John Quotes
Admire and adore the Author of the telescopic universe, love and esteem the work, do all in your power to lessen ill, and increase good, but never assume to comprehend.
Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.
Don't make it worse by thinking it's more painful than it actually is.
Now, Mr. Great-heart was a strong man, so he was not afraid of a lion.
What is hardest to accept about the passage of time is that the people who once mattered the most to us wind up in parentheses.
depression is not a side effect of cancer. Depression is a side effect of dying.
I know of no other way to triumph over sin long-term than to gain a distaste for it because of a superior satisfaction in God.
We are not to look to what men in themselves deserve but to attend to the image of God which exists in all and to which we owe all honor and love.
There is so little difference between husbands you might as well keep the first.
A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.
Fantastic! Right in the middle of that long stretch between Christmas and Spring Break, your coats are getting dirty, everything's dark, dingy - what a great time for a movie!
Nothing in the nature around us is evil. This needs to be repeated since one of the human ways of talking oneself into inhuman acts is to cite the supposed cruelty of nature.
The belief that all genuine education comes about through experience does not mean that all experiences are genuinely or equally educative.
Anyone with a computer and a design program can create a page layout. But unless you're trained in design, it won't look very good and it won't communicate very well.
The art of using deceit and cunning grow continually weaker and less effective to the user.
Most men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older.
Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.
I think for the most part people are proud of the bicultural foundation New Zealand is built on and the fact that we are a multicultural society.
When I am around someone who is a joy stealer, I say to myself, I only have to deal with you for an hour. That person has to deal with thinking that way every moment of their lives.
Photography is one of the most authentic and integral modes of expression possible in this world in which we live.
When you succeed you have a million people to thank, but when you fail there is only one person to blame.
If you don't educate yourself, you'll never get out of the starting block because you'll spend all your money making foolish decisions.
Doc has been my name all my life, and John is my middle name. I'm proud of all my names - Malcolm John Michael Creaux Rebennack. I'm proud of them names.
It's very important to have two tiaras when you're on the road. You never know when you'll be invited to something really formal.
Rather a man with 50 per cent ability and 100 per cent character than a man with 100 per cent ability and 50 per cent character.