John Quotes

You know, since the 6th century, Sunni and Shia have been fighting.

To put all of your eggs in one basket is silly.

Somebody tells me no, they're not going to keep telling me no, because I'm going to bother them to the point where it's a lot easier for them to say yes than keep saying no.

I am told that the Saudis have organized 34 countries who want to join in the battle against terrorism.

America needs somebody to restore the strength of this great land of ours.

I was a member of the Armed Services Committee for 18 years. I spent a big chunk of my life studying national security issues and our role in the world.

I was the chairman of the Budget Committee and the lead architect the last time it happened in Washington, and when we did it we had great economic growth, we cut taxes, and we had a big surplus.

You are always new to me.

Health is the greatest of blessings - with health and hope we should be content to live.

It ought to come like the leaves to the trees, or it better not come at all.

The days of peace and slumberous calm are fled.

Many have original minds who do not think it - they are led away by custom!

You have absorb'd me. I have a sensation at the present moment as though I was dissolving.

Touch has a memory. O say, love say, What can I do to kill it and be free In my old liberty?

one of the most mysterious of semi-speculations is, one would suppose, that of one Mind's imagining into another

The genius of poetry must work out its own salvation in a man; it cannot be matured by law and precept, but by sensation and watchfulness in itself. That which is creative must create itself.

Sudden a thought came like a full-blown rose, Flushing his brow.

The day is gone, and all its sweets are gone!

In a drear-nighted December, Too happy, happy tree, Thy branches ne'er remember Their green felicity.

The uttered part of a man's life, let us always repeat, bears to the unuttered, unconscious part a small unknown proportion. He himself never knows it, much less do others.

Load every rift with ore.

Love in a hut, with water and a crust, Is - Love, forgive us! - cinders, ashes, dust.

Young playmates of the rose and daffodil, Be careful ere ye enter in, to fill Your baskets high With fennel green, and balm, and golden pines Savory latter-mint, and columbines.

Misery loves company, particularly when she is herself the hostess, and can give generously of her stores to others.

Nostalgia combines regularly with manifest respectability to give credence to old error as opposed to new truth.

Nothing so denies a person liberty as the total absence of money.

One must always have in mind one simple fact - there is no literate population in the world that is poor, and there is no illiterate population that is anything but poor.

When everything else failed, we can still become immortal by making an enormous blunder.

A good rule of conversation is never answer a foolish question.

Anyone who says he won't resign four times, will.

Of all the mysteries of the stock exchange there is none so impenetrable as why there should be a buyer for everyone who seeks to sell.

According to the experience of all but the most accomplished jugglers, it is easier to keep one ball in the air than many.

Much of the world's work, it has been said, is done by men who do not feel quite well. Marx is a case in point.

Of all classes the rich are the most noticed and the least studied.

A point must be repeated: only the pathological weakness of the financial memory...allows us to believe that the modern experience of....debt...is in any way a new phenomenon.

The line dividing the state from what is called private enterprise, orat least fromthehighlyorganized part of it, is a traditional fiction.

Foresight is an imperfect thing - all prevision in economics is imperfect.

A more important antidote to American democracy is American gerontocracy. The positions of eminence and authority in Congress are allotted in accordance with length of service, regardless of quality.

A [New Yorker ] is what it has always been. It combines those who pursue the truth with those who pursue the rewards of orthodoxy and those who pursue what is comfortable to the rich.

It takes some skill to spoil a breakfast - even the English can't do it.

We are becoming the servants in thought, as in action of the machine we have created to serve us.

The notion that you would initiate a new product without preparing the way by persuasion and advertising and salesmanship is fantastic. It's an integral part of the system.

But now, as throughout history, financial capacity and political perspicacity are inversely correlated.

No ethic is as ethical as the work ethic.

Some things were never meant to be recycled.

Volleyball rules are simple. If it is on the floor, pick it up and get it into the air. If it is in the air, keep it off the floor. —

The sport of volleyball will never give you something that you can't handle; whether you do handle it is another question.

Focus on winning the contest with yourself.

In volleyball there are many reasons for errors but not a single excuse.

Less effort in this game makes more results.