Top 100 John Henry Quotes
#1. John Henry Lloyd is the man I gave the credit to for polishing my skills. He taught me how to play third base and how to protect myself. John taught me more baseball than anyone else.
Judy Johnson
#2. I'm a big comic book person. I love Captain America. I like John Henry. I'm hoping to play one of the superhero characters that's coming from Marvel.
Tom Lister Jr.
#3. John Henry Holliday didn't have a mother to love him when he was grown, so I have taken him for my own. My fondest hope for Doc is that it will win for him the compassion and respect I think he deserves.
Mary Doria Russell
#4. The Idea of the University, Cardinal John Henry Newman's great work defining how the republic of the mind should be governed, hailed the importance of increasing the breadth of understanding, promoting excellence in scholarship, advancing student dialogue and freedom of expression and inquiry.
Andrew Roberts
#7. Mary became the window of heaven, for God through her poured the True Light upon the world; the
John Henry Newman
#8. What hope is there for medical scienceto ever become a true sciencewhen the entire structure of medical knowledgeis built around the idea that there is an entity called diseasewhich can be expelled when the right drug is found?
John Henry Tilden
#9. Of course same sex marriage is constitutional! The right to be yourself, to pursue life, liberty, and property, is protected several ways over several amendments. John Boehner should know this.
Henry Rollins
#10. There is so much trouble in coming into the world, and so much more, as well as meanness, in going out of it, that 'tis hardly worth while to be here at all.
Viscount Henry St. John Bolingbroke
#11. All life is linked together in such a way that no part of the chain is unimportant. Frequently, upon the action of some of these minute beings depends the material success or failure of a great commonwealth.
John Henry Comstock
#12. Prayer is to the spiritual life what the beating of the pulse and the drawing of the breath are to the life of the body.
John Henry Newman
#13. Anyone can build a house: we need the Lord for the creation of a home.
John Henry Jowett
#14. Somehow I am necessary for God's purpose, as necessary in my place as an archangel in his.
John Henry Newman
#15. Faith is illuminative, not operative; it does not force obedience, though it increases responsibility; it heightens guilt, but it does not prevent sin. The will is the source of action.
John Henry Newman
#16. Patrick Henry did not say, 'Give me absolutely safety or give me death.' America is supposed to be about freedom.
John Stossel
#18. When a new building block is discovered, the result is usually a range of innovations.
John Henry Holland
#19. The poet's, commonly, is not a logger's path, but a woodman's. The logger and pioneer have preceded him, like John the Baptist; eaten the wild honey, it may be, but the locusts also; banished decaying wood and the spongy mosses which feed on it, and built hearths and humanized Nature for him.
Henry David Thoreau
#20. This use of building blocks to generate internal models is a pervasive feature of complex adaptive systems.
John Henry Holland
#21. Kenny G is not real jazz. I don't even think Wynton Marsalis is real jazz. I don't think Harry Connick Jr. is real jazz. If there is such a thing as real jazz, The Lounge Lizards is real jazz, Henry Threadgill is real jazz, Bill Frisell is real jazz, you know?
John Lurie
#22. Providence has delivered me of every worldly passion, save this one; the desire to acquire books, new or old books of any kind, whose charms I cannot persuade myself to resist.
John Henry Newman
#23. Nothing is more common than for men to think that because they are familiar with words they understand the ideas they stand for.
John Henry Newman
#24. The lawyer refused to tell me my brother's name, and my colleagues started a betting pool. The leading candidate: John Travolta. I secretly hoped for a literary descendant of Henry James - someone more talented than I: someone brilliant without even trying.
Mona Simpson
#25. Satan is inconsistent. He persuades a man not to go to a synagogue on a cold morning; yet when the man does go, he follows him into it.
John Henry Newman
#27. Trial by jury must and shall be preserved! Amidst the throng of crude sacrilegisms ... that assail us nowadays in the legal sanctuary, none is more shortsighted, none more dangerous, than the proposal to abolish trial by jury.
John Henry Wigmore
#28. An executive is a person who always decides sometimes he decides correctly, but he always decides.
John Henry Patterson
#29. My latter schooldays and my university days were during the war, when science - physics, in particular - was a very important and glamorous subject. A lot of us felt that if we couldn't get into science, we might try engineering or medicine.
