John Quotes
Who'll hold families together, if everybody has to live? Living is a compromise, between doing what you want and doing what other people want.
The American family shattered for the simple reason that it was American, not global.
The best that could be left behind by any man: children who had been brought up to behave responsibly and to believe in something beyond their own self gratification. (The Americans
It's only in the mysterious equations of love that any logical reasons can be found.
To let one into your mind was to give him or her all your secrets.
The logical feebleness of science is not sufficiently borne in mind. It keeps down the weed of superstition, not by logic but by slowly rendering the mental soil unfit for its cultivation.
Even if it is nonsense, it is often useful to know what kind of nonsense men believe.
O that I were a man, or that I had powerTo execute my apprehended wishes!I would whip some with scorpions.
From those to whom privilege and opportunity are given, we have the right to expect much.
Command and obedience are but unfortunate necessities of human life: society in equality is its normal state.
It's a tricky, complex, indifferent society, Puss. It's a loophole world. And there are a lot of clever animals who know how to reach through the loopholes and pick the pockets of the unsuspecting.
If nothing else, it's pleasant to consider the possibility. He likes the thought of ships moving over the water, toward another world just out of sight.
The world is not looking for proof of Jesus Christ
If I am to be a skeleton in a box buried deep into the ground, I pray you will be the dust that rests atop my bones.
Thus it had come about that she had read far more fiction, and far more poetry, those two sanctuaries of the lonely, than most of her kind.
Any society that produces twice as many lawyers as it does poets and preachers is doomed.
A man faced death, but when death drew back forgot it until the next time.
WHAT I'M TELLING YOU IS, IF YOU WANT TO DO THINGS YOUR OWN WAY, YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE TO MAKE A DECISION - YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE TO FIND A LITTLE COURAGE.
Penny was a very pretty, witty and brave girl, as bold as a Marine platoon storming Iwo Jima.
Courage is a requirement for facing your fears, doing things differently, and applying any new habits that align with and support your goals.
Believing in your potential and calling upon your courage to change will fuel your professional growth and help you accomplish goals.
It was strange how fear had gone, now that we knew the worst and had a fighting man by our side.
When a man comes out of great danger, he is apt to be a little deaf to the call of duty.
Sometimes it feels like you've set off a spectacular lightning show in my heart, and I wonder if other people can see the flashes through my skin.
Her veins flowed with liquid poetry. I stole the words from her mouth with my kisses.
One of the great wonders of Christianity is that you were born into your times, to set your times aright.
The meaning of life is to adventurously discover our gift. The purpose of life is joyfully share our gift with the world.
He sees passion in her gray eyes, and it scares him as all passion scares him, his own included.
The only sentence that begins with 'I' that's true of me is I'm full of shit.
The ego is a mean mechanism which mobilizes the absolute strongest rationalization traps in order to preserve itself.
It was all fine until the girls started drinking. (Everything is always fine up until that point.)
If you have to push yourself to do it, should you be doing it in the first place? That was a question I never dared to asked myself.
