John Quotes

I've learned that each day is definitely a gift.

I do pranayama breathing now as a meditation, and that's very helpful. Meditating changed my life.

Walking my dogs, playing with my kids - all of that is really good stuff to keep me centered.

I meditate every day for between ten to twenty minutes. Every morning, I work out and go to the gym for an hour. I pray to the architect that designed me. I'm grateful.

History is a record of exploded ideas.

In war the first principle is to disobey orders. Any fool can obey orders!

Failure is just a few seconds away from success.

Sometimes, life threw up problems that even the wisest, most trusted mentor couldn't solve for you. It was part of the pain of growing up. And having to stand by and watch was part of being a mentor.

Don't concentrate on the obvious. They might want you to miss something else.

Very impressive. Where did you learn that?" Made it up just now.

Ah, Signor Halt,' he said uncertainly, 'you are making a joke, yes?' 'He is making a joke, no,' Will said. 'But he likes to think he is making a joke, yes.

You know, Gilan, sarcasm isn't the lowest form of wit. It's not even wit at all." -Halt

Tug looked nervously at his master. Horses aren't supposed to fly, he seemed to be saying.

If they invent a four legged chicken," Will said, "Horace will think he's gone to Heaven.

It's a sword, not a fairy wand, you know.

I thought I'd stumbled on Sleeping Beauty and her ugly sister,' said another voice, 'waiting for the kiss of true love to wake them from their slumbers. Forgive me if I didn't oblige.

He'd just have to lie there and die, watched over by strange stars who didn't know him, didn't care for him. It was very sad, really.

It's the Kalkara. they're hunting.

Worlds going to hell anyway, have a good time.

Look, up in the sky! It's the sky!

I feel like musicians have such a precarious place in the political discourse, because musicians are, sort of just by nature, people-pleasers.

The coward's weapon, poison.

Tyranny is yielding to the lust of the governing.

It's impossible to ravish me, I'm so willing.

A woman friend! He that believes that weakness, Steers in a stormy night without a compass.

Go far - too far you cannot, still the farther. The more experience finds you: and go sparing. One meal a week will serve you, and one suit, through all your travels; for you'll find it certain.

That soul that can Be honest is the only perfect man.

Come, sing now, sing; for I know you sing well; I see you have a singing face.

Charity and treating begin at home.

Then, everlasting Love , restrain thy will; 'Tis god -like to have power, but not to kill.

Drink today, and drown all sorrow; you shall perhaps not do tomorrow.

Hence, all you vain delights, As short as are the nights Wherein you spend your folly! There's naught in this life sweet But only melancholy; O sweetest melancholy!

Joys as winged dreams fly fast, / Why should sadness longer last? / Grief is but a wound to woe; / Gentlest fair, mourn, mourn no moe.

Care-charming Sleep, thou easer of all woes, brother to Death, sweetly thyself dispose.

Be circumspect how you offend schollers, for knowe, a serpent tooth bites not so ill, as dooth a schollers angrie quill.

But I think beautiful is simple and elegant, like a ballad with simple harmony.

The Telecaster doesn't really sound that good for the kind of rock and roll that a lot of people played.

I usually destroy unreleased material. It has a way of coming back to haunt you.

I’m like a twenty two year old kid in a new band trying to get noticed and break through, because the vast majority of people have never seen me play live.

I've studied a lot of great people over the years - Pete Seeger, James Brown - and tried to incorporate elements that I've admired, though I can't say I dance like James.

Even though James Burton was my idol, I didn't think I could carry his shoes back then.

Whilst we strive To live most free, we're caught in our own toils.

Why, I hold fate Clasped in my fist, and could command the course Of time's eternal motion, hadst thou been One thought more steady than an ebbing sea.

I'm not a gambling-man. I have never bet a dollar in all my life.

I'm making progress if today's problems are different from yesterday's.

The ability to get to the verge without getting into the war is the necessary art. If you try to run away from it, if you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost

The United Nations was not set up to be a reformatory. It was assumed that you would be good before you got in and not that being in would make you good

Because a star explodes and a thousand worlds like ours die, we know this world is. That is the smile: that what might not be, is.

...all cynicism masks a failure to cope.

You wish to be liked. I wish simply to be. One day you will know what that means, perhaps. And you will smile. Not against me. But with me.