John Quotes

I think what I do is find a cliché and try to believe in it, try to get to where I don't laugh at it.

Maybe the absence of signs is a sign.

I want story, wit, music, wryness, color, and a sense of reality in what I read, and I try to get it in what I write.

Being an adult means accepting those situations where no action is possible.

The day of combination is here to stay. Individualism has gone, never to return.

Words and ideas are a description of reality, silence is a negation of reality. What is the reality itself?

Zen is a special transmission outside the scriptures,With no reliance on words and letters.A direct pointing to the human mind,And the realization of enlightenment.

When you rest in the weakness of your heart, your being moves and your self becomes quieted.

I don't want to just entertain people. I want to touch them.

Love the earth as you would love yourself.

Imagine what it might do to the human spirit to know that we have conquered hunger as a world wide societal issue?

Talk of poems and prayers and promises, and things that we believe in. How sweet it is to love someone, how right it is to care, how long it's been since yesterday.

Politics, as any observer of the modern world knows, is the enemy of economics, everywhere and always.

Cease conceiving of education as mere preparation for later life, and make it the full meaning of the present life.

Schools should take part in the great work of construction and organization that will have to be done.

At Dartmouth, we make you into a man by allowing you to remain a boy.

The most important thing is how you program and how you choose your records. That really does sort out who is a good DJ and who is just playing records.

If were going to change the laws, lets change them in ways which makes it easier to catch criminals, and yet at the same time protect the Second Amendment rights of our law-abiding citizens.

Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.

How imperfect is all our knowledge!

So in a voice, so in a shapeless flame, Angels affect us often.

Our two souls therefore which are one, Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but an expansion, Like gold to airy thinness beat.

So, so, break off this last lamenting kiss, Which sucks two souls, and vapors both away.

I never see the dawn that I don't say to myself perhaps.

Reason to rule, mercy to forgive: The first is law, the last prerogative. Life is an adventure in forgiveness.

Riches cannot rescue from the grave, which claims alike the monarch and the slave.

Not everybody is going to love what you do, but you have to be yourself, that's what's most important. Bring it as hard as you can.

There are certain crimes that are simply too cruel, too sadistic, too hideous to be forgiven.

Adventure, with all its requisite danger and wildness, is a deeply spiritual longing written into the soul of man.

For after years of living in a cage, a lion no longer even believes it is a lion . . . and a man no longer believes he is a man.

I became a vegetarian 55 years ago, and I think it's one of the more important behavioral changes I ever took. The more I see of the beef industry and so on, I believe that to be true.

I normally run the 40-yard dash in 4.9, but when a 280-pound guy is chasing me, I run it in 4.6.

The gardener's work is never at at end; it begins with the year, and continues to the next: he prepares the ground, and then he sows it; after that he plants, and then he gathers the fruits.

Here we supped . . ., having amongst other dainties, a dish of truffles, an earth nut found by an hogg trained to it.

I want every American to be free to stand up for his rights, even if sometimes he has to sit down for them.

Immigration policy should be generous; it should be fair; it should be flexible. With such a policy we can turn to the world, and to our own past, with clean hands and a clear conscience.

No man who enters upon the office to which I have succeeded can fail to recognize how every president of the United States has placed special reliance upon his faith in God.

The earth, the sea and air are the concern of every nation. And science, technology, and education can be the ally of every nation.

In that case, there is no time to lose. Plant it this afternoon!

Disarmament without checks is but a shadow - and a community without law is but a shell.

Values are not just words, values are what we live by. They're about the causes that we champion and the people we fight for.

Men cannot live without mystery. He has a great need of it.

The heart of a Christian, like the moon, commonly suffers an eclipse when it is at the full, and that by the interposition of the earth.

Christ bounds and terminates the vast desires of the soul; He is the very Sabbath of the soul.

Corruption is a tree, whose branches are Of an immeasurable length: they spread Ev'rywhere; and the dew that drops from thence Hath infected some chairs and stools of authority.

Playing guitar is a never-finished journey.

You evil thing, why do you haunt me?

Love is a tyrant, resisted.

Always we try to put the wild in a cage.

Artists are the only people in the world who really live. The others have to hope for heaven.