Damascus Knife

Damascus Knife

JOY AND SORROW

JINNAH – “The Festival of Sacrifice If we show the same spirit of sacrifice as was shown by Ibrahim, God would rend the clouds and shower on us His blessing as He did on Ibrahim... The greater the sacrifices are made the purer and more chastened shall we emerge like gold from fire... So my message to you all is of hope, courage and confidence.”      

JK GALBRAITH –“In economics, the majority is always wrong.”   

JMES PUCKLE- “An honest man is a citizen of the world.”

JNANA VASISHTA –“Between two thoughts there is an interval of no thought. That interval is the Self, the Atman. It is pure Awareness only.”    

JNANESHWAR – “Various articles of clothing are made from the same cotton cloth; likewise, the varied forms of the universe are creatively fashioned of the one Consciousness, which remains forever pure.”   

JO ANN CAYEE –“Just to be alive and to be of service to somebody is a reward.”   

JOAN BAEZ –‘If it’s natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how?”

JOAN BAEZ –“As long as one keeps searching, the answers come.”    

JOAN BAEZ –“Don't tell me of love everlasting and other sad dreams, I don't want to hear. Just tell me of passionate strangers who rescue each other from a lifetime of cares.”

JOAN BAEZ- “The only thing that’s been a worse flop than the oranisation of non-violence has been the organisation of violence.”

JOAN BORYSENKO- “The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.”

JOAN CRASTO -“The Lord has risen indeed/ from bondage to set us free, / So that we now share in His victory/ and now life is eternal for thee. The Lord has risen indeed, / He has risen and lives to die no more, / to plead the cause of the sinner, / whose curse and shame He bore. The Lord has risen indeed/ all our debts He paid/ even though the weight of the Father's anger, / On His tender heart was laid. The Lord has risen indeed/ His mighty work performed, / Sin and death are conquered, / By the Sinless Deathless One. The Lord has risen indeed, / God has completed His sacrifice,/"It is finished"—hear Him cry,/Learn from Jesus Christ, to die.”

JOAN OF ARC –“I am am not afraid ... I was born to do this.”  

JOAN OSBORNE  –“What if God was one of us.../ Just a stranger on the bus/ Trying to make his way home.../ Like a holy rolling stone/ Back up to heaven all alone/ Nobody calling on the phone/ Except for the Pope maybe in Rome.”        

JOAN RIVERS –“If God had wanted me to bend over, he would have put diamonds on the floor.”   

JOANNA BAILLIE –“The every air thick and heavily, where murder has bee done.”

JOANNE HARRIS –“We can't go around measuring our goodness by what we don't do and who we exclude.”   

JOANNE WOODWARD –“Sexiness wears thin after a while and beauty fades, but to be married to a an who makes you laugh every day now and that’s a real treat.”

JOAQUIN ANDUJAR –“You can't worry if it's cold; you can't worry if it's hot; you only worry if you get sick.”   

JOCJ FALKSON –“When we are 20, we worry about what others think of us. At 40 we don't care what they think of us. At 60 we discover they haven't been thinking about us at all.”

JOE DIMAGGIO –“A person always doing his or her best becomeas a natural leader, just by example.”        

JOE E. LEWIS –“You only live once — but if you work it right, once is enough.”

JOE HILL –“Work and pray, live on hay/ You'll get pie in the sky when you die.”        

JOE NAMATH –“Football is an honest game. It's true to life. It's a game about sharing. Football is a team game. So is life.”     

JOE ORTON -“Reading isn't an occupation we encourage among police officers. We try to keep the paper work down to a minimum.”    

JOE PATEMO –“Success without honour is an unseasoned dish. It will satisfy your hunger, but it won’t taste good.”

JOE PATERNO –“Losing a game is heartbreaking. Losing your sense of excellence or worth is a tragedy.”        

JOE PATERNO –“When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.”   

JOEL BENTON –“Pixie, kobold, elf, and sprite, All are on their rounds tonight; in the wan moon's silver ray, Thrives their helter-skelter play.”

JOEL MORWOOD –“In order to attain gnosis, it is not enough merely to experience a state of formlessness. You have to "discern" or "awaken to", or "realise" its significance — that this formlessness is the ultimate nature of everything, including form. This is what gnosis is all about. Patanjali calls it asamprajnata samadhi — "Samadhi without support" — because it doesn't depend, on any particular state.”       

JOEY ADAMS –“May all your troubles last as long as your new year's resolutions.”

JOEY LAUREN –“Never let a fool kiss you, or a kiss fool you.” 

JOHA GRAY –“When man and woman are able to respect and accept their differences then love has a chance to blossom.”

JOHANN VON SCHILLER –“Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.”  

JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE- “As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.”

JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE –“Nature is the living, visible garment of God.”

JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE –“Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.”         

JOHN –“For God so loved the world that He gave His only son that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life.”  

JOHN –“Greater love has no man than this that a man lay down his life for his friends.”

JOHN –“Jesus saidi "I am the resurrection, and the life; he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live; And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this?”          

JOHN –“The wind blows where it will, and you hear the sound of it, but you do not know whence it comes or whither it goes so it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit.”   

JOHN- “The wind blows where it wills, and you hear the sound of it, but you do not know whence it comes or whither it comes or whither it goes; so it is with every one who is born of the Spirit.”

JOHN A SHEDD –“A ship in harbour is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.”

