John Hale Quotes

Here is all the invisible world, caught, defined, and calculated. In these books the Devil stands stripped of all his brute disguises. Here are all your familiar spirits-your incubi and succubi; your witches that go by land, by air, and by sea; your wizards of the night and of the day. Have no fear now-we shall find him out and I mean to crush him utterly if he has shown his face! ~ Arthur Miller

Plato may have denied the existence of ideal forms in this world, but Plato never saw a Viking ship.
(Scientific American, February, 1998) ~ John Hale

cleave not to faith when faith brings blood." - Rev. John Hale ~ Arthur Miller

What victory would the Devil have to win a soul already bad? It is the best the Devil wants, and who is better than the minister." - Rev. John Hale ~ Arthur Miller

I shall soon be laid in the quiet grave - thank God for the quiet grave ~ John Keats

For love is mor than gold or gret richesse; Gold faileth ofte; love wol abyde. ~ John Lydgate

Frank Sinatra did 'Born Free', Tony Bennett did 'Walkabout,' but you have no control over who does what, really. So you just hold yourself responsible for the stuff you do, and then get filthy rich on all this stuff that other people have done. ~ John Barry

We do not live in several different, or even two different, worlds, a mental world and a physical world, a scientific world and a world of common sense. Rather, there is just one world; it is the world we all live in, and we need to account for how we exist as part of it. ~ John Searle

Only the road and the dawn, the sun, the wind, and the rain,
And the watch fire under stars, and sleep, and the road again.
~ John Masefield

The scientific-religious conflict ultimately is a conflict between allegiance to this method and allegiance to even an irreducible minimum of belief so fixed in advance that it can never be modified. ~ John Dewey

I am ready any time. Do not keep me waiting. ~ John Mason Brown

Gundar seemed to come to a decision.
"Well, as my old mam used to say, if it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck and walks like a duck, it's probably a duck."
"Very wise," Halt said. "And what exactly do your mother's words of wisdom have to do with this situation?"
Gundar shrugged. "It looks like a channel. It's the right place for a channel. If I were digging one, this is where I'd dig a channel. So ... "
"So it's probably the channel?" Selethen said.
Gundar grinned at him. "Either that or it's a duck. ~ John Flanagan

There are always losers when society evolves. In the free market, these losers are expected and encouraged to retrain and find new ways to survive and thrive. ~ John McAfee

Anytime Facebook wants to change how it might use all that data about you, in any way, across any service it has within the Facebook ecosystem, all it has to do is change one privacy policy, tell you about it, and that's that. ~ John Battelle

Assuredly we bring not innocence not the world, we bring impurity much rather: that which purifies us is trial, and trial is by what is contrary. ~ John Milton

Fighting positions, please, ladies ... '
'That's debatable,' Halt said in an undertone to Will as they stood watching ...
'The 'fighting' part or the 'ladies' part?' Will replied with a grin.
Halt looked at him and shook his head. 'Definitely the 'ladies,' he said. 'There's no debate about the 'fighting.'
Will shrugged. He knew there was an edginess to the girls' relationship and that it had something to do with him. Why that should be so was beyond him. ~ John Flanagan

We should not allow a tiny minority of shoddy scientists and science and extreme ideologues to compete with scientific facts, ~ John F. Kerry

I'm just a music fan. I like pretty much all types of music, and I feel like I can get something out of everything. It just makes work a lot more fun whenever you're working on different things all the times and usually once I work with a band I usually will want to work with them again, just because we become good friends. ~ John Congleton

I was grateful for the opportunity to make a difference. The political violence really started in 1970-1971. The political difficulties start a little bit beyond that. ~ John Hume

Knowledge of ourselves teaches us whence we come, where we are and whither we are going. We come from God and we are in exile; and it is because our potency of affection lends towards God that we are aware of this state of exile. ~ John Of Ruysbroeck

A nameless soldier dies without mourning," Kell said, "but a brother killed in battle leaves an immeasurable scar. ~ Ben Hale

All that you achieve and all that you fail to achieve are the direct results of your thoughts. ~ John Spence

If operating in a network environment, do not place public domain or shareware programs in a common file-server directory that could be accessible to any other PC on the network. ~ John McAfee

Because I come from that old-school optics environment, I know stuff about depth of field and camera movement and things that are not necessarily a part of the curriculum for people who started on a box and have never done anything that wasn't on a box. ~ John Dykstra

A ship in the harbor is safe, but that's not what ships are built for. ~ John Augustus Shedd ~ Tracy Korn

The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened. ~ John F. Kennedy

The basis of effective government is public confidence, and that confidence is endangered when ethical standards falter or appear to falter. ~ John F. Kennedy

Each of us thinks we have just cause for elevating ourselves and despising all others in comparison to ourselves - our self-love ruins us with such blindness. If, in fact, God has gifted us with something that is good in itself, we immediately make it the basis for praising ourselves to such a degree that we not only swell up but almost burst with pride. ~ John Calvin

Growth today is an investment for tomorrow. ~ John C. Maxwell

I have tried many times to express my feelings, but at each attempt, I find myself tongue-tied. ~ Kate Cary

Love isn't blind. If it has any senses love, like it's second cousin lust, has not only perfect vision but in fact has tunnel vision. Some people are never able to see past what they see. ~ John Goode

Laughter has been implanted in our soul, that the soul may sometime be refreshed. ~ Saint John Chrysostom

The Creator, then, being uncreated, is also wholly immutable. And what could this be other than Deity? ~ John Damascene

Everyone who receives the protection of society owes a return for the benefit. ~ John Stuart Mill

Too long have I confined myself in Miltonic isolation and meditation. It is clearly time for me to step boldly into our society, not in the boring, passive manner of the Myrna Minkoff school of social action, but with great style and zest. ~ John Kennedy Toole

I don't think I've ever known what you people call happiness. We think of contentment as the desirable thing, and maybe that's negative. ~ John Steinbeck

The person who understands the evil in his own heart is the only person who is useful, fruitful, and solid in his beliefs and obedience. Others only delude themselves and thus upset families, churches, and all other relationships. In their self-pride and judgment of others, they show great inconsistency. ~ John Owen