John Quotes

Joe Barbera's s always complaining that he can't get humor into cartoons anymore. Just do it. You've got your money. Why do they let the networks run their lives?

War is wretched beyond description, and only a fool or a fraud could sentimentalize its cruel reality.

Occasionally, a re-enactment is a fine thing. I love Civil War re-enactments.

As we have seen, the wireless and the airplane have made the world so small and nations so dependent on each other that the only alternative to war is the United States of the World.

All that is needed to set us definitely on the road to a Fascist society is war. It will of course be a modified form of Fascism at first.

You accept failure as a possible outcome of some of the experiments. If you don't get failures, you're not pushing hard enough on the objectives.

Love is love's reward.

The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.

Loving your language means a command of its vocabulary beyond the level of the everyday.

Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five.

That's the biggest gap in sports, the difference between the winner and the loser of the Super Bowl.

I think it's going to be a very important, unique data set in terms of measuring the behavior of your lower body in space and trying to figure out what we can do to preserve bone and muscle density.

Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.

I don't want to see people decorating a house or digging a garden. As for guys like Jonathan Ross, he got an award there last Christmas. What for? He doesn't sing, dance or tell jokes, does he?

Knowledge of the sciences is so much smoke apart from the heavenly science of Christ.

Some dreamers demand that scientists only discover things that can be used for good.

Organ donation is very personal to me. My mother, before her death, was on kidney dialysis for several years.

I am reconciled to my death, but I detest the mode.

A fairly bright boy is far more intelligent and far better company than the average adult.

What is it that makes us trust our judges? Their independence in office and manner of appointment.

As an entrepreneur, you never stop learning.

I have always said there is only one thing that can bring our nation down - our dependence on foreign countries for food and energy. Agriculture is the backbone of our economy.

Women are women, and hurray for that.

For me it's important to be in balance. To not let fear get in the way of things, to not worry so much about protecting yourself all the time.

Such highly qualitative leadership is demanded especially in the realm of the fostering of right international relations. Here the demand is simply irresistible.

Everybody in America is soft, and hates conflict. The cure for this, both in politics and social life, is the same - hardihood. Give them raw truth.

Great leaders understand that historical success tends to produce stable and inwardly focused organizations, and these outfits, in turn, reinforce a feeling of contentment with the status quo.

There weren't any astronauts until I was about 10. Yuri Gagarin went into space right around my 10th birthday.

Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light.

I think the record shows that as Speaker, I have taken the lead in cleaning up politics.

For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred.

A savvy entrepreneur will not always look for investment money, first.

If you can get some of the devil's money to use for the Lord's work, if you have to borrow it, it is all right and carry on the work.

We can safely abandon the doctrine of the eighties, namely that the rich were not working because they had too little money, the poor because they had much.

The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.

Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.

The smile of God is victory.

Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.

Whatever crushes individuality is despotism, by whatever name it may be called and whether it professes to be enforcing the will of God or the injunctions of men.

And I find - I'm 63, and my capacity to be by myself and just spend time by myself hasn't diminished any. That's the necessary part of being a writer, you better like being alone.

Higher education must lead the march back to the fundamentals of human relationships, to the old discovery that is ever new, that man does not live by bread alone.

Humanism: an exaltation of freedom, but one limited by our need to exercise it as an integral part of nature and society.

A good lawyer is a bad Christian.

If we intend to provide a better life, and a better world, for future generations, we can't ignore the quality of the environment we leave them.

Denver is a city that will be far more defined by its future than its past.

I was so thrilled I attempted to mount my television

A painter leaves his emotions behind him for posterity to share.

I was sexually abused by my step father for years and years, and that caused scars you can't see. And we know many people have the kind of scars you can't see.

Friends are people who are in your life because you feel good around them and you like them. Friends are the people you choose to be with.

You can't have real and authentic friendships unless you honor your feelings.