JOHN A SIMONE –“If you're in a bad situation, don’t worry, it will change. If you are in a good situation don't worry, it will change.”    

JOHN A. HOLMES –“There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.”  

JOHN A.SHEDD- “A ship in harbor is safe but that is not what ship are build for.”

JOHN ADAMS –“I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce and agriculture in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, tapestry, and porcelain.” 

JOHN ADAMS –“Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty.”   

JOHN ADAMS –“That the desires of the majority of the people are often for injustice and inhumanity against the minority, is demonstrated by every page of the history of the whole world.”    

JOHN ADAMS –“The people have a right, an indisputable, unalienable indefeasible, divine right to that most dreaded and envied kind of knowledge — I mean of the character and conduct of their rulers.”

JOHN ALIEN PAUIOS –“Uncertainty is the only certainty there is, and knowing how to live with insecurity is the only security.”     

JOHN ALLSTON –“The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.”     

JOHN AMATT –“Without adversity, without change, life is boring. The paradox of comfort is that we stop trying.”

JOHN ARGENT –“A plan is a list of actions arranged in whatever sequence is thought likely to achieve an objective.”

JOHN AUGUSTINE –“It's easy to make children, but it's not so easy to feed them, you know, with those things of the heart.”   

JOHN B URROUGHS –“One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: To rise above little things'.”

JOHN BARRYMORE –“A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.”    

JOHN BARRYMORE –“Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.”   

JOHN BAY –“Noble souls, through dust and heat, rise from disaster and defeat the stronger.”   

JOHN BERRY –“The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.”    

JOHN BRADSHAW –“Children are natural Zen masters; their world is brand new in each and every moment.”       

JOHN BUCHAN- “An atheist is a man who was no invisible means to support.”

JOHN BUNYAN –“So he passed over, and all the trumpets sounded for him on the other side.”  

JOHN BURROUGH –“How beautifully the leaves grow old? How full of light and color are their last days?”   

JOHN BURROUGHS –“A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.”

JOHN BURROUGHS –“Every walk to the woods is a religious rite, every bath in the stream is a saving ordinance. Communion service is at all hours, and the bread and wine are from the heart and marrow of Mother Earth. To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter... to be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird's nest or a wildflower in spring — these are some of the rewards of the simple life. The most precious things of life are near at hand, without money and without price. Each of you has the whole wealth of the universe at your very door. All that I ever had, and still have, may be yours by stretching forth your hand and taking it.”    

JOHN BURROUGHS –“One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: 'To rise above little things.'”  

JOHN BURROUGHS –“Style transforms common quartz into an Egyptian pebble. We are apt to think of style as something external, that can be put on, something in and of itself. But it is not; it is in the inmost texture of the substance itself. Polish, choice words, faultless rhetoric, are only the accidents of style. Indeed, perfect workmanship is one thing; style, as the great writers have it, is quite another. It may, and often does, go with faulty workmanship. It is the choice of words in a fresh and vital way, so as to give us a vivid sense of a new spiritual force and personality In the best work the style is found and hidden in the matter.”    

JOHN BURROUGHS –“The difference between a precious stone and a common stone is not an essential difference — not a difference of substance — but of arrangement of the particles — the crystallisation. In substance, the charcoal and the diamond are one, but in form and effect, how widely they differ! The pearl contains nothing that is not found in the coarsest oyster-shell. Two men have the same thoughts; they use about the same words in expressing them; yet with one the product is real literature, with the other it is platitude. The difference is all in presentation; a finer and more compendious process has gone on in the one ease than in the other. The elements are better fused and knitted together; they are in some way heightened and intensified. Is not here a clue to what we mean by style? 

JOHN BURROUGHS –“The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.”   

JOHN BURROUGHS –“To learn something new; take the path you took yesterday.”         

JOHN CAGE –“I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.”  

JOHN CARLISLE –“Help us to harness the wind, the water, the sun, and all the ready and renewable sources of power. Teach us to conserve, preserve, use wisely the blessed treasures of our wealth-stored earth. Help us to share your bounty, not waste it, or pervert it into peril for our children or our neighbours in other nations. You, who are life arid energy and blessing, teach us to revere and respect your tender world. Prayer of Thomas”                

JOHN CELES –“Today's the 'Festival of Lights'all o'er; A joyful day for minds and hearts and souls; And people throng the Temples to offer, Prayers, resolving to take better roles. And most of them are richly clad and clean, And eat such dainty foods and sweets with mirth; Whilst noisy crackers burst, their lights are seen, It seems to be a happy day on Earth! But are there not hearts woe-filled, very sad? Denied of laughter, smiles for days; Today's the triumph of Good over bad; But what about the wastage in much ways? True joy is when you see someone else smile! True charity gives joy in Heav'nly style.”    

JOHN CHURTON COLLIS –“In prosperity, your friends know us; in adversity we know our friends.”

JOHN CLEESE –“I used to desire many many things, but now I have just one desire, and that's to get rid of all my other desires.”

JOHN CLEESE –“If I can get you to laugh with me, you like me better, which makes you more open to my ideas. And if I can persuade you to laugh at the particular point I make, by laughing at it you acknowledge its truth.”   

JOHN CNURTON COLLINS –“In prosperity our friends know us in adversity we know our friends.”    

JOHN D BARROW –“There was no "before" the beginning of our universe, because once upon a time there was no time.”

