John Quotes

Oh, Fortuna, you capricious sprite!

All crises have involved debt that, in one fashion or another, has become dangerously out of scale in relation to the underlying means of payment.

In recent times no problem has been more puzzling to thoughtful people than why, in a troubled world, we make such poor use of our affluence.

The spirit should never grow old.

As memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven, it may also be a hell from which we cannot escape.

Dislike of another's opinions and beliefs neither justifies our own nor makes us more certain of them: and to transfer the repugnance to the person himself is a mark of a vulgar mind.

If we are to begin to try and understand life as it will be in 1960, we must begin by realizing that food, clothing and shelter will cost as little as air

The fact that you can only do a little is no excuse for doing nothing.

There's one thing worse than change and that's the status quo.

People who've had very unhappy childhoods are pretty good at inventing themselves. If nobody invents you for yourself, nothing is left but to invent yourself for others.

There are no problems, only solutions.

There was something wrong with me, I thought, because I seemed to see things other people didn't see.

Everything they told me as a kid has already been disproved by the same type of “experts” who made them up in the first place.

Life is what happens to you while you're planning on doing something else.

Meanings of all songs come after they are recorded. Someone else has to interpret them

I was a working-class macho guy who was used to being served and Yoko didn't buy that. From the day I met her, she demanded equal time, equal space, equal rights.

By the mid 1920s the typical American town was in full sexual bloom. The change came with erotic fashions, literature and movies, and an unsuspected sexual aid, the automobile.

The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good.

A soil, exhausted by the long culture of Pagan empires, was to lie fallow for a still longer period.

Fresh air is as good for the mind as for the body. Nature always seems trying to talk to us as if she had some great secret to tell. And so she has.

It seems like there are always gatekeepers. People between you and the people who are moved by your work. They often make a beautiful thing creepy.

Until I see an Arab country, a Muslim country, with a democracy, I won't understand how anyone can have a problem with how they're treated.

Over the years, during television interviews, whenever the host or the reviewer or whoever gets cynical and nasty with me, I will behave accordingly. I will defend myself.

If you have no fear, no one has power over you.

If is a very big preposition.

I'm not a control maniac.

I'm a little bit of a fabric lunatic.

All these words, words like 'evil' and 'vicious', they meant nothing to Nature. Yes, evil was a human invention.

The acme of judicial distinction means the ability to look a lawyer straight in the eyes for two hours and not hear a damned word he says.

Man's body is faulty, his mind untrustworthy, but his imagination has made him remarkable.

Even when the facts are available, most people seem to prefer the legend, and refuse to believe the truth when it in any way dislodges the myth.

She knows what is the best purpose of education: not to be frightened by the best but to treat it as part of daily life.

Most times when you try to be all things to all people, you end up being nothing.

Fathers be good to your daughters, daughters will love like you do. Girls become lovers, who turn into mothers, so mothers be good to your daughters, too.

[on Jessica Simpson] Yeah, that girl is like crack cocaine to me. Sexually it was crazy. That's all I'll say. It was like napalm, sexual napalm.

Well, when I get new information, I rethink my position. What, sir, do you do with new information?

Keep moving if you love life, and keep your troubles well behind you.

You know that old Beach Boys song, Bomb Iran? Bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran.

We must win in Iraq. If we withdraw, there will be chaos, there will be genocide, and they will follow us home.

I belong to the middle class that grew up very influenced by the Catholic church. The people of the novel are from a more pagan and practical world in which the Christianity is just a veneer.

I can't stand a sentence until it sounds right.

Grace, Mercy and Forgiveness will help a man walk tall. Walk tall!

I enjoy the pleasure of my own company.

What we do to each other are the worst things that we do.

To live a life half dead, a living death.

For neither man nor angel can discern hypocrisy, the only evil that walks invisible, except to God alone.

Swinish gluttony never looks to heaven amidst its gorgeous feast; but with besotted, base ingratitude, cravens and blasphemes his feeder.

With ruin upon ruin, rout on rout, Confusion worse confounded.

On the tawny sands and shelves trip the pert fairies and the dapper elves.

An honest brew makes its own friends.