John Quotes

Academics tend to have wonderfully infantile senses of humor.

War remains the decisive human failure.

As for charity, it is a matter in which the immediate effect on the persons directly concerned, and the ultimate consequence to the general good, are apt to be at complete war with one another.

It was post war. It was very gray, very dreary. Everything was still rationed when I first saw the United States in 1951. I went over to visit my sister who was a war bride.

When preaching is done right, it can change lives. When it's done badly, my failure goes beyond the merely human.

Words are but pictures of our thoughts.

Measured in time of transport and communication, the whole round globe is now smaller than a small European country was a hundred years ago.

Poetry is the communication through words of certain experiences that can be communicated in no other way.

I was always a sports nut but I've lost interest now in whether one bunch of mercenaries in north London is going to beat another bunch of mercenaries from west London.

To understand this Christmas record, you have to understand our ministry.

I'm willing to make compromises based on someone I think is the one, but I think it's psychologically important to people when they're famous to be the only famous person they know.

Do I think it's OK to fight authority as long as you're only talking about the high school teacher? No.

Virtue is an inner strength. It expands your nature.

Teenagers today are more free to be themselves and to accept themselves.

Our civilization is now in the transition stage between the age of warring empires and a new age of world unity and peace.

I'm a big advocate of financial intelligence.

I will not, nor will I ever, publicly divulge sensitive intelligence sources and methods. For when that happens, our national security is endangered and lives can be lost.

We are in this business, whether it be intelligence or the government, to protect freedom, democracy and liberty, not to violate that.

The E.U. has moved to combat global terrorism by instituting common European arrest and evidence warrants and creating a joint situation center to pool and analyze intelligence.

To each other, we were as normal and nice as the smell of bread. We were just a family. In a family even exaggerations make perfect sense.

It's been a great adventure, everything I hoped for. But it's time to go home. I miss my family. I miss the Earth.

It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.

For centuries, America has led the world on a long march toward freedom and democracy. Let's reclaim our clean energy leadership and lead the world toward clean energy independence.

Also, they don't understand - writing is language. The use of language. The language to create image, the language to create drama. It requires a skill of learning how to use language.

He who bestows his goods upon the poor shall have as much again, and ten times more.

The more one has seen of the good, the more one asks for the better.

I wouldn't attach too much importance to these student riots. I remember when I was a student at the Sorbonne in Paris, I used to go out and riot occasionally.

As a young black boy, it made me proud to see black leaders that did something amazing and made the world change.

There is such amazing talent at Disney. My job is 100% creative, and I am very excited to creatively lead them.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

Some wars have been due to the lust of rulers for power and glory, or to revenge to wipe out the humiliation of a former defeat.

I have found that I always learn more from my mistakes than from my successes. If you aren't making some mistakes, you aren't taking enough chances.

Among the children of God, it was they who were most able to rightly divide the word of truth.

I'm a very passionate believer in the unity of knowledge. There is one world of reality - one world of our experience that we're seeking to describe.

The dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of the pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into commonplaces, but which all experience refutes.

Rounding to the nearest cent is sufficiently accurate for practical purposes.

There is something wonderful in seeing a wrong-headed majority assailed by truth.

The Affordable Care Act's requirement that certain individuals pay a financial penalty for not obtaining health insurance may reasonably be characterized as a tax.

I have never yet met a healthy person who worried very much about his health, or a really good person who worried much about his own soul.

It's no good being nice and young and naive. There's no good in that at all. You've got to do it all yourself, and you've gotta learn quick. And you can't look for sympathy either.

I take people very seriously. People are all I take seriously, in fact. Therefore, I have nothing but sympathy for how people behave - and nothing but laughter to console them with.

It's like being at the kids' table at Thanksgiving - you can put your elbows on it, you don't have to talk politics... no matter how old I get, there's always a part of me that's sitting there.

I was obsessed with romance. When I was in high school, I saw 'Doctor Zhivago' every day from the day it opened until the day it left the theater.

There have been 14 versions that I can find of Burke & Hare movies. They have all been horror films and all the movies have taken place in Victorian times, which doesn't make any sense.

One tell-tale sign of a Wingnut: they always confuse partisanship with patriotism.

In all her history, from the formation of the federal government until the hour of secession, no year stands out more prominently than the year 1858 as evidencing the national patriotism of Virginia.

It is not the Government, the members of Parliament to whom the ultimate decision belongs, it is up to you to go forward sure of your sacred right of free opinion, sure of your patriotism.

I like design, I like details, to me it is just another form of self-expression.

Protecting the institution of marriage safeguards, I believe, the American family.

There are no generalizations in American politics that vested selfishness cannot cut through.