Conflict is the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. It instigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplike passivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.
John Dewey
Related To stand on the brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli... ASK AND IT IS GIVEN I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES 37. It is better to be single and unhappy than unhappily married. JAMES C. DOBSON Music seems hard-wired into our very being. It moves us, stirs us to action, sets us in motion, stic... FLOYD SKLOOT Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it SARA SHEPARD It is what it is, it is what you make it. JAMES DURBIN You should never give up a happy middle in the hopes of a happy ending, because there is no such thi... JOHN GREEN Using assistive technology with your child prevents your child from missing out on content solely be... SANDRA K. COOK Vice, in its true light, is so deformed, that it shocks us at first sight; and would hardly ever sed... PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD Vice, in its true light, is so deformed, that it shocks us at first sight; and would hardly ever sed... LORD CHESTERFIELD It looks like we're weathering the energy shocks pretty well, but it is too soon to declare us out o... JEFFREY LACKER Something did happen, and I really don't feel proud of it. DEYTH BANGER Memory weaves and traps us at the same time according to a scheme in which we do not participate: we... JULIO CORTáZAR Some people are contriving ways and means of making us collapse. ROBERT MUGABE I am Happy and satisfied with what I am.
10000 will take me wrong, 1000 will go against me, 100 will... NEHA KOTHARI If our mind was an ocean then every now and then we would have the perfect storm happening in it.Gar... GARY F EVANS... Diversity, rather than cohesiveness, is the new passion, and it pits us against each other for “ri... JAMES C. DOBSON Risks can lead to great victories or defeats. Even if you are defeated, the lesson will be valuable ... LAILAH GIFTYAKITA The king may rule the kingdom, but it's the queen who moves the board. D.M. TIMNEY We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by the... US DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE Time determines the occurrence of possibilities and impossibilities, but God determines the time for... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Memory is a part of the present. It builds us up inside; it knits our bones to our muscles and keeps... GREGORY MAGUIRE I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is. TED TURNER Tomorrow is promised to no one. Prioritize today accordingly. GINA GREENLEE Name the fears that are holding you back. It's the equivalent of flooding the boogeyman with light. GINA GREENLEE The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreason... US CONSTITUTION No Soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the Owner, nor ... US CONSTITUTION Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise... US CONSTITUTION A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people t... US CONSTITUTION You were many wonderful things to many people before you met him--don't let this one event define wh... MARY ESSELMAN Memory is the sense of loss, and loss pulls us after it. MARILYNNE ROBINSON All of us have darkness inside us, and at times it possesses and seduces us in ways we never thought... SHERRILYN KENYON There are so many things we do in life that define the real meaning of our lives. There are so many ... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH She told me to find a girl worth fighting for. The one that doesn’t come easy. JAMIE MCGUIRE It is a lie. ARTHUR MILLER All events of the past withered to mere skeletons, veined and fleshed of fancy. ASHIM SHANKER Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it. EDMUND BURKE How to get it, I annoy you??? You are not interested??? What's the idea??? DEYTH BANGER The camera relieves us of the burden of memory. It surveys us like God, and it surveys for us. Yet n... JOHN BERGER To conflict journalists, a tiny, tight-knit tribe, tragedy is practically an occupational requiremen... BOBBY GHOSH It is the merest truism, evident at once to unsophisticated
observation, that mathematics is a huma... P.W. BRIDGMAN Unpredictability means what it means. I don't know how you define it. It is what it is. MICHAEL KEATON The thought of John O'Brien back to play is a good thing for us. It's a long time coming for us. GLENN MYERNICK What love is it, then, that has no need of words to call us? In whose image are we made, to take suc... CHRISTIAN BOBIN You release the pain of the past and press on. It's a new day, and God is doing a new thing. He want... CRAIG GROESCHEL There is something very wonderful about music. Words are wonderful enough; but music is even more wo... CHARLES KINGSLEY Never be afraid to offer a smile; sure the risk is that a few foolish people may misinterpret your k... JOHNNIE DENT JR. We have three sets of identical boys, one set of identical girls