John Quotes

Consult not your fears but your hopes and dreams. Think not about what you have tried and failed, But what is still possible for you to do. To live is to change.

The council now beginning rises in the Church like the daybreak, a forerunner of most splendid light.

I am made to tremble and I fear!

I'm happy, and I think being happy keeps you looking young.

I would not be comfortable appearing in a country where they have permitted the destruction of such beautiful and intelligent animals.

I simply have a marvellous life, a very lucky life.

There's a balance in my life, there's reality and there's the part that looks really glamorous, but we're all just people in the end.

I took you to an intimate restaurant, then to a suggestive movie. There's nothing left to talk about, unless it's horizontally.

To love Christ -means not to be a hireling, not to look upon a noble life as an enterprise or trade, but to be a true benefactor and to do everything only for the sake of love for God.

God measures out affliction to our need.

It is folly to abstain all day long from food, but fail to abstain from sin and selfishness.

Let us not overlook so great a gain.

Men have the power of thinking that they may avoid sin.

Laughter does not seem to be a sin, but it leads to sin.

Let us return from that Table like lions breathing out fire, terrifying to the devil!

Followers of trails and of seasons, breakers of camp in the little dawn wind, seekers of watercourses over the wrinkled rind of the world, o seekers, o finders of reasons to be up and be gone.

We may conceive an hope that the next generation will in tongue and heart and every way else become English; so as there will be no difference or distinction but the Irish sea betwixt us.

This is the slowest, yet the daintiest sense; For ev'n the ears of such as have no skill, Perceive a discord, and conceive offence; And knowing not what's good, yet find the ill.

What more than madness reigns, when one short sitting many hundreds drains.

If aught can teach us aught, Affliction's looks, Making us pry into ourselves so, near, Teach us to know ourselves, beyond all books, Or all the learned schools that ever were.

Deeds are males, words females are.

I want to kiss you again, Tess.” “Why?” He chuckled, low under his breath. “Why? Because you’re beautiful, and because I want you. And I think you want me too.

Everything in the world starts small and then becomes bigger—except bad things. They start big, and then get smaller.

In France the men all live in cafes, the children are all put out to nurse, and the women, saving the respect of mademoiselle -- well, the less said about them the better.

The actual danger is nothing, and the positive advantages very great.

We're all hypocrites. We all say one thing and do another. But why don't we try to do what we say more than what we don't?

Frankly, we should publicly increase them [ anti-Russian sanctions ].

Leaders have to lead.

If the B2 is invisible, just announce you've built 100 of them and don't build them.

Never in my lifetime have I been called boring. But I think I was a boring candidate for president because I tried to be responsible. And one of the greatest problems I had is that I was governor.

(God) wants America to succeed. And he wants America to lead.

I do not support a civil war. I don't want to be policeman of the world. But we can't back off of this.

We don't have to fight all the time. It can be done, and we will be great when we join together.

People are frustrated. They're fed up. They don't think the government is working for them.

I've heard a lot of nasty rhetoric about the president. We're going to kick your rear end out of the White House and stuff. That's just not the way I behave.

Everybody has a right to their God-given purpose.

Business people have a a good view of what's happening internally in countries, and they can be a positive force.

And, frankly, what happens out of Washington is, it creates a wind in my face, uncertainty over Obamacare, uncertainty over their tax policy, uncertainty over the regulatory policy.

Fun is only real and sustainable if it feeds off the team's purpose and performance aspirations.

A demanding performance challenge tends to create a team.

The same dynamics that promote performance also support learning and behavioral change.

Stop and consider! life is but a day

If something is not beautiful, it is probably not true.

All writing is a form of prayer.

O aching time! O moments big as years!

Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience.

Where the nightingale doth sing Not a senseless, tranced thing, But divine melodious truth.

A little noiseless noise among the leaves, Born of the very sigh that silence heaves.

Asleep in lap of legends old.

Who would wish to be among the commonplace crowd of the little famous - who are each individually lost in a throng made up of themselves?