JOHN D ROCKEFELLER –“Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.”  

JOHN D ROCKEFELLER –“Thrift is essential to well-ordered living.”    

JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER –“I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal. I bad an ambition to build.”   

JOHN DENNISON –“Spiritual justice is the right of every soul to set its own course through life, and the responsibility to allow others to do the same. Allowing everything to be as it is created. And to accept responsibility for our role in it all— through our perceptions, our choices, and the conditions within that shape our lives (whether within our conscious awareness or not).”     

JOHN DOBBIN –“In the time honoured  tradition of email, just ignore the question.”    

JOHN DONNE –“All ankind is of one Author, and is one volume; when one Man dies, one Chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language; and every chapter must be so translated; God employees several translators; some pieces are translated by age; some by sickness, some by warre, some by justice, but God's hand is in every translation, and his hand shall binde up all our scattered leaves again, for that libraries where every book shall lie open to one another. No man is an island in tire of itself, every man is a piece of the Continent, a part of the Maine; if a clod bee washed away by the Sea, Europe is less, as well as if a promontories were, as well as if a manner of thy friends or of thin own were any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.”

JOHN DONNE –“Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind.”   

JOHN DONNE –“Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.”      

JOHN DONNE –“No man is an island, entire of itself/ Every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main/ If a clod be washed away by the sea.”

JOHN DONNE –“One short sleep past, we walk eternally, and death shall be no more: Death, thou shalt die.”

JOHN DRINKWATER- “When you defile the pleasant stream, you massacre a million dream.”

JOHN DRYDEN- “Forgiveness to the injured doth belong. But they ne’er pardon who have done the wrong.”

JOHN DRYDEN –“To die is landing on some distant shore.”

JOHN E. SOUTHARD –“The only people with whom you should try to get even are those who have helped you.”

JOHN F KENNEDY - “Forgive your enemies but never forget their manes.”

JOHN F KENNEDY - “Forgive your enemies but never forget their manes.”

JOHN F KENNEDY - “I just received the following wire from my generous Daddy: “Dear Jack, Don’t buy a single vote more than necessary. I’ll be dammed if I’m going to pay for a landslide”.”

JOHN F KENNEDY - “Let us never negotiate out of fear to negotiate.”

JOHN F KENNEDY - “Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.”

JOHN F KENNEDY - “Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.”

JOHN F KENNEDY –“A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.”

JOHN F KENNEDY –“A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on. Ideas have endurance without death.”

JOHN F KENNEDY –“A nation can't afford to be materially rich and spiritually poor.”    

JOHN F KENNEDY –“All of us do not have equal talent, but all of us should have an equal opportunity to develop our talents.”  

JOHN F KENNEDY –“As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.”   

JOHN F KENNEDY –“Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.”  

JOHN F KENNEDY –“Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.”

JOHN F KENNEDY –“If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.”    

JOHN F KENNEDY –“If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.”          

JOHN F KENNEDY –“In the past, those who foolishly sought power by riding on the back of the tiger ended up inside.” 

JOHN F KENNEDY –“It is our task in our time and in our generation, to hand down undiminished to those who come after us, as was handed down to us by those who went before, the natural wealth and beauty which is ours.” 

JOHN F KENNEDY –“Let us never negotiate out of fear, but let us never fear to negotiate.”

JOHN F KENNEDY –“Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.”

JOHN F KENNEDY –“One person can make a difference and every person should try.”   

JOHN F KENNEDY –“Our fears must never hold us back from pursuing our hopes.”  

JOHN F KENNEDY –“Peace is a daily a weekly a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.”   

JOHN F KENNEDY –“The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy .”      

JOHN F KENNEDY –“The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.”       

JOHN F KENNEDY –“The people of the world respect a nation that can see beyond its own image.”

JOHN F KENNEDY –“The rights of man come not from the generosity of the state but from the hand of God.”      

JOHN F KENNEDY –“There are risks and cost to a program of action — but they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.”  

JOHN F KENNEDY –“We are coming to understand that the arts incarnate the creativity of a free people.”        

JOHN F KENNEDY –“We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world- or to make it the last.”  

JOHN F KENNEDY -“Without debate, without criticism, no administration and no country can succeed—and no republic can survive.”   

JOHN FLETCHER –“Now the lusty spring is seen; Golden, yellow, gaudy blue, Daintily invite the view.”

JOHN FOWLES –“Men see objects, women see the relationship between objects. Whether the objects need each other, love each other, match each other. It is an extra dimension of feeling we men are without and one that makes war abhorrent to all real women — and absurd.”  

JOHN GAY –“Alas! You know the cause too well; The salt is spilt, to me it fell; Then to contribute to my loss, My knife and fork were laid across; On Friday, too! The day I dread! Would I were safe at home in bed! Last night (I vow to Heaven 'tis true) Bounce from the fire a coffin flew. Next post some fatal news shall tell; God send my Cornish friends be well!”

JOHN GAY –“We only part to meet again. Change, as ye list, ye winds; my heart shall be the faithful compass that still points to thee.”

JOHN GIELGUD –“You make a new life for yourself when you are old.”    

JOHN GILLESPIE MAGEE, JR –“High Flight Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings; Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth/ Of sun-split I clouds, — and done a hundred things You have not dreamed of — wheeled and soared and swung High in the sunlit silence hovering there, I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung my eager craft through I footless halls of air... Up, up the long, delirious burning blue I've topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace where never lark, or ever eagle flew—And, while with silent, lifting mind I've trod The high untrespassed sanctity of space, Put out my hand, and touched the face of God.”

