John Quotes

The spirits perverse with easy intercourse pass to and fro, to tempt or punish mortals.

Fate shall yield To fickle Chance, and Chaos judge the strife.

It’s disturbing that people are questioning my sanity for giving up the money. What does that say about our world?

I just really thought about it and decided I'm not happy. I'm not happy at all. And I think it's really madness to risk your body, risk your well-being and risk your happiness for money.

You have not converted a man, because you have silenced him.

Many people think of knowledge as money, They would like knowledge, but do not want to face the perseverance and self- denial that goes into the acquisition of it.

This decision is an illustration that freedom of speech still protects average people sitting on a street corner singing.

The greatest horrors of our world are committed by people who are totally sincere.

No power on earth, however, can abolish the merciless class distinction between those who are physically desirable and the lonely, pallid, spotted, silent, unfancied majority.

I suppose true sexual equality will come when a general called Anthea is found having an unwise lunch with a young, unreliable model from Spain.

I don't believe in children's books. I think after you've read Kidnapped, Treasure Island, and Huckleberry Finn, you're ready for anything.

The world asks, How much does he give? Christ asks why does he give?

We all flow from one fountain.

See how God writes history. No technical knowledge is required; only a calm day and a calm mind.

The blessings of one mountain day, whatever his fate, long life, short life, stormy or calm, he is rich forever.

The mountains are fountains not only of rivers and fertile soil, but of men.

They tell us that plants are not like man immortal, but are perishable-soul -less. I think that is something that we know exactly nothing about.

Never while anything is left of me shall this... camp be forgotten. It has fairly grown into me, not merely as memory pictures, but as part and parcel of mind and body alike.

Who publishes the sheet-music of the winds or the music of water written in river-lines?

Who wouldn't be a mountaineer! Up here all the world's prizes seem nothing

Galen Clark was the best mountaineer I ever met, and one of the kindest and most amiable of all my mountain friends.

I ran home in the moonlight with firm strides; for the sun-love made me strong.

Nature has always something rare to show us... and the danger to life and limb is hardly greater than one would experience crouching deprecatingly beneath a roof.

Tug on anything in nature and you will find it connected to everything else.

Oh, these vast, calm, measureless mountain days, inciting at once to work and rest!

...therefore all childish fear must be put away.

Ink cannot tell the glow that lights me at this moment in turning to the mountains. I feel strong [enough] to leap Yosemite walls at a bound.

Everyone's very relaxed about brand names in television.

I had a lot of fun writing things that died during dress rehearsal. Sometimes I remember the crazy ones that died even more fondly than the ones that did really well.

Having done stand-up on television and in stand-up specials for like Comedy Central, you learn quickly that for that type of performance you're playing to the camera.

I always wanted it to be multi-cam from the beginning. In the first seeds of the idea, I wanted a live audience, multi-cam show. That was very important for me.

What's unique about transportation is that it's the one function that repeats itself throughout the supply chain.

Touch me again, and I’ll end you… in a non-criminal way.

Not much more can happen to you after you lose your reputation and your wife.

The most important skill to acquire now is learning how to learn.

Almost all change is evolutionary, not revolutionary... expectations always travel at higher speeds.

Considering a work program at this time is quite simply out of touch with the reality we confront.

After deep exercise of soul I was brought by grace to feel I could entirely.

To rest satisfied with existing evils, as if we could do nothing, is not obedience; but neither is it obedience to imitate the actions of the apostles.

I've not really had a bad Christmas. Apart from serious things, like when my father died. He rather spoiled the party and I've never forgiven him for falling off the twig on Christmas Day.

You know, I was a regular on the Friday afternoon drill squad. Um, which... The year after I left school, I went back and thanked the sergeant major because I was so fit.

American liberty is premised on the accountability of free men and women for what they have done, not for what they may do.

"What Thou wilt, when Thou wilt, how Thou wilt." I had rather speak these three sentences from my heart in my mother tongue than be master of all the languages in Europe.

If we venture beyond the pale of Scripture, we are...exposed to all the illusions of imagination and enthusiasm.

A soul disengaged from the world is a heavenly one; and then are we ready for heaven when our heart is there before us.

Life is too short and too precious to waste it living out someone else’s values. We must find our own.

Perhaps it should only be added that the Gorean master, though often strict, is seldom cruel. The girl knows, if she pleases him, her lot will be an easy one.

Highways dont belong in cities. Period. Europe didnt do it. America did. And our cities have paid the price.

Cities are for people. A city is where people come to work and raise their families and to spend their money and to walk in the evening. It is not a traffic corridor.

You want continual improvement? Then I challenge every employee in an organization to discard the status quo and ask themselves everyday, How can I improve my job?, then find a way to make it happen.