Joe Newton Quotes & Sayings

I wasn't particularly worried; running is overrated anyway, and sport only makes you sweaty and smug and wears out the knees. — Jasper Fforde

I support the French team - I go to all their matches - but I don't want to use sport for politics. That's not good for sport or for politics. — Francois Hollande

Pass no rash condemnation on other peoples words or actions. — Thomas A Kempis

Do Not Judge 7:1 "Do not judge so that you will not be judged.1 7:2 For by the standard you judge you will be judged, and the measure you use will be the measure you receive.2 7:3 Why3 do you see the speck4 in your brother's eye, but fail to see5 the beam of wood6 in your own? 7:4 Or how can you say7 to your brother, 'Let me remove the speck from your eye,' while there is a beam in your own? 7:5 You hypocrite! First remove the beam from your own eye, and then you can see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye. 7:6 Do not give what is holy to dogs or throw your pearls before pigs; otherwise they will trample them under their feet and turn around and tear you to pieces.8 — Anonymous

When you're sure of what you're looking at, look harder. — Richard Powers

I don't know how many bestsellers I've got, or half the awards I've won, and I don't really care. I'm just having fun, doing something I love and getting paid for it. How cool is that? — R.A. Salvatore

For centuries, we in the West have thought of ourselves as rational animals whose mental capacities transcend our bodily nature. In this traditional view our minds are abstract, logical, unemotionally rational, consciously accessible, and, above all, able to directly fit and represent the world. Language has a special place in thie view of what a human is - it is a privileged, logical symbol system internal to our minds that transparently expresses abstract concepts that are defined in terms of the external world itself. — George Lakoff

Peace does not come through prayer, we human beings must create peace. — Dalai Lama

A story? No. No stories, never again. — Maurice Blanchot

He was a good fellow, but his rejoicing at the one little part, in which he was officially interested, of so great a tragedy, was an object-lesson in the limitations of sympathetic understanding. He — Bram Stoker

Fig Newton: The force required to accelerate a fig 39.37 inches/sec. — Joe Hart

Apparently we're now in a state where most ads are full of people looking at us in a way that would heat us up down to our toes if it happened in real life, and we don't think anything of it. — Max Barry

the word "conspire" came from the Latin for "breathing together. — Ernest Greene

The house itself was not so much. It was smaller than Buckingham Palace, rather gray for California, and probably had fewer windows than the Chrysler Building. — Raymond Chandler