John Quotes

You can't reinvent yourself for every movie.

All creative work has its greatest reality while it is still in a man's mind, before he begins to execute it.

To live without having a Cicero and a Tacitus at hand seems to me as if it was aprivation of one of my limbs.

Let us not be unmindful that liberty is power, that the nation blessed with the largest portion of liberty must in proportion to its numbers be the most powerful nation upon earth.

In what light soever we regard the Bible, whether with reference to revelation, to history, or to morality, it is an invaluable and inexhaustible mine of knowledge and virtue.

It has been my custom for many years to read the Bible in its entirety once a year

Occasional war is one of the rigorous instruments in the hands of Providence to give tone to the character of nations.

Whether to the nation or to the state, no service can be or ever will be rendered by a more able or a more faithful public servant.

About one-half of the members of Congress are seekers for office at the nomination of the President. Of the remainder, at least one-half have some appointment or favor to ask for their relatives.

But America is a great, unwieldy Body. Its Progress must be slow... Like a Coach and six - the swiftest Horses must be slackened and the slowest quickened, that all may keep an even Pace.

A gentleman of one of the first fortunes upon the continent...sacrificing his ease, and hazarding all in the cause of his country.

The thing that I'm always left with is this overwhelming desire for people to be rooted and the only way that they feel rooted is through another person.

We dont want the Taliban to put down roots, or the al Qaeda to put down roots in Afghanistan that can facilitate Afghanistan becoming - once again - a launching pad for international terrorism.

Don't take anything for granite. That's what tombstones are made of.

It's just as sure a recipe for failure to have the right idea fifty years too soon as five years too late.

After one is right with God and pleases God, the next most important thing in all the world is to be right with one's own father and mother.

Capitalism was reasonably content under Hitler, happy under Mussolini, very happy under Franco and delirious under General Pinochet.

It is undoubtedly easier to believe in absolutes, follow blindly, mouth received wisdom. But that is self-betrayal.

Educating the masses was intended only to improve the relationship between the top and the bottom of society. Not for changing the nature of the relationship.

We all need a bit of self-delusion. It gets us over the difficult spots.

Wordsmiths who serve established power...castrate the public imagination by subjecting language to a complexity which renders it private. Elitism is always their aim.

In a society of ideological believers, nothing is more ridiculous than the individual who doubts and does not conform.

Rights are a protection from society. But only by fulfilling their obligations to society can the individual give meaning to that protection. (V - From Ideology Towards Equilibrium)

McDonald's is the ultimate symbol of passive conformity.

Happy Hour: a depressing comment on the rest of the day and a victory for the most limited Dionysian view of human nature.

Dictionary: Opinion presented as truth in alphabetical order.

Management cannot solve problems. Nor can it stir creativity of any sort. It can only manage what it is given. If asked to do more, it will deform whatever is put into its hands.

Marx was fortunate to have been born eighty years before Walt Disney. Disney also promised a child's paradise and unlike Marx, delivered on his promise.

Hark! o'er the dread abyss the sea-bird screams-- The rocks resound--again the lightning gleams!

We may suppose that everyone has in himself the whole form of a moral conception.

Nothing is invented and perfected at the same time.

A talkative person runs himself upon great inconvenience by blabbing out his own and others' secrets.

He that counts all cost will never put plough in the earth.

Just the absence of loneliness. That's love enough.

The greatest reward is not what we receive for our labor, but what we become by it.

Death is not a journey into an unknown land; it is a voyage home. We are going, not to a strange country, but to our fathers house.

What is poetry? The suggestion, by the imagination, of noble grounds for the noble emotions.

Your labor only may be sold, your soul must not.

If you want to work for the kingdom of God, and to bring it, and enter into it, there is just one condition to be first accepted. You must enter into it as children, or not at all.

He who is not actively kind is cruel!

Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it.

The man who accepts the laissez-faire doctrine would allow his garden to grow wild so that roses might fight it out with the weeds and the fittest might survive.

Not without design does God write the music of our lives.

This is the true nature of home - it is the place of Peace; the shelter, not only from all injury, but from all terror, doubt, and division.

Without the perfect sympathy with the animals around them, no gentleman's education, no Christian education, could be of any possible use.

I wasn't good at sports and I needed a way to make girls like me.

I feel that true freedom lies within, where I shall never find it.

For me, it's always Christ first and playing the right way for Christ. If I do that, everything else will take care of itself. When I stay focused on that, there's no pressure to worry about.

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The union of Church and State is not to make the Church political, but the State religious.