John Quotes
When you start out without a record nobody knows you, but if you have a record it's a lot easier.
The present aristocracy of western culture, at the very moment when it most clearly dominates the world, is being imitated rapidly and successfully in every eastern country.
Perhaps the greatest of all pedagogical fallacies is the notion that a person learns only the particular thing he is studying at the time.
The end justifies the means only when the means used are such as actually bring about the desired and desirable end.
As long as politics is the shadow cast on society by big business, the attenuation of the shadow will not change the substance.
Even dogs and horses have their actions modified by association with human beings; they form different habits because human beings are concerned with what they do.
When I consider life, 'tis all a cheat; Yet, fooled with hope, men favour the deceit; Trust on, and think tomorrow will repay. Tomorrow's falser than the former day.
So the false spider, when her nets are spread, deep ambushed in her silent den does lie.
With odorous oil thy head and hair are sleek; And then thou kemb'st the tuzzes on thy cheek: Of these, my barbers take a costly care.
A better understanding of the brain is certain to lead man to a richer comprehension both of himself, of his fellow man, and of society, and in fact of the whole world with its problems.
The first test of potential in mathematics is whether you can get anything out of geometry.
Eve is a life giver; she is Adam's ally. It is to both of them that the charter for adventure is given. It will take both of them to sustain life. And they will both need to fight together.
A gardener's work is never at an end; it begins with the year and continues to the next.
There are three things in life which are real: God, human folly and laughter. Since the first two are beyond our comprehension, we must do what we can with the third.
Lofty words cannot construct an alliance or maintain it; only concrete deeds can do that.
Moral courage is more a rare commodity than bravery in a battle or great intelligence.
If at times our actions seem to make life difficult for others, it is only because history has made life difficult for us all.
For a subject worked and reworked so often in novels, motion pictures, and television, American Indians remain probably the least understood and most misunderstood Americans of us all.
If there is one path above all others to war, it is the path of weakness and disunity.
Forward, forward, men! Drive those fellows out of those woods! Forward! For God's sake forward!
When someone was so poor that he couldn't afford a horse, a tent or a blanket, he would, in that case, receive it all as a gift.
The greatest attribute of heaven is mercy; And 'tis the crown of justice, and the glory
The mark of a successful organization isn't whether or not it has problems, its whether it has the same problems it had last year.
Our institutions of freedom will not survive unless they are constantly replenished by the faith that gave them birth.
Men love war because it allows them to look serious. Because it is the one thing that stops women laughing at them.
But, though persecuting malice raged, yet the Gospel shone with resplendent brightness; and, firm as an impregnable rock, withstood the attacks of its boisterous enemies with success.
There are two things I will never do in my life. I will never climb Mount Everest, and I will never work with Val Kilmer again. There isn't enough money in the world.
There is a better chance of getting an exciting painting from a laboured study with texture than from a fine drawing without it.
What I do on my solo stuff is just the most natural version of who I am, and I’m trying to represent the feelings that I’m feeling as purely as possible
I was the biggest George Harrison fanatic in the world. He was raised Catholic; my parents are both ex-clergy, so I was raised Catholic, and I admired how he used his faith.
I wasn't any good at sports, but I could name all the presidents by the time I was six. I've always been very interested in politics and in religion.
The aging of the U.S. population is a theme that we believe strongly in and the health care sector is really right in the bulls eye of this particular theme.
Alongside getting faith out of a heart that is utterly hostile and unbelieving, making a silk purse out of a sow's ear or getting blood from a turnip is child's play.
You've got to be frugal. If you want to make one peso and you spent two, you'll never make it. You must be very stupid if you don't know what you should save on.