and two sets of fraternal twins. We... HOLLY DAVIS Things don’t have significance: they only have existence. Things are the only hidden meaning ... ALBERTO CAEIRO I have no doubt in my mind that we were able to make contact with the spirit of John Lennon. John wa... JOE POWER The digital camera is a great invention because it allows us to reminisce. Instantly. DEMETRI MARTIN Instinct's the iron skeleton under all our ideas of free will. STEPHEN KING We're doomed to repeat the past no matter what. That's what it is to be alive. It's pretty dense kid... KURT VONNEGUT His problem is that he doesn’t want anyone until he can have anyone he wants. CLIFFORD COHEN Frank held up the Chinese handcuffs. “Keep it simple. RICK RIORDAN Surely it is time to examine into the meaning of words and the nature of things, and to arrive at si... FRANCES WRIGHT Determined eyes see less sleep; a focused mind has less time for idleness. Hearts filled with tenaci... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH As far as our offensive execution, Harvard with a little bit of pressure on the ball [and] pressure ... GLEN MILLER Passivity is fatal to us. Our goal is to make the enemy passive. MAO TSE-TUNG It is what it is, and it ain't nothin' else... Everything is clearly, openly, plainly delive... DAN FLAVIN With '10,000,' our aim was to make a film that was entertaining and a roller-coaster ride; i... STEVEN STRAIT When people get cynical about love, they should look at us [Yoko and John Lennon] and see it is poss... YOKO ONO The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest. The repose of the nigh... GASTON BACHELARD It's a pretty significant day for us. It is a day of abstinence when we fast, pray and smear ourselv... DAN ANDRIACCO While both these statements refer to eggs, the main difference between these two rather irking state... CHRISTINA ENGELA The world is continuously discontinuous. It is continuous for intuition and thinking; discontinuous ... THIRUMAN ARCHUNAN He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helpe... EDMUND BURKE Football is made up of all kinds of conflict. In a dressing room, between players, between us and th... WAYNE ROONEY It is the measure of this memory of past cycles that allows us to make a forecast. MAUSUMI DIKPATI We have to believe that the thought we have is piecing together for us the thing we are thinking of ... STEPHEN RICHARDS Vision is perhaps our greatest strength... it has kept us alive to the power and continuity of thoug... LI KA-SHING He who doesn't understand history is doomed to repeat it. PITTACUS LORE Those unable to catalog the past are doomed to repeat it. LEMONY SNICKET Life is not all about sticking or stopping your thoughts to old memories but LIFE STARTS when you st... NEHA KOTHARI The secret of drunkeness is, that it insulates us in thought, whilst it unites us in feeling. RALPH WALDO EMERSON The door of conciliation and compromise is finally closed by our adversaries, and it remains only to... ROBERT TOOMBS Is it fair to have given us the memory of what was and the desire of what could be when we must suff... NEIL JORDAN We learned our lesson last time. We went out flat and thought we wouldn't have to wrestle hard. It w... ERIC BRADLEY Time has always been used against us on a certain level. The invention of the clock made us accounta... DOUGLAS RUSHKOFF The cruising life isn't for all of us. It isn't even for most of us, but it is for some of us, ... JIM TREFETHEN When Dewey Baker started off rebounding, that motivated all of us to get in there and rebound like h... CODY THUERINGER It is the story that owns and directs us. It is the thing that makes us different from cattle; it is... CHINUA ACHEBE The biggest invention of modern time is the book. The book is a digital medium; book text is written... SEBASTIAN THRUN For starters, that’s a rather simple principle of Time Travel right there – and according to the... CHRISTINA ENGELA Autonomy was shopped to us. We looked at the price and thought it was absurdly high. LARRY ELLISON It was three o'clock in the morning – the wisest and most accursed hour of the clock. But sometime... L.M. MONTGOMERY Our half-court trap is our staple. It gets teams out of their normal offensive sets, which can lead ... ANDY FURUTO I want to pay credit to them because they brought it to us. We loved it pretty much straight away an... BRAD LYONS I never like it when a celebrity goes on Twitter and says, 'This isn't true!' It is what... HARRY STYLES A servant who serves excellently from his whole heart with due courage and humility is never a serva... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Rhythm is sound in motion. It is related to the pulse, the heartbeat, the way we breathe. It rises a... EDWARD HIRSCH Some things are only real because they represent what we think. When we learn the truth and think it... C. TERRY WARNER St. Paul says that “the love of Christ compels us,” but this “compels us” can also be transl... POPE FRANCIS Conflict connects us to life, just as life connects us to conflict. BRYANT MCGILL The man stopped talking and was looking at the sunset. But what does someone who hates and love... ALBERTO CAEIRO He had a harder time helping her out though. He was asleep while she was doing stars. Without wings,... LAURIE FRANKEL Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey towards it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us. ...... SAMUEL SMILES The heart is capable of sacrifice. So is the vagina. The heart is able to forgive and repair. It can... EVE ENSLER Unhappy is that Grandeur which makes us too great to be good; and that Wit which sets us at a distan... MARY ASTELL Coach is very intense and he wants us to do our best off the court and on the court. He expects so m... KRYSTLE HORTON
