Quotes About John The Savage

#1. When I was a child I had a crush on Abraham Lincoln. Why I would choose to reveal this, I know not.

Julia Roberts

#2. In a sense the mind of savage peoples is an effect, rather than a cause, of their backward institutions.

John Dewey

#3. I never tell lies, but I am a savage.

John Eldredge

#4. This chapter is an attempt to share with you some insights about story listening and how to do it.

John S. Savage

#5. Few take up the burden of their own victory; most give up their dreams when these become impossible.

Paulo Coelho

#6. A satirist is a man whose flesh creeps so at the ugly and the savage and the incongruous aspects of society that he has to express them as brutally and nakedly as possible in order to get relief.

John Dos Passos

#7. A savage is simply a human organism that has not received enough news from the human race.

John Ciardi

#8. Jeff Bezos is opening a retail store and owns a newspaper. Turns out everything we thought about the Internet is wrong.

Aaron Levie

#9. When the people are too much attached to savage independence, to be tolerant of the amount of power to which it is for their good that they should be subject, the state of society is not yet ripe for representative government.

John Stuart Mill

#10. How can such episodes of such savage cruelty happen? The heart of man is an abyss out of which sometimes emerge plots of unspeakable ferocity capable of overturning in an instant the tranquil and productive life of a people.

Pope John Paul II

#11. So is the savage buffalo, especially delighting in dark places, where he can wallow in the mud and slake his thirst without much trouble; and here also we find the wild pig.

John Hanning Speke

#12. Everything outside was elegant and savage and fleshy. Everything inside was slow and cool and vacant. It seemed a shame to stay inside.

John Cheever

#13. Anybody who ever built an empire, or changed the world, sat where you are now. And it's *because* they sat there that they were able to do it.

Ryan Bingham

#14. Being a celebrity can be dangerous. Nobody says 'no.'

Demi Lovato

#15. A child's stories are simpler to understand because the language has not been developed to the point of high abstraction. An adult tells stories far more obtuse in nature.

John S. Savage

#16. Is man a savage at heart, skinned o'er with fragile Manners? Or is savagery but a faint taint in the natural man's gentility, which erupts now and again like pimples on an angel's arse?

John Barth

#17. There were two unpleasant surprises [about Washington]. One was the inertia of Congress, the length of time it takes to get a complicated piece of legislation through ... and the other was the irresponsibility of the press.

Jimmy Carter

#18. Many savage nations worship trees, and I really think my first feeling would be one of delight and interest rather than of surprise, if some day when I am alone in the woods one of the trees were to speak to me.

John Lubbock

#19. I have learned in fashion to be a little savage.

John Fairchild

#20. Molecular chirality plays a key role in science and technology. In particular, life depends on molecular chirality in that many biological functions are inherently dissymmetric.

Ryoji Noyori

#21. And like any dog, like any savage, I lay there enjoying myself, harming no man, selling nothing, competing not at all, thinking no evil, smiled on by the sun, bent over by the trees, and softly folded in the arms of the earth.

John Stewart Collis

#22. Philosophical reflection could not leave the relation of mind and spirit in the obscurity which had satisfied the needs of the naive consciousness.

Wilhelm Wundt

#23. Surely all God's people, however serious or savage, great or small, like to play. Whales and elephants, dancing, humming gnats, and invisibly small mischievous microbes- all are warm with divine radium and must have lots of fun in them.

John Muir

#24. Professional' does not necessarily mean that the person so labelled is good or knows what they are doing. In many a case, it merely means that they do whatever that they are a professional at for a living, not as a hobby.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#25. Whoever loses the capability for inner silence, loses contact to himself and soon won't be able to think clearly any more.

Thomas Metzinger

#26. A criminal who, having renounced reason ... hath, by the unjust violence and slaughter he hath committed upon one, declared war against all mankind, and therefore may be destroyed as a lion or tiger, one of those wild savage beasts with whom men can have no society nor security.

John Locke

#27. Is an institution always a man's shadow shortened in the sun, the lowest common denominator of everybody in it?

Randall Jarrell

#28. I am as free as nature first made man,
Ere the base laws of servitude began,
When wild in woods the noble savage ran.

John Dryden

#29. Lives there upon any world such another as John Carter, Prince of Helium? Lives there another man who could fight his way back and forth across a warlike planet, facing savage beasts and hordes of savage men, for the love of a woman?

Edgar Rice Burroughs

#30. Simply read a child's story that he or she is writing for school, and you will discover some of the inner struggles with which the young person is trying to cope.

John S. Savage

#31. Nothing is either all masculine or all feminine except having sex.

Marlo Thomas

#32. Although it is pleasant to think about poison at any season, there is something special about Christmas, and I found myself grinning.

Alan Bradley

#33. Creation, by its very nature, is an exercise in savage prejudices and uncommon bigotries.

John Zande

#34. Storytelling is a form of self-disclosure.

John S. Savage