John Quotes

Love and hurry are fundamentally incompatible. Love always takes time, and time is the one thing hurried people don't have.

If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.

Not, how much of my money will I give to God, but, how much of God’s money will I keep for myself?

How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.

I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination.

Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realised that the imagery in my mind wasn't insanity. Surrealism to me is reality.

...Despite the mayhem that followed, Bruno found that he was still holding Shmuel's hand in his own and nothing in the world would have persuaded him to let go.

The true story of every person in this world is not the story you see, the external story. The true story of each person is the journey of his or her heart.

True wisdom consists in two things: Knowledge of God and Knowledge of Self.

Good grooming is integral, and impeccable style is a must. If you don't look the part, no one will want to give you time or money.

Irresponsible power is inconsistent with liberty, and must corrupt those who exercise it.

I never use the word nation in speaking of the United States. I always use the word Union or Confederacy. We are not a nation but a union, a confederacy of equal and sovereign States.

Index funds eliminate the risks of individual stocks, market sectors, and manager selection. Only stock market risk remains.

I'm no one's lap dog, you can't put me on a leash.

The bonsai is not you working on the tree; you have to have the tree work on you

The sun is up, the sky is blue It's beautiful, and so are you.

The blues tells a story. Every line of the blues has a meaning.

For we must consider that we shall be as a city upon a hill. The eyes of all people are upon us.

The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.

Liberty lies in the rights of that person whose views you find most odious.

Are you capable of risking your life for someone? Do it for Christ.

Life passes, riches fly away, popularity is fickle, the senses decay, the world changes. One alone is true to us; One alone can be all things to us; One alone can supply our need.

You can love someone so much...But you can never love people as much as you can miss them.

Everything you do is music, and everywhere is the best seat.

I am still under the impression that there is nothing alive quite so beautiful as a thoroughbred horse.

You've gotta learn to love the grind. Because life IS the grind.

Music has healing power. It has the ability to take people out of themselves for a few hours.

The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets.

Developments in medical technology have long been confined to procedural or pharmaceutical advances, while neglecting a most basic and essential component of medicine: patient information management.

Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story.

Like an ox-cart driver in monsoon season or the skipper of a grounded ship, one must sometimes go forward by going back.

Some think the worst horrors of war might be avoided by an international agreement not to use atomic bombs. This is a vain hope.

You’re my best friend, Shmuel,’ he said. ‘My best friend for life.

I ran like a cheetah - well, like a cheetah that smoked too much.

This is a day we have managed to avoid for a quarter of a century. We've talked about it before and speculated about it, and it finally has occurred. We hoped we could push this day back forever.

Giving is the secret to a healthy life. Not necessarily money, but whatever a person has to give of encouragement, sympathy, and understanding.

Unless God's Word illumine the way, the whole life of men is wrapped in darkness and mist, so that they cannot but miserably stray.

I inhabit a weak, frail, decayed tenement; battered by the winds and broken in on by the storms, and, from all I can learn, the landlord does not intend to repair.

The boom, not the slump, is the right time for austerity at the Treasury.

My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains/ My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk.

Changing behavior is less a matter of giving people analysis to influence their thoughts than helping them to see a truth to influence their feelings.

No small dabs of colour - you want plenty of paint to paint with.

Chili is much improved by having had a day to contemplate its fate.

Never lie; never cheat; never steal. Don't whine; don't complain; don't make excuses.

I liked that he was a tenured professor in the Department of Slightly Crooked Smiles with a dual appointments in the Department of Having a Voice that Made My Skin Feel More Like Skin.

The best prayers have often more groans than words.

We expect teachers to handle teenage pregnancy, substance abuse, and the failings of the family. Then we expect them to educate our children.

All wealth is the product of labor.

Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite.

The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.