John Quotes

And I wanted to tell her that the pleasure for me wasn't planning or doing or leaving; the pleasure was in seeing our strings cross and separate and then come back together.

It was nice - in the dark and the quiet... and her eyes looking back, like there was something in me worth seeing.

But before we can radically reshape the world, we need to shop.

Isn't it also that on some fundamental level we find it difficult to understand that other people are human beings in the same way that we are? We idealize them as gods or dismiss them as animals.

I've lived here for eighteen years and I have never once in my life come across anyone who cares about anything that matters.

There is a part of her greater than the sum of her knowable parts. And that part has to go somewhere, because it cannot be destroyed.

You can't just make yourself matter and then die, Alaska, because now I am irretrievably different.

The Degree to which I am blessed staggers me... the degree to which I take that for granted shames me. -Streetwalking with Jesus

I have an Augustus Waters fetish.

He called out to his fellow monks,'Come quickly I am tasting stars.

We're going to get gored to death by a feral fugging hog and your best strategy is to pretend it's a grizzly bear?

but even if we survive the collapse of our sun, we will not survive forever.

The true ninja doesn't make a splash at all.

Breaking up isn't something that gets done to you; its something that happens with you.

She's just playing a trick on us. This is just an Alaska Young Prank Extraordinaire. It's Alaska being Alaska, funny and playful and not knowing when or how to put on the brakes.

Congratulations! You're a woman. Now die.

The world went on, as it does, without my full participation, and I only woke up from the reverie when someone said my name.

Peter Van Houten was the only person I’d ever come across who seemed to (a) understand what it’s like to be dying, and (b) not have died.

You're not a little kid anymore. You need to make friends, get out of the house, and live your life.

I wondered whether I could find a Great Perhaps here at all or whether I had made a grand miscalculation.

He wasn't perfect or anything. He wasn;t your fairytale prince charming or whatever. He tried to be like that sometimes,but i liked him best when that stuff fell away.

"Please stop," I said. "You're upsetting the black Santas."

There will come a time, when all of us are dead. All of us. There will come a time when there are no human beings remaining to remember that anyone ever existed or that our species ever did anything.

His daily prayer, far better understood in acts than in words, was simply doing good.

God fills the gaps of human need, Each crisis brings its word and deed.

For still the new transcends the old In signs and tokens manifold; Slaves rise up men; the olive waves, With roots deep set in battle graves!

Clothe with life the weak intent, Let me be the thing I meant.

Through the dark and stormy night Faith beholds a feeble light Up the blackness streaking; Knowing God's own time is best, In a patient hope I rest For the full day-breaking!

Oh, for boyhood's painless play, sleep that wakes in laughing day, health that mocks the doctor's rules, knowledge never learned of schools.

Stress is when you're 29 years old, playing for Rochdale, with an expiring contract and a mortgage to pay.

Wit is the most dangerous talent you can possess. It must be guarded with great discretion and good-nature, otherwise it will create you many enemies.

There are two types of people ... the scrutinizers and the scrutinized

We believe that the cinema's capacity for getting around, for observing and selecting from life itself can be exploited in a new and vital art form

I was a lawyer for 10 years - a short time, but it molded me into who I am.

The iPhone is not and never was a phone. It is a pocket-sized computer that obviates the phone. The iPhone is to cell phones what the Mac was to typewriters.

You don't push the button that says "Now I will write something that resonates in time." You don't know. It's what happens after a play is finished.

You cannot write to resonate twenty or thirty or forty years from now. You only can write for that very day, but whatever happens is all gravy.

The only riots were the people trying to get tickets.

I mean New York City is the financial capital of the world. It's where all the money passes through, the Dow Jones, whatever, that's where all the money goes.

Commercial banks are very good for certain businesses, like loans and guarding other people's money. They're not great investors or entrepreneurs.

People in Philadelphia are a world apart from New York. They're very different from people in the New York scene. The New York scene wants your visibility and wants your money.

I have never been a social lion; I was misidentified as one because I have a very attractive second wife.

Sensual pleasures are like soap bubbles, sparkling, effervescent. The pleasures of intellect are calm, beautiful, sublime, ever enduring and climbing upward to the borders of the unseen world.

A person you excuse from any genuine challenge is a person you do not truly respect.

No longer can we measure compassion by how much we spend on poverty but how many people we help to lift out of poverty.

People think of black English as ungrammatical, but it bears the same relationship to standard English as contemporary Hebrew does to ancient Hebrew.

Frankly, Barack Obama is a standard issue leftist that you would expect of somebody with his particular experience, and he doesn't exactly hide it.

In the highest class of God's school of suffering we learn not resignation nor patience, but rejoicing in tribulation.

Our point, however, is not to worship the Bible; we worship the God of the Bible.

Since all people are in the image of God, all deserve to be treated with the dignity the image affords.