John Henry Carver
#30. A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault.
John Henry Newman
#31. It is possible to evade a multitude of sorrows by the cultivation of an insignificant life.
John Henry Jowett
#32. Death is not the master of the house, he is only the porter of the king's lodge.
John Henry Jowett
#34. Jefferson subsequently came to believe that Henry's speech attacking the Stamp Act had been "the dawn of the Revolution."36
John Ferling
#36. The reason why Christ is unknown today is because His Mother is unknown.
John Henry Newman
#37. I sought to hear the voice of God and climbed the topmost steeple, but God declared: Go down again - I dwell among the people.
John Henry Newman
#39. We must make up our minds to be ignorant of much, if we would know anything.
John Henry Newman
#40. Revolutionaries - true revolutionaries - are aggressive, ruthless, and generally seize the main chance, as William Henry Drayton did when he saw that stump-speaking was getting him nowhere. But defenders of the status quo tend toward caution and legalisms and inaction until it is too late
John Buchanan
#41. The common characteristics of people make a community possible, but it is their uncommon qualities that make it better.
John Henry Fischer
#42. God has created me to do some definite service. He has committed some work to me which He has not committed to another. I have my mission. I am a link in a chain, a bond of connection between persons. He has not created me for naught. I shall do good; I shall do His work.
John Henry Newman
#43. The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Reports on Digital Media and Learning, published by the MIT Press, present findings from current research on how young people learn, play, socialize, and participate in civic life.
Henry Jenkins
#44. Musk's vision, and, of late, execution seem to combine the best of Henry Ford and John D. Rockefeller. With
Ashlee Vance
#46. How many writers are there ... who, breaking up their subject into details, destroy its life, and defraud us of the whole by their anxiety about the parts.
John Henry Newman
#47. Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance.
John Henry Newman
#48. With theory, we can separate fundamental characteristics from fascinating idiosyncrasies and incidental features. Theory supplies landmarks and guideposts, and we begin to know what to observe and where to act.
John Henry Holland
#49. Give me liberty or give me death.
[From a speech given at Saint John's Church in Richmond, Virginia on March 23, 1775 to the Virginia House of Burgesses; as first published in print in 1817 in William Wirt's Life and Character of Patrick Henry.]
Patrick Henry
#50. Before you try to convince anyone else, be sure you are convinced, and if you cannot convince yourself, drop the subject.
John Henry Patterson
#52. This will be a great day in our history; the date of a New Revolution - quite as much needed as the old one. Even now as I write they are leading old John Brown to execution in Virginia for attempting to rescue slaves! This is sowing the wind to reap the whirlwind which will come soon!
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#54. If we are intended for great ends, we are called to great hazards.
John Henry Newman
#55. To live is to change, and if you have lived long, you have changed often.
John Henry Newman
#56. Life without thankfulness is devoid of love and passion. Hope without thankfulness is lacking in fine perception. Faith without thankfulness lacks strength and fortitude. Every virtue divorced from thankfulness is maimed and limps along the spiritual road.
John Henry Jowett
#57. From the point of view of physics, it is a miracle that [seven million New Yorkers are fed each day] without any control mechanism other than sheer capitalism.
John Henry Holland
#58. Model building is the art of selecting those aspects of a process that are relevant to the question being asked. As with any art, this selection is guided by taste, elegance, and metaphor; it is a matter of induction, rather than deduction. High science depends on this art.
John Henry Holland
#59. Truth lies within a little and certain compass, but error is immense.
Henry St. John
#60. Looking back to data, we can see if the consequences are plausible; looking forward to theory, we can see if general principles are suggested.
John Henry Holland
#61. Henry Lloyd was with Darrow when they toured the mine. It was a dreadful experience, Lloyd said, "like a foretaste of the inferno."
"You might as well get used to it," Darrow told him. Heaven was reserved for Wall Street financiers. Infidels like themselves would be rooming with Satan.
John A. Farrell
#63. Yeats knew nothing about life: it was all symbols
& Wordsworthian egotism: Yeats on Cemetery Ridge
would not have been scared, like you & me,
he would have been, before the bullet that was his,
studying the movements of the birds,
said disappointed & amazed Henry.
