John Quotes

If we hadn't put a man on the moon, there wouldn't be a Silicon Valley today

Innovation, I believe, is the only way that America will regain the initiative in a global dynamic economy.

If you can't say it clearly, you don't understand it yourself

There is no success or failure in Nature.

Dualism makes the problem insoluble; materialism denies the existence of any phenomenon to study, and hence of any problem.

If I ain't learning, it ain't fun.

The most important invention that will come out of the corporate research lab in the future will be the corporation itself.

We are working on creating self-describing, self-organizing, self-diagnosing and self-repairing networks.

It appears to be in the nature of religion itself to be prejudiced against those who are different.

Whatever diminishes life is evil, and whatever enhances life is good.

My sense is if the Episcopal Church can't stand challenge within its own ranks, then it is not a church I would want to be a member of anyway.

Prayer cannot be a request made to a theistic deity to act in human history in a particular way.

We are told that this is an odious and unpopular tax. I never knew a tax that was not odious and unpopular with the people who paid it.

No matter how good or bad you have it, wake up each day thankful for your life. Someone somewhere else is desperately fighting for theirs.

When values are clear, decisions are easy.

Anyone can come into your life and say how much they love you. It takes someone really special to stay in your life and show how much they love you.

Falling in love is not a choice. To stay in love is.

The history of Hillary Clinton as a five-year senator is to promote Hillary Clinton and not the needs of New Yorkers

Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject.

All this will not be finished in the first one hundred days. Nor will it be finished in the first one thousand days . . .nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin.

Man has a choice and it's a choice that makes him a man.

Evening of a hot day started the little wind to moving among the leaves. The shade climbed up the hills toward the top. On the sand banks the rabbits sat as quietly as little gray, sculptured stones.

Can you honestly love a dishonest thing?

It is easier to move from failure to success in from excuses to success.

A saving, though an immethodical knowledge of Christ, will bring us to heaven, John 17: 2, but a regular and methodical, as well as a saving knowledge of him, will bring heaven into us, Col. 2: 2, 3.

Once you have lived in New York and made it your home, no place else is good enough

Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it.

I'm not going to say I was opposed to the Vietnam War. I'm going to say I'm opposed to war. But I'm also opposed to protests that deny other people their rights.

Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory. It can no longer serve to settle disputes... can no longer be of concern to great powers alone.

Young people are threatened... by the evil use of advertising techniques that stimulate the natural inclination to avoid hard work by promising the immediate satisfaction of every desire.

Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family - a domestic church.

Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

Material possessions, winning scores, and great reputations are meaningless in the eyes of the Lord, because He knows what we really are and that is all that matters.

Growth is the great separator between those who succeed and those who do not. When I see a person beginning to separate themselves from the pack, it's almost always due to personal growth.

Here is everything which can lay hold of the eye, ear and imagination - everything which can charm and bewitch the simple and ignorant. I wonder how Luther ever broke the spell.

My brother Bob doesn't want to be in government - he promised Dad he'd go straight.

Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.

All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words 'Ich bin ein Berliner!'

Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.

You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect.

I don't know how I look, but I know how I feel: Young. Goofy. Infinite.

I hated sports. I hated sports, and I hated people who played them, and I hated people who watched them, and I hated people who didn't hate people who watched or played them.

He who has truth at his heart need never fear the want of persuasion on his tongue.

Providence is wiser than you, and you may be confident it has suited all things better to your eternal good than you could do had you been left to your own option.

There are two kinds of fools. One says, "This is old, and therefore good." And one says, " This is new, and therefore better.

What is life? It departs covertly. Like a thief Death took him.

But far more numerous was the herd of such, Who think too little, and who talk too much.

An anaesthetic is a poet-killer.

You will not kill my girlfriend today, International Terrorists of Ambiguous Nationality!

Nerd life is just so much better than regular life.