John Quotes

Far better an approximate answer to the right question, which is often vague, than the exact answer to the wrong question, which can always be made precise.

Be approximately right rather than exactly wrong.

If we believe in a theology that doesn't contain doing the works of Jesus, we will not have a practice of Signs & Wonders.

I probably have some sort of chocolate five times a week. There's definitely a change it does to the chemistry of the body. It's my favorite feeling. I live for it.

Be more concerned with what you can do for others than what others can do for you. You’ll be surprised at the results.

I enjoyed my time in Utah. It was a different area to what I was used to. The people there were very nice and it was a great organization and city. I have only good things to say about Utah.

Freedom of thought and freedom of speech in our great institutions are absolutely necessary for the preservation of our country. The moment either is restricted, liberty begins to wither and die.

Only in spontaneity can we be who we truly are.

I started Pilates. I'm the only guy in there. They plot before I get there: 'How can we make John look ridiculous?' Because every exercise involved my legs up, like I'm in the stirrups or something.

Like Odysseus, the President looked wiser when he was seated.

The solution to a problem changes the nature of the problem.

The United States is the only country left now, bar Romania, Bulgaria and Poland, that has this all-government system.

Charging a man with murder in this place was like handing out speeding tickets at the Indy 500.

We read fine things but never feel them to the full until we have gone the same steps as the author.

I hold that when a person dies / His soul returns again to earth; / Arrayed in some new flesh disguise / Another mother gives him birth / With sturdier limbs and brighter brain.

At present, too much theological thinking is very human-centered.

If I found a cure for a huge disease, while I was hobbling up onstage to accept the Nobel Prize they'd be playing the theme song from 'Three's Company'.

We have oftener than once endeavoured to attach some meaning to that aphorism, vulgarly imputed to Shaftesbury, which however we can find nowhere in his works, that "ridicule is the test of truth."

Obama's dense as a doorbell; not much going on up there - it's a wooden top.

The timely dew of sleep Now falling with soft slumb'rous weight inclines Our eyelids.

We never gave up. We didn't get lost in a sea of despair. We kept the faith. We kept pushing and pulling. We kept marching. And we made some progress.

Conceit may puff a man up, but never prop him up.

Simple minds, presumably, are the easiest to manage.

Always remember this: 'A kiss will never miss, and after many kisses a miss becomes a misses.'

Every corner of the public psyche is canvassed by some of the most talented citizens to see if the desire for some merchandisable product can be cultivated.

If Scripture has more than one meaning, it has no meaning at all.

The greatest sorrow and burden you can lay on the Father, the greatest unkindness you can do to him is not to believe that he loves you.

There are no dreams too large, no innovation unimaginable and no frontiers beyond our reach.

Was Judas Iscariot a figure of history? I do not think so. There is no mention of him in any source before the 8th decade.

I hate how hard spiritual transformation is and how long it takes. I hate thinking about how many people have gone to church for decades and remain joyless or judgmental or bitter or superior.

It's my job to build the people who are going to build the company.

When Elvis made his mass-media debut on 'The Ed Sullivan Show' - his notorious gyrations filmed only from the waist up - I fell off the family chaise longue with delight.

Sometimes you really dig a girl, the moment you kiss her, And then you get distracted by her older sister.

The harder you fight to hold on to specific assumptions, the more likely there's gold in letting go of them.

John Brown was tried for treason, murder, and inciting slaves to insurrection.

In those days, slavery was not looked upon, even in Quaker Philadelphia, with the shudder and abhorrence one feels towards it now.

To make something look real and alive, nothing can be symmetrical because nothing in real life is symmetrical. You have to make it look organic.

I am an anarchist! Wherefore I will not rule and also ruled I will not be.

Wait, wait. I don't get it.' 'That is because you only have eight functioning brain cells.

Dead men tell no tales.

I'm a bad boyfriend. She's a bad girlfriend. We deserve each other.

What gnashing is not a comfort, what gnawing of the worm is not a tickling, what torment is not a marriage bed to this damnation, to be secluded eternally, eternally, eternally from the sight of God?

Maybe there is something you're afraid to say, or someone you're afraid to love, or somewhere you're afraid to go. It's gonna hurt. It's gonna hurt because it matters.

One day I caught four Dolphins, how much I have gazed at these beautiful creatures... as they changed their hue in twenty varieties of richest arrangement of tints.

Journalism allows its readers to witness history; fiction gives its readers an opportunity to live it.

I can scarcely manage to scribble a tolerable English letter. I know that I am not a scholar, but meantime I am aware that no man living knows better than I do the habits of our birds.

If Prometheus was worthy of the wrath of heaven for kindling the first fire upon earth, how ought all the gods honor the men who make it their professional business to put it out?

Creeps and idiots cannot conceal themselves for long on a fishing trip.

It's an odd fact of life that whichever side of the stream you're on, two-thirds of the best water is out of reach on the other side.

Nothing so clears the vision and lifts up the life, as a decision to move forward in what you know to be entirely the will of the Lord.