John Quotes

A good Christian cannot be a bad husband or father and, as this is equally true in everything, he who has the most piety will shine the most in all the relationships of life.

Don't act your age in retirement. Act like the inner young person you have always been.

Never contradict. Never explain. Never apologize. (Those are the secrets of a happy life!)

The first Care in building of Cities, is to make them airy and well perflated; infectious Distempers must necessarily be propagated amongst Mankind living close together.

It is rather suitable for umpires to dress like dentists, since one of their tasks is to draw stumps.

The umpire signals a bye with the air of a weary stalk

Ray Illingworth is relieving himself in front of the pavilion.

Fred Trueman the man has often been tactless, haphazard, crude, a creature of impulse.

I don't want to read what is going to slide down easily; there has to be some crunch, a certain amount of resilience.

Just when I thought there wasn't room enough for another thought in my head, I had this great idea—

Part of the strength of Pollock and Rothko's art, in fact, is this doubt as to whether art may be there at all.

A trustee has a responsibility to guard the assets of others with a higher degree of care than he does his own.

I pray everyday, all the time. Prayer is when you are actually experiencing a conversation with divine intelligence.

First we have to understand what doubts and fears are, how anxiety and doubts and fears come about. They are a psychic disease.

We can have whatever it is that we choose. I don't care how big it is.

It is important to me that what Poe has to say gets across to people. I want to give people the feeling that I get from all this. I think that we are succeeding. The feedback is very warm.

If you don't run your own life, somebody else will.

Now, it's common knowledge that most towns of a certain size have a witch, if only to eat misbehaving children and the occasional puppy who wanders into her yard.

There can be no truce between science and religion.

Until politics are a branch of science, we shall do well to regard political and social reforms as experiments rather than short-cuts to the millennium.

When you turn your heart and your life over to Christ, when you accept Christ as the savior, it changes your heart. It changes your life. And that's what happened to me.

Much of my work has come from being lazy.

Excess makes the heart grow fonder.

A man is not much if he can't depend on himself, and nothing if others can't depend on him.

Ladies of the choir, I want you to sound like twenty-two women having babies without chloroform.

Method acting? There are quite a few methods. Mine involves a lot of talent, a glass, and some cracked ice.

I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.

If it isn't the sheriff, it's the finance company; I've got more attachments on me than a vacuum cleaner.

My wife is the kind of girl who will not go anywhere without her mother, and her mother will go anywhere.

Search, a marketing method that didn't exist a decade ago, provides the most efficient and inexpensive way for businesses to find leads.

Vermeer's woman reading a letter is as full of latent or subliminal kitsch as Tolstoy's War and Peace.

Freshman want to play. Sophomores want to start. Juniors want to score. Seniors want to win

I give so much pleasure to so many people. Why can I not get some pleasure for myself?

I am seeking every day to restore faith in Parliament - to ensure we have a House of Commons which is representative, effective and reconnected to the people we serve.

I never aspired to be Speaker simply so I could say, 'I am the Speaker of the House of Commons,' and tell my children that.

It is seeing which establishes our place in the surrounding world; we explain that world with words, but words can never undo the fact that we are surrounded by it

A man's presence suggests what he is capable of doing to you or for you. By contrast, a woman's presence... defines what can and cannot be done to her.

What do drawings mean to me? I really don't know. The activity absorbs me. I forget everything else in a way that I don't think happens with any other activity.

Post-modernism has cut off the present from all futures. The daily media add to this by cutting off the past. Which means that critical opinion is often orphaned in the present.

One must be ruthless with one's own writing or someone else will be.

Christ is the aperture through which the immensity and magnificence of God can be seen.

This truth remains: Only those you care about can hurt you. You expect more from them-after all, you've given more of yourself to them. The higher the expectations, the greater the fall.

Behold, I have refined you, but not as silver; I have tested you in the furnace of affliction.

I'm not saying running could solve all of the world's problems, but I think it would be a good start.

You already have everything you need to be a long-distance athlete. It's mindset, not miles, that separates those who do from those who dream.

It isn’t a matter of getting the body you want, it’s a matter of doing the most you can with the body you have.

Don't let worn-out beliefs stop you from moving beyond yourself.

Mr. President, the buzz saw that your healthcare bill ran into wasn't lobbyists and special interests it was tens of millions of American's who were saying, 'Stop!'

Diplomacy is not an end in itself if it does not advance U.S. interests.

I think the marketing needs work.