Top 100 John Edward Quotes
#1. It is fortunate that youth never recognizes its ignorance, for if it did it would not find the courage to get the habit of endurance. It is perhaps an instinct of the blood and flesh which prevents this knowledge and allows the boy to become the man who will live to see the folly of his existence.
John Edward Williams
#2. But will this attention to poverty be sustained or transient? That depends on our leaders - whether we step up and sustain our moral commitment as the country's conscience would naturally want us to do.
John Edward
#3. The other two guys sat down. "I'm Gavin Strick," the kid in the Anthrax T-shirt said. "This here's Edward Vaugh, but everyone calls him U.V."
"As in sunlight," U.V. said with a white-toothed grin. "'Cause I get so much of it.
John Whitman
#4. Women are like parasitical plants, casting their wild tendrils from one tree to another, till, swollen into tough cordage, they strangle those they embrace, and luxuriate in their decay.
Edward John Trelawny
#5. Between the brutality that would sacrifice a single innocent life to a fear without a name, and the enlightenment that would sacrifice thousands of lives to a fear that we have named, I have found little to choose.
John Edward Williams
#6. Well, we know that eighteen years after that solemn declaration it was disregarded, and the Irish Parliament, which lasted for five hundred years, was destroyed by the Act of Union. Gentlemen, the Act of Union was carried by force and fraud, by treachery and falsehood.
John Edward Redmond
#8. Sloane looked at him for a moment, his eyes bright and intent as they had been before the war. Then the film of indifference settled over them, and he turned away from Stoner and shuffled some papers on his desk.
John Edward Williams
#9. Innocent of fashion or custom, they came to their studies as Stoner had dreamed that a student might
as if those studies were life itself and not specific means to specific ends.
John Edward Williams
#10. People are people, and they want to know about their own experiences.
John Edward
#11. My view of the afterlife is that it's made of different levels, depending on how spiritual a life we live.
John Edward
#12. Please do not put earthly expectations on a heavenly experience.
John Edward
#13. In my experience victims are more concerned with helping their families understand that they are still connected to them. In some rare experiences information comes through that helps understand what happened.
John Edward
#14. He did his work at the University as he did his work on the farm - thoroughly, conscientiously, with neither pleasure nor distress.
John Edward Williams
#15. Yet no litany of sexually transmitted diseases was likely to scare Edward Bonshaw away; sexual attraction isn't strictly scientific.
John Irving
#16. Even more precious is his Edward writes, I'm always saying that it is not the spirits who are getting it wrong; it's more likely that I am misinterpreting their messages.
John Edward
#17. Finch turned to the other men and without raising his voice managed to call out to them.
John Edward Williams
#18. A rusty bolt is the most difficult to withdraw; but once removed, though replaced, it will never hold securely.
Edward John Trelawny
#20. We lived in a suburb of Birmingham where I attended the local state school from the age of five. I then went on to King Edward VI High School in Edgbaston, Birmingham.
John Vane
#21. He thought of the years before, the distant years with his parents on the farm, and of the deadness from which he had been miraculously revived.
John Edward Williams
#22. She turned to him and pulled her lips in what he knew must be a smile. Not at all. I'm having a lovely time. Really.
John Edward Williams
#23. He felt a renewal of the old passion for study and learning; and with the curious and disembodied vigor of the scholar that is the condition of neither youth nor age, he returned to the only life that had not betrayed him. He discovered that he had not gone far from that life even in his despair.
John Edward Williams
#24. To care not for one's self is of little moment, but to care not for those whom one has loved is another matter.
John Edward Williams
#25. When he had thought of death before, he had thought of it either as a literary event or as the slow, quiet attrition of time against imperfect flesh.
John Edward Williams
#26. In the University library he wandered through the stacks, among the thousands of books, inhaling the musty odor of leather, cloth, and drying page as if it were an exotic incense.
John Edward Williams
#27. No wonder Edward was such a crazy driver," I muttered. "Who's Edward?" Elyssa asked. "You know, from Twilight.
John Corwin
#28. Deliberately, as if committing himself to something, he stepped forward and walked down the path to the porch and knocked on the front door.
