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A vision of truth which does not call upon us to get out of our armchair - why, this is the desideratum of mankind.
— John Jay Chapman
I get on with kids and I feel that's because I am one.
— Ringo Starr
I mean to retire, where nobody will have heard about my special skills. And conversation is mainly about the weather.
— Eilean Ni Chuilleanain
We cannot hand our faith to one another ... Even in the Middle Ages, when faith was theoretically uniform, it was always practically individual.
— John Jay Chapman
Everybody in America is soft, and hates conflict. The cure for this, both in politics and social life, is the same - hardihood. Give them raw truth.
— John Jay Chapman
There are lots of people who cannot think seriously without injuring their minds.
— John Jay Chapman
When a man talks with absolute sincerity and freedom he goes on a voyage of discovery. The whole company has shares in the enterprise.
— John Jay Chapman
It is three and a half hours long, four characters wide and a cesspool deep.
— John Jay Chapman
Good government is the outcome of private virtue.
— John Jay Chapman
Don't ever phone if you can possibly come yourself. Don't ever leave if you can stay.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
The world of politics is always twenty years behind the world of thought.
— John Jay Chapman
The present in New York is so powerful that the past is lost.
— John Jay Chapman
People who love soft methods and hate iniquity forget this; that reform consists in taking a bone from a dog. Philosophy will not do it.
— John Jay Chapman
Too much agreement kills the chat.
— John Jay Chapman
Black coffee's a lot like whiskey, you know? All devil and no trimmin's. Always liked my sins pure and take it as it comes.
— Jack Ketchum
A magazine or a newspaper is a shop. Each is an experiment and represents a new focus, a new ratio between commerce and intellect.
— John Jay Chapman
Civilization is the commercialization of survival.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
I think I have always liked my fellow men. Liking is a great deal safer than love. It doesn't demand victims. Who is your victim, Querry?
— Graham Greene
Because if she had to be off-track and a little lost, then she was going to have fun while she was at it, dammit.
— Jill Shalvis
Attack another's rights and you destroy your own.
— John Jay Chapman
Your best retirement plan for retiring happy and prosperous - don't be a burden on others.
— Ernie J Zelinski
You cannot criticize the New Testament. It criticizes you.
— John Jay Chapman
Learning is not easy, but hard; culture is severe. The steps to Parnassus are steep and terribly arduous.
— John Jay Chapman
There are plenty of people to whom the crucial problem of their lives never get presented in terms that they can understand.
— John Jay Chapman
So long as there is any subject which men may not freely discuss, they are timid upon all subjects.
— John Jay Chapman
Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.
— John Jay Chapman
Decentralisation is controversial - but that's fine. We should be fearless about having a debate.
— Charles Kennedy
I want to find someone on the earth so intelligent that he welcomes opinions which he condemns.
— John Jay Chapman
Nothing is more injurious to the character and to the intellect than the suppression of a generous emotion.
— John Jay Chapman
The power of quotation is as dreadful a weapon as any which the human intellect can forge.
— John Jay Chapman
All progress is experimental.
— John Jay Chapman
Cruelty of any kind is unforgivable . That's why there is no point at all in being creek in half-measure.
— Michael Dobbs
Our goodness comes solely from thinking on goodness; our wickedness from thinking on wickedness. We too are the victims of our own contemplation.
— John Jay Chapman
As for boredom ... I notice that it leaves me as soon as I am doing something that has got to be done.
— John Jay Chapman
You can go wrong by being too skeptical as readily as by being too trusting.
— Robert A. Heinlein
It sounds corny, but I've promised my inner child that never again will I ever abandon myself for anything or anyone else again.
— Wynonna Judd
Clothing doesn't really change a man. But it changes how others react to him.
— Brandon Sanderson