John Quotes

People who believe in ghosts think that dead people can walk through locked doors. Nonsense - they have to use a key like the rest of us.

Some people burn all of their energy helping themselves, while some use all of it helping others. The happiest among us do a little of both.

While you're busy chasing your dream, don't forget to leave time for living - it's way too easy to run straight past what's truly important.

Take a step toward your dream today. No matter how tiny the step, it will give you the energy and desire to take another.

To never aspire to excellence means to never fully comprehend the amount of work required to achieve it.

​When suddenly you find yourself on the wrong highway, perhaps it's time for a new job, or some new friends. It's your life - live it.

When chasing a dream, make sure the price is truly worth paying - if it is, go for it, if not, tweak your dream a little and then go for it.

When the road you're on begins to crumble, forge ahead - better it crumble behind you than ahead of you.

When people tap into this politics of resentment, it usually ends ugly.

We need to punch back against the extremes of both the left and the right and define the terms of the debate ourselves.

The far right and the far left can be equally insane.

Demagogues always do well in economic downturns.

Terrorism is always one bad day away from being issue No. 1.

The two parties are still more polarized than ever before and the rise of partisan media is an important reason for it.

Right now, politics follows the rules of talk radio - using conflict, tension, fear, and resentment to find new recruits.

If you only take offense when the president of your party is compared to Hitler, then you're part of the problem.

Good publishers – as one former publisher aptly put it – are market-makers in a world where it is attention, not content, that is scarce.

Make me, dear Lord, polite and kind, To everyone, I pray. And may I ask you how you find Yourself, dear Lord, today?

The Commission on Presidential Debates must be replaced if we want to have a democracy in this country.

There are more scriptural reasons to oppose homophobia than to oppose homosexuality.

No price is too great to preserve the health of the fleet.

Americans want to be exposed to the opportunities that a changing world can offer.

Americans count on the guaranteed benefits they paid for under Medicare.

I would rather be erring on the side of common-sense pragmatism and doing everything possible so that I felt that no stone was left unturned in terms of trying to protect school children.

It's dishonest to say we're doing everything we can for our seniors when there is so much more we can.

As all Americans head forward into the new reality globalization has created, they want leaders who will level with them and help level the playing field.

It's difficult for a society to have a healthy discourse on its future when people are afraid to gather to express themselves and authorities won't allow it.

An ounce of algebra is worth a ton of verbal argument.

I will give up my belief in evolution if someone finds a fossil rabbit in the Precambrian.

I have come to the conclusion that my subjective account of my motivation is largely mythical on almost all occasions. I don't know why I do things.

The extreme socialists desire to run every nation as a single business concern.

Science is as yet in its infancy, and we can foretell little of the future save that the thing that has not been is the thing that shall be; that no beliefs, no values, no institutions are safe.

I will jump into the river to save two brothers or eight cousins.

I do not believe in the commercial possibility of induced radioactivity.

The idea of protoplasm, which was really a name for our ignorance, [is] only a little less misleading than the expression "Vital force".

So far from being an isolated phenomenon the late war is only an example of the disruptive result that we may constantly expect from the progress of science.

Shelley and Keats were the last English poets who were at all up to date in their chemical knowledge.

I think, however, that so long as our present economic and national systems continue, scientific research has little to fear.

Alas! dear Joy, the merriest, is dead. But I have wed Peace ; and our babe, a boy, New-born, is Joy.

Why should I stay? Nor seed nor fruit have I, But, sprung at once to beauty's perfect round, Nor loss nor gain nor change in me is found, - A life-complete in death-complete to die.

Soloing is serious business, because you can be seriously dead.

Forget impressing the girl, just do it for yourself!

John Ottman's music has emerged...as a brilliant new sound in the spectrum of Motion Pictures.

You need, instead, to be defined by your values.

Canada does not just 'go along' in order to 'get along.' We will 'go along,' only if we 'go' in a direction that advances Canada’s values: freedom, democracy, human rights and the rule of law.

We can't test these absolute limits on humans. We can't blast them with sound. However, we can do that to animals because they don't have the same political base that we do.

We want a strong, growing economy

Providing for the common good, making people feel secure in their communities and homes - this is the central job of government. it's why all of us are here serving our state and our people.

Why go somewhere else and start up all over again?

I want to produce images that startle one into recollection.