John Edward Williams
#30. Only very slowly and late have men come to realize that unless freedom is universal it is only extended privilege.
John Edward Christopher Hill
#31. A light shines in the darkness but the darkness does not understand it." - John 1:5 "No man is a complete mystery but to himself" - Proust
Mark Edward Hall
#32. The dying are selfish, he thought; they want their moments to themselves, like children.
John Edward Williams
#34. Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity.
John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton
#35. Perhaps you were right after all, my dear Nicolaus; perhaps there is but one god. But if that is true, you have misnamed him. He is Accident, and his priest is man, and that priest's only victim must be at last himself, his poor divided self.
John Edward Williams
#38. When at last he came to his decision, it seemed to him that he had known all along what it would be.
John Edward Williams
#39. In truth, Edward Teller ran the Livermore Lab, but for public purposes he liked it better to be known as only an associate director
John Gofman
#40. He was our enemy, but as it is strange, after so many years the death of an old enemy is like the death of an old friend.
John Edward Williams
#41. She has always seemed to me the epitome of womankind: coldly suspicious, politely ill-tempered, and narrowly selfish.
John Edward Williams
#42. I went to see 'Listen to My Heart: The Songs of David Friedman.' I have been a fan of his music for years, and I was invited to opening night because I know one of the producers.
John Edward
#43. 681Nor do you escape, my friend.No, indeed.You,too,are among the infirm- you are the dreamer,the madman in a madder world( ... )You're bright enough- ( ... ) But you have the taint,the old infirmity. You think there's something here,something to find. Well in the world,you'd learn soon enough.
John Edward Williams
#44. My process of preparing for any type of psychic work is to meditate and pray the rosary.
John Edward
#45. He was forty-two years old, and he could see nothing before him that he wished to enjoy and little behind him that he cared to remember.
John Edward Williams
#46. When you take the U out of mourning, it's a brand new day!
John Edward
#47. Aware that a man has no more chance with a woman, armed with the offensive and defensive weapons of tongue, tears, nails, and bamboo, than in a river with an alligator, I, for the first time in my life, acted prudently, and fled the fight.
Edward John Trelawny
#48. Will still support my weight, but it drags beneath me uselessly; and when I prick it with my stylus, there is the merest ghost of a pain. I still have not informed
John Edward Williams
#49. Like many men who consider their success incomplete, he was extraordinarily vain and consumed with a sense of his own importance.
John Edward Williams
#50. But William Stoner knew of the world in a way that few of his younger colleagues could understand. Deep in him, beneath his memory, was the knowledge of hardship and hunger and endurance and pain.
John Edward Williams
#51. While they talked they remembered the years of their youth, and each thought of the other as he had been at another time.
John Edward Williams
#52. Rather awkwardly shy and therefore at times defensive and rather too assertive
John Edward Williams
#54. Indeed, all of our past education will in some ways hinder us; for our habits of thinking about the nature of experience have determined our own expectations as radically as the habits of medieval man determined his.
John Edward Williams
#55. I am just a humble worker. Commander Chavez decided I should be president. To President Obama, we remember that young leader and of the workers of Chicago. So we have a different kind of relation. For him and John Kerry. We talked to Edward Kennedy.
Nicolas Maduro
#56. And so, like many others, their honeymoon was a failure; yet they would not admit this to themselves, and they did not realize the significance of the failure until long afterward.
John Edward Williams
#57. May the student in you become the teacher for another
John Edward
#58. Our witness, one Edward Littleton, was as gay as Elton John's handbag.
Ann Somerville
#59. John Williams is best known for his novels, Nothing But the Night, Stoner, Butcher's Crossing, and Augustus, for which he won the National Book Award in 1973.
John Edward Williams
#60. The bonds of love are what connect us to the other side.
John Edward
#61. My preparation is always mediation and deep breathing. And the rubbing of my hands together just gets my energy going.
John Edward
#62. Patriots don't go to Russia. They don't seek asylum in Cuba. They don't seek asylum in Venezuela. They fight their cause here. Edward Snowden is a coward. He is a traitor. And he has betrayed his country. And if he wants to come home tomorrow to face the music, he can do so.
