John Quotes

It isn't what you do, but how you do it.

Wisdom cannot come by railroad or automobile or aeroplane, or be hurried up by telegraph or telephone.

Not one of us can rest, be happy, be at home, be at peace with ourselves, until we end hatred and division.

Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.

I am two fools, I know, for loving, and for saying so in whining poetry.

For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.

The scars and stains of racism are still deeply embedded in the American society.

We cannot expect that all nations will adopt like systems, for conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

I love you more than songs can say, but I can't keep running after yesterday...

How dare you say it's nothing to me?Baby, you're the only light I ever saw.

Love is a combination of friendship, passion, and respect.

I think I have done well, though I am abandoned, with the curse of Cain upon me.

John Hay on Lincoln: "He always worked with things as they were, while never relinquishing the desire to make them better.

John Hay indicates that dealing with people directly as a holder of political office "requires a stronger heart and a more obedient nervous system than I possess.

Though a living cannot be made from art, art makes life worth living. It makes starving, living.

If people in general could be got into the woods, even for once, to hear the trees speak for themselves, all difficulties in the way of forest preservation would vanish.

Good luck belongs to those who know how and are not afraid." John Hay to President Theodore Roosevelt

Behind those thick glasses (of TR's) was a man who did not blink.

There is a power within and without. If you ask, it answers. It's just a matter of being calm and wise and listening. It takes years.

John Hay points to our our history of getting lost in suffering when, "so close together were pain and antidote.

...[I]t behooves a man who wants to see wonders sometimes to go out of his way.

Take all of your wasted honorEvery little past frustrationTake all of your so-called problems, Better put 'em in quotations

The image of a cleanly, self-possessed man exploiting his solitude was not easy to come by, but then he had not expected that it would be.

Standing in the rain outside the door of Percy’s old house, we seemed bound together not by blood and not by love but by a sense that the world and its works were hostile.

Percy must have perceived, early in her marriage, that her husband’s lechery was compulsive and incurable, but she was determined, like any other lover, to authenticate her suspicion.

I like to introduce myself, because THEN I can get in all the facts." The usually self-deprecating John Hay on the ironic formality of signing his own commission as Secretary of State.

He had no desire to grandstand for his country or himself.

If he could be hard on kings and cabinets, he was invariably kind to his colleagues.

The Admiral so regrets failure, he cannot THINK of success.

In this slipshod age, we need object lessons in language and thought. – Edith Wharton on an address by John Hay

Everybody is a stranger, but that's the danger in going my own way.

There is a charm in Solitude that cheersA feeling that the world knows nothing ofA green delight the wounded mind endearsAfter the hustling world is broken off

Because we have only one (life) we go about blundering along him nervous haste.

It is a melancholy fact which exponents of democracy must face that, while all men may be on a level in the eyes of the State, they will continue in fact to be preposterously unequal.

I want you to see persecution and opposition and slander and misunderstanding and disappointment and self-recrimination and weakness and danger as the normal portion of faithful pastoral ministry.

We would do our theology better if more was at stake in what we said.

St John had always been a fan of the RS Turbo, mainly due to the colour coded rear spoiler and air vents in the bonnet, which distinguished it from the more common and less powerful XR3i.

Had the facial plumage been of a paler hue it would have looked like a pile of horse crap on a winter’s day.

Her protestations were drowned out by the sound of Gordon Honeycomb barfing up aftershock into the kitchenette sink.

You little prick. It's a whelk...it's a...it's a...dead whelk!

A huge meringue with polio who drives everywhere in a beautifully restored Hillman Imp.

Your toaster’s a puff.

When we get to Heaven, we can try a monarchy, perhaps." John Hay

In Washington, the venerable were often vulnerable.

When you get to be as old and as rich as I am, it’s hard to meet people.

He did not so much follow his father's example as his father's vision.

Every possible thing that can happen or will happen has already happened somewhere. (Year 2036 John Titor)

It may interest for you to know that most Canadians in 2036 are some of the most efficient, ruthless and dangerous people I know. God help Quebec.

Beaten armies always shout, "TREASON!

Some people don't understand the promises they're making when they make them, " I said."Right, of course. But you keep the promise anyway. That's what love is. Love is keeping the promise anyway.