John Quotes

I am one whose faith is, that love and friendship, with ardent natures, are like those trees of the torrid zone which yield fruit but once, and then die.

I do not teach students anything. I learn along with them.

Learning to think rigorously, so as to act rightly and to serve humanity better.

Our true wisdom is to embrace with meek docility, and without reservation, whatever the holy scriptures have delivered.

In increments both measurable and not, our childhood is stolen from us -- not always in one momentous event but often in a series of small robberies, which add up to the same loss.

Such is life. We grow up. Planets like Tiny get new moons. Moons like me get new planets.

What men do matters more than what they know.

Mastery is not something that strikes in an instant, like a thunderbolt, but a gathering power that moves steadily through time, like weather.

There is an old saying, or should be, that it is a wise economist who recognizes the scope of his own generalizations.

The craving to risk death is our last great perversion. We come from night, we go into night. Why live in night?

He just waited until I stopped talking and said, 'Jesus, kid, you're almost a detective. All you need now is a gun, a gut, and three ex-wives. So what's your theory?

Physical intimacy isn’t and can never be an effective substitute for emotional intimacy.

Patients are almost always preceded by their parents, because no matter how fast an ambulance can drive, terrified parents can drive faster.

When a problem threatens to engulf you, there's nothing like irrelevant detail to keep your head above water.

to travel faster than a speeding bullet is not much help if you and it are heading straight towards each other

Welcome to freakdom, Dave. It’ll be time to start a Web site soon, where you’ll type out everything in one huge paragraph.

Here’s exclusive Channel 5 video of a local man having his brain eaten by a winged gremlin. Local gremlin experts warn that—

That’s part of what I like about the book in some ways. It portrays death truthfully. You die in the middle of your life, in the middle of a sentence

There is only one things in this world shittier than biting it from cancer when you're sixteen, and that's having a kid who bites it from cancer.

... life is a flickering candle we all carry around. A gust of wind, a meaningless accident, a microsecond of carelessness, and it's out. Forever.

I must fight with my weapons. Not his. Not selfishness and brutality and shame and resentment.

If there must be madness, something may be said for having it on a heroic scale

Every act of loving affirms the goodness of the lover just because he is capable of loving and being loved.

Truth can prevail only in virtue of truth itself.

How will I ever get out of this labyrinth!" to a margin note written in her loop-heavy cursive: Straight & Fast.

Worry is yet another side effect of dying.

I mean, he was something that happened to me, you know? But before he was this minor figure in the drama of my life he was - you know, the central figure in the drama of his own life.

I didn't know what to say to her - I was caught in a love triangle with one dead side.

The dead live." "How do they live?" "By love.

You see, time is an ocean, not a garden hose. Space is a puff of smoke, a wisp of cloud.

I think before I act---and then think again. I am not entirely a coward, but I do not lose myself in action as you do.

I wasn't disappointed. My expectations had been met.

When you see the ugliness behind the tears of another person, it makes you take a closer look at your own.

In misery it is great comfort to have a companion.

The abbreviated exam week meant that Wednesday was the last day of school for us. And all day long, it was hard not to walk around, thinking about the lastness of it all.

I’m not up for laughing, but their laughter makes the room feel safer, so we begin to explore.

I am more than what they say I am.

The secret of success in battle lies often not so much in the use of one's own strength but in the exploitation of the other side's weaknesses.

Love is always a surprise and you never get it right.

In my opinion, actual heroism, like actual love, is a messy, painful, vulnerable business—and I wanted to try to reflect that.

Maybe life is not about accomplishing some bullshit markers.

Nothing is more impotent than an unread library.

Oh, Wikipedia, with your tension between those who would share knowledge and those who would destroy it.

New solutions win by virtue of adoption, and they don't get adopted if they're bad solutions.

The operating management, providing as it does for the care of near thirty thousand miles of railway, is far more important than that for construction in which there is comparatively little doing.

People are supposed to care. It's good that people mean something to you, that you miss people when they're gone.

I tried each thing, only some were immortal and free.

Contentment can only happen as we increase desire, let it run itself out towar its fulfilment, and carry us along with it.

Just because you're sober, don't think you're a good driver, Cookie.

That doesn't sound like my Margo", she said, and I thought of my Margo, and all of us looking at her reflection in different funhouse mirrors.