JOHN GLENN –“I don't know what you could say about a day in which you have seen four beautiful sunsets.”       

JOHN GRAY – “Just as women are afraid of receiving, men are afraid of giving.”

JOHN GUNTHER –“All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast.”         

JOHN HARRIGAN –“People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.”

JOHN HAY –“I think that saving a little child And bringing him to his own, Is a darned sight better business Than loafing around the throne.”   

JOHN HEISMAN –“Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to jumble this football.”   

JOHN HOLT- “No use to shout at them to pay attention. If the situations, the materials, the problems before the child do not interest him, his attention will slip off to what does interest him, and no amount of exhortation of threats will bring it back.”

JOHN HUSTON –“Hollywood has always been a cage... a cage to catch our dreams.”     

JOHN ILHAN –“Don't let anyone say you can’t do it.”   

JOHN IRVING –“It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious. Prostitutes know this too.”        

JOHN J INGALLS –“The golden rule has no place in a political campaigns”    

JOHN K BANGS –“Bring forth the raisins and the nuts — Tonight All-Hallows' Spectre struts along the moonlit way.”      

JOHN K GALBRAITH –“Once the visitor was told rather repetitively that New York was the melting pot... This self-congratulation is now less often heard, since it was discovered some years ago that racial harmony depended unduly on the willingness of the blacks (and latterly the Puerto Ricans) to do for the other races the meanest jobs at the lowest wages and then to return to live by themselves in the worst slums.”   

JOHN KBANGS –“What fools indeed we morals are to lavish care upon a Car, with ne'er a bit of time to see about our own machinery!”      

JOHN KEATS- “Real are the dreams of Goad, and smoothly pass their pleasures in a long immortal dream.”

JOHN KEBLE –“We scatter seeds with careless hand, And dream we ne'er shall see them more; But for a thousand years Their fruit appears, In weeds that mar the land, Or healthful shore.”    

JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH –“In economics, hope and faith coexist with great scientific pretension and also a deep desire for respectability.”     

JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH –“The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable”          

JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH –“There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.”

JOHN KERRY –“Today we have an energy policy of big oil, by big oil and' for big oil. With common sense investment in advancing and speeding break- throughs, we can harness the natural world around us to light and power the world we live in with secure forms of energy at reasonable costs for a modern economy.”

JOHN L FLYNN –“In a metaphorical sense, the hero's journey is also a journey of enlightenment, in which the individual breaks through the boundaries of self to discover his unique contribution to the world.... In modern society, where most old myths have lost their power, the cultural imperative to invent new stories and create new heroes has given rise to the sub-genre of fantastic literature known as 'heroic fantasy'.”    

JOHN L GRAHAM- “The correct strategy for Americans negotiating with foreign clients is to ask questions…if an impasse is reached, doesn’t pressure. Suggest a recess or another meeting.”

JOHN L GRAHAM- “The correct strategy for Americans negotiating with foreign clients is to ask questions…if an impasse is reached, doesn’t pressure. Suggest a recess or another meeting.”

JOHN LANE –“The industrialist was horrified to find the fisherman lying beside his boat, smoking his pipe. "Why aren't you fishing?" asked the industrialist. "Because I have caught enough fish for the day" "Why don't you catch some more?" "What would I do with them?" "Earn more money. Then you could have a motor fixed to your boat and go into deeper waters and catch more fish. That would bring you money to buy nylon nets, so more fish, more money. Soon you would have enough to buy two boats even a fleet of boats. Then you could be rich like me." "What would I do then?" "Then you could sit back and enjoy life." "What do you think I'm doing now?" 

John le carre- “A desk is a dangerous place from which to watch the world.”

JOHN LENNON –“Christ, you know it ain’t easy/ you know how hard it can be. The way things are goiung/ they gonna crucify me.”   

JOHN LENNON- “For I don’t care too much for money. For money can’t by me love.”

JOHN LENNON –“I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now?”   

JOHN LENNON- “Imagine there’s no country. It isn’t hard to do. Nothing to kill or die for.”

JOHN LENNON –“Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.”    

JOHN LENNON –“Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.”

JOHN LENNON –“She's the kind of a girl that makes the News of the World. Yes, you could say she was attractively built.”    

JOHN LENONE –“Life is what happens to you while you’re making other plans.”

JOHN LOCKE –“The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property.”       

JOHN LOCKE –“Wherever law ends, tyranny begins.”     

JOHN LUBBOCK –“Art is unquestionably one of the purest and highest elements in human happiness. It trains the mind through the eye, and the eye through the mind. As the sun colours flowers, so does art colours life.”   

JOHN LUBBOCK –“Our duty is to believe that for which we have sufficient evidence, and to suspend our judgment when we have not.” 

JOHN LUBBOCK –“What we see depends mainly on what we look for.”   

JOHN LYDON - “Stop your cheap comments/ ‘Cos we know what we feel.”

JOHN LYDON - “When there’s no future/ How can there be sin?/We’re the flowers in the dustbin.”

JOHN LYDON –“There’s nothing glorious in dying. Anyone can do it.”

JOHN MACY- “Any essential reforms must, like charity, begin at home.”

