John Quotes

Luxurious kings are to their people lost, They live like drones, upon the public cost.

Griefs assured are felt before they come.

Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.

For those whom God to ruin has design'd, He fits for fate, and first destroys their mind.

Dreams are but interludes, which fancy makes; When monarch reason sleeps, this mimic wakes.

Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.

An horrible stillness first invades our ear, And in that silence we the tempest fear.

Roused by the lash of his own stubborn tail our lion now will foreign foes assail.

A lazy frost, a numbness of the mind.

Seek not to know what must not be reveal, for joy only flows where fate is most concealed. A busy person would find their sorrows much more; if future fortunes were known before!

Tis Fate that flings the dice, And as she flings Of kings makes peasants, And of peasants kings.

Ill writers are usually the sharpest censors.

For all have not the gift of martyrdom.

The fool of nature stood with stupid eyes And gaping mouth, that testified surprise.

Thou strong seducer, Opportunity!

Nature meant me A wife, a silly, harmless, household dove, Fond without art, and kind without deceit.

I want you to know there's nothing... nothing to be afraid of. On one side, there's life. And on the other...there's life, too.

Art came fluidly, so I was able to teach myself many of the things I thought were important by copying and mimicking my artistic idols.

Fear and creativity don't mix well.

... it is highly unlikely that a structural derangement could produce pain equal in severity to acute muscle spasm.

I was a keen sportsman, and became school captain in soccer and cricket.

In 1960, I went to St. Catherine's College, Oxford, and received the B.A. degree in Chemistry in 1964.

The prophetic spirit is transferable and can be imparted.

I listen only to Bach, Beethoven or Mozart. Life is too short to waste on other composers.

Mathematics is a dangerous profession; an appreciable proportion of us go mad.

I recall once saying that when I had given the same lecture several times I couldn't help feeling that they really ought to know it by now.

A Miscellany is a collection without a natual ordering relation.

The painter tries to catch the magic of the lights and shadows and passing graces of the human face he paints, but he never wholly succeeds in overtaking the reality.

One of the earliest lessons I learned as a child was that if you looked away from something, it might not be there when you looked back.

The process of receiving information for me is seeing, hearing, and feeling their energy in my frame of reference. That doesn't mean I see the individual, unfortunately.

Information comes through to me in 3 basic ways seen, hearing, and feeling the energy of the person that's crossed over. In which it is a symbolic type of language.

Simply making myself aware of others has remarkably improved my social life. People accept me much faster now that I ignore them less.

Desire, both the whispers and the shouts, is the map we have been given to find the only life worth living.

You live in a world at war. Spiritual attack must be a category you think in or you will misunderstand more than half of what happens in your marriage.

As an entrepreneur you have responsibilities in trying to operate well in what you have to do. There is a positive effect if you end up doing that. That's where I try to spend most of my efforts.

I learnt not to be desperate in bad times, and I am learning not to be bullish when times are good.

A guy as great as Brett Favre has been for the length of time he's been, you would hope that he would be able to leave the game with a positive flavor in his mouth.

Redistricting is one of the purest actions a legislative body can take.

I wish we could have acted quicker on Detroit or other failing schools.

I care about the children of Detroit.

All 50 states had the same national economy. And on virtually any measurement you wish to look at, Michigan has moved up and improved against the others.

Despite these hurdles, manufacturers in the U.S. and their employees are doing remarkable work.

The asbestos problem impacts everyone.

We didn't pass any constitutional amendments that affected the executive branch while I was governor.

Very few charter schools are being created in some of the best school districts in the state. If you're an educational innovator, that isn't where the greatest need is.

I just have a position that any child that's in a failing school should be able to get out, or be in a position to have that school fixed.

I have an old saying that the harder I work, the luckier I get.

I don't put labels on myself.

If you double count some votes, that makes other votes disenfranchised.

There is a celestial mind-force, a great sympathetic force which is life itself, of which everything is composed.