John Berryman
#64. Certainly a liberal education does manifest itself in a courtesy, propriety, and polish of word and action, which is beautiful in itself, and acceptable to others; but it does much more. It brings the mind into form, - for the mind is like the body.
John Henry Newman
#66. It is the peculiar beauty of this method, gentlemen, and one which endears it to the really scientific mind, that under no circumstance can it be of the smallest possible utility.
Henry John Stephen Smith
#67. I wanted to look at how people deal with death ... Why is Henry Kissinger not in jail and Charles Manson is?
John Roecker
#68. I shall drink to the Pope, if you please, still, to conscience first, and to the Pope afterwards.
John Henry Newman
#69. It is the modest, not the presumptuous, inquirer who makes a real and safe progress in the discovery of divine truths. One follows Nature and Nature's God; that is, he follows God in his works and in his word.
Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke
#70. It is a very easy thing to devise good laws; the difficulty is to make them effective. The great mistake is that of looking upon men as virtuous, or thinking that they can be made so by laws; and consequently the greatest art of a politician is to render vices serviceable to the cause of virtue.
Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke
#71. Atoms are round balls of wood invented by Dr. Dalton.
(Answer given by a pupil to a question on atomic theory, as reported by Sir Henry Enfield Roscoe.)
Henry Enfield Roscoe
#72. There is such a thing as legitimate warfare: war has its laws; there are things which may fairly be done, and things which may not be done.
John Henry Newman
#73. My natural pessimism now works on Hay's natural pessimism until we are both quite out of our minds." Henry Adams
John Taliaferro
#75. To live is to change, and to change often is to become more perfect.
John Henry Newman
#76. Half the wrong conclusions at which mankind arrive are reached by the abuse of metaphors, and by mistaking general resemblance or imaginary similarity for real identity.
Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston
#77. I have only two regrets:
I didn't shoot Henry Clay and I didn't hang John C. Calhoun.
Andrew Jackson
#79. The confirmed prejudices of a thoughtful life are as hard to change as the confirmed habits of an indolent life; and as some must trifle away age because they trifled away youth, others must labor on in a maze of error because they have wandered there too long to find their way out.
Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke
#80. The spelling of 'Wrenne' was a very common form of the family name, and it seems very likely that John Wrenne belonged to this family, who were much connected with S. George's, Windsor. OLD FAMILY MOTTO. William Wren was in Henry VIII.'s time the head of the family;
Lucy Phillimore
#81. It is very difficult to get up resentment towards persons whom one has never seen.
John Henry Newman
#83. And with the morn those angel faces smile Which I have loved long since and lost awhile.
John Henry Newman
#84. Trial by jury must be preserved. It is the best system ever invented for a free people in the world's history.
John Henry Wigmore
#85. When men understand what each other mean, they see, for the most part, that controversy is either superfluous or hopeless
John Henry Newman
#86. What on earth was Henry talking about?'
'His soul. I wonder where he keeps it.
John Mortimer
#87. I was interested in nuclei originally with my deuteron photo work because that was one of the fundamental forces, and the measurement was basic to new science.
John Henry Carver
#88. We should ever conduct ourselves towards our enemy as if he were one day to be our friend.
John Henry Newman
#91. There is in stillness oft a magic power To calm the breast when struggling passions lower, Touched by its influence, in the soul arise Diviner feelings, kindred with the skies.
John Henry Newman
#92. If you plan your work, you will not find yourself standing on the corner wondering where to go next.
John Henry Patterson
#94. The recycling of resource by the aggregate behavior of a diverse array of agents is much more than the sum of the individual actions.
John Henry Holland
#95. The Negro revolt is not aimed at winning friends but at winning freedom, not interpersonal warmth but institutional justice.
John Henry Cox
#97. When I looked further into my mother's history, I realised that her anxieties and her neuroses could be accounted for by facts from a very early age. Her parents, William Henry Jones and Sarah Emily, were desperately poor.
John Rhys-Davies
#98. Faith is the result of the act of the will, following upon a conviction that to believe is a duty.
John Henry Newman
#99. O loving wisdom of our God
when all was sin and shame,
a second Adam to the fight
and to the rescue came.
John Henry Newman
#100. Reason is one thing and faith is another and reason can as little be made a substitute for faith, as faith can be made a substitute for reason.
John Henry Newman