JOHN MANLEY –“If we weren't committed to our best friend and ally, just what would we be committed to?”        

JOHN MARM BROWN –“Life owes us little; we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.”    

JOHN MASEFIELD –“I hold that when a person dies/ His soul returns again to earth;/ Arrayed in some new flesh-disguise./ Another mother gives him birth./ With sturdier limbs and brighter brain/ The old soul takes the roads again.”

JOHN MASON –“WE WERE BORN AN ORIGINAL. DON’T DIE A COPY.”

JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES- “Apart from instability due to speculation, there is the instability a large proportion of our positive activities depend on spontaneous optimism rather than mathematical expectations.”

JOHN Mc CORMIC –“It is infinitely easier to criticize then to create.”

JOHN MCGRAW –“Sportsmanship and easygoing methods are all right, but it is the prospect of a hot fight that brings out the crowds.”

JOHN MILTON –“A crown, golden in show is but a wreath of thorns.”

JOHN MILTON –“And grace that won who saw to wish her stay.”  

JOHN MILTON- “Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.”

JOHN MILTON –“He that studieth revenge keepeth his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.”   

JOHN MILTON –“He who reigns within himself, and rules passions, desires, and fears, is more than a king.”

JOHN MILTON –“Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth unseen, both when we wake and when we sleep.”   

JOHN MILTON –“Nations grown corrupt Love bondage more than liberty; Bondage with ease than strenuous liberty.” 

JOHN MILTON –“The melting voice through mazes running; Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony.”          

JOHN MORLEY –“Nature, in her most dazzling aspects or stupendous parts, is but the background and theatre of the tragedy of man.”      

JOHN MORLEY –“Those who would treat politics and morality apart will never understand the one or the other.”

JOHN MUIR –“Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves.”    

JOHN MUIR –“I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do. They go wandering forth in all directions with every wind, going and coming like ourselves, traveling with us around the sun two million miles a day, and through space heaven knows how fast and far!”    

JOHN MUIR –“The clearest way into the universe is through a forest wilder ness... God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.”   

JOHN MUIR –“Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilised people are beginning to find out that going to the mountain is going home; that wildness is necessity; that mountain parks and reservations are useful not only as fountains of timber and irrigating rivers, but as fountains of life.”   

JOHN MUIR –“When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.”  

JOHN N MITCHEU –“Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us.”    

JOHN N WILFORD –“Alone among all creatures, the species that styles itself wise, Homo sapiens, has an abiding interest in its distant origins, knows that its allotted time is short, worries about the future and wonders about the past.”  

JOHN NAISBITT –“Everything never changes but something is definitely changing.”   

JOHN NASH –“It’s almost as if a demon might have parsed from one host to another.”  

JOHN OF DAMASCUS –“Water is also one of the four elements, the most beautiful of God's creations. It is both wet and cold, heavy, and with a f tendency to descend, and flows with great readiness. It is this the Holy Scripture has in view when it says, "And the darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters." Water, then, is the most beautiful element and rich in usefulness, and purifies from all filth, and not only from the filth of the body but from that of the soul, if it should have received the grace of the Spirit.”

John osborne- “They spend their time mostly looking forward to the past.”

JOHN PATRICK- “Pain makes man think, thought makes man wise, wisdom makes life endurable.”

JOHN POWELL –“If my ship sails from sight, it doesn't mean my journey ends, it simply means the river bends.”  

JOHN POWELL –“The only love worthy of a name is unconditional.” 

JOHN QUINCY ADAMS –“If your actions inspire others to dream more, (earn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”     

JOHN RANDOLPH PRICE –“Truth must be realized individually. It must be realized by you, otherwise it is not your Truth. How do you find your truth? By seeking and finding the teacher within. You see, the Teacher and the Truth within are one.”  

JOHN RUSKIN –“I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility.” 

JOHN RUSKIN –“In order that people may be happy in their work. These three things are needed: They must be fit for it: They must not do too much of it: And they must have a  sense of success in it.”       

JOHN RUSKIN –“Jnere is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.”  

JOHN RUSKIN –“Nothing is ever done beautifully which is done in rival ship; or nobly, which is done in pride.”        

JOHN RUSKIN –“Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of intelligent effort.”   

JOHN RUSKIN –“Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.”  

JOHN RUSKIN –“The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.”    

JOHN RUSKIN –“The most beautiful things in the world are the most Useless, for instance peacocks and lilies.”      

JOHN RUSKIN –“The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love colour the most.”   

JOHN RUSKIN –“When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.”

JOHN RUSKIN –“You may either win your peace or buy it, by resistance to evil but it, by compromise with evil.” 

JOHN RUSKIN- “You may either win your peace or buy it; win it, by resistance to evil, buy it, by compromise with evil.”

JOHN S. COLEMAN –“The point to remember is that what the government gives it must first take away.”

JOHN SCHINDLER –“Life can be one satisfaction after another if we let it.”

JOHN SHEFFIELD –“Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.”

JOHN SLOAN –“I always think of shade as being full of light. That is why I like to use the word shade rather than light and shadow Shade seems to play over the thing, envelop it, better define it, while shadow seems to fall on the thing and stain the surface with darks.”     

JOHN SMITH –“Reason in a good man sits in the throne, and governs all the powers of his soul in a sweet harmony and  agreement with itself: whereas wicked men live only being led up and down by the foolish fires of their own sensual apprehensions. In wicked men there is a democracy of wild lusts and passions, which violently hurry the soul up and down with restless motions.”

