John Quotes

There's an awful lot of inactive kindness which is nothing but laziness, not wanting any trouble, confusion, or effort.

I know three things will never be believed - the true, the probable, and the logical

For every man in the world functions to the best of his ability, and no one does less than his best, no matter what he may think about it.

To the heavens on the wings of a pig.

It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge intime, toprotest againstchange, particularlychangefor the better.

To the red country and part of the gray country of Oklahoma, the last rains came gently, and they did not cut the scarred earth.

What do I want in a doctor? Perhaps more than anything else-a friend with special knowledge.

Intentions, good or bad, are not enough. There's luck or fate or something else that takes over.

There's something desirable about anything you're used to as opposed to something you're not.

Not only do the brave get killed, but the brave have a better chance of it.

You just cant predict baseball

Knowledge, or more expressively truth,--for knowledge is truth received into our intelligence,--truth is an ideal whole.

Every man's follies are the caricature resemblances of his wisdom.

Be busy in trading, receiving, and giving, for life is too good to be wasted in living.

There is no lie that a man will not believe; and there is no man who does not believe many lies; and there is no man who believes only lies.

Commerce has made all winds her mistress.

Speech is as a pump, by which we raise and pour out the water from the great lake of Thought,--whither it flows back again.

Poetry is in itself strength and joy, whether it be crowned by all mankind, or left alone in its own magic hermitage.

The ideal client is the very wealthy man in very great trouble.

Superstition moulds nature into an arbitrary semblance of the supernatural, and then bows down to the work of its own hands.

Language. By this we build pyramids, fight battles, ordain and administer laws, shape and teach religion, and knit man to man, cultivate each other, and ourselves.

Every fancy that we would substitute for a reality is, if we saw aright, and saw the whole, not only false, but every way less beautiful and excellent than that which we sacrifice to it.

Like earth, awake, and warm, and bright With joy the spirit moves and burns; So up to thee! O Fount of Light! Our light returns.

An unproductive truth is none. But there are products which cannot be weighed even in patent scales, nor brought to market.

Toil, feel, think, hope; you will be sure to dream enough before you die, without arranging for it.

I could honor Carmen Electra. I think she's beautiful.

I was a closet stutterer.

[T]he only way to shrink the trade deficit is for the government to prohibit us from buying whatever we want.

I was bullied as a kid, and I got a job on television. And I had a camera. And so I wanted to go after those business bullies. And I just have been following that instinct.

I'm a libertarian. It's a terrible word.

What I've learned in 40 years of consumer reporting is that the market is imperfect, and some people get ripped off.

Wealthier is healthier.

I had to watch government fail for 25 years doing consumer reporting before I really saw it because intuitively, the reaction is problem, bring government and government will make it better.

I like taking the subway to work.

Living with the liberals, you get to hear their arguments, fight with them all the time. Keeps me alert.

I was ashamed for people to see me struggle.

The church is under orders. Evangelistic inactivity is disobedience.

The reason I am a Christian is not that it is nice, but that it is true.

We are to be strong in faith, and soft in love.

The gospel creates the church, which spreads the gospel, which creates more churches, which in turn spread the gospel further ad infinitum.

God sacrifices himself for man and puts himself where only man deserves to be.

The question is not so much what the hand is doing (passing over some cash or a check) but what the heart is thinking while the hand is doing it.

There is no biblical Christianity without the cross at its center.

Indignation and compassion form a powerful combination. They are indispensable to vision, and therefore to leadership.

The other gods were strong; but thou wast weak; they rode, but thou didst stumble to a throne; But to our wounds only God's wounds can speak, And not a god has wounds, but thou alone.

So close was Christ's connection with God that he equated a man's attitude to himself with the man's attitude to God.

If God speaks to us about himself and his own glorious greatness, we respond by humbling ourselves before him in worship... If He speaks to us about His commandments, we determine to obey them.

In regard to education, something has been done by the Provincial Legislature but to build churches, and to place clergymen is a work of greater difficulty.

In vain shall Great Britain confer upon her colonies the free government and liberal principles of legislation, for which she is distinguished, if she do not carry with her the revelations of God.

In this Epistle, the Apostle seeks, with great earnestness, to confirm the Christian converts in the belief of that Gospel, which he had so faithfully preached.