John Quotes

Life is a problem; mortal man was made to solve the solemn problem right or wrong.

Westward the star of empire takes its way.

Where annual elections end where slavery begins.

The imagination of a eunuch dwells more and longer upon the material of love than that of man or woman ... supplying, so far as he can, by speculation, the place of pleasures he can no longer enjoy.

Among the sentiments of most powerful operation upon the human heart, and most highly honorable to the human character, are those of veneration for our forefathers and of love for our posterity.

There are problems in the world today.

I seek as much as I can to mitigate risk.

As a member of the New York Senate from 1966 to 1989, I voted 12 times to establish the death penalty in New York... I regret my votes in favor of the death penalty.

The old philosophy was that parents, especially mothers, caused their kids to become schizophrenic. Now we see that when a kid is this crazy, he'll make the family begin to seem crazy.

"Dead upon the field of glory," Hero fit for song and story.

Of all human activities, education is the one most likely to give rise to cant, pomposity and fraudulent expertise.

I made my money the old-fashioned way, I inherited it.

The citizen's job is to be rude - to pierce the comfort of professional intercourse by boorish expressions of doubt.

An individual who stands out, or disagrees or takes risks is a danger to such systems and is effortlessly and, unconsciously sidelined.

Like all religions, Reason presents itself as the solution to the problems it has created

Governments produced by the most banal of electoral victories, like those produced by the crudest of coups d'état, will always feel obliged to dress themselves up linguistically in some way.

Only when God was said to have died did various leaders, professions and sectors risk pushing themselves forward as successors.

Canada is either an idea or it does not exist. It is either an intellectual undertaking or it is little more than a resource-rich vacuum lying in the buffer zone just north of a great empire.

Faith: The opposite of dogmatism.

Armaments; extremely useful for fighting wars, a deadweight in any civil economy.

I am at last reconciled to my God and have assurance of His pardon through faith in Christ, against which the very gates of hell cannot prevail. Fear hath been driven out by perfect love.

We ought to observe that practice which is the hardest of all - especially for young physicians - we ought to throw in no medicine at all - to abstain - to observe a wise and masterly inactivity.

There are times over different projects when I've asked the writers why people are swearing for no good reason. I tell them that it would be funnier if there weren't these swear words.

I come from Bridgeport, Connecticut and have friends I grew up with there.

So many actors have sheer guts, will, and determination; they just need some preparation.

In L.A., though, people get off busses calling themselves actors, so many are really not professionals.

I'm concerned about the insidious influence of the media's bad messages that undermine the lessons parents try to instill in their sons and daughters.

I always played a soldier, sailor, or policemen.

Hollywood has lost touch with their audience a long time ago.

The only thing that permits us to acquiesce in an erroneous theory is the lack of a better one, analogously, an injustice is tolerable only when it is necessary to avoid an even greater injustice.

The claims of existing social arrangements and of self interest have been duly allowed for. We cannot at the end count them a second time because we do not like the result.

First of all, principles should be general. That is, it must be possible to formulate them without use of what would be intuitively recognized as proper names, or rigged definite descriptions.

Man does what he can, and God what he will.

ndustry is Fortune's right hand, and Frugality her left.

Fish must swim thrice--once is the water, a second time in the sauce, and a third time in wine in the stomach.

Every animal is providentially directed to the use of its proper weapon.

Pray devoutly, but hammer stoutly.

Guilt is always jealous

He dances well to whom Fortune pipes.

Children, when they are little, they make parents fools; when great, mad.

Young men do not want to have to take a consent form and a lawyer on a date, just as young women have every right to go on a date and to say 'No', having it respected.

No change, no chance.

Spying is a like a game of chess: Sometimes you have to withdraw, sometimes you have to sacrifice one of your pieces to win - preferably a knight rather than a king or queen.

Villains are a lot of fun. My villains have a lot of tongue-in-cheek. They are sometimes conscious of and a little bit gleeful of their villainy.

Facts tend to take the punch out of a good hate rant and are therefore left best unsaid.

For every horrific event, something beautiful happens.

I knew when I grew up, I always wanted to be a liar, and if you're in television, you're lying because you're just pretending to be yourself much like I'm doing now.

Faith is not a matter of trusting that events will always occur to our liking, but of trust that, whatever happens, our inner resources will be equal to the moment.

The fork is the most powerful tool ever placed in our hands.

In California today, you may save more water by not eating a pound of beef than you would by not showering for six entire months.