John Quotes

This one's for Alaska Young!

The way I figure it, everyone gets a miracle.

It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

I always wanted to be a juvenile delinquent but my parents wouldn't let me.

Had that poor Reilly kook really been proud of Levy Pants? He had always said that he was. That was one good sign of his insanity.

Tyranny is like the electric wiring in an old house. A tyrant dies, the new tyrant takes possession, and all he has to do is drop the switch.

Without the fear of God, men do not even observe justice and charity among themselves.

Good conduct arises out of good doctrine.

There is a love of wild nature in everybody, an ancient mother-love showing itself whether recognized or no, and however covered by cares and duties

The marks humans leave are too often scars.

All the blessings we enjoy are Divine deposits, committed to our trust on this condition, that they should be dispensed for the benefit of our neighbors.

Some people have more guts than brains.

The media network has its idols, but its principal idol is its own style which generates an aura of winning and leaves the rest in darkness. It recognizes neither pity nor pitilessness.

Prayer unaccompanied by perseverance leads to no result.

Men had suddenly become a scarce commodity, if not quite as sought after as rice.

Faith is born and sustained by the Word of God, and out of faith grows the flower of joy.

We were about to give up and call it a night when somebody threw the girl off the bridge.

You would not ask someone with a broken arm to swim the English Channel, so you cannot demand that the broken to live as if they were whole.

Son, the greatest trick the Devil pulled was convincing the world there was only one of him.

The Bible just said ‘Thou shalt not kill’, then told hundreds of stories of people killing each other and becoming heroes, like David with Goliath.

The best government is that which governs least.

He who has learned to look to God in everything he does is at the same time diverted from all vain thoughts.

I try to maintain a positive attitude at all times, because clients notice little things like that, and if you're frowning and crying all the time and saying "why? why?", they get worried.

Would ye both eat your cake and have your cake?

I've never known before what it feels like to want someone - not to want to hook up with them or whatever, but to want them, to want them. And now I do. So maybe I do believe in epiphanies.

We just did an awesome job of not dying.

Why write about the past? Well, there's more of it.

Whereas Nature does not admit of more than three dimensions ... it may justly seem very improper to talk of a solid ... drawn into a fourth, fifth, sixth, or further dimension.

The sad thing about true stupidity is that you can do absolutely nothing about it.

Everyone seems to be playing well within the boundaries of his usual rule set. I have yet to hear anyone say something that seemed likely to mitigate the idiocy of this age.

The lie, of course, is more interesting.

It seemed like forever ago, like we've had this brief but still infinite forever. Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.

I believe humans have souls, and I believe in the conservation of souls.

Good writing is always about things that are important to you, things that are scary to you, things that eat you up.

No architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.

The bee that hath honey in her mouth hath a sting in her tail.

None but the brave deserve the fair.

Faith is a total attitude of the self.

A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world.

Enough is as good as a feast.

To accept a favor from a friend is to confer one.

Where more is meant than meets the ear.

All hell broke loose.

Nothing in business is so valuable as time.

Repentance is but want of power to sin.

To render ourselves insensible to pain we must forfeit also the possibilities of happiness.

If anyone asks for your autograph they're showing you respect and give it back to them.

I have tremendous respect for film composers.

Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.

Sure, the comedians who swear or use scatological humor can get laughs, but they're uncomfortable laughs.