Johnakins Quotes & Sayings

Giving advice is many times only the privilege of saying a foolish thing one's self, under the pretense of hindering another from doing one. — Alexander Pope

The capitalists owned everything in the world, and everyone else was their slave. They owned all the land, all the houses, all the factories, and all the money. If anyone disobeyed them they could throw him into prison, or they could take his job away and starve him to death. When any ordinary person spoke to a capitalist he had to cringe and bow to him, and take off his cap and address him as 'Sir' — George Orwell

Don't seek to lead people to a God you have ceased to believe in. — Ian Maclaren

MOSTLY, they were ashamed of us. — Julie Otsuka

An axiom of sorcery: If you come to know yourself
no one else can know you — Rodney Hall

The only good Indian is a dead Indian — William Tecumseh Sherman

Teach the youth to speak the truth, show them what peace can do — Rakim

A nuclear reactor is a proposed "solution" to "the energy problem." But like all big-technological "solutions," this one "solves" a single problem by causing many ...
A garden, on the other hand, is a solution that leads to other solutions. It is a part of the limitless pattern of good health and good sense. — Wendell Berry

Give back everything to ... — Peter The Great

Rodents can come across as being quite vacant in the personality stakes. — Julian Clary

I want to get to know this other me, but I don't know her well enough yet to be her all the time — Laura Lee Gulledge

I feel sick when I look at the parody synopsis, at the letters from the film company ... The novel is 'about' a colour problem. I said nothing in it that wasn't true. But the emotion it came out of was something frightening, the unhealthy, feverish illicit excitement of wartime, a lying nostalgia, a longing for licence, for freedom, for the jungle, for formlessness. It is so clear to me that I can't read that novel now without feeling ashamed, as if I were in a street naked. Yet no one else seems to see it. Not one of the reviewers saw it. Not one of my cultivated and literary friends saw it. It is an immoral novel because that terrible lying nostalgia lights every sentence. — Doris Lessing

The bush is not merely a holiday destination; it's where you learn how insignificant you truly — Tess Gerritsen

Sometimes the Universe wants to be noticed. — John Green

Is knowledge power?
Is ignorance bliss? — Irene Assiba D'Almeida