More John Dewey
Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination. - The Quest for Cert... JOHN DEWEY The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome... JOHN DEWEY Complete adaptation to environment means death. The essential point in all response is the desire t... JOHN DEWEY We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is alway... JOHN DEWEY Modern life means democracy, democracy means freeing intelligence for independent effectivenessthe e... JOHN DEWEY Education is a social process ... Education is growth.... Education is, not a preparation for life; ... JOHN DEWEY Education is not a preparation for life; education is life itself. JOHN DEWEY Luck, bad if not good, will always be with us. But it has a way of favoring the intelligent and show... JOHN DEWEY Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the ende... JOHN DEWEY The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action... JOHN DEWEY We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always ... JOHN DEWEY There is more than a verbal tie between the words common, community, and communication. Try the expe... JOHN DEWEY In laying hands upon the sacred ark of absolute permanency, in treating the forms that had been rega... JOHN DEWEY Old ideas give way slowly; for they are more than abstract logical forms and categories, they are ha... JOHN DEWEY Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from ... JOHN DEWEY Education is a social process. Education is growth. Education is, not a preparation for life; educat... JOHN DEWEY For in spite of itself any movement that thinks and acts in terms of an JOHN DEWEY Skepticism: the mark and even the pose of the educated mind. JOHN DEWEY Without some goals and some efforts to reach it, no man can live. JOHN DEWEY Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of mental reserves and compromises. He h... JOHN DEWEY We only think when we are confronted with problems. JOHN DEWEY A person who is trained to consider his actions, to undertake them deliberately, is in so far forth ... JOHN DEWEY The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome... JOHN DEWEY Complete adaptation to environment means death. The essential point in all response is the desire to... JOHN DEWEY Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination. JOHN DEWEY The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better. JOHN DEWEY Complete adaptation to environment means death. The essential point in all response is the desire t... JOHN DEWEY The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of acti... JOHN DEWEY The religious is any activity pursued in behalf of an ideal end against obstacles and in spite of th... JOHN DEWEY We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always... JOHN DEWEY We only think when we are confronted with a problem. JOHN DEWEY The good society was, like the good self, a diverse yet harmonious, growing yet unified whole, a ful... JOHN DEWEY We can have facts without thinking but we cannot have thinking without facts. JOHN DEWEY Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of t... JOHN DEWEY Time and memory are true artists; they remould reality nearer to the heart's desire. JOHN DEWEY By object is meant some element in the complex whole that is defined in abstraction from the whole o... JOHN DEWEY Man lives in a world of surmise, of mystery, of uncertainties. JOHN DEWEY To me faith means not worrying. JOHN DEWEY Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy. JOHN DEWEY One lives with so many bad deeds on one's conscience and some good intentions in one's heart... JOHN DEWEY The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome... JOHN DEWEY No man's credit is as good as his money. JOHN DEWEY Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living. JOHN DEWEY The belief that all genuine education comes about through experience does not mean that all experien... JOHN DEWEY Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from ... JOHN DEWEY Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself. JOHN DEWEY Nature is the mother and the habitat of man, even if sometimes a stepmother and an unfriendly home. JOHN DEWEY Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another. JOHN DEWEY ...the conviction persists - though history has shown it to be a hallucination - that all the questi... JOHN