John Quotes

No man is an island unto himself.

I think that Africa has made quite rapid progress and a lot of the conflicts that we saw on the continent have abated.

For while the subjects of poetry are few and recurrent, the moods of man are infinitely various and unstable. It is the same in all arts.

None would live past years again, Yet all hope pleasure in what yet remain; And, from the dregs of life, think to receive, What the first sprightly running could not give.

Revealed religion first informed thy sight, and reason saw not till faith sprung to light.

The unhappy man, who once has trail'd a pen, Lives not to please himself, but other men; Is always drudging, wastes his life and blood, Yet only eats and drinks what you think good.

And that one hunting, which the Devil design'd For one fair female, lost him half the kind.

To have more, you've got to become more.

A great artist transforms our world, removes scales from our eyes, plugs from our ears, gloves from our fingertips and teaches us to perceive reality differently.

Without the anticipation of better things ahead, we will have no heart for the journey.

So, you could call me optimistic and hopeful and probably just a little bit naïve, but I'm coming from the space that the best way to predict the future is to get out there and just do it yourself.

Sincerity is always subject to proof.

Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet.

Real men stay faithful. They don't have time to look for other women because they're too busy looking for new ways to love their own.

Confronting climate change is, in the long run, one of the greatest challenges that we face, and you can see this duty or responsibility laid down in scriptures, clearly.

What we need now is not just a regime change in Saddam Hussein and Iraq, but we need a regime change in the United States.

There's the devil to pay.

Sick in my soul I tried to face the ordeal of seeking forgiveness. From whom? What God, what Christ? They were myths I once believed and now they were beliefs I felt were myths.

Look at the people who review. Look at their commitment to being "right" and "safe". If I had listened to my critics I would have given up years ago.

Ah, Los Angeles! Dust and fog of your lonely streets, I am no longer lonely. Just you wait, all of you ghosts of this room, just you wait, because it will happen, as sure as there's a God in heaven.

Now that I'm older, I like almost anything that's done well, even surf music and instrumentals; I really enjoyed the interviews with the Ventures in your magazine.

Busy opinion is an idle fool.

A bachelor May thrive by observation on a little, A single life's no burthen: but to draw In yokes is chargeable, and will require A double maintenance.

I think we are just insects, we live a bit and then die and that’s the lot. There’s no mercy in things. There’s not even a Great Beyond. There’s nothing.

The accolades usually come when you're dead or too old to get a job

I have gotten to a point in my life where I don't want to have dinner with someone I don't like.

Whatever we think about and thank about we bring about

You are free. Close your eyes. Open your mind. Let this music in, and you will see that this is true

Lose yourself in the far off worlds that are right under your feet. Switch below with above all the way up into infinity. We should be thankful who we are, whether we know ourselves or not.

I write lyrics. I play the guitar. If the rest of the band had to do my schedule, they would be dead

Let's take care of the little things while they're still little.

During my short time on earth I have realized that opportunities are seldom labeled.

Fashion is above all an art of change.

the biggest tragedy of life is the utter impossibility to change what you have done

Youth's the season made for joys, Love is then our duty.

Being another character is more interesting than being yourself.

Fly tackle has improved considerably since 1676, when Charles Cotton advised anglers to 'fish fine and far off,' but no one has ever improved on that statement.

Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we're quoting.

It hurts because it mattered.

the existence of broccoli does not in any way affect the taste of chocolate

This was not a place you go to live. It was a place you go to die."- Paper Towns

I was a bit of a Victorian Lady, fainting-wise.

Maybe 'okay' will be our 'always

When people call people nerds, mostly what they're saying is, 'you like stuff.' Which is not a good insult at all, like, 'you are too enthusiastic about the miracle of human conscience.

I tried to tell myself that it could be worse, that the world was not a wish-granting factory, that I was living with cancer not dying of it, that I mustn't let it kill me before it kills me.

I'll lift you and you lift me, and we'll both ascend together.

No longer forward or behind I look in hope or fear, But grateful, take the good I find, The best of now and here.

Our toil is sweet with thankfulness, Our burden is our boon; The curse of earth's gray morning is The blessing of its noon.

The quality of any creative endeavor tends to approach the level of taste of whoever is in charge.

My mother was the influence in my life. She was strong; she had great faith in the ultimate triumph of justice and hard work. She believed passionately in education.