JOHN SMITH –“The true metaphysical and contemplative man, who running and shooting up above his own logical or self-rational life, pierceth into the highest life: such a one, who by universal love and holy affection abstracting himself from himself, endeavours the nearest union with the divine essence that may be.”

JOHN STEINBECK –“A man, after he has brushed off the dust and chips of his life, will have left only the hard, clean question: Was it good or was it evil? Have I done well or ill?”   

JOHN STEINBECK –“How will our children know who they are if I they don't know where they came from?”      

JOHN STEINBECK –“It is the nature of a man as he grows older to protect against change, particularly change for the better.”

JOHN STEINBECK –“When I was very young and the urge to be someplace was on me, I was assured by mature people that maturity would cure this itch. When years described me as mature, the remedy prescribed was middle age. In middle age I was assured that greater age would calm my fever and now that I am fifty-eight perhaps senility will do the job.”

JOHN STUART HILL –“One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests.”   

JOHN UPDIKA –“Dreams come true. Without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.”

JOHN UPDIKE –“Rain is grace; rain is the sky condescending to the earth, without rain, there would be no life.”    

JOHN W GARDNER –“Excellence is doings ordinary things extraordinarily well.” 

JOHN W GARDNER –“Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.”   

JOHN W GARDNER –“The society which scorns excellence in plumbing because plumbing is a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because philosophy is an exalted activity, will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy Neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.”   

JOHN WAYNE –“If everything isn't black and white, I say, "Why the hell not?"   

JOHN WAYNE –“Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.”

JOHN WEBSTER –“Is a not old wine wholesomest, old pippin toothsome, old wood burns brightest, old lines washes whitest and old lovers are soundest?”  

JOHN WEBSTER- “The weakest arm is strong enough that strikes with sword of justice.” 

JOHN WESLEY –“Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.”

JOHN WESLEY –“Cleanliness is no part of religion... Certainly this is a duty.. Cleanliness is indeed next to godliness.”       

JOHN WESLEY –“Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as you ever can.”  

JOHN WESLEY –“EARN ALL THAT YOU CAN, SAVE ALL THAT YOU CAN, AND GIVE ALL THAT YOU CAN.”

JOHN WHITTIER –“Somehow, not only for Christmas/ But all the long year through, / the joy that you give to others/ is the joy that comes back to you. / And the more you spend in blessing/ the poor and lonely and sad, / the more of your heart's possessing/ Returns to you glad.” 

JOHN WILLIAM DRAPER –“Time, to the nation as to the individuals, is nothing absolute its duration depends on the rate of thought and feeling.” 

JOHN WILMOT –“Since 'tis Nature's law to change, constancy alone is strange.” 

JOHN WOODEN - “Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.”

JOHN WOODEN –“Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.”

JOHN WOODEN –“Be more concerned with your character than your reputation. Your character is what you are; your reputation is merely what others think you are.”

JOHN WOODEN –“It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.”   

JOHN WOODEN –“Never let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.”  

JOHN WOODEN –“Webster partially defines faith as an unquestioning belief in God with complete trust, confidence and reliance. Faith is not just waiting, hoping and wanting things to happen. Rather it is working hard to make things happen and realizing that there are no failures—just disappointments — when you have done your best. As someone once said: If you do your best, angels can do no better.” 

JOHN WOODY –“Many of life's failures are people who did not realise how close they were to success when they gave up.”   

JOHN ZIMMERMAN –“Put this restriction on your pleasures, be cautious that they injure no being that lives.”        

JOHNKEBLE –“We scatter seeds with careless hand,/ And dream we ne'er shall see them more;/ But for a thousand years/ Their fruit appears,/ In weeds that mar the land,/ Or healthful shore.”  

JOHNL SPALDING –“Your faith is what you believe, not what you know.”

JOHNNY BORRELL –“My message to the G8 leaders is that this is their chance to make a lot of difference in the world and to come back fulfilling their promises rather than coming back; with empty promises.”

JOHNNY CARSON –“If life was fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead.”

JOHNNY CASH –“Well, you wonder why I always dress in black, Why you never see bright colours on my back, And why does my appearance seem to have a somber tone. Well, there's a reason for the things that I have on. I wear the black for the poor and the beaten down, Living in the hopeless, hungry side of town... Well, we're doing mighty fine, I do suppose, In our streak of light in' cars and fancy clothes, But just so we're reminded of the ones who are held back, Up front there ought 'a be a Man In Black... Well, there's things that never will be right I know, and things need change in everywhere you go, But 'til we start to make a move to make a few things right; you'll never see me wear a suit of white. Ah, I'd love to wear a rainbow every day, and tell the world that everything's OK, But I'll try to carry off a little darkness on my back, "Till things are brighter, I'm the Man In Black.”   

JOHNNY DEPP –“The only gossip I'm interested in is things from the Weekly World News: Woman's bra bursts, 11 injured'. That kind of thing.”    

JOHNNY DEPP –“There are four questions of value in life... What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for, and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love.”         

JOHNNY ROTTEN –“I’m not here for your amusement. You’re here for mine.”      

1. JON WYNNE-TYSON –“The wrong set of people are always in power because they would not be in power if they were not the wrong sort of people.”          

JONAS SALK –“Life is magic, the way nature works seems to be quite magical.”

