John Quotes
Now piercèd is her virgin zone; She feels the foe within it. She hears a broken amorous groan, The panting lover's fainting moan, Just in the happy minute.
The eight laws of learning are explanation, demonstration, imitation, repetition, repetition, repetition, repetition, repetition.
The time to prepare isn't after you have been given the opportunity. It's long before that opportunity arises. Once the opportunity arrives, it's too late to prepare.
How you run the race - your planning, preparation, practice, and performance - counts for everything. Winning or losing is a by-product, and aftereffect, of that effort.
Don't think that you can make up for it by working twice as hard tomorrow. If you have it within your power to work twice as hard, why aren't you doing it now?
Now to act with integrity, according to that strength of mind and body with which our creator hath endowed each of use, appears necessary for all.
A man shows himself a true disciple of Christ by carrying the cross in his turn every day in the activity that he is called to perform.
I look at my cancer journey as a gift: It made me slow down and realisethe important things in life and taught me to not sweat the small stuff.
The pains of hell are not the greatest part of hell; the loss of heaven is the weightiest woe of hell.
Once you make up your mind never to stand waiting and hesitating when your conscience tells you what you ought to do, and you have got the key to every blessing that a sinner can reasonably hope for.
It's a necessary quality of a diplomat or a politician that he will compromise. Uncompromising politicians or diplomats get you into the most terrible trouble.
My life is a rather grim one. One day I shall perhaps describe it to you in great detail.
I believe in the nobility of entertaining people and I take great, great pride that people are willing to give me two or three hours of their busy lives.
I had two experiences of criminality: one was my conman father, the other was teaching at Eton
When I was about twelve I used to think I must be a genius, but nobody's noticed. If there is such a thing as a genius, I am one, and if there isn't I don't care.
A very Merry Christmas And a happy New Year Let's hope it's a good one Without any fear.
Make your own dream .I can't wake you up. You can wake you up. I can't cure you. You can cure you.
Stalin’s postwar goals were security for himself, his regime, his country, and his ideology, in precisely that order.
He that will make good use of any part of his life must allow a large part of it to recreation.
Time draweth wrinkles in a fair face, but addeth fresh colors to a fast friend, which neither heat, nor cold, nor misery, nor place, nor destiny, can alter or diminish
When you go home, tell them of us and say, for their tomorrow we gave our today.
Sometimes you tell someone to never call you again; and then the phone rings and you hope it's them - it's the most twisted logic of all time.
If economists could manage to get themselves thought of as humble, competent people on a level with dentists, that would be splendid.
The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is generally understood. Indeed, the world is ruled by little else.
There's two ways of working in Washington, ... One is to go along and get along. The other is to stand up for what you believe in.
Like restless birds, the breath of coming rain Creeps, lilac-laden, up the village street
We absolutely believed in Heaven and Hell, Purgatory, and even Limbo. I mean, they were actually closer to us than Australia or Canada, that they were real places.
If you truthfully can say without a doubt within your heart Dear Lord, Thy will be done, and God knows best!
Taking things from one source is plagiarism; taking things from several sources is research.
Offensive realism predicts that the United States will send its army across the Atlantic when there is a potential hegemon in Europe that the local great powers cannot contain by themselves.