John Quotes

I enjoy growth; I enjoy having a lot of different experiences. And I don't think I am the kind of guy who'd like to do the same thing every day for 40 years.

I think Democrats often hold the unconstrained vision, and Republicans focus more on the Rule of Law.

Remember, the answers are in the questions.

McGovern is so far left that he is in danger of falling off the earth.

Irrational lenders come and go - mostly they go!

No person who examines and reflects, can avoid seeing that there is but one race of people on the earth, who differ from each other only according to the soil and the climate in which they live.

Words often spoil a moment of judgment or excitement; in all great puzzles and wars and movements, there is a moment to speak and a moment to accept with silent dignity.

I forget sometimes that Im in the HBO stable because I am such a fan of so much of their programming. Like, The Wire is my favorite TV show of all time.

I wasnt a good rule-breaker when I was younger.

If one student is unable to get online, it cripples that student's team and puts the whole course in jeopardy.

I listen and talk to God daily.

The French cook; we open tins.

There is one rule for politicians all over the world: Don't say in Power what you say in opposition; if you do, you only have to carry out what the other fellows have found impossible.

Only out of stir and change is born new salvation. To deny that is to deny belief in man, to turn our backs on courage!

When Man evolved Pity, he did a queer thing - deprived himself of the power of living life as it is without wishing it to become something different.

Every form of causeless self-doubt, every feeling of inferiority and secret unworthiness is, in fact, man's hidden dread of his inability to deal with existence.

We must develop energy independence; we must Make It In America.

Hate no one; hate their vices, not themselves.

One must be just a little crazy to write a great novel. One must be capable of allowing the darkest, most ancient and shrewd parts of one’s being to take over the work from time to time.

The primary subject of fiction is and has always been human emotion, values, and beliefs.

Reading is important.

Who talks much, must talk in vain.

Lest men suspect your tale untrue, Keep probability in view.

Praising all alike, is praising none.

Can love be controll'd by advice?

Some folks of cider make a rout And cider's well enough no doubt When better liquors fail; But wine, that's richer, better still, Ev'n wine itself (deny't who will) Must yield to nappy ale

Of all the fools that pride can boast, A Coxcomb claims distinction most.

Why is the hearse with scutcheons blazon'd round, And with the nodding plume of ostrich crown'd? No; the dead know it not, nor profit gain; It only serves to prove the living vain.

Exercise thy lasting youth defends.

The function of the politician, therefore, is one of continuous watchfulness and activity, and he must have intimate knowledge of details if he would work out grand results.

Lincoln's removal from New Salem to Springfield and his entrance into a law partnership with Major John T. Stuart begin a distinctively new period in his career.

In the early West, law and politics were parallel roads to usefulness as well as distinction.

Activity in politics also produces eager competition and sharp rivalry.

It may be assumed as an axiom that Providence has never gifted any political party with all of political wisdom or blinded it with all of political folly.

Very few men are fortunate enough to gain distinction during their first term in Congress.

The savor of the water mint rejoiceth the heart of men.

It is very hard to cast a number of plays adequately from the same company of actors without several parts being miscast.

There are 60 million of us [britains] crammed into an area the size of a state. So you don't have that feeling of remoteness at all, ever. And that's reflected in the way our media works, and so on.

I tend to prefer traveling in the Third World countries. Like Ethiopia. Or Eritrea.

Beauty intoxicates the eye, as wine does the body; both are morally fatal if indulged.

Young men! it 's a critical thing to go Exactly right with a lady in tow; But when you are in the proper track, Just go ahead, and never look back!

Alas! poor human nature, pity, if hard pressed, degenerates into contempt.

Long pains are light ones, Cruel ones are brief!

The wise may find in trifles light as atoms in the air, some useful lesson to enrich the mind.

God bless the man who first invented sleep!" So Sancho Panza said, and so say I.

I love vast libraries; yet there is a doubt, If one be better with them or without,-- Unless he use them wisely, and, indeed, Knows the high art of what and how to read.

People just do the strangest things when they believe they're entitled. But they do even stranger things when they just plain believe.

Lady, I got buddies who died face down in the muck so that you and I could enjoy this family restaurant!

Social Security's future has gotten worse, and each year we delay reform adds to the cost we are pushing off onto our children.

I'm really getting to appreciate traditional jazz now - the New Orleans stuff - a lot more than I did before.