John Quotes
Anybody can look at you. It's quite rare to find someone who sees the same world you see.
Family. Friendship. Loyalty. These things have been my guiding stars, my light in these dark times.
We have reached a place too dark to see, so we shall go together.
There are so many people. It is easy to forget how full the world is of people, full to bursting, and each of them imaginable and consistently misimagined.
What a strange creature is a laughing fool, As if a man were created to no useBut only to show his teeth.
That’s who you really like. The people you can think out loud in front of.
The longer I do my job the more I realize that humans lack good mirrors. It's so hard for anyone to show us how we look, and so hard for us to show anyone how we feel.
The ministry of bearing with one another is more than simply tolerating difficult people. It is also learning to hear God speak through them.
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[I]n my own case at least I feel my professional need for freedom of speech and expression prejudices me toward a government whose constitution guarantees it.
Such subtle covenants shall be made, Till peace itself is war in masquerade.
As long as the forest stood the Tchetchens were unconquerable... and it is literally the fact that they were beaten in the long run not by the sword but by the axe.
...and to this day the rare traveller who knows the language and customs even of the worst of the tribes is safer amongst them than in the neighbouring Cossack settlements.
It seems logical that he who supports total war in principle cannot complain of a war against civilians.
When you punish a person for dreaming his dreamDon't expect him to thank or forgive you.
The voracious ambition of humans is never sated by dreams coming true, because there is always the thought that everything might be done better and again.
Discontent comes from two sources alone: Not having dreams, or not pursuing the ones you have. No one has ever died sorry who tried to turn a wish into a memory.
We're all in the human race. The question is, are you running toward your dreams or just away from your fears?
If that's what you want to do, then you should go do it-and do it well.
Perhaps he has confused making money with freedom.
. . . a constitution, intended toendure for ages to come, andconsequently, to be adapted to thevarious crises of human affairs.
Freedom from likes and dislikes, the sudden sense of identification, the spirit of comedy.
The Waterbearer loves, loves, loves its freedom, but eventually, when freedom is the only goal, it can get a little limiting. That's when Aquarius realizes its freedom has become its prison.
Not by prayers alone will a captive be freed, but by another man’s prayers matched by his deeds.
Each of us needs something of an island in his life—if not an actual island, at least some place, or space in time, in which to be himself, free to cultivate his difference from others.
True freedom is the ability to respond consciously, in the most beneficial way, to whatever life throws at you.
It's supposed to be automatic, but actually you have to push this button.
The champagne had been donated by one of Gus's doctors - Gus being the kind of person who inspires doctors to give their best bottles of champagne to children.
In fact the bare adjective "bad" hardly scratches the surface of the man's awesome incapacity.
It is a curiously moving experience, to hear 350 sailors uttering the words "Oh shit!" in eleven different languages.
I couldn't possibly repeat the words he used .They were so unsettling that I sent Nancy indoors to find my spectacles.
Everybody means by an open mind, a mind which contains their prejudices but not somebody else's.
The clown knows that life is cruel. The ancient jester's motley coloured costume turned his usually melancholy expression in to a joke. The clown is used to loss. Loss is his prologue.
And she gave him a melting smile, the glutinous sweetness of which he devoured with the avidity of a diabetic who swallows a fatal spoonful of jam.
The White House usually followed the seagull theory of management: fly in, squawk and flap and shit, and fly away.