John F. Kerry
#63. One does not deceive oneself about the consequences of one's acts; one deceives oneself about the ease with which one can live with those consequences.
John Edward Williams
#65. That the one could intensify the other had never occurred to them; and since the embodiment came before the recognition of the truth, it seemed a discovery that belonged to them alone.
John Edward Williams
#67. From the marriage had come only one child; he had wanted a son and had got a girl, and that was another disappointment he hardly bothered to conceal.
John Edward Williams
#68. No, sir, Stoner said, and the decisiveness of his voice surprised him. He thought with some wonder of the decision he had suddenly made.
John Edward Williams
#69. Altho that is so, Ireland has always denied and Ireland still denies that the Union was binding upon her either legally or morally. And here on this historic occasion we have assembled to renew our protest and to place it upon record.
John Edward Redmond
#70. For my friends do not desert me, and life stays; for those two things I must be grateful.
John Edward Williams
#71. John Redwood is a young man but, let's face it, so was Margaret Thatcher in 1975.
Edward Leigh
#72. Mrs. Bostwick's face was heavy and lethargic, without any strength or delicacy, and it bore the deep marks of what must have been a habitual dissatisfaction.
John Edward Williams
#75. While we fight poverty in the Gulf, we also have to fight poverty across America. We should begin by returning to a promise once kept and now broken: If you work full-time, you shouldn't have to raise your children in poverty.
John Edward
#76. We have no problems, only situations. Not all problems have solutions, but all situations have outcomes.
John Edward Gray
#77. Those that come to see me, do me honour; and those that stay away, do me a favour.
Edward John Trelawny
#81. William Stoner felt a kinship that he had not suspected; he knew that Lomax had gone through a kind of conversion, an epiphany of knowing something through words that could not be put in words,
John Edward Williams
#82. Looking at her, Stoner was assailed by a consciousness of his own heavy clumsiness.
John Edward Williams
#83. I used to work in a hospital, in a laboratory doing phlebotomy. I was a vampire.
John Edward
#85. Too often faith is used as an epistemological device to avoid the hard labor of straight thinking.
Edward John Carnell
#86. Fraud, robbery, and murder have characterized the English usurpation of the government of our country. Why, for the last fifty years we have been robbed in the matter of taxes of hundreds of millions.
John Edward Redmond
#88. A WEEK BEFORE commencement, at which Stoner was to receive his doctorate, Archer Sloane offered him a full-time instructorship at the University.
John Edward Williams
#89. You must remember what you are and what you have chosen to become, and the significance of what you are doing. There are wars and defeats and victories of the human race that are not military and that are not recorded in the annals of history. Remember that while you're trying to decide what to do.
John Edward Williams
#90. His mother regarded her life patiently, as if it were a long moment that she had to endure.
John Edward Williams
#91. Clothes, whips, reading material," the customs officer had summarized, in Spanish and English, to the young American. "Just the bare essentials!" Edward Bonshaw
John Irving
#92. Seeing John Major govern the country is like watching Edward Scissorhands try to make balloon animals.
Simon Hoggart
#93. I think that the majority of messages are validating messages to confirm the survival of conscious. And many times that validation message is negative or sad.
John Edward
#94. And it occurred to him at last, with the finality of knowledge, that he had never known another human being with any intimacy or trust or with the human warmth of commitment.
John Edward Williams
#95. The GDP rises whenever money changes hands ... The whole thing is reminiscent of Edward Abbey's reflection that growth for the sake of growth is the philosophy of the cancer cell.
John Robbins
#96. As if it were important, he strained his memory; beside the sofa there had been a large lamp with a round milk-white base encircled by a chain of painted roses, and beyond that, on the wall, neatly framed, was a series of water colors done by a forgotten aunt during her Grand Tour. But
John Edward Williams
#97. For a man is justly despised who has one opinion in history and another in politics, one for abroad and another at home, one for opposition and another for office. History
John Emerich Edward Dalberg
#99. Beneath his awe, he had a sudden sense of security and serenity he had never felt before.
John Edward Williams
#100. He listened to his words fall as if from the mouth of another, and watched his father's face, which received those words as a stone receives the repeated blows of a fist.
John Edward Williams