JONATHAN CARROL –“You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love, the running across fields into your lover’s arms can only come later when you’re sure the won’t laugh if you trip.”

JONATHAN EDWARDS –“Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected.”  

JONATHAN EDWARDS –“Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do if it were the last hour of my life.”

JONATHAN KOZOL –“Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win.”  

JONATHAN LARSON RENT- “The opposite of war is not peace, it’s creation.”

JONATHAN RABAN –“Life, as the most ancient of all metaphors insists, is a journey; and the travel book, in its deceptive simulation of the journey's fits and starts, rehearses life's own fragmentation.”   

JONATHAN SWIFT –“Blessed are those who expect nothing, for they shall not be disappointed.”   

JONATHAN SWIFT –“I shall be like that tree, I shall die at the top.”    

JONATHAN SWIFT- “May you live all the days of your life.”

JONATHAN SWIFT –“Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.”

JONATHAN SWIFT –“Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.”   

JONATHAN SWIFT –“Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.”

JONATHAN SWIFT- “We are so fond of one another, because our aliments are the same.”

JONATHON WINTERS- “I could not wait for success, so I went ahead without it.”

JORDAN –“I can accept failure. Everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.”

JORGE LUIS BORGES- “Nothing’s built on stone. All is built on sand, but we must built as if the sand were stone.”

JORGE LUIS BORGES –“Through the years, a man peoples a space with images of provinces, kingdoms, mountains, bays, ships, islands, fishes, rooms, tools, stars, horses and people. Shortly before his death, he discovers that the patient labyrinth of lines traces the image of his own face.”    

JORGE LUIS BORGES –“Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.”

JOSAF STALIN- “There is a man, there is a problem. No man, no problem.”

JOSAPH CONRAD- “World, as is well-known, are the great foes of reality.”

JOSE –“I was watching TV when the Challenger shuttle exploded. That was a sad thing. Was there anything that you could have done? Were you mad because they came too close to your territory? We're sorry.”

JOSE GARCIA OLIVER –“Justice … is so subtle a thing that to interpret it one has only need of a heart.”

JOSE ORTEGA Y GASSET –“An unemployed existence is a worse negation of life than death itself. Because to live means to have something definite to do — a mission to fulfill — and in the measure in which we avoid setting our life to something, we make it empty.. Human life, by its very nature, has to be dedicated to something.” 

JOSE ORTEGA Y GASSET –“Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.”  

JOSE ORTEGA Y GASSET –“Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we ham been, but what we yearn to be.”   

JOSE ORTEGA Y GASSET –“We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes great demands on himself, and the latter who makes no demands on himself.”

JOSE ORTEGAY GASSET –“The ultimate reality of the world is neither matter nor spirit, but a perspective. God is perspective and hierarchy perspective is perfected by the multiplication of its viewpoints and the precision with which we react to each one of its planes.”

JOSEF PILSUDSKI –“To be vanquished and yet not surrender, that is victory.”  

JOSEF STALIN – “Those who cast the votes decide nothing. Those who count the votes decide everything.”

JOSEPH ADDISON- “Justice discards party, friendship, kindred and is therefore always represented as blind.”

JOSEPH ADDISON –“The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life... Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery, for therein lies the secret of immortality.”

JOSEPH ADDISON –“Tis not in mortals to command success, But we'll do more, Sempronius; we'll deserve it.”

JOSEPH ADDISON –“We are growing serious, and let them tell you, that’s the very next step to being dull.”          

JOSEPH ADDISON –“When you're looking for a friend don't look for perfection, just look for friendship.”

JOSEPH BARTH –“Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.”       

JOSEPH BRODSKY –“Life — the way it really is—is a battle not between bad and good but between bad and worse.”      

JOSEPH BRODSKY –“No matter under what circumstances you leave it, home does not cease to be home. No matter how you lived there — well or poorly.”       

JOSEPH BRODSKY –“What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.”

JOSEPH BRODSKY –“Winter is an abstract season; it is low on colours...and big on the imperatives of cold and brief daylight...”

JOSEPH CAMPBELL –“All you can learn is what your life is and try to stay loyal to that.”           

JOSEPH CAMPBELL –“At such moments, you realise that you and the other are, in fact, one. It's a big realisation. Survival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one.”

JOSEPH CAMPBELL –“Man typically celebrates tales of heroes and their deeds to understand his own place in the universe.”

JOSEPH CAMPBELL –“The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.”  

JOSEPH CAMPBELL –“The goal of the myth is to...affect) a reconciliation of the individual consciousness with the Universal will.”

JOSEPH CAMPBELL –“We must be willing to get rid-of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.”   

JOSEPH CAMPBELL –“Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.”       

JOSEPH CHILTON PEARCE –“To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.”   

JOSEPH CONRAD –“Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.”  

JOSEPH CONRAD –“For all that has been said of the love that certain natures (on shore) have professed for it, for all the celebrations it has been the object of in prose and song, the sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.”        

JOSEPH CONRAD –“The belief in a super- natural source of evil is hot necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.”

JOSEPH CONRAD, LORD JIM –“There is something haunting in the light of the moon; it has all the dispassionateness of a disembodied soul, and something of its inconceivable mystery.”     

JOSEPH CONROD –“The terrorist and policemen came from the same basket.”

