John Quotes

You don't build a new power plant in the United States overnight. It takes years to build.

Everybody needs to understand that I learned Arabic from the United States Army as a second language. I never spoke it at home.

Undoubtedly, there are members of the former regime that are cooperating in some fashion and then there are extremists that are within Iraq that are cooperating with them.

Negro slavery is an evil of colossal magnitude.

The whole drama of the world is such tragedy that I am weary of the spectacle.

[You have Rights] antecedent to all earthly governments: Rights, that cannot be repealed or restrained by human laws; Rights, derived from the Great Legislator of the universe.

I shall have the liberty to think for myself.

Let them revere nothing but religion, morality and liberty.

Politics are a labyrinth without a clue.

Public virtue cannot exist in a nation without private, and public virtue is the only foundation of republics.

As long as Property exists, it will accumulate in Individuals and Families. As long as Marriage exists, Knowledge, Property and Influence will accumulate in Families.

I consider a decent respect for Christianity among the best recommendations for public service.

Genius is sorrow's child.

The happiness of man, as well as his dignity, consists in virtue.

You are a Virginian, and a Virginian ought to appear at the head of this business. I am obnoxious, suspected and unpopular; you are very much otherwise. And you can write ten times better than I can.

The ten commandments and the sermon on the mount contain my religion.

I Pray Heaven to bestow the best of blessing on this house, and on ALL that shall hereafter inhabit it. May none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof!

The universal object and idol of men of letters is reputation.

The balance of power in a society accompanies the balance of property in land.

They worry one another like mastiffs, scrambling for rank and pay like apes for nuts.

The numbers of men in all ages have preferred ease, slumber, and good cheer to liberty, when they have been in competition.

If we take a survey of the greatest actions...in the world...we shall find the authors of them all to have been persons whose Brains had been shaken out of their natural position.

The purpose of privilege is not to place parliamentarians above the law, but rather to allow them to carry out their duties independently and effectively, in the national interest.

In a country like America, there are places, many states here still where coming out means you lose your job, where coming out means division, where it means potentially abuse.

I wasn't going to let Jerry Sloan embarrass me, because basketball had a proper role in my life. I suspected my basketball philosophy wasn't the bottom line anyway.

One ceases to be lonely only in recollection; perhaps that is why people read history.

We are not saved by nations or by churches or by families, but as individuals, through a personal interest in a personal Saviour.

If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.

In show business, you get chewed up and spit out.

To bliss unknown by lofty soul aspires, My lot unequal to my vast desires.

This is *our* Universe, our museum of wonder and beauty, our cathedral.

Impious! forbear thus the first general hail. To disappoint, Increase and multiply, To shed thy blossoms thro' the desert air, And sow thy perish'd offspring in the winds.

This restless world Is full of chances, which by habit's power To learn to bear is easier than to shun.

The soul establishes itself. But how far can it swim out through the eyes And still return safely to its nest?

To the poet as a basement quilt, but perhaps To some reader a latticework of regrets.

Imagine a painter crucified by his subject!

If you have your health and the ability to do what you love to do then I think we are all blessed and so keeping a light heart is really important.

Having the Creator in my life, having the spiritual connection to the divine intelligence that created me.

I have been in danger of being drowned twice.

Box about: 'twill come to my father anon.

Money is neither good nor bad. It simply amplifies what is in the heart of the one who controls it.

100% renewable energy is 100% possible and can happen sooner than we think.

The world shall perish not for lack of wonders, but for lack of wonder

Hush! With sudden gush As from a fountain sings in yonder bush The Hermit Thrush.

You need the willingness to fail all the time.

Nobody wants another computer hacker movie, unless it's something amazingly different.

I think I live such a boring life. But I can't imagine any other kind of life, so I guess it's the life I want.

Ideally I would like the work to be a hybrid between painting and photography.

Solution = Conflict + Collaboration

We are in danger of valuing most highly those things we can measure most accurately, which means that we are often precisely wrong rather than approximately right