John Quotes

Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity.

The best road to progress is freedom's road.

The earth will not continue to offer its harvest, except with faithful stewardship. We cannot say we love the land and then take steps to destroy it for use by future generations.

It is often said that second thoughts are best. So they are in matters of judgment but not in matters of conscience.

The most important questions in life can never be answered by anyone except oneself.

There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.

To me faith means not worrying.

All the windows of my heart I open to the day.

You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change.

Peace is the first thing the angels sang.

Inspiration arrives as a packet of material to be delivered.

It is better to be respected than it is to be popular. Popularity ends on yearbook day, but respect lasts forever.

People say you favor assassination, what do you think war is? Except that it's assassination on a much larger scale, a much more horrific scale.

The Spirit of God is jealous over us; He doesn't want superficial fellowship, but genuine intimacy.

Let's make a deal: You figure out what the labyrinth is and how to get out of it, and i'll get you laid. -Alaska Young

If you listen, you learn; if you talk, you don't.

I am a Korean War veteran. I support our troops as much as anyone in this body, but I do so by advocating redeployment out of Iraq as soon as it can be safely done.

Do I listen to pop music because I'm miserable or am I miserable because listen to pop music?

Its better to get smart than to get mad. I try not to get so insulted that I will not take advantage of an opportunity to persuade people to change their minds.

Politics has always been the art of the possible. Today it's too often the art of the probable - tinkering around the edges without any greater vision, without a sense of optimism and imagination.

If you're bourgeois, money is it. It's all the questions and all the answers. Ain't no E-flat or color blue, only $12.98 or $1,000. If it isn't money, it isn't nothing.

Caring for our own hearts isn't selfishness; it's how we begin to love.

I still enjoy the company of most dogs more than that of most people, because dogs are capable of uncomplicated enthusiasm.

I have one love - Canada; one purpose - Canada's greatness; one aim - Canadian unity from the Atlantic to the Pacific.

Our cause is just. Our union is perfect.

Mulberry Garden, now the only place of refreshment about the town for persons of the best quality to be exceeding cheated at.

Whether I start or come off the bench makes no difference to me. My game has always been go as hard as I can as long as I can

But those who wish to prove to unbelievers that Scripture is the Word of God are acting foolishly, for only by faith can this be known.

Creativity is not a talent. It is a way of operating.

A man's accomplishments in life are the cumulative effect of his attention to detail.

You live your life today, Not tommorow, and certainly not yesterday.

The desire to rule is the mother of heresies.

I stick to simple themes. Love. Hate. No nuances. I stay away from psychoanalyst's couch scenes. Couches are good for one thing.

Making an open stand against all the ungodliness and unrighteousness which overspreads our land as a flood is one of the noblest ways of confessing Christ in the face of His enemies.

All this time I lived with my parents, and wrought on the plantation; and having had schooling pretty well for a planter, I used to improve myself in winter evenings, and other leisure times.

To quote out of context is the essence of the photographer's craft.

The strength of the poetry as we enter into whatever it is we are entering into, will be determined by the clarity of the thinking we put into it.

Everybody should have a chance to rise. That's our philosophy in Ohio and that's my philosophy for America.

I am fully prepared to be commander in chief... I don't need on-the-job training.

A lot of Woody Guthrie's songs were taken from other songs. He would rework the melody and lyrics, and all of a sudden it was a Woody Guthrie song.

High School is like a spork: it's a crappy spoon and a crappy fork, so in the end it's just plain useless.

Quinquireme of Nineveh from distant Ophir, Rowing home to haven in sunny Palestine, With a cargo of ivory, And apes and peacocks, Sandalwood, cedarwood, and sweet white wine.

He that preaches war is the devil's chaplain.

Listeners ne'er hear good of themselves.

Our economy is built upon convergent thinkers, people that execute things, get them done. But artists and designers are divergent thinkers: they expand the horizon of possibilities.

Success is how well you do what you do when nobody else is looking.

Everything of worth is found full of difficulties.

Modern travelling is not travelling at all; it is merely being sent to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel.

Try to see it my way, only time will tell if I am right or I am wrong. While you see it your way, there's a chance that we might fall apart before too long. We can work it out. W e can work it out.

All shall work together for good; everything is needful that He sends; nothing can be needful that He withholds.