John Fisher Quotes

#1. In a way, it was destiny.

Markus Zusak

#2. In war the first principle is to disobey orders. Any fool can obey orders!

John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher

#3. There is no more strategic issue for a company, or any organization, than its ultimate purpose. For those who think business exists to make a profit, I suggest they think again. Business makes a profit to exist. Surely it must exist for some higher, nobler purpose than that.

Ray Anderson

#4. In societies where men are truly confident of their own worth, women are not merely tolerated but valued.
(From a speech read on video on August 31, 1995 before the NGO Forum on Women, Beijing, China)

Aung San Suu Kyi

#5. Between the ages of twenty and fifty, John Doe spends some twenty thousand hours chewing and swallowing food, more than eight hundred days and nights of steady eating. The mere contemplation of this fact is upsetting enough.

M.F.K. Fisher

#6. I am master of my spoken words and slave to those which remain unspoken.

Ankita Singhal

#7. Inconsistency is the bugbear of fools! I wouldn't give a damn for a fellow who couldn't change his mind with a change of conditions.

John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher

#8. Like I said this morning,

Jessica Hawkins

#9. The essence of war is violence. Moderation in war is imbecility.

John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher

#10. The General was essentially a man of peace, except in his domestic life.

Oscar Wilde

#11. All nations want peace, but they want a peace that suits them.

John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher

#12. A good man is not a perfect man; a good man is an honest man, faithful and unhesitatingly responsive to the voice of God in his life.

John Fisher

#13. Our society's values are being corrupted by advertising's insistence on the equation:
youth equals popularity, popularity equals success, success equals happiness.

John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher

#14. No matter what you're doing, if you're trying to make a movie, you need to be working with people that are really good and who make you better.

Ben Affleck

#15. History is a record of exploded ideas.

John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher

#16. Humanizing war?! You may as well talk of humanizing Hell. Sir John Fisher

Barbara W. Tuchman

#17. When I first started out in politics I was, what you might describe as, a hard right Conservative.

John Bercow

#18. Maximum Rocknroll
didn't have a map section.
How was I supposed to know
that Berkeley was not
a neighborhood of San Francisco?

Bucky Sinister

#19. Plod diligently. Plodding generally goes in the same direction, while pottering doesn't.

Douglas Wilson