Top 33 John Morley Quotes
#1. A great interpreter of life ought not himself to need interpretation.
John Morley
#3. In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.
John Morley
#4. The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without and to depart.
John Morley
#6. Politics is a field where the choice lies constantly between two blunders.
John Morley
#7. You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
John Morley
#8. Kittredge had obviously misjudged her, but he had learned that was the way with most people. The story was never the story, and it surprised you, how much another person could carry.
Justin Cronin
#10. Paradise A concept embraced by almost every culture. A land of peace and harmony. Some say it doesn't belong to the earth, that there is no Shangri-la, no utopian wilderness for the living.
Ellen Hopkins
#11. A proverb is good sense brought to a point.
John Morley
#12. Evolution is not a force but a process. Not a cause but a law.
John Morley
#13. Because we inhibit the same material world and manoeuvre with languages tied to common definitions, we talk to others in the assumption that they largely share our images and conceptions.
Alain De Botton
#14. Where it is a duty to worship the sun, it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat.
John Morley
#16. Maxims and aphorisms, let us remember that wisdom is the true salt of literature, and the books that are most nourishing are richly stored with it, and that is the main object to seek in reading books.
John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley Of Blackburn
#17. This is what schizophrenia is: endless despair, endless, inconclusive treatment; endless clutching at little straws of betterness; endless realisation that that is all they are, is all there is.
Tim Salmon
#18. They act as if they supposed that to be very sanguine about the general improvement of mankind is a virtue that relieves them from taking trouble about any improvement in particular.
John Morley
#19. Governments don't produce economic growth people do.
Ronald Reagan
#20. No man can climb out beyond the limitations of his own character.
John Morley
#22. It was funny that you know someone for years but still discover something you never noticed before.
Nicholas Sparks
#23. To make magic credible on screen is always very difficult. The story is the most important thing. That is what should win. If sacrifices or compromises are made, it's usually for story. Story in magic is very, very important to me. That's what I've really championed through my career.
David Copperfield
#24. Even good opinions are worth very little unless we hold them in the broad, intelligent, and spacious way.
John Morley
#27. I'm a born-again Christian, but that's not the coat that I wear. It's just how my heart's been changed.
Tony Vincent
#28. It's an old adage that the way to be safe is never to be secure ... Each one of us requires the spur of insecurity to force us to do our best.
Harold W. Dodds
#29. Labels are devices for saving talkative persons the trouble of thinking.
John Morley
#31. You cannot demonstrate an emotion or prove an aspiration.
John Morley
#32. Nature, it her most dazzling aspects or stupendous parts, is but the background and theatre of the tragedy of man
John Morley
#33. [J]ust because you have an individual right does not mean that the state or local government can't constrain the exercise of that right ...
Barack Obama
