John Quotes

O fairest flower! no sooner blown but blasted, Soft silken primrose fading timelessly.

Chaos umpire sits And by decision more embroils the fray by which he reigns: next him high arbiter Chance governs all.

Fairy elves, Whose midnight revels by a forest side Or fountain some belated peasant sees, Or dreams he sees, while overhead the moon Sits arbitress.

When a king sets himself to bandy against the highest court and residence of all regal powers, he then, in the single person of a man, fights against his own majesty and kingship.

Never believe a rumour until you hear it officially denied.

Northern Ireland are ten minutes away from their finest victory. There's 15 minutes to go here.

I wonder if leaves feel lonely when they see their neighbors falling?

I will follow my instincts, be myself for good or ill, and see what will be the upshot.

Surely all God's people, however serious or savage, great or small, like to play.

...I seem to want the things I can't have. Occasionally, when something is finally attainable, the chase appears to be over and the fire burns out.

Faith is the union of God and the soul.

The purest suffering bears and carries in its train the purest understanding.

My spirit has become dry because it forgets to feed on You.

Seek in reading and thou shalt find in meditation; knock in prayer and it shall be opened in contemplation.

Mr. President, no one is saying you broke any laws, we're just saying it's a little bit weird you didn't have to.

I think puns are not just the lowest form of wit, but the lowest form of human behavior.

I think a single sentence by Van Gogh is better than the whole work of all the art critics and art historians put together.

Having faith does not mean never having doubts or questions. It does mean remaining obedient.

Habits eat good intentions for breakfast.

We see, we feel, we change.

Leadership is about coping with change

We're responsible for everything that's included in the frame. We're also responsible for what's not included in the frame. We're responsible for the way we frame the world.

Even in high school, a rule that permits only one point of view to be expressed is less likely to produce correct answers than the open discussion of countervailing views.

At the heart of anything good there should be a kernel of something undefinable, and if you can define it, or claim to be able to define it, then, in a sense, you’ve missed the point.

We will continue to see a convergence of the digital and physical world. Those who conquer that trend will be market leaders.

I have never yet heard of a murderer who was not afraid of a ghost.

There is no war on terrorism; it is the great game speeded up. The difference is the rampant nature of the superpower, ensuring infinite dangers for us all.

In these surreal days, there is one truth. Nothing justified the killing of innocent people in America last week and nothing justifies the killing of innocent people anywhere else.

An elite group of less than a billion people now take more than 80 per cent of the world's wealth.

If you go to Bed Bath & Beyond without a coupon, people will wonder if you're OK.

The key that unlocks the treasure chest of God's peace is faith in the promises of God.

It has to do with seeing God. “Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God” (Matthew 5:8).

Yes, I was a parish priest for five years. I was a curate in a large working class parish in Bristol and the Vicar of a village in Kent.

At the age of 12, I developed an intense interest in mathematics. On exposure to algebra, I was fascinated by simultaneous equations and read ahead of the class to the end of the book.

Life is something like a remarkable, exciting puzzle. It comes piece by piece in packages marked days.

When we contact each other, we change each other. We are constantly making each other.

Let us consider the reason of the case. For nothing is law that is not reason.

All of political history history can be summed up as a struggle to throw the bad guys out and put the good guys in.

Learning makes the wise wiser and the fool more foolish.

Come on Sandy, baby, loosen up, your too tight.

We seem, as it were, to have conquered and peopled half the world in a fit of absence of mind.

Trivial facts are often the best hints to what is going on.

The question is not what man can scorn, or disparage, or find fault with, but what he can love, and value, and appreciate.

A thing is worth what it can do for you, not what you choose to pay for it.

The path of a good woman is indeed strewn with flowers; but they rise behind her steps, not before them.

Sculpture is not the mere cutting of the form of anything in stone; it is the cutting of the effect of it. Very often the true form, in the marble, would not be in the least like itself.

To this day, I get rewrite offers where they say: 'We feel this script needs work with character, dialogue, plot and tone,' and when you ask what's left, they say: 'Well, the typing is very good.'

...The key to playing with any group is you listen all the time and you listen more than you play.

The problem posed by indirect speech acts is the problem of how it is possible for the speaker to say one thing and mean that but also to mean something else.

But, what did happen is I went to Woodstock as a member of the audience. I did not show up there with a road manager and a couple of guitars. I showed up with a change of clothes and a toothbrush.