John Quotes

Given the world that he created, it would be an impiety against God to believe in him.

Dogs are dim creatures, do not speak to me of their good sense--have you ever heard of a team of tomcats hauling a sled across the frozen wastes?

All art at a certain level is entertainment. We go to a tragedy by Sophocles to be entertained.

If Glenn Hoddle had been any other nationality, he would have had 70 or 80 caps for England.

Pain only matters when it happens to someone important.

I'm a conservative and I believe if you tax something more you get less of it.

If you do something and it goes wrong, you learn from it and you move on.

The first obligation of the writer is to be interesting. To be interesting; not to change the world.

Self knowledge is always bad news.

I admire writers who can make complicated things simple, but my own talent has been to make simple things complicated.

Though life's tuition is always ruinous, inexorably we learn.

What you learn from bad habits and in bad society you will never forget, and it will be a lasting pang to you.

It is the minority that has stood in the vain of every moral conflict, and achieved all that is noble in the history of the world.

Frances Bellamy thought the changes spoiled the poetry of it. He was a pretty stern guy. Everybody has some sense of humor, but I don't think he had much.

If one or two works from a body of work for an exhibition are what you would like to be remembered by, it is a good exhibition.

I may be gone, but Rock and Roll lives on.

I guess happiness is not a state you want to be in all the time.

We are on a mission for God.

...when you buy just two or three tons from a grower, they see the artisan work you do with their grapes, and then they want to give you their good fruit. By keeping small I can put my heart into it.

There's no point in worrying about things you can't influence.

The Conservatives must realise that being sceptical is different from being phobic in what is an interdependent world.

Nothing can be said, including this statement, that has not been said before.

Without ethics man has no future. This is to say mankind without them cannot be itself. Ethics determine choices and actions and suggest difficult priorities.

Whenever the intensity of looking reaches a certain degree, one becomes aware of an equally intense energy coming towards one through the appearance of whatever it is one is scrutinizing.

Painting is something that you need to do, if not every day, then certainly most days. It is almost like being a pianist: if you stop, you lose something.

I wanted to write about looking at the world, so it's more about helping people, or persuading people, to see what is around us; both the marvellous and the terrible.

Never again shall a single story be told as though it were the only one.

A Christian never falls asleep in the fire or in the water, but grows drowsy in the sunshine.

Avoid all controversy in preaching, talking, or writing; preach nothing down but the devil, and nothing up but Jesus Christ.

We have reason to be afraid. This is a terrible place.

I am still reeling with delight at the soaring majesty of Norfolk.

Hymn tunes are the nearest we've got to English folk music.

I don't think interviewing people is any different than normal communication. The only thing is that it has these boundaries set upon it as to what the conversation is about.

And that is why marriage and family law has emphasized the importance of marriage as the foundation of family, addressing the needs of children in the most positive way.

I am all in favour of democracy in Iraq.

I don't think I would have to run a campaign that's financed like General Motors.

I don't much believe in bumper sticker characterizations of foreign policy.

What is passion? Passion is surely the becoming of a person.

A happy family is but an ealier heaven.

In the cross of Christ I glory,

In the cross of Christ I glory,Towering o'er the wrecks of time;All the light of sacred storyGathers round its head sublime.

If the views I have expressed be right, we can think of our civilization evolving with the growth of knowledge from small wandering tribes to large settled law.

Not everybody has that mentality and that's fine, but once Robert Redford leaves this earth - later rather than sooner - his legacy will go on.

Loyalty is the greatest quality of the human heart.

Congress should not be like the Super Bowl where you have to have one team that's going to win and another team that's going to be a loser.

Let's all be different same as me.

You have many years to live do things you will be proud to remember when you're old.

It's not because my mind is made up that I don't want you to confuse me with any more facts. It's because my mind isn't made up. I already have more facts than I can cope with.

"Pay him what was promised", said the caliph. "And put out his eyes."

History gives us a kind of chart, and we dare not surrender even a small rushlight in the darkness. The hasty reformer who does not remember the past will find himself condemned to repeat it.