John Quotes
Act out being alive, like a play. And after a while, a long while, it will be true.
The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true.
It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world.
It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish and loses had it coming.
Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
We’d met at a carefree time, a moment full of promise, in its place now were the harsh lessons of the real world.
I will not deny but that the best apology against false accusers is silence and sufferance, and honest deeds set against dishonest words.
We carry the dead with us only until we die too, and then it is we who are borne along for a little while, and then our bearers in their turn drop, and so on into the unimaginable generations.
By repetition, each lie becomes an irreversible fact upon which other lies are constructed.
When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale.
When people respect someone as a person, they admire her. When they respect her as a friend, they love her. When they respect her as a leader, they follow her.
There is no creature so perfect in wisdom and knowledge but may learn something for time present, and to come, by times past.
He looked the boy up and down as if he had never seen a child before and wasn't quite sure what he was supposed to do with one: eat it, ignore it or kick it down the stairs.
I'm really not up for answering any questions that start with how, when, where, why or what.
The businessman is only tolerable so long as his gains can be held to bear some relation to what, roughly and in some sense, his activities have contributed to society.
Our duty is to believe that for which we have sufficient evidence, and to suspend our judgment when we have not.
Prayer finds its source in God's holiness and it is at the same time our response to this holiness.
The law, instead of cleansing the heart from sin, doth revive it, put strength into, and increase it in the soul, even as it doth discover and forbid it, for it doth not give power to subdue.
It is not easy to be crafty and winsome at the same time, and few accomplish it after the age of six.
They were involved in that awkward procedure of getting to unknow each other.
In the English language, it all comes down to this: Twenty-six letters, when combined correctly, can create magic. Twenty -six letters form the foundation of a free, informed society.
In charity to all mankind, bearing no malice or ill will to any human being, and even compassionating those who hold in bondage their fellow men, not knowing what they do.
That one never asks a question unless he knows the answer is basic to parliamentary questioning.
I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.
Studies show that children best flourish when one mom and one dad are there to raise them.
Without television and mass communication, that knowledge wouldn't exist. So I think it actually has the possibility of turning people into more understanding and more empathetic people.
The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual.
I think the feelings in my music were suggested to me before I even had the ability to play music.
Life has a certain flavor for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.