John Quotes

Topography is one of my chief themes in my poetry, about the country, the suburbs and the seaside. Then there comes love... and increasingly; the fear of death.

Love forgets wrongs so that there is hope for the future.

Running is not just exercise; it is a lifestyle.

It was being a runner that mattered, not how fast or how far I could run. The joy was in the act of running and in the journey, not in the destination.

When you have a regime that would be happier in the afterlife than in this life, this is not a regime that is subject to classic theories of deterrence.

With Zeppelin, I tried to play something different every night in my solos. I'd play for 20 minutes but the longest ever was 30 minutes. It's a long time, but whenI was playing it seemed to fly by.

Their lost voices must continue to be heard.

To seek yourself in this world is to be lost; and to be humble is to be exalted.

The man who does not know the nature of the Law, cannot know the nature of sin.

I preach deliverance to others, I tell them there is freedom, while I hear my own chains clang.

Though the world disregard the society of God's children now, yet there is a time coming in which they would be glad to have the least company with them.

He that lives in sin and looks for happiness hereafter is likehimthat soweth cockleand thinkstofill hisbarnwith wheat or barley.

I live because I am a Warrior and because I wish one day to be in the company of [She] for whom I have fought so hard

What a severe yet master artist old Winter is... No longer the canvas and the pigments, but the marble and the chisel.

A man’s life may stagnate as literally as water may stagnate, and just as motion and direction are the remedy for one, so purpose and activity are the remedy for the other.

The tendinous part of the mind, so to speak, is more developed in winter; the fleshy, in summer. I should say winter had given the bone and sinew to literature, summer the tissues and the blood.

Hint: money flows into most funds after good performance, and goes out when bad performance follows.

On balance, the financial system subracts value from society

When you make a commitment, you create hope. When you keep a commitment you create trust!

You can't be a smart cookie if you have a crummy attitude.

We teach what we know, but we reproduce what we are.

Needless to say, you can love people without leading them, but you cannot lead people without loving them.

When values, thoughts, feelings, and actions are in alignment, a person becomes focused and character is strengthened.

Leadership is developed daily, not in a day.

Good ideas have expiration dates. You need to act before they become dated, irrelevant or otherwise spoiled.

Do not take the agenda that someone else has mapped out for your life.

As negative thoughts produce negative actions, so positive thoughts produce positive actions.

Good attitudes among players do not guarantee a team's success, but bad attitudes guarantee it's failure.

Wanting to win isn't enough. You have to go through a process to improve. That takes patience, perseverance, and intentionality.

Teamwork gives you the best opportunity to turn vision into reality.

Tenacious people don't rely on luck, fate, or destiny for their success. And when conditions become difficult, they keep working.

I have written a great many stories and I still don't know how to go about it except to write it and take my chances.

Abandon the idea that you are ever going to finish.

There are some times...when the love for people is strong and warm like a sorrow.

It is the hour of pearl—the interval between day and night when time stops and examines itself.

I am a Quantum Engineer, but on Sundays I Have Principles.

A handful of people who probably never even ran a small business actually think they can reinvent the health care system.

Christians believe that true worship is the highest and noblest activity of which man, by the grace of God, is capable.

Those only are happy (I thought) who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness.

The world would be astonished if it knew how great a proportion of its brightest ornaments, of those distinguished even in popular estimation for wisdom and virtue, are complete sceptics in religion.

The disease which inflicts bureaucracy and what they usually die from is routine.

Fascism will come at the hands of perfectly authentic Americans.

Our cultural dilemma has nothing to do with children who don't read very well. It lies instead in the difficulty of finding a way to restore meaning and purpose to modern life.

Tell your readers to use it or lose it. If you don't use your muscles, they get weak. If you don't use your mind it begins to fail.

So you know what I'm gonna do? I'm gonna do something really outrageous, I'm gonna tell the truth.

Everything is on its way to somewhere.

I've always thought that as long as I did the right things and had the right intentions, everything would fall into place.

As human beings, we're given intelligence. This is how we make our way through this reality, how we manifest our reality clearly and coherently.

Beneath all the wealth of detail in a geological map lies an elegant, orderly simplicity.

We're past the age of heroes and hero kings. ... Most of our lives are basically mundane and dull, and it's up to the writer to find ways to make them interesting.