John Quotes

People go to see beautiful paintings to see how much they cost. Wow. The practical value is that it shows you what the human spirit can do.

The Atlantic Ocean was something then.

The greatest thing anyone in Britain could do to help the future of the planet would be to have one less child.

Global climate change needs global action now. The alarm bells ought to be ringing in every capital of the world.

Eighty percent of the people of Britain want more money spent on public transport — in order that other people will travel on the buses so that there is more room for them to drive their cars.

A lot of work and money has been spent on astronomy and yet we have not found life. So we are rare, and rare things tend to be fragile and you have to be careful about them

Poverty is considered quaint in the rural areas because it comes thatched.

It's not the future I'm talking about, I'm talking about tomorrow.

Old and new kiss everywhere in Africa

I thought that ending Glass-Steagall was a mistake.

I never thought of myself as a king. People really want you to be their deity. They forget the fact that you are a person who has feelings and doubts.

To me, photography was a completely new medium, and I did not... feel the urge to transfer to it my ideas about painting.

Nothing is eternal but that which is done for God and others. That which is done for self dies.

The most generous and merciful in judgment upon the faults of others are always the most free from faults themselves.

God strikes not as an enemy, to destroy; but as a father, to correct.

I was incredibly depressed and I found myself avoiding doing interviews where my [20-something daughters] could hear me - or leaving books on the coffee table they could see.

Our joy now and forever is inextricably tied to our capacity to love.

I have come to know that we learn much more of what is important when we concentrate on helping others than when we concentrate on our own challenges.

More than anything else we should be concerned about meekness, or our standing in God's sight. If that standing is as it should be, nothing else matters. If it is not, nothing else counts.

Organize priorities so that God is first in our lives.

Five hundred years ago a person in error was a person searching for the truth.

Texting is fingered speech. Now we can write the way we talk.

The only way that residual racist feelings could affect legislation, in my opinion, is through a lack of priorities, from not doing things.

Racism is not dead. Definitely, there are these biases.

Obama is seen as very, very cool. I think a lot of people find him sexy.

I think even in today's America, there's a sense that there's something vaguely sexy about cigarettes.

If a man achieves worldly success and does not blend into his life a program of self-improvement to bring about a sensible balance, he no doubt will end up as a failure.

Unwarrantable installment buying is a pit into which those who covet fall.

Reach up as far as you can, and God will reach down all the way.

The teacher should use illustrations for the better teaching of the lesson, and never to fill up time, to amuse the class, or to display his own genius.

Worry is an intrusion into God's providence.

To comprehend a man's life, it is necessary to know not merely what he does but also what he purposely leaves undone.

Most writers are in a state of gloom a good deal of the time; they need perpetual reassurance.

A child, when it begins to speak, learns what it is that it knows.

The tendency of the UN and its major supporters is to think good intentions and mild to rampant corruption are as good as actual results.

It may be true that every necessary war must also really be a just war; but it does not absolutely follow that every just war is a necessary war.

I really think that the Liberal Party is dead and that one will simply have to think of men and policies after the war - not of parties.

Our dad made everything competitive for me and brother. It always was a world championship, a national championship, Big 10 championship. It was always at stake in everything we did.

Denial was a weapon; it killed truth, numbed the mind, and I was a junkie.

Lightening falls, all you can do is- pray God that it doesn't fall on you.

Style is based on limitations.

You cannot run a successful retail business from memory.

I believe in the unconscious state of the mind in death.

People have said unkind things and you kind of have to, if you happen to read it, you have to just, you know, move on.

I lived in Texas for 10 years. There were a lot of people chewing, including my dad.

The writer should always serve as his own angleworm —and the sharper the barb with which he fishes himself out of blackness, the better.

I've never had any delusions about being a leading man, and it's not sour grapes to say that in the best films that I've always enjoyed, the cliched leading man type isn't a part of the picture.

Motive is never easy. Sometimes it occurs to one only later.

You never really forget who you are. If you did, you'd need to seek some professional help

I have to be careful of what TV shows I choose, particularly ones that have commercials in them, because it's going to be a different kind of television show.