John Quotes

In the next ten years we will have to continue to make changes which will make the whole of this country a genuinely classless society.

The road to Easy Street goes through the sewer.

Ever get the feeling you've been cheated?

O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse Without all hope of day!

I want you to make love, not war, I know you've heard it before.

They are good furniture pictures, unworthy of praise, and undeserving of blame.

Our work is great; our time is short; the consequences of our labors are infinite.

We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.

Fame is an odd thing. It bugs you a little bit, but it's really not bad.

...whoever is guided solely by his own judgment and decision will never climb up to the summit of perfection and will not fail to be the victim of the devil's ruinous power to delude.

Love is my religion - I could die for it.

History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.

Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.

If we have not quiet in our minds, outward comfort will do no more for us than a golden slipper on a gouty foot.

America... goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all.

If worthless men are sometimes at the head of affairs, it is, I believe, because worthless men are at the tail and the middle

What we learned on September 11 is that the unthinkable is now thinkable in the world

House Republicans want to pass a strong border security, illegal immigration bill. We want a bill. There is no ifs, ands or buts about it.

Caution, Sir! I am eternally tired of hearing that word caution. It is nothing but the word of cowardice!

Temptations, when we meet them at first, are as the lion that reared upon Samson; but if we overcome them, the next time we see them we shall find a nest of honey within them.

Lonley, Vaguely pedophilic swing set seeks the butts of children.

I used to like fishing because I thought it had some larger significance. Now I like fishing because it's the one thing I can think of that probably doesn't.

Let us therefore give ourselves to God with a great desire to begin to live thus, and beg Him to destroy in us the life of the world of sin, and to establish His life within us.

The very essence of playfulness is an openness to anything that may happen, the feeling that whatever happens, it's okay... you're either free to play, or you're not.

We only think when we are confronted with problems.

The weapons of war must be abolished before they abolish us.

If you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost.

We must begin to make what I call "conscious choices," and to really recognize that we are the same. It's from that place in my heart that I write my songs.

The Sermon on the Mount commands me to lay up for myself treasures, not upon earth, but in Heaven. My hopes of a future life are all founded upon the Gospel of Christ.

I have to study politics and war so that my sons can study mathematics, commerce and agriculture, so their sons can study poetry, painting and music.

The markets are moved by animal spirits, and not by reason.

I am walking over hot coals suspended over a deep pit at the bottom of which are a large number of vipers baring their fangs.

Sabrina fair, Listen where thou art sitting Under the glassy, cool, translucent wave, In twisted braids of lilies knitting The loose train of thy amber-dropping hair.

You have to have the capacity and the ability to take what people did, and how they did it, and forgive them and move on.

I think writers are prone to hyperbole sometimes.

Everyone has special talents, and it is our duty to find ours and use them well.

Out here, due process is a bullet.

How can great minds be produced in a country where the test of great minds is agreeing in the opinion of small minds?

St. Joseph was a just man, a tireless worker, the upright guardian of those entrusted to his care. May he always guard, protect and enlighten families.

The Mojave is a big desert and a frightening one. It’s as though nature tested a man for endurance and constancy to prove whether he was good enough to get to California.

There is a choice you have to make in everything you do. So keep in mind that in the end, the choice you make, makes you.

Time management is an oxymoron. Time is beyond our control, and the clock keeps ticking regardless of how we lead our lives. Priority management is the answer to maximizing the time we have.

I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.

It is emphatically the province and duty of the Judicial Department to say what the law is.

We must go beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths of the wilderness and travel and explore and tell the world the glories of our journey.

How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!

You will not do incredible things without an incredible dream.

You either spend your life preparing or you spend your life repairing.

Nothing is over until we decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell no!

An offended heart is the breeding ground of deception.