John Quotes

When a person starts to talk about their dreams, it's as if something bubbles up from within. Their eyes brighten, their face glows, and you can feel the excitement in their words.

Without failure there is no achievement.

I'm not afraid to die.

The unsuccessful person is burdened by learning, and prefers to walk down familiar paths. Their distaste for learning stunts their growth and limits their influence.

Defense is a definite part of the game, and a great part of defense is learning to play it without fouling.

In a time of domestic crisis, men of goodwill and generosity should be able to unite regardless of party or politics.

The first time you say something, it's heard. The second time, it's recognized, and the third time it's learned.

Good leaders must communicate vision clearly, creatively, and continually. However, the vision doesn't come alive until the leader models it.

I think permitting the game to become too physical takes away a little bit of the beauty.

I must not write a word to you about politics, because you are a woman.

As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.

I have no one to leave the money to. I'm a single man. I like spending my money.

I was built up from my dad more than anyone else.

Yet how hard most people work for mere dust and ashes and care, taking no thought of growing in knowledge and grace, never having time to get in sight of their own ignorance.

Over the summit, I saw the so-called Mono desert lying dreamily silent in the thick, purple light -- a desert of heavy sun-glare beheld from a desert of ice-burnished granite.

I was here on earth because I chose to be.

A woman hath nine lives like a cat.

I'm sorry. I know you loved her. It was hard not to.

We were very different, and we disagreed about a lot of things, but he was always so interesting, you know?

and all I could think was that I would like to spend every morning for the rest of my life waking up beside her

I liked being a person. I wanted to keep at it.

I always felt like you had to be important to have enemies.

Life has become the future. Every moment of your life is lived for the future.

you cannot find happiness, outside the plan of happiness!

The best way to prepare for death is to live life to its fullest.

Look, let me just say it: He was hot. A nonhot boy stares at you relentlessly and it is, at best, awkward and, at worst, a form of assault. But a hot boy . . . well.

But I was not in the band, because I suffer from the kind of tone deafness that is generally associated with actual deafness

Chuck Parson did not participate in organized sports, because to do so would distract from his larger goal of his life: to one day be convicted of murder

It would be, for me, mere pointless pleasure, an illusion of order for this one frail, foolish, flicker-flash in the long dull fall of eternity.

Every man knows that he will die: and nobody believes it. On that paradox stand not only a host of religions but the entity of a sane being.

There's no backward and no forward, no day other than this. You fill your cart as you go, and that's that.

Nothing is real.

The stories people tell you about themselves seem to retain the possibility of being false. But what you discover about them by yourself seems to be the truth.

To speak and act truth with constancy and precision is nearly as difficult, and perhaps as meretorious, as to speak it under intimidation or penalty

There are no means of finding what either one person or many can do, but by trying - and no means by which anyone else can discover for them what it is for their happiness to do or leave undone

...if desire is predominant it can deform love between man and woman and rob them both of it.

O God — please give him back! I shall keep asking You.

Stories last longer: but only by becoming only stories.

Limitation of one's freedom might seem to be something negative and unpleasant, but love makes it a positive, joyful and creative thing. Freedom exists for the sake of love.

he is both the source of my happiness and the one i want to share it with. i have to believe that’s a sign.

She leaned into me, and when I closed my eyes, I knew I wanted nothing more than to hold her this way forever.

I felt the unfairness of it, the inarguable injustice of loving someone who might have loved you back but can't due to deadness.

Witness also that when we talk about literature, we do so in the present tense. When we speak of the dead, we are not so kind.

I went on spouting bullshit Encouragements as Gus's parents, arm in arm, hugged each other and nodded at every word. Funerals, I had decided, are for the living.

Colder by the hour, more dead with every breath.

Think. In a minute from now you could be saying, I risked death. I threw for life, and I won life. It is a very wonderful feeling. To have survived.

Last words are always harder to remember when no one knows that someone's about to die.

She cannot possibly be dead, people do not just die

He'd fought hard, Lida told me, as if there was another way to fight.

And so sepúlchred in such pomp dost lie, That kings for such a tomb would wish to die.