John Quotes

Having your book turned into a movie is like seeing your oxen turned into bouillon cubes.

Ideas are one thing and what happens is another.

It is a blind goose that cometh to the fox's sermon.

The Gospel offers forgiveness for the past, new life for the present, and hope for the future.

I extend my deepest gratitude to our Armed Forces and first responders serving both at home and abroad in the war against terrorism.

Trees go wandering forth in all directions with every wind, going and coming like ourselves, traveling with us around the sun two million miles a day, and through space heaven knows how fast and far!

I don't look to find an educated person in the ranks of university graduates, necessarily. Some of the most educated people I know have never been near a university.

You get to a certain age where you prepare yourself for happiness. Sometimes you never remember to actually get happy.

The family is the first essential cell of human society.

A good part of my leadership skills is crafted from learning from experiences early in my career that were not positive experiences.

Too many people just eat to consume calories. Try dining for a change.

I force people to have coffee with me, just because I don't trust that a friendship can be maintained without any other senses besides a computer or cellphone screen.

The research rat of the future allows experimentation without manipulation of the real world. This is the cutting edge of modeling technology.

The Internet will save higher education, but it may kill your alma mater.

The only weights I lift are my dogs.

If something is important, do it every day; if it's not important, don't do it at all.

The Goal is the keep the GOAL the GOAL

Please understand nearly every concept I hold near and dear has been stolen from others much brighter and better than me.

It takes the same energy to think small as it does to think big. So dream big and think bigger.

I been trying to clean up my act with my children for a long time. And I pretty much got them all talking to me now. And they accept me as a humanoid again.

Love, when released into the world, is like an intelligent energy that continues on and on, shaping the world in its own image.

Diamonds are forever, my youth is not.

All sober inquirers after truth, ancient and modern, pagan and Christian, have declared that the happiness of man, as well as his dignity, consists in virtue.

Government has no Right to hurt a hair of the head of an Atheist, for his Opinions. Let him have a care of his Practices.

The National defense is one of the cardinal duties of a statesman.

We must not build on the sands of an uncertain and everchanging science...but upon the rock of inspired Scriptures.

To me, failure is not fatal unless you quit; getting knocked down is not embarrassing unless you allow it to keep you down.

One of my core beliefs is that everything happens for a reason and some things just aren't to my taste. All the things that happen in my life are divinely inspired and they happen for a purpose.

Teleology is like a mistress to a biologist: he cannot live without her but he's unwilling to be seen with her in public.

Science is vastly more stimulating to the imagination than the classics.

Most of my friends are women. I think women are more interesting to talk to.

All my life I have lied. I lied to escape, I lied to be loved, I lied for placement and power; I lied to lie. It was a way of living; lies are life's almost-anagram.

I don't feel sorry for myself, because I'm living my dream. Even when I was a little boy I used to stand in the playground and pretend I was on 'Opportunity Knocks.'

Have I ever been the shy retiring type? Never. Not since the day I was born.

You never realize how short a month is until you pay alimony.

My only regret in the theater is that I could never sit out front and watch me.

Those rituals of getting ready to write produce a kind of trance state.

I hate Illinois Nazis.

People's backyards are much more interesting than their front gardens, and houses that back on to railways are public benefactors.

I ought to warn you that my verse is of no interest to people who can think.

And I think it was the outline of that church tower at Belaugh against the sky which gave me a passion for churches so that every church I've past since I've wanted to stop and look in.

Our biggest national security crisis is Barack Obama.

I remember my manager telling me, 'Be myself, be humble, keep rooted, keep God first'. Those words were very helpful.

If you want team play, you must stress defense. Defense makes players unselfish.

No people in the history of the world have ever been so misunderstood, so misjudged, and so cruelly maligned.

Afflictions make the heart more deep, more experimental, more knowing and profound, and so, more able to hold, to contain, and beat more.

The heart must be beaten or bruised, and then the sweet scent will come out.

a man there was, though some did count him mad, the more he cast away the more he had.

There hath not one tear dropped from thy tender eye against thy lusts, the love of this world, or for more communion with Jesus Christ, but as it is now in the bottle of God.

Though there is not always grace where there is the fear of hell, yet, to be sure, there is no grace where there is no fear of God.