John Quotes

Girls have a way of knowing or feeling what you feel, but they usually like to hear it also.

Some men hunger so much for love that they lose everything that is loveable about them.

A dying people tolerates the present, rejects the future, and finds its satisfactions in past greatness and half remembered glory

These too are of a burning color--not orange, not gold, but if pure gold were liquid and could raise a cream, that golden cream might be like the color of the poppies.

Texas is a state of mind. Texas is an obsession. Above all else, Texas is a nation in every sense of the word.

The theater is the only institution in the world which has been dying for four thousand years and has never succumbed. It requires tough and devoted people to keep it alive.

What hidden, hoarded longings there are in all of us.

I ought to of shot that dog myself, George. I shouldn't ought to of let no stranger shoot my dog.

There's no business that's too small for government to torture

You can either invade a country or leave them alone and trade with them. When goods cross borders, armies don't.

The cross is not just a badge to identify us...it is also the compass which gives us our bearings in a disoriented world.

Pride is more than the first of the seven deadly sins; it is itself the essence of all sin.

Faith is a reasoning trust, a trust which reckons thoughtfully and confidently upon the trustworthiness of God.

The Bible isn’t about people trying to discover God, but about God reaching out to find us.

The chief reason why the Christian believes in the divine origin of the Bible is that Jesus Christ Himself taught it.

Persecution is simply the clash between two irreconcilable value-systems.

As often as a study is cultivated by narrow minds, they will draw from it narrow conclusions.

Solitude in the presence of natural beauty and grandeur is the cradle of thought and aspirations which are not only good for the individual, but which society can ill do without.

The fatal tendency of mankind to leave off thinking about a thing when it is no longer doubtful is the cause of half their errors.

Persons of genius, it is true, are, and are always likely to be, a small minority; but in order to have them, it is necessary to preserve the soil in which they grow.

The reasons for legal intervention in favour of children apply not less strongly to the case of those unfortunate slaves and victims of the most brutal part of mankind - the lower animals.

... the besetting danger is not so much of embracing falsehood for truth, as of mistaking a part of the truth for the whole.

The application of algebra to geometry ... has immortalized the name of Descartes, and constitutes the greatest single step ever made in the progress of the exact sciences.

Complete liberty of contradicting and disproving our opinion, is the very condition which justifies us in assuming its truth for purposes of action.

Any participation, even in the smallest public function, is useful.

A handsome young guy is stretching his arms and waking up. He is just about to reach for his coffee and is now being wished good morning by me. Have a lovely day ahead.

What's happening is that people are making a billion photographs a year of their cats, frequently with the cats wearing costumes. Do you think I should be doing shows of cat photography?

Like an organism, photography was born whole. It is in our progressive discovery of it that its history lies.

Imperialism is an institution under which one nation asserts the right to seize the land or at least to control the government or resources of another people.

It is true intelligence for a man to take a subject that is mysterious and great in itself and to unfold and simplify it so that a child can understand it.

Let no day go by without counting your blessing.

Surprising and interesting things happen to those who keep their eyes and their minds open and alert!

Let's worship Divinity, but understand the divinity we worship is beyond our comprehension.

If you are not egotistical, you will welcome the opportunity to learn more.

Games are not so bad because the adrenalin keeps you going, but training on a daily basis when every time you move it hurts, that is a real battle.

Sincerity is to speak as we think, to do as we pretend and profess, to perform and make good what we promise, and really to be what we would seem and appear to be.

One of the things about the whole Harley motorcycle culture is that it's a little bit renegade.

There are a lot of people who want to give orders and be bossy that don't deserve respect.

If we are going to make a mark (key 21), it might as well be a meaningful one.

I guess there were fewer differences between me and social psychologists than between me and other people in general

Life is a roller coaster, you have your ups and downs unless you fall off.

People go around mourning the death of God; it's the death of sssin that bothers me. Without ssin, people aren't people any more, they're just ssoul-less sheep.

Of plants tomatoes seemed the most human, eager and fragile and prone to rot.

The tiger will see you a hundred times before you see him once.

Immunity corrupts; absolute immunity corrupts absolutely.

Whoever I am, or whatever I am doing, some kind of excellence is within my reach.

Excellence implies striving for the highest standards in every phase of life.

We have two companies of MARINES running all over this island and thousands of ARMY troops doing nothing!

That's my main thing: I want to be on the level those guys [Derrick Rose,Russell Westbrook, Kevin Durant] are on.

As a chapter closes in your life, And a new one starts for you, May your years be filled with all the things You've been looking forward to!