DEWEY Anyone who has begun to think places some portion of the world in jeopardy. JOHN DEWEY There is no discipline in the world so severe as the discipline of experience subjected to the tests... JOHN DEWEY The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think -- rather to impr... JOHN DEWEY To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness... JOHN DEWEY Every serious-minded person knows that a large part of the effort required in moral discipline consi... JOHN DEWEY It is our American habit if we find the foundations of our educational structure unsatisfactory to a... JOHN DEWEY Intellectually, religious emotions are not creative but conservative. They attach themselves readily... JOHN DEWEY For one man who thanks God that he is not as other men there are a thousand to offer thanks that the... JOHN DEWEY The aim of education is to enable individuals to continue their education ... (and) the object and r... JOHN DEWEY We only think when we are confronted with a problem JOHN DEWEY The reason the outages affected the same group and not other areas is because those customers are se... JOHN DEWEY I believe that the only true education comes through the stimulation of the child's powers by the de... JOHN DEWEY Every thinker puts some portion of an apparently stable world in peril JOHN DEWEY We eat out all the time, and you have no idea what you're eating. JOHN DEWEY The reason the outages affected the same group and not other areas is because those customers are se... JOHN DEWEY One lives with so many bad deeds on one's conscience and some good intentions in one's heart. JOHN DEWEY As long as art is the beauty parlor of civilization, neither art nor civilization is secure JOHN DEWEY The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better JOHN DEWEY Time and memory are true artists; they remold reality nearer to the heart's desire. JOHN DEWEY A democracy is more than a form of government; it is primarily a mode of associated living, of conjo... JOHN DEWEY The end justifies the means only when the means used are such as actually bring about the desired an... JOHN DEWEY To think means, in any case, to bridge a gap in experience... JOHN DEWEY a problem well put is half solved. JOHN DEWEY Life itself consists of phases in which the organism falls out of step with the march of surrounding... JOHN DEWEY Nothing is more tragic than failure to discover one’s true business in life, or to find that one h... JOHN DEWEY Absence of social blame is the usual mark of goodness for it shows that evil has been avoided. Blame... JOHN DEWEY Individuality, conceived as a temporal development involves uncertainty, indeterminacy, or contingen... JOHN DEWEY The way our group or class does things tends to determine the proper objects of attention, and thus ... JOHN DEWEY As an individual passes from one situation to another, his [sic] world, his environment, expands or ... JOHN DEWEY Who can reckon up the loss of moral power that arises from the constant impression that nothing is w... JOHN DEWEY For, as I have suggested, disruption of the unity of the self is not limited to the cases that come ... JOHN DEWEY Forty years spent in wandering in a wilderness like that of the present is not a sad fate--unless on... JOHN DEWEY The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to be important. JOHN DEWEY We always live at the time we live and not at some other time, and only by extracting at each presen... JOHN DEWEY Hunger not to have, but to be JOHN DEWEY We naturally associate democracy, to be sure, with freedom of action, but freedom of action without ... JOHN DEWEY Every one has experienced how learning an appropriate name for what was dim and vague cleared up and... JOHN DEWEY Faith in the possibilities of continued and rigorous inquiry does not limit access to truth to any c... JOHN DEWEY The only freedom that is of enduring importance is the freedom of intelligence, that is to say, free... JOHN DEWEY The deepest urge in human nature is "the desire to be important" JOHN DEWEY Education is a social process; education is growth; education is not a preparation for life but is l... JOHN DEWEY It (modern philosophy) certainly exacts a surrender of all supernaturalism and fixed dogma and rigid... JOHN DEWEY By reading the characteristic features of any man's castles in the air you can make a shrewd guess a... JOHN DEWEY Give the pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to dem... JOHN DEWEY Those outages were caused by separate equipment failures. JOHN DEWEY There is nothing left worth preserving in the notions of unseen powers, controlling human destiny, t... JOHN DEWEY Genuine ignorance is... profitable because it is likely to be accompanied by humility, curiosity, an... JOHN DEWEY No man's credit is as good as his money. JOHN DEWEY School is not preparation for life, but school is life JOHN DEWEY Of all affairs, communication is the most wonderful. JOHN DEWEY We do not learn from experience... we learn from reflecting on experience. JOHN DEWEY Education is a regulation of the process of coming