John Quotes

I hate being the heartbreaker. Hate it. If I date somebody and it doesn't work out, it's another nightmare for me.

The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education.

In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.

It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.

Even though I have often recorded alone, I still feel the best music is made by musicians playing off each other.

The social object of skilled investment should be to defeat the dark forces of time and ignorance which envelope our future.

Squats don't hurt your knees; what you are doing hurts your knees.

It's hard to peak when you've been training since 1965.

You don’t get rich off your day job, you get rich off your homework.

Poor people put a low value on themselves and their efforts.

Always dress to what is accurate to who and what you are.

I'm glad I've given up drugs and alcohol. It would be awful to be like Keith Richards. He's pathetic. It's like a monkey with arthritis, trying to go onstage and look young.

I never thought of myself as being handsome or good-looking or whatever.

Hold me closer tiny dancer, count the headlights on the highway. Lay me down in sheets of linen, you had a busy day today.

Our liberty cannot be taken away unless the people are themselves accomplices.

Fleets cannot operate without bases.

Before any great things are accomplished, a memorable change must be made in the system of education...to raise the lower ranks of society nearer to the higher.

Ambition is the subtlest beast of the intellectual and moral field. It is wonderfully adroit in concealing itself from its owner.

Religion and virtue are the only foundations, not of republicanism and of all free government, but of social felicity under all government and in all the combinations of human society.

Historically, usury was defined as any interest whatever on an unproductive loan.Our whole banking system I have ever abhorred, I continue to abhor, and I shall die abhorring.

Great leaders make people feel important.

Knowledge comes by taking things apart, analysis. But wisdom comes by putting things together.

Mathematicians are a bit like the laconic Vermonter who, when asked if he's lived in the state his whole life, replies, "Not yet."

To Latter-day Saints there can be no objection to the careful and critical study of the scriptures, ancient or modern, provided only that it be an honest study - a search for truth.

Law is a Bottomless-Pit, it is a Cormorant, a Harpy, that devours every thing.

The soul is not a soul, Has no secret, is small, and it fits Its hollow perfectly: its room, our moment of attention.

I always thought that writing poetry was in itself a political act.

If you do not master the art of self discipline- you will succumb to the emotions and reality of regret.

Reality is the cage of those who lack imagination.

There is no great invention, from fire to flying, which has not been hailed as an insult to some god.

I, myself, have had many failures and I've learned that if you are not failing a lot, you are probably not being as creative as you could be -you aren't stretching your imagination.

Find the most puzzling kind of art you can think of, and then go out and try to approximate it with your camera. Take a photograph that corresponds to it. (Assignment to students.)

You can only be as good as you dare to be bad.

Nothing is loathsomer than the self-loathing of a self one loathes.

Every moderate drinker could abandon the intoxicating cup if he would; every inebriate would if he could.

Reputation is for time; character is for eternity.

The opposite of love is not to hate but to separate. If love and hate have something in common it is because, in both cases, their energy is that of bringing and holding together

These Songs are not meant to be understood, you understand. They are only meant to terrify & comfort.

Hymns are the poetry of the people.

I have a Vision of the Future, chum. The workers flats in fields of soya beans tower up like silver pencils, score on score.

Gracious Lord, oh bomb the Germans. Spare their women for Thy Sake, And if that is not too easy, We will pardon Thy Mistake. But, gracious Lord, whate'er shall be, Don't let anyone bomb me.

A whispering and watery Norfolk sound Telling of all the moonlit reeds around.

Jesus never gave advice

Since its first day as a nation, Israel has lived under a cloud of aggression from militant extremists and hostile neighboring governments.

Reform is not a one-night stand.

Anonymity is the fame of the future.

Children are curious and are risk takers. They have lots of courage. They venture out into a world that is immense and dangerous. A child initially trusts life and the processes of life.

Tis mean for empty praise of wit to write, As fopplings grin to show their teeth are white.

I would have been content with any job however thankless, in any quarter however remote, if I had a chance of making a corner of the desert blossom and the solitary place glad.

I believe that every man has in his soul a passion for treasure-hunting, which will often drive a coward into prodigies of valour.