John Quotes

I like making fun of myself a lot. I like being made fun of, too. I've always enjoyed it. There's just something really, really funny about someone tearing into me.

Temptation is like a knife, that may either cut the meat or the throat of a man; it may be his food or his poison, his exercise or his destruction

May we sit at the foot of the cross; and there learn what sin has done, what justice has done, what love has done.

News is not a game show. You don't win a car if you happen to be right.

What repeatedly enters your mind and occupies your mind, eventually shapes your mind, and will ultimately express itself in what you do and who you become.

I shall revenge myself in the cruelest way you can imagine. I shall forget it.

As human beings we're living in a reality of industrial madness.

You cannot help but learn more as take the world into your hands. Take it up reverently, for it is and old piece of clay, with millions of thumbprints on it.

I never trust a man that doesn't drink.

May we look upon our treasure, the furniture of our houses, and our garments, and try to discover whether the seeds of war have nourishment in these our possessions.

God grant that I may never live to be useless!

Proceed with much prayer, and your way will be made plain.

In the absence of truth, power is the only game in town.

If people could see me the way I see myself - if they could live in my memories - would anyone love me?

Humility is the only virtue that no devil can imitate. If pride made demons out of angels, there is no doubt that humility could make angels out of demons.

I will just put four or five extra packs of cigarettes in my bag and I will be fine.

Never confuse faith, or belief — of any kind — with something even remotely intellectual.

I am, I think the only surviving member of the original Battle Creek church. The church was disbanded, with the exception of thirteen members, in 1870.

Screws fall out all the time, the world is an imperfect place.

And we are never too old to study the Bible. Each time the lessons are studied comes some new meaning, some new thought which will make us better.

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.

A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world.

It worries me about our unwillingness to really address reforms and modernization in Medicare. This thing was designed 37 years ago. It has not evolved to keep pace with current medical technology.

That we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone, that we are more deeply inserted into existence than the course of a single life would lead us to believe.

Reflective thinking turns experience into insight.

The only one you should compare yourself to is you. Your mission is to become better today than you were yesterday.

He is too illiterate, unread, unlearned for his station and reputation.

In violation of the Habeas Corpus Act and the fundamental laws of our constitution these men have never been brought to trail or even allowed to see a lawyer.

In any field, find the strangest thing and then explore it.

In art as in lovemaking, heartfelt ineptitude has its appeal and so does heartless skill, but what you want is passionate virtuosity.

My father was unemployed and I was the eldest of seven children. We were very poor. And when you ask how did we support ourselves, the only funding that we had was unemployment payments.

The carnal person fears man, not God. The strong Christian fears God, not man. The weak Christian fears man too much, and God too little.

This is real human drama, we're not creating some amusement park ride for the summer. Even though the movie is really exciting to watch, it's got a real pathos behind it.

Let us take care of our rights and we therein take care of our prosperity. Slavery is ever preceded by sleep

We may rest assured that God would never have suffered any infants to be slain except those who were already damned and predestined for eternal death.

The problems with this world cannot possibly be solved by sceptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need people who can dream of things that never were.

Inner happiness actually is the fuel of success.

The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to feel important.

We will see the increasingly rapid rate of growth weve already been seeing in Colorado continue.

I believe in an America where religious intolerance will someday end... where every man has the same right to attend or not attend the church of his choice.

I am a warrior, so that my son may be a merchant, so that his son may be a poet.

The best way to get rid of criminals is to stop raising them.

Russia is a gas station masquerading as a country.

None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license.

Lethe, the river of oblivion, rolls his watery labyrinth, which whoso drinks forgets both joy and grief.

Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself.

In the final analysis, change sticks when it becomes the way we do things around here.

Thou art coming to a King, large petitions with thee bring, for His grace and power are such none can ever ask too much.

Official truths are often powerful illusions.

One of the first things a family tries to teach its children is the difference between good and evil, right and wrong. One of the first things our schools do is destroy that distinction.