John Quotes

The difference of a single day is perceptible. Vegetables can only be tasted in perfection, gathered the same day.

Many of our most serious conflicts are conflicts within ourselves. Those who suppose their judgements are always consistent are unreflective or dogmatic.

Artistic talent is a gift from God and whoever discovers it in himself has a certain obligation: to know that he cannot waste this talent, but must develop it.

The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.

There is no limit to the power of loving.

When witnesses concoct lies, they often miss the obvious.

The universe gives birth to consciousness, and consciousness gives meaning to the universe.

Of all the things a leader should fear, complacency heads the list.

It's amazing how difficult it is for a man to understand something if he's paid a small fortune not to understand it.

The definition of a page-turner really aught to be that this page is so good, you can't bear to leave it behind, but then the next page is there and it might be just as amazing as this one.

The best prayer I ever prayed had enough sin to damn the whole world.

It could be a sign of pride in your life if a word of reproof or admonition is not able to be received with the same grace, whether it be given by the poorest of saints or the most educated person.

The past is the one thing we are not prisoners of. We can do with the past exactly what we wish. What we can't do is to change its consequences.

Anyone can stay the same. It takes courage to change

Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.

We all choke. Winners know how to handle choking better than losers.

The entertainment is in the presentation.

It economics is a method rather than a doctrine, an apparatus of the mind, a technique of thinking which helps its possessor to draw correct conclusions.

Don't think of cost. Think of value.

Don't be scared to walk alone. Don't be scared to like it.

A corporation is an artificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law.

All is not lost, the unconquerable will, and study of revenge, immortal hate, and the courage never to submit or yield.

I would have all my offensive linemen wrestle if I could.

In an age of militant mediocrity, an 'extremist' is anyone who takes a position.

When growing up, I saw segregation. I saw racial discrimination. I saw those signs that said white men, colored men. White women, colored women. White waiting. And I didn't like it.

Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.

There is no solemnity so deep, to a right-thinking creature, as that of dawn.

Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me.

There is many a thing which the world calls disappointment; but there is no such thing in the dictionary of faith. What to others are disappointments are to believers intimations of the will of God.

Believe you receive in the faith realm, and you shall have it in the natural realm.

The best way to fight poverty is to empower people through access to quality education

We all must follow a different path to let our light shine, and that's what makes us so unpredictable and unique.

I grew up thinking of snow as a luxury you visit.

American consumers benefit from free trade and investment.

Democracy is like a tambourine, not everyone can be trusted with it.

I like engineering, but I love the creative input.

Our lives are composed of a finite set of moments that we choose how to spend.

ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee

In reality, everyone is good in bed. Close eyes. Shutdown brain. Pause as necessary. Restart brain. Open eyes. What's there to not be good at? Bed is the one place where laziness is rewarded.

Lie down on the floor and keep calm.

Evil is impotent and has no power but that which we let it extort from us.

Not the least hard thing to bear when they go from us, these quiet friends, is that they carry away with them so many years of our own lives.

The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths, and to secret proceedings.

Satan is an astute theologian.

To make intercession for men is the most powerful and practical way in which we can express our love for them.

It is in the American tradition to stand up for one's rights--even if the new way to stand up for one's rights is to sit down.

I feel that very frequently prayer is made a refuge to dodge the action of faith.

What a writer brings to any story is an attitude

I thought to myself, "Join the army!" It's free. So I figured while I'm here I'll lose a few pounds.

What Carew does with a football, I can do with an orange.