John Quotes

A hot iron, though blunt, will pierce sooner than a cold one, though sharper.

Only look to Jesus. He died for you, died in your place, died under the frowns of heaven, that we might die under its smile.

Man is his own star, and the soul that can Render an honest and a perfect man, Commands all light.

Ethics is obedience to the unenforceable.

Freedom & Duty always go hand in hand and if the free do not accept the duty of social responsibility, they will not long remain free.

That was the tragedy. Not that one man had the courage to be evil. But that millions had not the courage to be good.

I read and I read; and I was like a medieval king, I had fallen in love with the picture long before I saw the reality.

Content is a word unknown to life; it is also a word unknown to man.

It is not wise for a man who can get seasick in a rowboat on a mill-pond to attack a Japanese dinner just after a seventeen days voyage across the Pacific.

The world is full of beautiful girls. But they're not Angelina Jolie. She's fun, honest, intelligent, gorgeous and divinely talented. She brings a hell of a lot to the party.

One of the other things I think that I've been able to do in my life, is to listen well

You have to be a great storyteller. And you have to master the tools that you have to tell the story which are, inorder of importance, the script, the actors and then thetechnical means.

Don't think of sea as color. Make it a solid that can support a boat. Think of 'wetness' as color-texture.

To play your colors by eye is worse than playing the piano by ear.

We seek fulfillment in our lives through heart connection with others. This is our soul's essence of joy, which spontaneously pulses through us, longing to share itself with another.

Well, I don't even know how to drive in this life, so I'm pretty far from ever having the life of being a stuntdouble. I liked- I had an Evil Knievel doll when i was a kid, that's about it!

I think an analogue synth is an extension of the natural world.

I think you get people taking things to excess in all fields, doctors, lawyers - -it happens to all kinds of people.

I combine aspects of many styles of music and create my own musical forms by way of electronic instruments.

I just like to switch things up all the time. Like when it comes to singing, I try to find a different character for each song.

Humility is the cornerstone of leadership.

We need to bring personal responsibility back to the family!

Early morning does not mince words.

Love could never come to full fruition till it was destroyed.

As a man lives and thinks, so he will write.

Matters change and morals change; men remain.

See what perils do environ those who meddle with hot iron.

The talked-about is always the last to hear the talk . . .

In a word, man in London is not quite so good a creature as he is out of it.

When I was a child I truly loved: Unthinking love as calm and deep As the North Sea. But I have lived, And now I do not sleep.

Art Gropes. It stalks like a hunter lost in the woods, listening to itself and to everything around it, unsure of itself, waiting to pounce.

Beasts kill for hunger, men for pay.

Envy's a sharper spur than pay.

There is no dependence that can be sure but a dependence upon one's self.

What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

Woman's mind Oft' shifts her passions, like th'inconstant wind; Sudden she rages, like the troubled main, Now sinks the storm, and all is calm again.

Is there no hope? the sick man said, The silent doctor shook his head, And took his leave with signs of sorrow, Despairing of his fee to-morrow.

She who has never lov'd, has never liv'd.

One wife is too much for most husbands to bear, But two at a time there's no mortal can bear.

Do you think your mother and I should have lived comfortably so long together, if ever we had been married? Baggage!

To cheat a man isnothing; but the womanmust have fine parts indeed who cheats a woman!

If the heart of a man is depressed with cares, The mist is dispell'd when a woman appears; Like the notes of a fiddle, she sweetly, sweetly Raises the spirits, and charms our ears.

To friendship every burden's light.

Give me, kind heaven, a private station, a mind serene for contemplation.

I must have women - there is nothing unbends the mind like them.

When we risk no contradiction, It prompts the tongue to deal in fiction.

The charge is prepared; the lawyers are met; The judges all ranged (a terrible show!) I go, undismay'd. For death is a debt, A debt on demand. So take what I owe.

Envy's a sharper spur than pay: No author ever spar'd a brother; Wits are gamecocks to one another.

Whence is thy learning? Hath thy toil O'er books consumed the midnight oil?

I never, with important air, In conversation overbear. . . . . My tongue within my lips I rein; For who talks much must talk in vain.