John Quotes

There is no point in being precise if you do not even know what you are talking about.

Keep passing the open windows.

So far as it depends on the course of this government, our relations of good will and friendship will be sedulously cultivated with all nations.

If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that's his problem. Love and peace are eternal.

The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.

A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children.

Know what you are talking about.

The measure of a leader is not the number of people who serve him, but the number of people he serves.

Ask your angel to console and assist you in your last moments.

The institutions under which we live, my countrymen, secure each person in the perfect enjoyment of all his rights.

The primary goal of real education is not to deliver facts but to guide students to the truths that will allow them to take responsibility for their lives.

Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.

The more you expose yourself as a celebrity, the less interesting you are to watch in your work, because if you're putting yourself out there all the time, you're not holding anything back.

Animal lovers are a special breed of humans, generous of spirit, full of empathy, perhaps a little prone to sentimentality, and with hearts as big as a cloudless sky

Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

I don’t know a perfect person. I only know flawed people who are still worth loving.

Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.

A little smile, a word of cheer, A bit of love from someone near, A little gift from one held dear, Best wishes for the coming year. These make a merry christmas!

Security is not found in the absence of danger, but in the presence of Jesus.

When I was young, we couldn't afford much. But, my library card was my key to the world.

The law sends us to Christ to be justified, and Christ sends us to the law to be regulated.

What a mercy was it to us to have parents that prayed for us before they had us, as well as in our infancy when we could not pray for ourselves!

The best fisherman I know try not to make the same mistakes over and over again; instead they strive to make new and interesting mistakes and to remember what they learned from them.

If people don't occasionally walk away from you shaking their heads, you're doing something wrong.

Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide.

A boy spends his time finding a girl to sleep with. A real man spends his time looking for the one worth waking up to.

Sometimes party loyalty asks too much.

If I walk in a home and a kid disrespects a woman, his mother or grandmother, then I am out... I wont recruit them

Joy is a quiet gladness of heart as one contemplates the goodness of God's saving grace in Christ Jesus.

In madness, I thought I was the most important person in the world.

Loving the Second Amendment while opposing the NRA is every bit as natural as loving Jesus while opposing Westboro Baptist Church.

It's about the music, it's not about just showing people what you can do with a piece of wood with strings on it

According to Christian belief, man exists for the sake of God; according to the liberal church, in practice if not in theory, God exists for the sake of man.

The best thing you have to offer the world is yourself. You don't have to copy anyone else. If you do, you're second best. To achieve success is to be first, and that's being yourself.

One thing you really have to watch as a writer is getting on a soapbox or pulpit about anything. You don't want to alienate readers.

How do you know you have won? When the energy is coming the other way and when your people are visibly growing individually and as a group.

If all ideas have to be bought, then you have an intellectually regressive system that will assure you have a highly knowledgeable elite and an ignorant mass.

We have already seen evidence that, notwithstanding the addition of substantial resources, we are experiencing great stress in recruiting and not inconsequential retention problems.

In a good relationship, people get angry, but in a very different way. The Marriage Masters see a problem a bit like a soccer ball. They kick it around. It's 'our' problem.

You don't have to be interesting. You have to be interested.

The best way to manipulate a man is to make him think he is manipulating you.

Humans alone are created as rational beings in the image of God, capable of a relationship with God and given by him the capacity to understand the universe in which they live.

Nobody loves you when you're down and out.

The postman wants an autograph. The cab driver wants a picture. The waitress wants a handshake. Everyone wants a piece of you.

It's the oldest question of all, George. Who can spy on the spies?

Those who are called to the table of the Lord must glow with the brightness.

I think one of the things we've got to look out for is human beings claiming that they know how God operates.

Worldly wisdom teaches that it is better for reputation to fail conventionally than to succeed unconventionally.

Invariably, micromanaging results in four problems: deceit, disloyalty, conflict, and communication problems.

Just because people think politically different to you doesn't mean they're inhuman.