John Sergeant Wise Quotes

John Brown was tried for treason, murder, and inciting slaves to insurrection.

John Sergeant Wise

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• I never could get on with representative individuals but people who existed on their own account and with whom it might therefore be possible to be friends.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • People
  • Friends
  • Possible

• War is the greatest failure of mankind.

  

  Aaron Huey
  • War
  • Failure
  • Greatest

• You cannot force a state to be demilitarized. Even if a state enters a treaty where it commits to be demilitarized, there's no way to reverse statehood if it violates it.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • You
  • Way
  • Where

• I always thought that one day I would be somebody. I would be successful in music, and I would have fans that cared about my music. At the same time, I really feel like an ordinary guy; I have been an ordinary guy forever.

  

  G-Eazy
  • Time
  • Music
  • Guy

• If I can hit the ball the way I want to hit it on the range, I'd rather do that than play golf. I just love the feeling of hitting good golf shots.

  

  Vijay Singh
  • Good
  • Love
  • Feeling

• I don't think there are any men who are faithful to their wives.

  

  Jackie Kennedy
  • Men
  • Think
  • Faithful

• Compromise has a negative connotation.

  

  Abdolkarim Soroush
  • Negative
  • Compromise

• Let us take our children seriously! Everything else follows from this... only the best is good enough for a child.

  

  Zoltan Kodaly
  • Good
  • Children
  • Best

• The creative part of your brain needs to be stimulated. Sometimes you get blocked in the thing you do, because there's so much pressure to do it.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • Brain
  • Sometimes
  • Creative

• All churches and all religions contain aspects of the truth, but only God is truth.

  

  Pat Buckley
  • God
  • Truth
  • Religions

• Wine, like food, is so emotional. If you think about it, so much of the courting ritual is surrounded by wine and food. There's a built-in romance to wine.

  

  Padma Lakshmi
  • Food
  • Emotional
  • Wine

• 'Steve Jobs' is my seventh movie. I believe, if you added them up, I don't think there is more than a total of 10 minutes that takes place in a person's home. They're all in offices, courtrooms, laboratories, things like that.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Home

• Young people deserve stable employment opportunities and not mountains of debt. When young people can access the middle class, America is strengthened.

  

  Patrick Murphy
  • People
  • America
  • Opportunities

• Neglect of appearance becomes men.

  

  Ovid
  • Men
  • Appearance
  • Neglect

• I know that in my own mind, I struggle with a desire to be both entirely absent and entirely present in any given moment.

  

  K. Flay
  • Mind
  • Desire
  • Present

• A human person is infinitely precious and must be unconditionally protected.

  

  Hans Kung
  • Person
  • Human
  • Precious

• Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Man
  • Health
  • Difficulties

• quoted in American Character: A History of the Epic Struggle Between Individual Liberty and the Common Good (2015)

  

  Ralph Nader
  • Good
  • Character
  • American

• With the right infrastructure in place, home solar will be recognized publicly as affordable, easy, and smart, and every new home built in the developed world can have clean energy sources built into it.

  

  Lynn Jurich
  • World
  • Home
  • Energy

• Just keep coming home to yourself. You are the one you’ve been waiting for.

  

  Byron Katie
  • Home
  • Waiting

• Set your sights not just on the next few weeks ... set your sights on the years ahead - because our vision will look that far ahead.

  

  William Rainey Harper
  • Vision
  • Sights
  • Far Ahead

• Cobbles and kettledrums! ...I hope this madness isn't going to end in a moonlit climb and broken necks.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Hope
  • Broken

• Succinct, thorough, and masterfully researched-Thomas Medvetz has written a subtle and timely history of these fixtures of public debate in the United States. In the realms of culture studies, policy, and policy formation, there is no book quite like Think Tanks in America. Plus which, no one has understood, interpreted, then used Pierre Bourdieu's ideas better-so well that Bourdieu himself would have been pleased.

  

  Charles Lemert
  • Book
  • Ideas
  • Debate

• John Brown was tried for treason, murder, and inciting slaves to insurrection.

  

  John Sergeant Wise