prepare for the debates. That's kind of a stretch; a rich white guy from Massachusetts playing a rich white guy from Massachusetts. #Quote by Jay Leno

#32. John McDonnell is the Bear Bryant of track and field. #Quote by Frank Broyles

#33. Have you been working on Sunday? Have you been buying or selling without necessity in the course of this holy day? Give to the poor some alms which will exceed the profit you have made. #Quote by John Vianney

#34. Southerners smile more than other Americans. #Quote by John Shelton Reed

#35. He [Mencken] was an autodidact, with all the misplaced confidence and all the astonishing gaps that characterize that breed. Not many of us would venture to write a book about democracy without ever having read de Tocqueville, nor embark on a translation of Nietzsche with only a sketchy knowledge of German. #Quote by John Derbyshire

#36. Leadership is the art of disappointing people at a rate they can stand. #Quote by John Ortberg

#37. Workers are on the streets today with a clear message to Europe's leaders. There is a great danger that workers are going to pay the price for the reckless speculation that took place in financial markets. #Quote by John Monks

#38. This pattern of balancing between comfort and exploration of the unknown is how we build our brains, #Quote by John J. Ratey

#39. When you're thirty-five, you can't take as much booze ... and I always got a little violent on drink ... So it was kind of self-destructive suicide side of me, which is resolving itself for the better, I believe, because I never enjoyed it ... #Quote by John Lennon

#40. I will find once again the light of your beauty - your colored windows in the night ... #Quote by John Geddes

#41. We have been taught (that is, schooled) in this country to think of 'success' as synonymous with, or at least dependent upon, 'schooling,' but historically that isn't true in either an intellectual or a financial sense. And plenty of people throughout the world today find a way to educate themselves without resorting to a system of compulsory secondary schools that all too often resemble prison. #Quote by John Taylor Gatto

#42. As an athlete, when you least expect it, you may find yourself standing on the threshold of an accomplishment so monumental that it strikes fear into your soul. You must stand ready, at any moment, to face the unknown. You must be ready to walk boldly thru the wall of uncertainty. #Quote by John Bingham

#43. Religion indeed enlightens, terrifies, subdues; it gives faith, it inflicts remorse, it inspires resolutions, it draws tears, it inflames devotion, but only for the occasion. #Quote by John Henry Newman

#44. Victims are also less likely to take initiative because they feel outcomes are not in their hands anyway. An organization filled with victims will generally have low morale, have more risk-averse behavior, and find it difficult to implement change. #Quote by John Izzo

#45. The only proper purpose of a government is to protect man's rights, which means: to protect him from physical violence. The only proper functions of a government are: the police, to protect you from criminals; the army, to protect you from foreign invaders; and the courts, to protect your property and contracts from breach or fraud by others, to settle disputes by rational rules, according to objective law. (John Galt) #Quote by Ayn Rand

#46. As an organization, would we like to be in a better spot Everybody would like to know they're in the playoffs. But that's not a reality, year after year being in a playoff spot with 10, 12, 15 games left. We don't have that this year, so our playoffs have started. #Quote by John Tortorella

#47. Pleasant experiences don't make up for painful ones. No child, once painfully burned, would agree to be burned again, however enticing the reward. For all our talk and good intentions, there is much more stick than carrot in school, and while this remains so, children are going to adopt a strategy aimed above all else at staying out of trouble. How can we foster a joyous, alert, wholehearted participation in life if we build all our schooling around the holiness of getting 'right answers'? #Quote by John Holt

#48. I'd never taken an SAT prep course. They were for weaker students. #Quote by John Katzman

#49. Try a little subtlety in self-defense; it'll help, you'll find out. #Quote by John Ashbery