John Quotes

There is no rest in the heart of God until He knows that you are at resh in His grace.

Nerd girls are the world’s most underutilized romantic resource. And guys, do not tell me that nerd girls are not hot because that shows a Paris Hilton-esque failure to understand hotness.

Farewell Hope, and with Hope farewell Fear

The times that were most fun seemed always to be followed by sadness now, because it was when life started to feel like it did when she was with us that we realized how utterly gone she was.

You have to remember that it is impossible to commit a crime while reading a book.

Life is serious but art is fun!

If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that... I believe in what I do, and I'll say it.

All great art is a form of complaint

Wealth, in even the most improbable cases, manages to convey the aspect of intelligence.

We are not meant to know the time or the nature of our deaths (for all of us secretly hope that we may be immortal).

Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity. Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.

It is perfectly acceptable to have a physical problem in our culture, but people tend to shy away from anything that has to do with the emotions.

If we seem to get no good by attempting to draw near to Him, we may be sure we will get none by keeping away from Him.

You can learn a lot from your lovers, but-for the most part-you get to keep your friends longer, and you learn more from them.

but good friends are nothing to each other if they are not supportive.

I wouldn't describe myself as lacking in confidence, but I would just say that - the ghosts you chase you never catch.

I mingle with my peers or no one, and since I have no peers, I mingle with no one.

All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.

Man's nature, so to speak, is a perpetual factory of idols.

No one can be a great thinker who does not recognize that as a thinker it is his first duty to follow his intellect to whatever conclusions it may lead.

We all agree that pessimism is a mark of superior intellect.

If truth does not lead to falling in love, it fails.

They were on the side of the angels, even if the angels weren't entirely sure that this was a good thing.

Prayers will never reach God unless they are founded on free mercy.

He had quite liked the dwarfs. He often had no idea what they were talking about, but for a group of homicidal, class-obsessed small people, they were really rather good fun.

Anybody who has had a great treasure has always led a precarious existence.

Go, send, or disobey.

The rules of capitalization are so unfair to words in the middle of a sentence.

I am learning to live close to the lives of my friends without ever seeing them. No miles of any measurement can separate your soul from mine.

Calculation never made a hero.

I think the young actor who really wants to act will find a way ... to keep at it and seize every opportunity that comes along.

Envy and fear are the only passions to which no pleasure is attached.

A sensible thanksgiving for mercies received is a mighty prayer in the Spirit of God. It prevails with Him unspeakably.

God warms his hands at man's heart when he prays.

War is the trade of kings.

Wickedness is weakness.

The scrape and snap of Keds on loose alley pebbles seems to catapult their voices high into the moist March air blue above the wires.

And God help Bruce Springsteen when they decide he's no longer God... They'll turn on him, and I hope he survives it.

Everybody's a dreamer.

Our strategy is one of preventing war by making it self-evident to our enemies that they're going to get their clocks cleaned if they start one.

Sloth is the failure to do what needs to be done when it needs to be done - like the kamikaze pilot who flew seventeen missions.

The deep joy we take in the company of people with whom we have just recently fallen in love is undisguisable.

All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul.

Mother Nature is not sweet.

Global Warming: It is a hoax. It is bad science. It is high-jacking public policy. It is the greatest scam in history.

In a home school, the kid does 95% of the work. But in a school system, since it's an indoctrination system, a teacher has to do 95% of the work.

The true and solid peace of nations consists not in equality of arms, but in mutual trust alone.

I was a teen star. That's disgusting enough.

Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.

As a former career intelligence professional, I have a profound appreciation for the value of intelligence. Intelligence disrupts terrorist plots and thwarts attacks. Intelligence saves lives.