John Quotes
Bullying wasn't okay in elementary school and it isn't okay now, especially when it comes in the form of a U.S. Supreme Court decision.
Since the conception of our country, America has held that parents, not schools, teachers, and certainly not courts, hold the primary responsibility of educating their children.
This war is being played in the realm of public opinion and has dire consequences for our soldiers in Iraq, the future of our country, and freedom around the world.
The only way the Internet will continue to remain the thriving medium it has become today is to keep it under the control of the United States.
The Scouts are a private organization and have every right to set their own membership standards.
Democrats were simply hoping to win some political points by getting their outlandish rhetoric published in the newspapers and heard on the talk shows.
Democracy is stronger than terrorism, and we will not cower to the terrorists' campaign of fear.
A satirist is a man whose flesh creeps so at the ugly and the savage and the incongruous aspects of society that he has to express them as brutally and nakedly as possible in order to get relief.
The only way to find out anything about what kinds of lives people led in any given period is to tunnel into their records and to let them speak for themselves
I do a lot of revising. Certain chapters six or seven times. Occasionally you can hit it right the first time. More often, you don't.
Display advertising and the movies, though they may dull the wits, certainly stimulate the eyes.
To know anything of a poet but his poetry is, so far as the poetry is concerned, to know something that may be entertaining, even delightful, but is certainly inessential.
But in the finished art of the song the use of words has no connection with the use of words in poetry.
This be my pilgrimage and goal Daily to march and find The secret phrases of the soul, The evangels of the mind.
There can be no proof that Blake's lyric is composed of the best words in the best order; only a conviction, accepted by our knowledge and judgment, that it is so.
In the corridors under tehre is nothing but sleep. And stiller than ever on orchard boughs they keep Tryst with the moon, and deep is the silence, deep On moon-washed apples of wonder.
Aggression is an effective form of energy when focused on the right direction and shielded from all others.
Truth is never to be expected from authors whose understanding is warped with enthusiasm.
'Tis a good thing to laugh at any rate; and if a straw can tickle a man, it is an instrument of happiness.
Every language is so full of its own proprieties that what is beautiful in one is often barbarous, nay, sometimes nonsense, in another.
Imagining is in itself the very height and life of poetry, which, by a kind of enthusiasm or extraordinary emotion of the soul, makes it seem to us that we behold those things which the poet paints.
For what can power give more than food and drink, To live at ease, and not be bound to think?
They, who would combat general authority with particular opinion, must first establish themselves a reputation of understanding better than other men.
Dreams are but interludes that fancy makes... Sometimes forgotten things, long cast behind Rush forward in the brain, and come to mind.
Love and Time with reverence use, Treat them like a parting friend: Nor the golden gifts refuse Which in youth sincere they send: For each year their price is more, And they less simple than before.
Trust on and think To-morrow will repay; To-morrow's falser than the former day; Lies worse; and while it says, we shall be blest With some new Joys, cuts off what we possest.
What precious drops are those, Which silently each other's track pursue, Bright as young diamonds in their faint dew?
Some of our philosophizing divines have too much exalted the faculties of our souls, when they have maintained that by their force mankind has been able to find out God.
Good sense and good-nature are never separated, though the ignorant world has thought otherwise. Good-nature, by which I mean beneficence and candor, is the product of right reason.
When we view elevated ideas of Nature, the result of that view is admiration, which is always the cause of pleasure.
There's a proud modesty in merit; averse from asking, and resolved to pay ten times the gifts it asks.
Fame then was cheap, and the first comer sped; And they have kept it since by being dead.
