John Quotes

Pictures you have taken have an influence on those that you are going to make. That's life!

If free men refused to look at dead bodies then brave men will have died in vain.

On speaking: first, have something to say; second, say it; third, stop when you have said it; and finally give it an accurate title.

Now, if Mary has an egg cell, then Jesus gets 50 percent of his genetic make up from his mother. And if his mother is a child of Adam, she, too,is fallen so Jesus is not perfect.

I think the story of the Christian faith is how you can become more deeply and fully human, not how you can become religious. And I don't see any indication that being religious makes you more moral.

Some parts of the Bible are dreadful. In fact, my working title for The Sins of Scripture was "The Terrible Text of The Bible."

One of my professors said to me once, "Any god that can be killed off will be killed, but if I can shake up your faith in your god, it means you already don't have much of a god."

I don't think much about my physical body going off into the long, green fairways of heaven to play golf.

I live on the other side of Copernicus and Galileo; I can no longer conceive of God as sort of above the sky, looking down and keeping record books.

Why can I write 'South' with some assurance that you'll know I mean Richmond and don't mean Phoenix? What is it that the South's boundaries enclose?

Then came a bigger fear. Not the threat of imminent injury, but the fear that if I didn't go back up, I would be a chickenshit forever.

I do try to be of some use in the world. I sometimes do volunteer work with kids, and manage to help some people a little, but really making a significant difference can be hard.

I'm just the kind of person who seems designed, probably by nature, to try to make a difference.

I'm not a people person. I'm not sociable. I have been and I can be, but not as a general rule.

I used to be mouthy. It was all to do with being a northerner and from Manchester, which was suddenly a big deal when I was in my 20s. When I read some of the interviews I did back then, I cringe.

You never undertake a project because you think other people will like it - because that way lies madness - but rather because you believe in it.

It's horrible to get a cameraphone shoved in your face every time you walk out the door.

I think I can be closed in. I can close this outer shell, cut myself off and be quite cold. I can cut other people off if I need to. I don't think I'm angry, though... Maybe my wife would disagree.

I'm good at being on my own. As a kid, I was always in my room alone, so I have a high threshold for it. If I'm bored, I'll read. Hanging around doesn't go well with me.

This case is just as racist as the fictional, but unfortunately all too typical case, in 'To Kill a Mockingbird'.

Memories are just stories we tell ourselves about our past; and that's often why they don't match when we've shared the same experiences with someone.

The settled will of the Scottish people.

In Islam, all living things have souls. We are made pure by the fire of the lord compassion.

Whatever you fill your brain with and whoever you spend your time with... will determine your life a decade from now.

Successful people willingly do what unsuccessful people are unwilling to do.

It's always important for me as an actor to reflect human behavior for a sense of reality.

Capital punihsment: That without the Capital get the punishment.

For so many years, fans and friends have been wanting me to succeed and be back on TV every week, which hasn't happened since 'Full House.' I feel like I came through for them.

I know that once I get a good rhythm and a good feel, no one can stop me.

Mythology is about Good VS Evil, is it not? We can pretend runes and astrology and reading tea leaves...But to whom do we pray when we are terrified? Carl Sagan's essays?

You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us. And the world will live as one.

I must choose between despair and Energy──I choose the latter.

Sometimes, a lie is told in kindness. I don't believe it ever works kindly. The quick pain of truth can pass away, but the slow, eating agony of a lie is never lost.

Don't you love Jesus?' Well, I thought an' I thought an' finally I says, 'No, I don't know nobody name' Jesus. I know a bunch of stories, but I only love people.

If ever any beauty I did see, Which I desired, and got, 'twas but a dream of thee.

Any man of reasonable intelligence can make money if that's what he wants. Mostly it's women or clothes or admiration he really wants and they deflect him.

You see, when our attitudes outdistance our abilities, even the impossible becomes possible.

Family and friendships are two of the greatest facilitators of happiness.

People who use time wisely spend it on activities that advance their overall purpose in life.

I loathe gardening, but I love gardens, and I have two beautiful gardens. I can not bear gardening, but I love gardens.

We must be trying to learn who we really are rather than trying to tell ourselves who we should be.

Tore up my heart and shut it down. Nothing to do, nowhere to be. A simple little kind of free. Nothing to do, no one but me, and that's all I need. I'm perfectly lonely.

Imagine others complexly.

I believe that the imagination is the passport we create to take us into the real world. I believe the imagination is another phrase for what is most uniquely us.

There are few things in life worse than a long-winded lawyer.

Good is never accomplished except at the cost of those who do it, truth never breaks through except through the sacrifice of those who spread it.

There is only one good definition of God: the freedom that allows other freedoms to exist.

Dreaming is the poetry of Life, and we must be forgiven if we indulge in it a little.

A dead man is the worst enemy alive, I thought. You can't alter his power over you. You can't alter what you love or owe. And it's too late to ask him for his absolution. He has beaten you all ways.

You develop faith by doing things that require faith.