John Quotes

People need to know more than what a piece of information means. They also need to know how the information matters.

Ignorance of the law excuses no man; not that all men know the law, but because 'tis an excuse every man will plead, and no man can tell how to refute him.

There is no book on which we can rest in a dying moment but the Bible.

The House of Commons is called the Lower House, in twenty Acts of Parliament; but what are twenty Acts of Parliament amongst Friends?

A recent Pew Hispanic survey found that more than 70 percent of illegal immigrants from Mexico are interested in a guest-worker program and then returning home.

Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.

As we all know, no crude oil refineries have been built in the United States since 1976. During that time, close to 100 ethanol refineries have been built.

Just a few short years ago in the year 2000, the last full fiscal year of the Clinton administration, this country was running a surplus of $236 billion.

I've had a fairy tale life. I had a perfect family, a beautiful childhood, an incredible upbringing. I lived a lot of life but a lot of good life.

I went to Broadway and I've been doing some fun guest spots with 'Entourage' and 'Glee' and I'm ready to have my own show.

There are your enemies, the Red Coats and the Tories. They are ours, or this night Molly Stark sleeps a widow!

True leadership cannot be awarded, appointed, or assigned. It comes only from Influence.

Being unprepared makes me nervous. I'm old-fashioned show folk.

As far as consistency of thought goes, I prefer inconsistency.

Everyday is a beautiful day, Everything is pleasing

... let everyone regard himself as the steward of God in all things which he possesses.

God does not bestow his spirit on his people in order to set aside the use of his word, but rather to render it fruitful.

The subject then of these chapters may be stated thus, - man's only righteousness is through the mercy of God in Christ, which being offered by the Gospel is apprehended by faith.

Faith consists, not in ignorance, but in knowledge, and that, not only of God, but also of the divine will.

Life is not found in commandments or declarations of penalties, but in the promise of mercy and only in a gratuitous promise.

Thou fail to perceive mineself!

Thank you for letting idiots like me, come out and live this wonderful wonderful dream. I love you to death. Lets go home.

Then it is dark; it is a night where kings in golden suits ride elephants over the mountains.

Written by a sponge dipped in warm milk and sprinkled with sugar.

This world has suns, but they are overcast;This world has sweets, but they're of ling'ring bloom;Life still expects, and empty falls at last;Warm Hope on tiptoe drops into the tomb.

Life is a terminal disease, and it is sexually transmitted.

Aping urbanity, Oozing with vanity, Plump as a manatee, Faking humanity, Intellectual inanity, Journalistic calamity, Fox Noise insanity, You're a profanity, Hannity.

Don't let anyone tell you what you ought to like.

It’s only on the brink that people find the will to change. Only at the precipice do we evolve.

When you do comedy in front of an audience, they are the ones who tell you whether it's funny or not and which bits are funny and which bits need to be fixed.

And yet what is Modernism? It is undefined.

I find I can't get rid of my trashiness as an artist. A lot of my themes in painting, to the extent that there are intentional themes, are meant to bring that conundrum into high relief.

I think a big problem with art school is that it makes people feel like they have to be interested in everything that's of high quality.

Once upon a time when there was no time.

I believe that thrift is essential to well-ordered living.

If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.

To know objects only through dissecting and cataloguing them is to miss their full reality. It is to fall asleep amidst the mystery and to become numb to the wonder of this great Earth.

In the action of no-action (wu-wei), a cardinal aspect of the true creative process is set forth. In wu-wei, the mind is silenced and the work is allowed to express itself.

He's tough (Tiger Woods). I wish I was that tough when I was his age.

Our albums just tend to be collections of songs really, because we all write in the group, all four of us.

The band was rejuvenated by that wonderful day. It breathed new life into us.

Bass players and drummers are brothers in the basement cooking up the groove that makes people move.

What one man can do is dream. What one man can do is love. What one man can do is change the world.

I've had a deep love affair with skiing for many years.

Horses are creatures who worship the earth as they gallop on feet of ivory. Constrained by the wonder of dying and birth, the horses still run, they are free.

Published papers may omit important steps and the memory of men of science, even the greatest, is sadly fallible.

Instruction is important.

The experience has to be formulated in order to be communicated.

Modern philosophy certainly exacts a surrender of all supernaturalism and fixed dogma and rigid institutionalism with which Christianity has been historically associated

Everyone is against me - except the people!