JOSEPH DISPENZA –“Once we begin to see travel as an inner journey, it is possible to turn every trip we take into a spiritual practice, a hero's adventure that enlivens our hearts and enlarges our souls. Travel becomes a spiritual experience for us when we are conscious at every moment that our physical transportation from place to place has a metaphysical counterpart. Understanding that, the road takes us inexorably to an encounter with the stranger at the heart of the journey — the transformed self.”    

JOSEPH HELLER- “Frankly I’d like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private industry.”

JOSEPH HELLER –“The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on.”        

JOSEPH HELLER –“When I grow up I want to be a little boy.” 

JOSEPH JOUBERT –“It is easy to understand God as long as you don't try to explain him.”        

JOSEPH KRUTCH –“Technology made large populations possible; large populations now make technology indispensable.”

JOSEPH ROUX –“Evil often triumphs, but never conquers.”   

JOSEPH ROUX –“Literate was formerly an art and finance a trade; today it is the reverse.”    

JOSEPH ROUX –“There is a slowness in affairs which ripens them, and a slowness which rots them.”

JOSEPH SEAMON COTTER –“On the dusty earth-drum Beats the falling rain; Now a whispered murmur, Now a louder strain. Slender, silvery drumsticks, On an ancient drum, Beat the mellow music Bidding life to come.”   

JOSEPH STALAIN – “Those who cast the votes decide nothing. Those who count the votes decide everything.”

JOSEPH STALAIN –“A single death is tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.”

JOSEPH STALAIN -“Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.”    

JOSEPH STALAIN –“If the opposition disarms, 'well and good. If it refuses to disarm, we shall disarm it ourselves.”      

JOSEPH WECHSBERG –“We should learn from children not to hold grudges. Children often fight when they play together but they quickly make up and their fights don't deteriorate into bitter feuds.”    

JOSH BILLING –“Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting things he has got.”  

JOSH BILLINGS –“A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.”

JOSH BILLINGS –“Half the troubles of this life can be traced to saying yes too quickly and not saying no soon enough.”

JOSH BILLINGS –“Nobody trips over mountains. It is the small pebble that causes you to stumble. Pass all the pebbles in your path and you will find you has crossed the mountain.”

JOSH BILLINGS –“Silence is one of the hardest arguments I to refute.”   

JOSH BILLINGS –“There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.”    

JOSH BILLINGS –“There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply.” 

JOSH BILLINGS –“To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while.”          

JOSHUA –“Have I not commanded you? Be strong and of good courage; be not frightened, neither be dismayed; for the Lord your God is with you ^ wherever you go.”

JOSHUA COOKE –“No beauty’s like the beauty of the mind.”

JOSHUA LICBMAN –“Tolerance is the positive and cordial effort to understand another's beliefs, practices, and habits without necessarily sharing or accepting them.”

JOSIAH G. HOLLAND – “The most precious possession that ever comes to a man in this world is a woman’s heart.”

JOSPEH ROUX –“Two sorts of writers possess genius; those who think, and those who cause others to think.”

JOUBERT- “Children have more need of models than of critics.”

JOUBERT- “It is better to debate a question without settling it, than to settle it with outdebate.”

JOUBERT –“Success serve man as a pedestal. It makes them seem greater, when not measured by reflection.”

JOUBERT –“Taste is the literary conscience of the soul.”

JOUBERT –“The evening of a well spent life brings its lamp with it.”   

JOURNEY OF HEARTS –“Birth is a beginning and death a destination And life is a journey From childhood to maturity and youth to age; From innocence to awareness and ignorance to knowing; From foolishness to desecration and then perhaps to wisdom. From weakness to strength or from strength to weakness and often back again; From health to sickness and we pray to health again. From offence to forgiveness from loneliness to love from joy to gratitude from pain to compassion from grief to understanding from fear to faith. From defeat to defeat to defeat until looking backwards or ahead We see that victory lies not at some high point along the way but in having made the journey step by step a sacred pilgrimage.”   

JOY BALUCH –“God, private enterprise and government have made me what I am, and now they have to take some of the blame.”

JOY MOORE & RAYMOND LONG –“Night-time noises, shapes and shadows, Creeping round my bed; Dad says it's imagination, all inside my head. I hear something big and furry Creeping round the house; I'm so frightened, please what is it? ...Silly, it's a mouse. Two green eyes are at the window Staring at the mat; I'm so frightened, please what is it? ...Silly, it's a cat. I can see enormous fingers Pointing right at me; I'm so frightened, please what is it? ...Silly, it's a tree. I can see a great white face that's Looking in my room; I'm so frightened, please what is it? ...Silly, it's the moon. Night-time noises, shapes and shadows, Couldn't hurt a flea; They Were just imagination, AH made up by me. Night Noises.”      

JP VASWANI –“Fear is a prison that quickly circulates through the entire system, paralyzing the will, producing a queer sensation in some part or the other of the human body. Yes, fear is the cause of many diseases. Fearlessness ensures health. Do not fear. For God is near!”   

JR LOWELL- “And learn there may be worship without words.”

JR R TOLKIEN –“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”     

JRD TATA –“Most of our troubles are due to poor implementation... wrong priorities and unattainable targets.”     

JRD TATA- “No excellence perfection, you aim for perfection, you will attain excellence. If you aim for excellence, you will go lower.”

JRR TOLKEIN –“Not all those who wander are lost.”

JS BUCKMINSTER –“The highest exerciser of charity is charity towards the uncharitable,” 

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