John Quotes

I don't wish my career on anyone.

Faithful continued prayer is one key to answered prayer. As James expresses it, "You do not have, because you do not ask God" (James 4:2).

In prayer we can approach God with complete assurance of His ability to answer us. There is no limit to what we can ask, if it is according to His will.

Too much reality in a picture is always a disappointment to the imaginative soul. We love suggestion and not hard facts.

In the anxiety to get beautiful colour harmony do not exhaust all combinations on one canvas.

Show me a man with a great golf game, and I’ll show you a man who has been neglecting something.

The world was not meant to be a prison in which man awaits his execution.

The American, by nature, is optimistic. He is experimental, an inventor and a builder who builds best when called upon to build greatly.

We in this country, in this generation, are, by destiny rather than choice, the watchmen on the walls of world freedom.

You know nothing for sure...except the fact that you know nothing for sure.

The margin is narrow, but the responsibility is clear.

Race has no place in American life or law.

I believe in a president whose religious views are his own private affair, neither imposed by him upon the nation, or imposed by the nation upon him as a condition to holding that office.

To be courageous requires no exceptional qualifications, no magic formula, no special combination of time, place, and circumstance. It is an opportunity that sooner or later is presented to us all.

We stand today on the edge of a new frontier.

The human mind is our fundamental resource.

When power corrupts, poetry cleanses

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values.

Anyone who is honestly seeking a job and can't find it, deserves the attention of the United States government, and the people.

I speak of peace, therefore, as the necessary rational end of rational men. I realize the pursuit of peace is not as dramatic as the pursuit of war... But we have no more urgent task.

Remember the hours after Sept. 11 when we came together as one...It was the worst day we have ever seen, but it brought out the best in all of us.

Folks, Sarah Palin said she could see Russia from Alaska. Mitt Romney talks like he's only seen Russia by watching 'Rocky IV.'

If America can go to the moon, then in the decades to come we should not ever have to have young Americans sent to any part of the world to defend and die for America's gluttony on fossil fuel.

Complacency doesn't make sense for a guy trying to redefine normal.

I have wanted women whose very shoes are worth all I have ever possessed.

Nothing is for sure. Change is the only thing that is the absolute.

As an artist and a songwriter myself, I like to feel connected to modern culture and watch how sounds change.

All nations want peace, but they want a peace that suits them.

An ordinary archer practices until he gets it right. A ranger practices until he never gets it wrong.

Well, we can ride together for a while longer. The highway south is farther along this way. I'll be glad of some cheerful company." "First time anyone's said that about me," Halt replied.

My soul is of more value than ten thousand worlds.

Where there is no want, there is usually much wantonness.

It is better to be as low as hell with a promise, than in Paradise without one.

Christ comes with kingly power, to rescue sinners, as a prey from the mouth of the terrible one.

When I'm standing at the Pearly Gates, I want to say to God, 'Don't look at the records. Look at my family. I'm much prouder about that part.'

Coonskin caps, Yankee bats, the Hound Dog man's big start. The A-bomb fears, Annette had ears, I lusted in my heart.

The main thing about directing is: photograph the people's eyes.

Affections injured by tyranny, or rigor of compulsion, like tempest-threatened trees, unfirmly rooted, never spring to timely growth

I figure there are a few actors like Marlon Brando, George C. Scott and Laurence Olivier who have been touched by the hand of God. I'm in the next bunch.

Once you drink one glass, you want another.

We all want things we can't have. Being a decent human being is accepting that.

Science disembodies; art embodies.

My hatred of crowds, the obviousness of crowds, of anything en masse. Is this why I like little-known books? A general desire to escape the main world.

Baseball and cricket are beautiful and highly stylized medieval war substitutes, chess made flesh, a mixture of proud chivalry and base-in both senses-greed.

When someone deeply listens to you, your barefeet are on the earth, and a beloved land that seemed distant, is now at home within you.

I've found that the more experts you have on a movie, the less control the director has.

In the hands of a master, light and shade is one of the great qualities of art.

A Drop of the Ocean is still the Ocean.

You know this moment in time Is all my life Every day is each day that's passed Every person alive is everyone's who's died

I think there is a spiritual hunger, and I think that people are really tired of getting kind of a two-dimensional take on religion in most of the media.