John Quotes

While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill - little better understood, little better practiced now than three or four thousand years ago.

I was feeling insecure you might not love me anymore

The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It wasn't the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility.

You can only possess beauty through understanding it.

Raindrops blossom brilliantly in the rainbow, and change to flowers in the sod, but snow comes in full flower direct from the dark, frozen sky.

All we are saying is give peace a chance.

Desire that your life count for something great! Long for your life to have eternal significance. Want this! Don’t coast through life without a passion.

Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances. The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon.

Do we secretly idolize our imagined opposites, yearning to become the role models for others we know we could never be for ourselves?

Every artist joins a conversation that's been going on for generations, even millennia, before he or she joins the scene.

Since the state must necessarily provide subsistence for the criminal poor while undergoing punishment, not to do the same for the poor who have not offended is to give a premium on crime.

The past beats inside me like a second heart.

But it is just two lovers, holding hands and in a hurry to reach their car, their locked hands a starfish leaping through the dark.

The key to happiness was achievable dreams.

What hath night to do with sleep?

Economists are generally negligent of their heroes.

A taste for literature and a turn for business, united in the same person, never fails to make a great man.

A man has no right to occupy another man’s time unnecessarily

So often we rob tomorrow's memories by today's economies.

Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.

For science must breathe the oxygen of freedom.

Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning.

The best tonic for soreness is to do the movement that got you sore in the first place.

There are “bus bench” workouts and “park bench” workouts. A bus bench and a park bench look exactly the same, but your expectations sitting in them are radically different.

If you aren't living your dreams then you're living your fears.

Everyone has an idea, but it’s taking those first steps toward turning that idea into a reality that are always the toughest.

Strategic partners are way more important than money.

Stress is the inability to adapt to a changing environment.

I love places that have an incredible history. I love the Italian way of life, I love the food, I love the people, I love the attitudes of Italians.

First we only want to be seen, but once we’re seen, that’s not enough anymore. After that, we want to be remembered.

The Declaration of Independence laid the cornerstone of human government upon the first precepts of Christianity.

I have examined all religions, and the result is that the Bible is the best book in the world.

I pray Heaven to bestow the best of Blessings on this House and on all that shall hereafter inhabit it. May none but honest and wise Men ever rule under this roof.

If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?

Data, data everywhere, but not a thought to think.

He that sows his grain upon marble will have many a hungry belly before his harvest.

If you haven't found something strange during the day, it hasn't been much of a day.

Of all heroes , Spinoza was Einstein 's greatest. No one expressed more strongly then he a belief in the harmony , the beauty , and most of all the ultimate comprehensibility of nature.

We take life too lightly and sport too seriously.

Umpire Harold Bird, having a wonderful time, signalling everything in the world, including stopping traffic coming on from behind.

Poetry is mostly hunches.

Once you've lived in France, you don't want to live anywhere else, including France.

In the evening Everything has a schedule, if you can find out what it is.

The sun fades like the spreading Of a peacock's tail, as though twilight Might be read as a warning to those desperate For easy solutions.

Christianity is a faith in which God sent his Son to die for you.

Prior to September 11, we thought the world beyond our shores was one world of risk and the world in our continent was another world of risk

If a steaming hot potato fell in your hands you would get it off you as soon as you could. Do the same with negative destructive thoughts- just release them as fast as you can.

There is a Greek word that is called "Praxis" and that means the integration of your beliefs with your behavior.

I hear nothing, I see nothing, I know nothing!

If I was asked to say what was the greatest invention of human beings, I would say the sentence.