John Sergeant Wise Quotes

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

John Sergeant Wise

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• 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
  • Way
  • You
  • 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

• An indescribable oppression, which seemed to generate in some unfamiliar part of her consciousness, filled her with a vague anguish...like a shadow... a mist passing across her soul's summer day.

  

  Kate Chopin
  • Soul
  • Summer
  • Shadow

• Whatever you would make habitual, practice it; and if you would not make a thing habitual, do not practice it, but accustom yourself to something else.

  

  Epictetus
  • Practice

• In this country, don’t forget, a habit is no damn private hell. There’s no solitary confinement outside of jail. A habit is hell for those you love. And in this country it’s the worst kind of hell for those who love you.

  

  Eleanora Fagan
  • Country
  • Habit

• What is the pattern of worship that best conveys the richness of divine grace, faithfully interprets the gospel in our modern world and helpfully consolidates the body of Christ?

  

  Geoffrey W Bromiley
  • World
  • Christ
  • Modern

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

  

  John Sergeant Wise