John Quotes

Secret guilt is by silence revealed.

Old age creeps on us ere we think it nigh.

Calms appear, when Storms are past; Love will have his Hour at last: Nature is my kindly Care; Mars destroys, and I repair; Take me, take me, while you may, Venus comes not ev'ry Day.

The writings of leading ID proponents reveal that the designer postulated by their argument is the God of Christianity.

A precisian professor had the habit of saying: "... quartic polynomial ax^4+bx^3+cx^2+dx+e , where e need not be the base of the natural logarithms."

I've been giving this lecture to first-year classes for over twenty-five years. You'd think they would begin to understand it by now.

As a writer, you don't know what the hell you're doing. You're just doing it. You hope it works out well.

A man must have a battle to fight, a great mission to his life that involves and yet transcends even home and family.

I don't write anything that I haven't lived. In terms of integrity, you have to write what you live. And if you write beyond what you live, it is theory. And theory is not helpful. It is just not.

I'm worried about greenwashing. I think we should come down on it very, very hard, whether it's with criminal intent or actively deceptive.

Reaching 50, I've started to conjure up thoughts of my own mortality.

With bass, especially bottom end, the vibration has to happen on stage otherwise the feel is wrong. This is why you can't scale the equipment down too far.

Not everyone has equal abilities, but everyone should have equal opportunity for education.

The farmer is the only man in our economy who buys everything at retail, sells everything at wholesale, and pays the freight both ways.

There is danger that totalitarian governments, not subject to vigorous popular debate, will underestimate the will and unity of democratic societies where vital interests are concerned.

Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man

For plague and pestilence, plunder and pollution, the hazards of nature and the hunger of children are the foes of every nation. The earth, the sea and the air are the concern of every nation.

Modern cynics and skeptics... see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing.

The Jewish people, ever since David slew Goliath, have never considered youth as a barrier to leadership.

Privilege is here, and with privilege goes responsibility.

I believe in an America ... where no public official either requests or accepts instructions on public policy from the Pope, the National Council of Churches, or any other ecclesiastical source.

And all I do is look into your eyes For that special touch of paradise

When God gives you comforts, it is your great evil not to observe His hand in them.

Oh sirs, deal with sin as sin, and speak of heaven and hell as they are, and not as if you were in jest.

It is the duty of the saints, especially in times of straights, to reflect upon the performances of Providence for them in all the states and through all the stages of their lives.

I ain't got no time for a Caribbean cruise, just give me a song and a beer.

Let the people know my wisdom, fill the land with smoke

It is easier to get an actor to be a cowboy than to get a cowboy to be an actor.

There are plenty of problems in the world, many of them interconnected. But there is no problem which compares with this central, universal problem of saving the human race from extinction

I love making, I love doing. I love being to the full, I love everything which is not sitting and watching and copying and dead at heart.

Don't be afraid to borrow. The great men, the most original, borrowed from everybody.

Originality is a quality that cannot be imitated. The technique of the language, on the other hand, is something that belongs to all who can understand it.

Line is the most powerful device of drawing.

My religious point of view is something I can't talk about. It goes against my belief system to talk publicly about my own spiritual beliefs.

A slave in the fields one night He's running along Gets far enough to be a free man And he's feeling so strong

We live in a country where voting rights get gutted but Sharknado gets a sequel.

I may not be Hispanic, but I'm close. I'm Catholic with a mustache[]

It is interesting that the investment industry has invented new ways to lose money when the old ways seemed to work just fine.

I love New York. But the energy is so intense

Slang is vigorous and apt. Probably most of our vital words were once slang.

A Wolf eats sheep but now and then; Ten thousands are devour'd by men. An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretend friend is worse.

A woman's friendship ever ends in love.

Most of my friends seem to be either dead, extremely deaf or living on the wrong side of Kent.

When I first went to America in 1928, there were spittoons everywhere. I remember avoiding spit as it flew past me in Times Square. Very unattractive.

Sun Cellular is the biggest investment in my business career.

Public education has served as a check on the power of parents, and this is another powerful reason for maintaining it.

The power of laughter & love would beat out the power of fear every time.

I'm just a lazy boy. I'd rather sit in my recliner and act.

Physiology is the basis of all medical improvement and in precise proportion as our survey of it becomes more accurate and extended, it is rendered more solid.

We are as indestructible as we believe ourselves to be.