John Quotes
The closest to perfection people ever come is when they write their resumes .
I believe that this Nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to earth.
I have a habitual feeling of my real life having past, and that I am now leading a posthumous existence.
You can’t let praise or criticism get to you. It’s a weakness to get caught up in either one.
Well, we all got to make a livin'.""Yeah, " Tom said. "On'y I wisht they was some way to make her 'thout takin' her away from somebody else.
Then the hard, dry Spaniards came exploring through, greedy and realistic, and their greed was for gold or God. They collected souls as they collected jewels.
Sometimes it helps to pick out one person-a real person you know, or an imagined person-and write to that one.
I'm shadowboxing in a match the shadow is always going to win. (as a young man battling his deceased brother's heroic legacy)
He thought of the virtues of courage and forbearance, which become flabby when there is nothing to use them on.
Though we cannot think alike, may we not love alike? May we not be of one heart, though we are not of one opinion? Without all doubt, we may.
Laughter comes later, like wisdom teeth. And laughter at yourself comes last of all in a mad race with death. And sometimes, it isn't in time.
We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are
O! I shall soon despair, when I shall seeThat Thou lovest mankind well, yet wilt not choose me, And Satan hates me, yet is loth to lose me.
In March the soft rains continued, and each storm waited courteously until its predecessor sunk beneath the ground.
No doubt you can get more in your market for a quart of milk than for a quart of blood, but that is not the market that heroes carry their blood to.
That's why I'm talking to you. You are one of the rare people who can separate your observation from your preconception. You see what is, where most people see what they expect.
The life of the arts, far from being an interruption, a distraction, in the life of the nation, is close to the center of a nation's purpose - and is a test to the quality of a nation's civilization.
Money's easy to make if it's money you want. But with few exceptions people don't want money. They want luxury and they want love and they want admiration.
Please try not to need me. That’s the worst bait of all to a lonely man.
At such a time it seems natural and good to me to ask myself these questions. What do I believe in? What must I fight for and what must I fight against?
They had long ago found out that one could not be an owner unless one were cold.
This time last year I would have run to Sam Hamilton to talk.""Maybe both of us have got a piece of him, " said Lee. Maybe that's what immortality is.
Everything seems to work with a recurring rhythm except life. There is only one birth and only one death. Nothing else is like that.
We do know that we are cheated from birth to the overcharge on our coffins.
For five years Isaac had been working eighteen hours a day.
I don't ever drink alone. It's not much fun. And I don't think I will until I am an alcoholic.
How to prepare someone for leadership:I do it.I do it and you watch.You do it and I watch.You do it.You do it and someone else watches.
In the final analysis, our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal.
When written in Chinese the word crisis is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.
There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.
How beautifully the leaves grow old. How full of light and colour are their last days.
When power narrows the area of man's concern poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of his existence.
The excellence of every art is its intensity capable of making all disagreeables evaporate from their being in close relationship with beauty and truth.
Every man in it is a great man an orator a critic a statesman and therefore every man upon every question must show his oratory his criticism and his political abilities.
There is in addition to a courage with which men die a courage by which men must live.
