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J. A. Spender
'Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.' Under the influence of this pestilent morality, I am forever letting tomorrow's work slop backwards into today's, and doing painfully and nervously today what I could do quickly and easily tomorrow.
J. Arthur Thomson
The most powerful factors in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. B. Priestley
Like its politicians and its wars, society has the teenagers it deserves.
J. B. S. Haldane
To the biologist the problem of socialism appears largely as a problem of size. The extreme socialists desire to run every nation as a single business concern. I do not suppose that Henry Ford would find much difficulty in running Andorra or Luxembourg on
J. B. S. Haldane
My own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we *can* suppose.
J. B. S. Haldane
We do not know, in most cases, how far social failure and success are due to heredity, and how far to environment. But environment is the easier of the two to improve.
J. B. S. Haldane
So many new ideas are at first strange and horrible, though ultimately valuable that a very heavy responsibility rests upon those who would prevent their dissemination.
J. B. S. Haldane
I have come to the conclusion that my subjective account of my motivation is largely mythical on almost all occasions. I don't know why I do things.
J. Bartlett Brebner
Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.
J. D. Salinger
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I do
J. D. Salinger
I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
J. E. Buchrose
Happiness comes more from loving than being loved; and often when our affection seems wounded it is only our vanity bleeding. To love, and to be hurt often, and to love again - this is the brave and happy life.
J. Frank Dobie
The average Ph.D. thesis is nothing but a transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
J. G. C. Brainard
Hate no one; hate their vices, not themselves.
J. G. Holland
God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.
J. H. Holmes
The universe is not hostile, nor yet is it friendly. It is simply indifferent.
J. Hart
Fig Newton: The force required to accelerate a fig 39.37 inches per sec.
J. Jacques
'Light fuse and get away' may work for a Roman candle, but not so much for the wrath of a woman scorned.
J. Jacques
The quickest way to a man's heart really is through his stomach, because then you don't have to chop through that pesky rib cage.
J. Jacques
You can either hold yourself up to the unrealistic standards of others, or ignore them and concentrate on being happy with yourself as you are.
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Quotes are sorted in alphabetical order by the authors first name.
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J. A. Spender
'Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.' Under the influence of this pestilent morality, I am forever letting tomorrow's work slop backwards into today's, and doing painfully and nervously today what I could do quickly and easily tomorrow.
J. Arthur Thomson
The most powerful factors in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J. B. Priestley
Like its politicians and its wars, society has the teenagers it deserves.
J. B. S. Haldane
To the biologist the problem of socialism appears largely as a problem of size. The extreme socialists desire to run every nation as a single business concern. I do not suppose that Henry Ford would find much difficulty in running Andorra or Luxembourg on
J. B. S. Haldane
My own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we *can* suppose.
J. B. S. Haldane
We do not know, in most cases, how far social failure and success are due to heredity, and how far to environment. But environment is the easier of the two to improve.
J. B. S. Haldane
So many new ideas are at first strange and horrible, though ultimately valuable that a very heavy responsibility rests upon those who would prevent their dissemination.
J. B. S. Haldane
I have come to the conclusion that my subjective account of my motivation is largely mythical on almost all occasions. I don't know why I do things.
J. Bartlett Brebner
Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.
J. D. Salinger
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I do
J. D. Salinger
I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
J. E. Buchrose
Happiness comes more from loving than being loved; and often when our affection seems wounded it is only our vanity bleeding. To love, and to be hurt often, and to love again - this is the brave and happy life.
J. Frank Dobie
The average Ph.D. thesis is nothing but a transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
J. G. C. Brainard
Hate no one; hate their vices, not themselves.
J. G. Holland
God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.
J. H. Holmes
The universe is not hostile, nor yet is it friendly. It is simply indifferent.
J. Hart
Fig Newton: The force required to accelerate a fig 39.37 inches per sec.
J. Jacques
'Light fuse and get away' may work for a Roman candle, but not so much for the wrath of a woman scorned.
J. Jacques
The quickest way to a man's heart really is through his stomach, because then you don't have to chop through that pesky rib cage.
J. Jacques
You can either hold yourself up to the unrealistic standards of others, or ignore them and concentrate on being happy with yourself as you are.
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