John Quotes
What you do and learn in life physically changes what your brain looks like—it literally rewires it.
Weve become a race of Peeping Toms. What people oughta do is get outside their own house and look in for a change.
If you've got faith and you believe in what you are living for, you can stand your ground when the Devil's at your door.
To hear the lark begin his flight, And singing startle the dull Night, From his watch-tower in the skies, Till the dappled dawn doth rise.
The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yoghurt.
Nature is always lovely, invincible, glad, whatever is done and suffered by her creatures. All scars she heals, whether in rocks or water or sky or hearts.
Any glimpse into the life of an animal quickens our own and makes it so much the larger and better in every way.
It was funny to be an emcee, because you're so at the mercy of the club. You can show up for the weekend hoping to get the $400 - and get fired. I had to prank whoever they told me to prank.
I've done festivals in the past where I'd be a guest, it was like, Wow, maybe someday I could play Town Hall - but that'll be a long way off. So it's very exciting.
How many times has He delivered me! Yet, alas! How distrustful and ungrateful is my heart even until the present!
He who loses an opportunity is like the man who lets a bird fly from his hand, for he will never recover it.
Most of us came here in chains and most of you came here to escape your chains. Your freedom was our slavery, and therein lies the bitter difference in the way we look at life.
We have to undo the millions of little white lies that America told itself and the world about the American Black man.
Western man wrote "his" history as if it were the history of the entire human race.
So I'm just waiting until one party or the other actually gets a moral compass and a backbone.
Secretive power loathes journalists who do their job: who push back screens, peer behind façades, lift rocks. Opprobrium from on high is their badge of honour.
Do all things without grumbling. Why? You have a sovereign God who is on your side, who works everything together for your good.
The entire annals of Observation probably do not elsewhere exhibit so extraordinary a verification of any theoretical conjecture adventured on by the human spirit!
The Bible contains the revelation of the will of God. It contains the history of the creation of the world, and of mankind.
His face is livid, gaunt his whole body, his breath is green with gall; his tongue drips poison.
The experience of all former ages had shown that of all human governments, democracy was the most unstable, fluctuating and short-lived.
The manners of women are the surest criterion by which to determine whether a republican government is practicable in a nation or not.
Not stones, nor wood, nor the art of artisans make a state; but where men are who know how to take care of themselves, these are cities and walls.
There is for a free man no occupation more worthy and delightful than to contemplate the beauteous works of nature and honor the infinite wisdom and goodness of God.
One day people will look back with amazement that we ever sought to grow our food with poisons.
The fewer words a parent uses, the more aurhoritative the parent sounds & the clearer the instruction.
A man is born an artist as a hippopotamus is born a hippopotamus; and you can no more make yourself one than you can make yourself a giraffe.
I cannot but think it an evil sign of a people when their houses are built to last for one generation only.
If a great thing can be done, it can be done easily, but this ease is like the of ease of a tree blossoming after long years of gathering strength.
Nearly all the evils in the Church have arisen from bishops desiring power more than light. They want authority, not outlook.
I am not responsible for actions of the imaginary version of me you have inside your head.
Many people mistakenly suppose that the essence of consciousness is that of a control mechanism