John Quotes

We need to remind our core supporters that we have not forgotten their concern with the way our democracy is being replaced by European bureaucracy in so many areas.

I don't know when I made that active decision to be a writer or to try to write, but I know I always liked storytelling.

When it comes to fighting for freedom, those who are willing to fight should not be limited by our bigotry. Only rewarded with our gratitude.

...open-market democratic capitalism isn't the best system of government in the world, it just works the best.

Chiropractic works in harmony with the basic healing forces of the body, whereas the allopathic, western medical establishment doesn't have nearly as holistic a vision.

Politics are vulgar when they are not liberalised by history, and history fades into mere literature when it loses sight of its relation to practical politics.

No virtue is safe that is not enthusiastic.

The Holy Scriptures are that divine instrument by which we are taught what to believe, concerning God, ourselves, and all things, and how to please God unto eternal life.

I think DOOM had just the right mix of elements that keep people coming back to it: great monsters, excellent weapons with great balance, a spooky environment and extreme speed.

Seek to mingle gentleness in all your rebukes; bear with the infirmities of others; make allowance for constitutional frailties; never say harsh things, if kind things will do as well.

If, like Jacob, you trust God in little things, He may answer you by great things.

Books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time.

The Training which Makes Men Happiest in themselves ... also Makes Them Most Serviceable to Others

Genius is only a superior power of seeing.

I would rather teach drawing that my pupils may learn to love nature, than teach the looking at nature that they may learn to draw.

You will find that the mere resolve not to be useless, and the honest desire to help other people, will, in the quickest and delicatest ways, improve yourself.

Never has interest in art been so high, and never has quality been so low.

The art of drawing which is of more real importance to the human race than that of writing...should be taught to every child just as writing is.

That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings.

What is the cheapest to you now is likely to be the dearest to you in the end.

Always stand by form against force.

Say all you have to say in the fewest possible words, or your reader will be sure to skip them; and in the plainest possible words or he will certainly misunderstand them.

No good work whatever can be perfect, and the demand for perfection is always a sign of a misunderstanding of the ends of art.

The secret of language is the secret of sympathy, and its full charm is possible only to the gentle

The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education.

Architecture is the work of nations

The imagination is never governed, it is always the ruling and divine power.

There is never vulgarity in a whole truth, however commonplace. It may be unimportant or painful. It cannot be vulgar. Vulgarity is only in concealment of truth, or in affectation.

Painting with all its technicalities, difficulties, and peculiar ends, is nothing but a noble and expressive language, invaluable as the vehicle of thought, but by itself nothing.

All that is good in art is the expression of one soul talking to another, and is precious according to the greatness of the soul that utters it.

Large fortunes are all founded either on the occupation of land, or lending or the taxation of labor.

I have not written in vain if I have heretofore done anything towards diminishing the reputation of the Renaissance landscape painting.

It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated; far more difficult to sacrifice skill and easy execution in the proper place, than to expand both indiscriminately.

Cursing is invoking the assistance of a spirit to help you inflict suffering. Swearing on the other hand, is invoking, only the witness of a spirit to an statement you wish to make.

Ornamentation is the principal part of architecture, considered as a subject of fine art.

The last act crowns the play.

It is impossible that the whisper of a faction should prevail against the voice of a nation.

Nobody likes to hear a f**king rock star talk about his problems

The Navy-Marine Corps team is unique in history because its mobility and versatility permit it to make a contribution in virtually every medium of warfare: land, sea and air.

The bottom line is, if somebody doesn't go through proper security screening, they're not going to go on the flight.

We want to be sensitive to people's concerns about privacy about their personal being and things, while ensuring that everybody on every flight has been properly screened.

With most of my books, I'll actually go out and look at the setting. If you describe things carefully, it kind of makes the scene pop.

My argument has always been that this is not an anti-Bush film, it's a pro-democracy film. And if George W.Bush comes out on the wrong side of democracy, that's his problem.

Christianity is a fine religion and I wish more Christians practiced it.

Don’t discount that part of who he was just because you didn’t know it. None of us are all of who we are to any one person.

My last piece of advice to the degenerate slot player who thinks he can beat the one-armed bandit consists of four little words: It can't be done.

Hollywood is an extraordinary kind of temporary place.

Marketing is really theater. It's like staging a performance.

Where questions of style and exposition are concerned I try to follow a simple maxim: if you can't say it clearly you don't understand it yourself.

Where conscious subjectivity is concerned, there is no distinction between the observation and the thing observed.