John Quotes

God has joy for you right now.

It therefore should be possible for even the photographer - just as for the creative poet or painter - to use the object as a stepping stone to a realm of meaning completely beyond itself.

The mystery of light [and] the enigma of time form the twin pivots around which all my work revolves. In addition... my work attempts to create a mythology for our contemporary world.

There is a price you pay if you want to train military personnel - they don't all come back.

Their highs are too low and their lows are too high.

I've failed way more than I've succeeded.

I don't want to leave my kids an inheritance, I want to leave them a legacy

When you sell a product or service, you're making a promise to your audience. If you don't understand your audience, you'll never be able to keep that promise and you'll ultimately let them down.

My mother said, "Money is a great slave but a horrible master." It was her version of a French proverb.

You can make up your own opinion, but you can't make up your own facts, go sell.

Too often faith is used as an epistemological device to avoid the hard labor of straight thinking.

I've always wanted to smash a guitar over someone's head. You just can't do that with a piano.

I really appreciate my performing so much better, as I get older. I don't take it for granted anymore. I really relish it and love it.

I was sitting in the classroom trying to look intelligent in case the teacher looked at me.

I was more ashamed that I couldn't work the washing machine than the fact that I was taking drugs.

The world is near escalating to World War Three and where are the leaders of each religion? Why aren't they having a conclave; why aren't they coming together?

I get bombed for breakfast in the morning, I get bombed for dinner.

Don't be afraid to let her into your heart and when your down, don't try to carry the whole world on your shoulders.

I get high in the evening sniffing pots of glue.

Well, I've had my fair share in Britain of battling the tabloids.

No one ever thinks they’re awful, even people who really actually are. It’s some sort of survival mechanism.

I stood looking over my damaged home and tried to forget the sweetness of life on Earth.

Dirt is not dirty, but only something in the wrong place.

The fire of my adversity has purged the mass of my acquaintance.

On eluding conviction after mistrial: Why me? I am blessed. I can't complain. I am walking out the door. I am going to have a healthy and happy Christmas.

The tendency of all strong governments has always been to suppress liberty, partly in order to ease the processes of rule, partly from sheer disbelief in innovation.

The UFO manifestations seem to be, by and large, merely minor variations of the age-old demonological phenomenon.

In the final measure, nothing speaks like deeds

The sound and proper exercise of the imagination may be made to contribute to the cultivation of all that is virtuous and estimable in the human character.

So, these political activities will create friction in and of themselves, and in this environment of friction there'll be additional violence.

But clearly the fact that we've gone from zero Iraqi security forces on duty in May to up to 200,000 today is an enormous accomplishment, but it's not enough.

We have no Constitution which functions in the absence of a moral people

The appearance of religion only on Sunday proves that it is only an appearance.

Liberty can no more exist without virtue and independence than the body can live and move without a soul.

It is weakness rather than wickedness which renders men unfit to be trusted with unlimited power.

Let frugality and industry be our virtues.

A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man.

A pen is certainly an excellent instrument to fix a man's attention and to inflame his ambition.

We electors have an important constitutional power placed in our hands; we have a check upon two branches of the legislature.

It gets like this in Liverpool when you're on the ferry and the sun reflects off the Mersey.

So many see themselves as aggrieved; so few see themselves as aggrievers.

That is why I come forward tonight without any political label, without any bias, but just simply as an Englishman to say to you: a crime is being committed against civilization.

Listeners will wonder what an Englishman is doing on the German radio tonight. You can imagine that before taking this step I hoped that someone better qualified than me would come forward.

For two years living in a neutral country I have been able to see through the haze of propaganda to reach something which my conscience tells me is the truth.

It was an ongoing struggle to say no, I don't want to be a part of the perpetuation of this stereotype.

Despite the fact that I had a writing background, they didn't want to accept whatever ideas I had as a writer.

People forget that a huge proportion of our jobs still depend on agricultural production in Australia so of course there are exports. That's easily overlooked.

There never was a revelation without a question first.

A thief, though rich, will continue to steal, but an honest man, though poor, will ever seek to pay his debts.

The Church ever operates in full light. There is no secrecy about its doctrine, aim, or work.