John Quotes

One of the reasons I started Tzadik, which is my own label, is to keep things in print. I got tired of labels dropping things out of print when they don't sell.

I have about two or three people, we don't have an office, we don't even have a dedicated phone line. We do it out of our own homes, and we make it work.

It's a blast to watch. It's a lot more interesting live than it is on record. I mean, it really is a theatrical event. It's a sporting event! Cause you never know what's gonna happen.

Normally, the same strange impulse which brings a crowd to an accident is present in the reaction to a concert in which something goes wrong.

A good example of how it must have been is today's world of conducting, which is still utterly dominated by men, and the prejudice the few female conductors have to battle even today is astounding.

I am very lucky and grateful to have this living link to a past era, the violin presumably having much more history to it than the later portion that I know.

There are no benefactors in Canada because there is no incentive.

Identity is not negotiable. An identity you have achieved by agreement is always a prison.

Jesus Christ has taken the lead on the way of the cross. He has suffered first. He does not drive us toward suffering but shares it with us, wanting us to have life and to have it in abundance.

There is no peace without justice, and no justice without forgiveness.

Amongst all unimportant subjects, football is by far the most important.

Treating a person as a means to an end, and an end moreover which in this case is pleasure, the maximization of pleasure, will always stand in the way of love.

It is the duty of every man to uphold the dignity of every woman.

Only a socially just country has the right to exist.

The sacraments infuse holiness into the terrain of man's humanity: they penetrate the soul and body, the femininity and masculinity of the personal subject, with the power of holiness.

You are our dearly beloved brothers, and in a certain way, it could be said that you are our elder brothers.

Only for today, I will devote ten minutes of my time to some good reading, remembering that just as food is necessary to the life of the body, so good reading is necessary to the life of the soul

Listen to everything, forget much, correct little.

I live my life in gratitude.

I want to get physical, let's get into physical, let me hear your body talk, your body talk.

A lot of songs are inspiration and help people through pain, grief and loss.

Glory be to God for all things!

A man does not possess all the gifts, lest he think that grace is nature.

If then we have Angels, let us be sober, as though we were in the presence of tutors; for there is a demon present also.

It is a shame for a man to desire honor because of his noble progenitors, and not to deserve it by his own virtue.

It brings comfort to have companions in whatever happens.

Nothing is more fallacious than wealth. To-day it is for thee; tomorrow it is against thee. It arms the eyes of the envious every where. It is a hostile comrade, a domestic enemy.

Zeal without knowledge is the sister of folly.

Much like a subtle spider which doth sit In middle of her web, which spreadeth wide; If aught do touch the utmost thread of it, She feels it instantly on every side.

There are a lot of pitchers in baseball who should celebrate his life and what he did for the game of baseball.

Generative ideas emerge from joint thinking, from significant conversations, and from sustained, shared struggles to achieve new insights from partners in thought.

Women are cats ... and love to scratch even those they're fond of. Sometimes the more they love them the harder they scratch.

Women are women and can't help themselves.

Every man's first declaration of love is bathos--the zenith of his passion connoting perhaps the nadir of his intelligence.

What you say about this world I do not quite agree with; I think it a very good world, and only requires a person to be reasonable in his expectations, and not to trust too much to others.

We have this morning dropped anchor, just off Williamstown.

For axioms in philosophy are not axioms until they are proved upon our pulses.

Remember, results aren't the criteria for success — it's the effort made for achievement that is most important.

It was her habit to build up laughter out of inadequate materials.

Real leadership is being the person others will gladly and confidently follow.

Tend to the people, and they will tend to the business.

Men all do about the same thing when they wake up.

When we get these thruways across the whole country, as we will and must, it will be possible to drive from New York to California without seeing a single thing.

Be quick, but don't hurry.

I think the teaching profession contributes more to the future of our society than any other single profession.

He had an idea that even when beaten he could steal a little victory by laughing at defeat.

I was born with a chronic anxiety about the weather.

Your attitude towards failure determines your altitude after failure.

I hope to have communion with the people, that is the most important thing.

We prefer world law in the age of self-determination to world war in the age of mass extermination.