John Mcdowell Quotes

An intention for the future stands to the acting one engages in when one starts to execute it, or, equivalently, to the intention in action that it becomes at that point, as a caterpillar stands to the butterfly it becomes in metamorphosis. ~ Action Theory

I don't like heroin, unless you're a jazz musician and then you have to be on it because jazz is the sound of heroin. ~ John Waters

You can't get blood from a stone. ~ John Lydgate

Life is a rotten lottery. ~ John Waters

A John is different from a sucker. When you're with a sucker you're on alert all the time. You give him nothing. A sucker is just to be taken but a John is different. You give him what he pays for. When you're with him you enjoy yourself and you want him to enjoy himself too. ~ William S. Burroughs

A great power has to have the discipline not only to go when necessary but to know when not to go. Getting involved in ethnic, religious civil wars is a recipe for disaster. ~ John Kasich

Work groups and organization come into being because there is a task to be done that is too big for one person ~ John Adair

Guns are neat little things, aren't they? They can kill extraordinary people with very little effort. ~ John Hinckley Jr.

As people, we're generally optimistic, no matter how disabled our lives are, and we find the humor in the darkest situations. ~ John Wells

The next thing is by gentle degrees to accustom children to those things they are too much afraid of. But here great caution is to be used, that you do not make too much haste, nor attempt this cure too early, for fear lest you increase the mischief instead of remedying it. ~ John Locke

His memory is compromised,' Lidewij said. 'If only my memory would compromise,' Van Houten responded. ~ John Green

Ironically, the more obsessed we are with our selves, the more we neglect our souls. ~ John Ortberg

Fit yourself for the best society, and then, never enter it. ~ John Ruskin

Sometimes you loose a battle. But mischief always wins a war. ~ John Green

Assassinate me you may; intimidate me you cannot. ~ John Philpot Curran

scene's most significant clue would ~ John Arthur Long

How childish is the attempt to meet this argument by the following sophism! "We were chosen because we were worthy, and because God foresaw that we would be worthy." We ~ John Calvin

My opinion is that we have, in the person of Da Free John, a Spiritual Master and religious genius of the ultimate degree. I assure you I do not mean that lightly. I am not tossing out high-powered phrases to 'hype' the works of Da Free John. I am simply offering to you my own considered opinion: Da Free John's teaching is, I believe, unsurpassed by that of any other spiritual Hero, of any period, of any place, of any time, of any persuasion. ~ Adi Da

There's nothing we really need to do that isn't dangerous ~ John Cage

John Bonham was probably the most influential in terms of playing style and timing. ~ Tommy Lee

Here every man may be master and owner of his owne labour and land ... If he have nothing but his hands, he may ... by industrie quickly grow rich. ~ John Smith

Imagination is the faculty of the mind that God has given us to make the communication of his beauty beautiful. ~ John Piper

Never fear your enemy but always respect them ~ John Basilone

Everything bad happens to set up something good. I've always found that to be true. I think if most folks look back on the history of their lives, they'll see that. ~ John Sharp

Learning is really about translating knowing what to do into doing what we know. ~ John G. Miller

We can choose to address the twin issues of population and consumption to rebalance the use of resources to a more egalitarian pattern of consumption. ~ John Sulston

And he, who servilely creeps after sense, Is safe, but ne'er will reach an excellence. ~ John Dryden

I don't know how much money I've got. I did ask the accountant how much it came to. I wrote it down on a bit of paper. But I've lost the bit of paper. ~ John Lennon

On Christ's glory I would fix all my thoughts and desires, and the more I see of the glory of Christ, the more the painted beauties of this world will wither in my eyes and I will be more and more crucified to this world. It will become to me like something dead and putrid, impossible for me to enjoy. ~ John Owen

On the deck was a skeleton. Some of the bugs seemed to be fighting for the last scraps of flesh but pretty much everything but bone and some scraps of skin and hair were gone. Bugs were even crawling in and out of the eye sockets, cleaning out the brains.

"Holy crap," Woodman said, "I don't want those getting on me!"

"I just figured out what they are," Gardner said, stepping through the hatch after a flash around with her light. Every step caused a crunch. "And they won't bite."

"They stripped that guy to the bone!" Woodman said.

"That's what they do," Gardner said, bending down and picking up one of the beetles. It skittered along her arm and she shook it off. "They're carrion beetles."

"Carrion?" Woodman said. "So they eat people?"

"They eat dead flesh," Gardner said. "I'd heard Wolf say he'd 'seeded' the boat. I didn't know it was with these."

"Wolf did this?" Woodman said angrily. "To our people?"

"Six of us came off, Woodie," Gardner said softly. "Ninety-four and twenty-six refugees didn't. You've carried bodies. You know how heavy they are. Now . . . they're not."

"That's horrible," Woodman said.

"No," Gardner said, flashing her light around. "It's efficient, simple and brutal. It's Wolf all over if you think about it. These things only eat dead flesh. They may get into some of the electronics but those are mostly thrashed by the infecteds, anyway. It cleans the ~ John Ringo

People want you to play the songs they know. I try not to reflect too much, and I don't really like to focus too much on myself. ~ John Darnielle

Confidence! Confidence! Confidence! That is your capital. ~ John Wanamaker