to share in the social consciousness; and that th... JOHN DEWEY The very problem of mind and body suggests division; I do not know of anything so disastrously affec... JOHN DEWEY Democracy is a way of life controlled by a working faith in the possibilities of human nature. Belie... JOHN DEWEY A single course of studies for all progressive schools is out of the question; it would mean abandon... JOHN DEWEY Empirically, things are poignant, tragic, beautiful, humorous, settled, disturbed, comfortable, anno... JOHN DEWEY Labor is man's greatest function. He is nothing, he can do nothing, he can achieve nothing, he can... ORVILLE DEWEY Labor is man's greatest function. He is nothing, he can do nothing, he can achieve nothing, he can f... ORVILLE DEWEY We are biased, but we like our chances. BRYAN DEWEY Being unable to reason is not a positive character trait outside religion DEWEY HENIZE I had a little wedge into the green and stuck it about 5 feet on a tucked pin and knocked it in the ... DEWEY OXNER The librarian must be the librarian militant before he can be the librarian triumphant. MELVIL DEWEY My decision on this matter is as certain and final as death and the staggering New Deal taxes. THOMAS DEWEY He'd suck my brains, memorize my Rolodex and use my telephone to find some other guy who'd pay him t... NED DEWEY No man should be in public office who can't make more money in private life. THOMAS DEWEY The eternal conflict of good and the best with bad and the worst is on. MELVIL DEWEY The time was when a library was very much like a museum, and a librarian was a mouser in musty books... MELVIL DEWEY Over the past 21 years several businesses have been established or expanded through the use of sub-p... DEWEY SCOTT We will have a youth auction starting at 3 p.m. on Saturday. The children will use play money to bid... DEWEY SCOTT Over the years, we have had our meetings and shows at different locations. We used to meet at the Ja... DEWEY SCOTT People are welcome to bring in their own unique coins or collections to sell or have appraised, if t... DEWEY SCOTT We have held this event at the Ramada Inn the past several years. This year we have at least 30 vend... DEWEY SCOTT We're trying to accommodate them as best we can, because of the objective of this group, which is to... DEWEY POTTER That's why we want to catch them now. DEWEY POTTER We weren't sure till then whether South Lake Union would be available. DEWEY POTTER We're going to respond to the council in writing, retrace the history of the project in that respons... DEWEY POTTER We wanted to get all the help we could on him and he such a fine player and can shoot it from anywhe... DEWEY PENNELL We didn't have an answer for Cline. He's an awfully good player and excellent shooter. We contained ... DEWEY PENNELL It kind of kicks the year off to a good start. DEWEY OXNER I was just trying to par every hole I could. DEWEY OXNER The boot is a tribute to the ranch my dad loves so much. It's a tribute to the cattle and livestock ... DEWEY MITCHELL I think most people that have been involved in athletics would point somewhere down the line to some... DEWEY MITCHELL I would tend to believe you have a combination of factors. I think in general it seems the smaller r... DEWEY MITCHELL I really haven't heard anything about it. I'm kind of wondering what's going on like everyone else. DEWEY MITCHELL Our pitching has been pretty good, our hitting has been adequate, and our defense has been bad. That... DEWEY KALMER He's dangerous. They've got about four or five guys in the lineup that are just dangerous. Their 3-7... DEWEY KALMER We knew he wouldn't go all the way, so early on, we took some pitches and tried to make him have som... DEWEY KALMER It's way better here than Logan. BRYAN DEWEY Yeah, we show up four or five hours early so we are pretty dedicated fans. We honestly think we have... BRYAN DEWEY You may fire when you are ready, Gridley. GEORGE DEWEY The greatest challenge or consideration is cultural integration. KATE DEWEY Financial sustainability is, without a doubt, the most pivotal issue for nonprofit organizations for... KATE DEWEY I think we're going to rewrite what retirement means. What we do and how we look will be very differ... KATE DEWEY If you're not in New York, you're camping out. THOMAS E. DEWEY Ours is an abiding faith in the cause of human freedom. We know it is God's cause. THOMAS E. DEWEY No man should be in public office who can't make more money in private life. THOMAS E. DEWEY We need not be afraid of the future, for the future will be in our own hands. THOMAS E. DEWEY When you're leading, don't talk. THOMAS E. DEWEY Our problem is within ourselves. We have found the means to blow the world physically apart. Spiritu... THOMAS E. DEWEY My family is from Liverpool, so I have some of those vowel sounds, I've got the slack tone of so... JOHN OLIVER Protest and anger practically always derives from hope, and the shouting out against injustice is al... JOHN BERGER No man is to be credited for his mere authority's sake, unless he can show Scripture