John Quotes

This is the last of earth! I am content.

Protecting Afghan civilians is the cornerstone of our mission.

Prayer is asking; the answer to prayer is receiving.

Everyone has an equal right to inequality.

If A were not allowed his better position, B would be even worse off than he is.

The good of political life is the good of free and equal citizens recognizing the duty of civility to one another and supporting the institutions of a constitutional regime.

Better the last smile than the first laughter.

Diseases are the tax on pleasures.

The EU will not stop wars: it wants an army to fight them.

It's always better to feed your enemies than to fight with them.

It may be healthier to eat beer and franks with cheer and thanks, than to eat sprouts and bread with doubts and dread.

Eating in a hurried or unconscious way, as so many of us have learned to do, is like receiving a love letter from the earth, but never taking the time to carefully read it.

History without politics descends to mere Literature.

An important function of the Supreme Court is to provide guidance, .. As a lower court judge, I appreciate clear guidance from the Supreme Court.

I'll admit I said something I shouldn't have said.

I have a group of close personal friends that are all my world. My family is my world. And as long as those people are happy with me, then I'm happy with myself.

You want stealth? Be a rogue in 'World of Warcraft'.

A joy that is shared is a joy made double.

It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated.

The distinguishing sign of slavery is to have a price, and to be bought for it.

There is nothing so small but that we may honor God by asking His guidance of it, or insult Him by taking it into our own hands.

A book worth reading is worth buying.

Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.

The object of true education is to make people not merely do the right things, but enjoy them

People cannot live by lending money to one another.

He thinks by infection, catching an opinion like a cold.

I believe the right question to ask, respecting all ornament, is simply this; was it done with enjoyment, was the carver happy while he was about it?

Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning.

Mighty of heart, mighty of mind, magnanimous-to be this is indeed to be great in life.

Come, ye cold winds, at January's call, On whistling wings, and with white flakes bestrew The earth.

There was always more in the world than men could see, walked they ever so slowly; they will see it no better for going fast. The really precious things are thought and sight, not pace.

Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition.

The true grotesque being the expression of the repose or play of a serious mind, there is a false grotesque opposed to it, which is the result of the full exertion of a frivolous one.

If a book is worth reading, it is worth buying.

The common practice of keeping up appearances with society is a mere selfish struggle of the vain with the vain.

And remember, child, that nothing is ever done beautifully, which is done in rivalship; or nobly, which is done in pride.

Government and cooperation are in all things the laws of life. Anarchy and competition, the laws of death.

Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime.

Nobody cares much at heart about Titian, only there is a strange undercurrent of everlasting murmur about his name, which means the deep consent of all great men that he is greater than they.

The sculptor does not work for the anatomist, but for the common observer of life and nature.

Every duty we omit obscures some truth we should have known.

People who have nothing to say, speak the loudest.

It's such a thrill to perform live. You never know if you're going to get hit with a bottle or a bra.

There are a lot of reasons to be hated in pop culture, and being a straight white male is one of them. In fact, I almost hate me

If you find yourself perplexed, or perhaps in a quandary, remember that human growth is perpendicular. We grow up and we grow forward, we just have to keep on growing steadily in both ways.

You grew up way too fast and now there's nothing to believe; and re-runs all become our history.

There's a difference between the fact that the universe is inherently unfair on a cosmic level, and the fact that life is unfair because people are actively making it so.

When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.

It's always better if you're next door. Ideas come up at the oddest times. They don't always come up in a conference call.

Steve [Jobs'] brilliance is his ability to see something and then understand it and then figure out how to put it into the context of his design methodology - everything is design.