John Quotes

An honorable Peace is and always was my first wish! I can take no delight in the effusion of human Blood; but, if this War should continue, I wish to have the most active part in it.

I may sink, but I'll be damned if I strike!

As labor creates the wealth of the country, we demand the passage of such laws as may be necessary to protect it in all its rights.

Faith is a reality and it reaches out to facts that are more solid, more real, more substantial, and more eternal than anything registered by our physical senses.

Bitterness about your parents’ brokenness will kill you. Be the grace-filled end of generational sin in your family.

There are only three kinds of Christians when it comes to world missions: zealous goers, zealous senders, and disobedient.

Great waves, and blaze with fire like them.In beauty, but do not condemn,The seamen who embark and fail,But only those who will not sail.

A Parliament is that to the Commonwealth which the soul is to the body. It behoves us therefore to keep the facility of that soul from distemper.

The influence of each human being on others in this life is a kind of immortality.

The key to all motivation is desire, and the master key to creating desire is responsiveness to the needs, desires, and interests of the people you would lead.

The States are separate and independent sovereigns. Sometimes they need to act like it.

God gives us always strength enough, and sense enough, for what He wants us to do; if we either tire ourselves or puzzle ourselves, it is our own fault.

Cookery means…English thoroughness, French art, and Arabian hospitality; it means the knowledge of all fruits and herbs and balms and spices; it means carefulness, inventiveness, and watchfulness.

No great marketing decisions have ever been made on qualitative data

Where consciousness is concerned, the appearance is the reality.

"Akrasia" [weakness of will] in rational beings is as common as wine in France.

If you can design the physical space, the social space, and the information space together to enhance collaborative learning, then that whole milieu turns into a learning technology.

U.S. corn exports to CAFTA countries will benefit from reduced tariffs and duty-free access for corn products.

Make the best of an emergency.

Communism works, if everybody stopped carring about money.

The minute you stop expecting life to be simple, fair and easy... it becomes simple, fair and easy.

We have got thousands of nuclear weapons in order to achieve deterrence.

The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason.

Things that are seen are temporal; things that are unseen are eternal.

There can be no courage in men unless God supports them by his Word.

Joy and thanksgiving expressed in prayer and praise according to the Word of God are the heart of the Church's worship.

Scripture urges and warns us that whatever favors we may have obtained from the Lord, we have received them as a trust on condition that they should be applied to the common benefit of the church.

If people mean that man has in himself the power to work in partnership with God's grace they are most wretchedly deluding themselves.

The more closely we see ourselves being watched by our enemies, the more time intent we should be to avoid their slanders.

There are people who are known to be very liberal, yet they never give without scolding or pride or even insolence.

I think the Olympic Games have been married to political statements. If I go back to Berlin in 1936, it was very politically orientated then, just with the Nazis.

I admire the military. I guess in a world of villains and heroes, they're my heroes. Their dedication, their commitment, their discipline, their code of ethics.

I've been homesick for countries I've never been, and longed to be where I couldn't be.

Always mistrust a subordinate who never finds fault with his superior.

I can do anything I want, I'm eccentric!

Pride is the utter poverty of soul disguised as riches, imaginary light where in fact there is darkness.

Do not make judgments, and you will travel no quicker road to the forgiveness of your sins. 'Judge not, so that you may not be judged' (Lk. 6:37).

Keep a thing happenin' all throughout.

Working with Monk is like falling down a dark elevator shaft.

Stealing has always been a way of redistributing wealth.

According to recent opinion polls, a large majority of Iraqis believe that the U.S. military has no intention to leave Iraq, and that it would stay even is asked by the Iraqi government to leave.

God has placed clear limits on Man’s intelligence, but none on his stupidity.

Love is always in the mood of believing in miracles.

A man with a credit card is in hock to his own image of himself.

Next to doing the right thing, the most important thing is to let people know you are doing the right thing.

I cheat my boys every chance I get. I trade with the boys and skin 'em and I just beat 'em every time I can. I want to make 'em sharp.

There is no place to search for the truth. Though it's right beneath your feet, it can't be found.

Sunny is what you are. Everything else is what you think.

When you are being what you really are you absolutely flourish in the midst of absolutely everything.

But I've always been accused of being a bit tight with money, so it hasn't particularly changed my lifestyle.