John Quotes

The Christ of Bethlehem is the Christ of Galilee, is the Christ of the Crucifixion, is the Christ of the Resurrection, is the Christ of the Eucharist

In this frightening, anxious time to be alive it can be liberating to remember that nothing lasts forever. That can focus and invigorate our hopes.

I still think of myself as punk, because the way I became empowered to play music is entirely due to punk bands.

The mark of the developed intellect is that it could accommodate two contradictory ideas at the same time.

A pioneering and invaluable work about what it really takes to build innovation capability in society.

People are felt rather than seen after the first few moments.

A writer lives in awe of words, for they can be cruel or kind, and they can change their meanings right in front of you. They pick up flavors and odors like butter in a refrigerator.

Literature is as old as speech. It grew out of a human need for it, and it has not changed except to become more needed

Three hours of writing require twenty hours of preparation. Luckily I have learned to dream about the work, which saves me some working time.

The lies we tell about our duty and our purposes, the meaningless words of science and philosophy, are walls that topple before a bewildered little ‘why’.

Trips to fairly unknown regions should be made twice; once to make mistakes and once to correct them.

I see too many men delay their exits with a sickly, slow reluctance to leave the stage. It's bad theater as well as bad living.

I know this... a man got to do what he got to do.

I should have known I am the rain. I am the land and I am the rain. The grass will grow out of me in a little while.

At about 10 o'clock in the morning the sun threw a bright dust-laden bar through one of the side windows and in and out of the beam flies shot like rushing stars.

[He] fell right into the oldest conviction in the world-- that the girl you are in love with can't possibly be anything but true and honest.

Our people are good people; our people are kind people. Pray God some day kind people won't all be poor.

... a man is a very important thing-maybe more important than a star.

You must not forget that a monster is only a variation, and that to a monster the norm is monstrous.

Nobody changes. Nobody gets hurt.

And this you can know- fear the time when Manself will not suffer and die for a concept, for this one quality is man, distinctive in the universe.

I think of my life as a kind of music, not always good music but still having form and melody.

Sometimes a kind of glory lights up the mind of a man.

Maybe-- maybe love makes you suspicious and doubting. Is it true that when you love a woman you are never sure-- never sure of her because you aren't sure of yourself?

A man who tells secrets or stories must think of who is hearing or reading, for a story has as many versions as it has readers.

Says he foun' he jus' got a little piece of a great big soul. Says a wilderness ain't no good, 'cause his little piece of a soul wasn't no good 'less it was with the rest, an' was whole.

Hate cannot live alone. It must have love as a trigger, a goad, or a stimulant.

In uncertainty I am certain that underneath their topmost layers of frailty men want to be good and want to be loved.

For the most part people are not curious except about themselves.

There is one sure thing about the fall of gods: they do not fall a little; they crash and shatter.

Well, I never seen one guy take so much trouble for another guy. I just like to know what your interest is.

He drank too much when he could get it, ate too much when it was there, talked too much all the time.

This monster of a land, this mightiest of nations, this spawn of the future, turns out to be the macrocosm of microcosm me.

Modern education too often covers the fingers with rings, and at the same time cuts the sinews at the wrist.

If war has its chivalry and its pageantry, it has also its hideousness and its demoniac woe. Bullets respect not beauty. They tear out the eye, and shatter the jaw, and rend the cheek.

Christopher Carson, whose renown as Kit Carson has reached almost every ear in the country was born in Madison county, Kentucky, on the 24th of December, 1809.

Entitlement? How can you be entitled to someone else's money?

People acting in their own self-interest is the fuel for all the discovery, innovation, and prosperity that powers the world.

When workers can get and equal return for less effort, workers make less effort

The happiest stutterers, I learned, are those who are willing to stutter in front of others.

We can all be stimulated to greater generosity by the known generosity of others.

A gift is acceptable according to what the giver has, not according to what he has not.

Envy is the reverse side of a coin called vanity - Nobody is ever envious of others who is not first proud of himself.

Mission arises from the heart of God Himself and is communicated from His heart to ours. Mission is the global outreach of the global people of a global God.

Converse with men makes sharp the glittering wit, But God to man doth speak in solitude.

No great improvements in the lot of mankind are possible until a great change takes place in the fundamental constitution of their modes of thought.

The perpetual obstacle to human advancement is custom.

The study of science teaches young men to think, while study of the classics teaches them to express thought.

Over one's mind and over one's body the individual is sovereign.

In proportion to the development of his individuality, each person becomes more valuable to himself, and is therefore capable of being more valuable to others. . . .