for the mai... JOHN WYCLIFFE By ensuring that no one in government has too much power, the Constitution helps protect ordinary Am... JOHN ROBERTS Human beings, we have dark sides; we have dark issues in our lives. To progress anywhere in life, yo... JOHN NOBLE Learn as many mistakes and what not to do while your business or product is small. Don't be in s... DAYMOND JOHN Being thrown into the fire and getting the thing turned around in a hurry made it more difficult. Th... JOHN ELWAY This Constitution was not made for a day, nor is it composed of such flexible materials as to be war... JOHN TYLER Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans. JOHN LENNON Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute. JOHN MORTIMER No power on earth has a right to take our property from us without our consent. JOHN JAY Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself. JOHN LOCKE High School is like a spork: it's a crappy spoon and a crappy fork, so in the end it's just ... JOHN MAYER When I was growing up in rural Alabama, it was impossible for me to register to vote. I didn't b... JOHN LEWIS The documented incidences of voter fraud are very rare, yet throughout the country, forces have mobi... JOHN LEWIS Seeing that a Pilot steers the ship in which we sail, who will never allow us to perish even in the ... JOHN CALVIN I was introduced to the Turducken in New Orleans. And it wasn't Thanksgiving. Glenn at the Gourm... JOHN MADDEN Christians were instructed to serve others, and the thanksgiving was for the grace of God and the fa... JOHN CLAYTON Is it possible that the portrait of the divine Son of God is an exaggeration, at best, or a complete... JOHN CLAYTON Was the real Jesus of history one and the same as the Christ of faith whom we read about in the New ... JOHN CLAYTON I believe any question that man can ask has a reasonable answer-at least an answer that is as consis... JOHN CLAYTON Almost every time I am in a lectureship on a college campus, young people will say, If there is a Go... JOHN CLAYTON I guess none of us like to look back in our lives to a time when we made poor judgments and foolish ... JOHN CLAYTON In the surface of the paper there is only length and width-there is no such thing as thickness. JOHN CLAYTON Why is it any more reasonable to believe that God has always been than it is to say that matter has ... JOHN CLAYTON What is the origin of God? JOHN CLAYTON The emphasis on the birth of Christ tends to polarize our pluralistic society and create legal and e... JOHN CLAYTON The denominational world tries to pressure its members to focus on the birth of Christ, but in doing... JOHN CLAYTON Not only are Christians writing about Jesus, but also Communists, Jews, atheists and agnostics are t... JOHN CLAYTON There was no instruction to be thankful that the Christians were special people, chosen people. Ther... JOHN CLAYTON It is my fervent hope and prayer that by exposing my mistakes and by pointing out the things that we... JOHN CLAYTON We are assuming that we exist, that there is reality, and that the matter of which we are made is re... JOHN CLAYTON The purpose of this study is to offer a logical, practical, pragmatic proof of the existence of God ... JOHN CLAYTON Since I was an atheist for many years and came to believe in God through my studies in science, it f... JOHN CLAYTON How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days. JOHN BURROUGHS You wouldn't do something for a receiver to catch the ball if the quarterback couldn't throw... JOHN MADDEN I'm not everybody's cup of tea. But sometimes criticism can be hurtful. Be respectful. I'... ELTON JOHN The prison-industrial complex, poverty, and the school system has more effect on a young black male ... JOHN LEGEND I have learned in fashion to be a little savage. JOHN FAIRCHILD Perhaps they thought I was on a fact-finding mission, never for one moment thinking that a man of my... JOHN PRESCOTT My consultant keeps telling me sudden death could come at any moment. JOHN TAVENER As you grow older, you learn a few things. One of them is to actually take the time you've allot... JOHN BATTELLE When California was wild, it was the floweriest part of the continent. JOHN MUIR Inherent in architecture, it involves everything in life so that there is absolutely no end to it. B... JOHN LAUTNER My folks always let me go to the movies every Saturday. We were really motion-picture goers. JOHN WAYNE I was ashamed to admit I was hipped to the idea of acting. That's why I started in with the prop... JOHN WAYNE I've loved reading all my life. JOHN WAYNE Nothing is so discouraging to an actor than to have to work for long hours upon hours in brightly li... JOHN WAYNE I'd read up on the history of our country and I'd become fascinated with the story of the Al... JOHN WAYNE Get off your butt and join the Marines! JOHN WAYNE Everybody that I was in school with had an uncle or father in the law, and I started to realize that... JOHN WAYNE Real art is basic emotion. If a scene is handled with simplicity - and I don't mean simple - it&... JOHN WAYNE