John Quotes

Life in freedom is not easy, and democracy is not perfect.

A journey to Thousand miles begins with one step

I'll be needing a bridesmaid',she said.'A tall one. That way, I'll look more petite and feminine.

Success tended to make the unorthodox acceptable

Jesus Christ is in every way sufficient to the vast desires of the soul.

Brethren, it is easier to declaim against a thousand sins of others, than to mortify one sin in ourselves.

Observed duties maintain our credit; but secret duties maintain our life.

That which begins not with prayer, seldom winds up with comfort.

Providence so orders the case, that faith and prayer come between our wants and supplies, and the goodness of God may be the more magnified in our eyes thereby.

Speak boldly and speak truly, shame the devil.

Great actions speak great minds.

Death hath so many doors to let out life.

Night is the mother of thoughts.

Diamonds cut diamonds.

I am infinitely strange to myself.

Art is the result of a creative impulse derived out of a consciousness of life.

My dresses are very reasonably priced, for dresses that are cut on the body.

I have all my life fought against prejudice, having been subjected to it myself.

The citizen can bring our political and governmental institutions back to life, make them responsive and accountable, and keep them honest. No one else can.

We have already shown that there is no such thing as free will. That's a will-o'-the-wisp. You never make choices without reasons, not as a responsible or a rational person

George Washington Bridge? You throw yourself off the Brooklyn Bridge, traditionally. George Washington Bridge, who does that?

The first zucchini I ever saw I killed it with a hoe.

The past feels distant, even when it's near. The future feels assured, even when it isn't.

You can pick your friends, and you can pick your nose, but you can’t pick your friend’s nose.

I kept it for myself like a keepsake, as if sharing the memory might lead to its dissipation.

I'm a grenade, I just want to stay away from people and read books, and think.

I’m on a roller coaster that only goes up, my friend.

And sweet and far as from a star, replied a voice which shall not cease, till drowning all the noise of war, it sings the blessed song of peace

Who never wins can rarely lose, Who never climbs as rarely falls

Again the blackbirds sings; the streams Wake, laughing, from their winter dreams, And tremble in the April showers The tassels of the maple flowers.

If you still think you're a young pup then you are, no matter what the calendar says

Feydeau's one rule of playwriting: Character A: My life is perfect as long as I don't see Character B. Knock Knock. Enter Character B.

Show business offers more solid promises than Catholicism.

It is in being the caterpillar that you become the butterfly.

Hamburger steak is carrion, and quite unfit for food except by a turkey buzzard, a hyena, or some other scavenger.

We win because we play together as a team.

Mickey is one of the prime examples: Mickey has never been suspected of being an American export. It was deja vu. They gave him a local name and he's been accepted everywhere he goes.

Your behavior determines, to some extent, the destiny of your nation and your group.

We're all in a test. With or without God, we're in a test.

In the closing years of the nineteenth century, African-American historians began to look at their people's history from their vantage point and their point of view.

The only really fatal element in defeat is the resolution not to try again.

Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance.

Health of body and mind is a great blessing, if we can bear it.

Occurrences which according to received theories ought not to happen, are the facts which serve as clues to new discoveries

There, in the tin factory, in the first moment of the atomic age, a human being was crushed by books.

If nothing is ventured, nothing is gained.

Sometimes love can be so wrong/Like a fat man in a thong.

All I can ask from society is that it please stop telling me why I should like sports.

I actually own a copy of my own book; that's how dedicated I am as an author.

Wildfires are a result of temperature conditions, of soil moisture conditions; and, of course, something has to start it.