John Quotes

The intolerant can be viewed as free-riders, as persons who seek the advantages of just institutions while not doing their share to uphold them.

There's not a chance we'll reach our full potential until we stop blaming each other and start practicing personal accountability.

As a rule, panics do not destroy capital; they merely reveal the extent to which it has been destroyed by its betrayal into hopelessly unproductive works.

The creature has a purpose, and his eyes are bright with it.

Here are sweet peas, on tiptoe for a flight; With wings of gentle flush o'er delicate white, And taper fingers catching at all things, To bind them all about with tiny rings.

A moment of insight from God is worth more than a lifetime of experience.

Perhaps you will have to spend hours on your knees or upon your face before the throne. Never mind. Wait. God will do great things for you if you will wait for Him. Yield to Him. Cooperate with Him.

I am happy now, to recall that I was not only his son but his companion, and whenever there was a hunting expedition or any other pleasure, I was always with him.

There is always time for failure

Arsene Wenger has got to unlock the purse strings

Our warriors are no longer limited to the people who fly the airplanes...Our entire force is a warrior force. Being a warrior is not an AFSC, ...it's a condition of the heart.

Before Elvis there was nothing.

God's ways are behind the scenes, but He moves all the scenes which He is behind.

Southern barbecue is the closest thing we have in the US to Europe’s wines or cheeses; drive a hundred miles and the barbecue changes.

There is a certain phase in the life of the aged when the warmth of the heart seems to increase in direct proportion with the years.

The mile has a classic symmetry....It's a play in four acts.

Yearning: It needs to hurt in order to be worthy of the word. Otherwise it is just wanting.

Guys have a level of insecurity and vulnerability that's exponentially bigger than you think. With the primal urge to be alpha comes extreme heartbreak. The harder we fight, the harder we fall.

Painting is a means of self-enlightenment.

Iced tea is too pure and natural a creation not to have been invented as soon as tea, ice, and hot weather crossed paths.

In its current form, globalization cannot be sustained. Democratic societies will not support it. Authoritarian leaders will fear to impose it.

A man's calling is written on his true heart, and he discovers it when he enters the frontier of his deep desires.

A lot of times, good improv is when both people, or however many people are in the scene, really have no idea what the next thing you're going to say is.

Doctrine is not an affair of the tongue but of the life.

No matter where you are in the world the moon is never bigger than your thumb.

Wisdom is looking back at your life and realising that every single event, person, place and idea was part of the perfected experience you needed to build your dream. Not one was a mistake.

Unthinking faith is a curious offering to be made to the creator of the human mind.

It is the responsibility of leadership and management to give opportunities and put demands on people which enable them to grow as human beings in their work environment.

The applause is a celebration not only of the actors but also of the audience. It constitutes a shared moment of delight.

I believe the Sabbath; I keep the Sabbath.

I don't try to guess what a million people will like. It's hard enough to know what I like.

The day will happen whether or not you get up.

I need to concede a considerable area to what I don't know and can't know, and perhaps don't wish to know. Only to understand in a way I do not quite understand.

Most fishermen swiftly learn that it's a pretty good rule never to show a favorite spot to any fisherman you wouldn't trust with your wife.

I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal, I had an ambition to build.

Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam, Be it ever so humble, There's no place like home.

As Beckett said, it's not enough to die, one has to be forgotten as well.

The people who tried government regulation have lives which are miserable.

For a servant of God to have authority in every sentence he utters, he must first suffer for the message he is to deliver. Without great tribulation, there is no great illumination.

Numerical quantities focus on expected values, graphical summaries on unexpected values.

Existence itself does not feel horrible; it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience.

It's not about what you did yesterday, it's what you do tomorrow. If you rely too much on yesterday, tomorrow is going to jump up and bite you in the pants.

As long as you feel your own weakness and helplessness, you will find help from above.

Garner up pleasant thoughts in your mind, for pleasant thoughts make pleasant lives.

"Should I comfort those who do not mourn?" Some preachers are too quick and too willing to hand out pardons to sinners who do not mourn over their crimes!

I sought to hear the voice of God and climbed the topmost steeple, but God declared: "Go down again - I dwell among the people.

Pop culture is a reflection of social change, not a cause of social change.

I'm not this callous clown walking around laughing at life all the time. I've had some serious, serious problems in my life. But I've come out with a smile.

Everybody's a filmmaker today.

To this end the greatest asset of a school is the personality of the teacher.