John Dalton Quotations

It's the right idea, but not the right time.

This paper will no doubt be found interesting by those who take an interest in it

I spent several years acquiring the obsessive, day-to-day discipline that's needed if you want to write professionally, then several more, highly valuable years studying fiction writing at the University of Iowa.

The people need to know why it has taken so long to try this case,

Nobody ever contacted me, ... I heard after the fact that Chris got the endorsement. ... I didn't even get the opportunity to speak to them.

I wrote some three hundred pages, threw most of them out, and started over. The novel seemed to require a maturity and breadth of vision I didn't yet have. What I discovered was that this maturity and vision accrues gradually over the course of many days, months, years of struggling to be a better writer.

I think (banks) are doing better today than they were yesterday, and clearly they need to be doing better tomorrow.

Like many beginning writers, I had to make the difficult leap from short stories to learning the craft and form of a novel.

The anti-tax groups, or those that are against it, put out partial information, and we wanted to find some way of getting accurate information out to all the people,

While we've been arguing in the Philippines (as to who is at fault), business-oriented producers, consolidators, shippers and transport companies in Singapore, Malaysia and China have been developing strategies to efficiently compete in global markets, ... They're winning; we're losing.

We have added nobody in the last four years to that department, ... We have an opportunity to fix a couple of significant areas and, at the same time, recoup most of our costs. ... This is going to be a full-time job for the first year or so.

They're a private organization, ... They can do what they please. But if I were running things I at least would've given both candidates a chance to speak so they could make an informed decision.

They really haven't gotten to see me in the courtroom and there's no way they could really make an informed decision on who to endorse,

As you know, it's cost us thousands of dollars. It's $150,000 just to file an application.

It's the right idea, but not the right time. It's pretty clear that (a Certificate of Need application) would be rejected out of hand.

It's been a constant battle, ... I can't get behind this project because of that. ... If we bond it, John Q. Citizen has to pay for it. I think we're missing a real opportunity to be real stewards with residents' money.

It's consolidated the smokers in certain areas. You find more people in alleys now.

If you can't agree on a common vision, how can you work together as partners? I hope the people of Waterville understand that there are a lot of very civic-minded people who worked really hard to try to make this happen.

I guess next to Meals on Wheels, it's the most important service we can provide our seniors,

He's an agent of change. Whenever you are like that, there will be people who disagree with you.

I don't think these issues will pull people to the polls, ... I think that those who normally vote in the primary will be the only ones voting on them, unfortunately.

I was introduced to Mr. Davy, who has rooms adjoining mine (in the Royal Institution); he is a very agreeable and intelligent young man, and we have interesting conversation in an evening; the principal failing in his character as a philosopher is that he does not smoke.

We should scarcely be excused in concluding this essay without calling the reader's attention to the beneficent and wise laws established by the author of nature to provide for the various exigencies of the sublunary creation, and to make the several parts dependent upon each other, so as to form one well-regulated system or whole.

Reconsidering Happiness captures all the contradictory impulses of falling in and out of love-the lust and wanderlust, the contentment and restlessness, the secret loyalties, the hard compromises. Sherrie Flick has written a wise and elegant novel.

Berzelius' symbols are horrifying. A young student in chemistry might as soon learn Hebrew as make himself acquainted with them... They appear to me equally to perplex the adepts in science, to discourage the learner, as well as to cloud the beauty and simplicity of the atomic theory.

The cause of rain is now, I consider, no longer an object of doubt. If two masses of air of unequal temperatures, by the ordinary currents of the winds, are intermixed, when saturated with vapour, a precipitation ensues. If the masses are under saturation, then less precipitation takes place, or none at all, according to the degree. Also, the warmer the air, the greater is the quantity of vapour precipitated in like circumstances. ... Hence the reason why rains are heavier in summer than in winter, and in warm countries than in cold.

No new creation or destruction of matter is within the reach of chemical agency. We might as well attempt to introduce a new planet into the solar system, or to annihilate one already in existence, as to create or destroy a particle of hydrogen.

If I have succeeded better than many who surround me, it has been chiefly - may I say almost solely - from universal assiduity.

Matter, though divisible in an extreme degree, is nevertheless not infinitely divisible. That is, there must be some point beyond which we cannot go in the division of matter. ... I have chosen the word “atom” to signify these ultimate particles.