John Quotes

I write with experiences in mind, but I don't write about them, I write out of them.

The only thing most people do better than anyone else is read their own handwriting.

MAKE ME AN ANGEL THAT FLIES FROM MONTGOMERY, MAKE ME A POSTER OF AN OLD RODEO JUST GIVE ME ONE THING THAT I CAN HOLD ON TO TO BELIEVE IN THIS LIVIN' IS JUST A HARD WAY TO GO.

If heartaches was commercials, we'd all be on TV.

No one deserves his greater natural capacity nor merits a more favorable starting place in society.

I don't need the stars in the night I found my treasure All I need is you by my side so shine forever

Hope is much more than a mood. It involves a commitment to action.... What we hope for should be what we are prepared to work for...as far as that power lies in us.

I need the binocular approach of science and religion if I am to do any sort of justice to the deep and rich reality of the world in which we live.

If a guy doesn't work hard and doesn't play well, he can't lead anything. All he is, is a talker.

I always used to tell my players that we are here to win! And you know what, Al? When you don't win, you lose.

Dance and Provencal song and sunburnt mirth! On for a beaker full of the warm South, Full of the true, the blushful Hippocrene! With beaded bubbles winking at the brim, And purple-stained mouth.

Giving in a regular, disciplined, generous way-up to and beyond the tithe-is simply good sense in view of the promises of God.

In spite of all of the things, the issues, that we may be confronting today, I'm very hopeful, very optimistic about the future.

If you begin with the middle-tone and work up from it toward the darks so that you deal last with your highest lights and darkest darks, you avoid false accents.

Color is an inborn gift, but appreciation of value is merely training of the eye, which everyone ought to be able to acquire.

Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer. Camp out among the grasses and gentians of glacial meadows, in craggy garden nooks full of nature's darlings.

Lizards of every temper, style, and color dwell here, seemingly as happy and companionable as the birds and squirrels.

We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others or our potential to create

The true Gospel of Jesus Christ is a revelation of how God has taken sinful man and made him a new creature and imparted to him a perfect righteousness.

When we see people that are impoverished and people who are dealt an unfair hand, then if we have the power to help them, we should try to do that.

I keep learning, listening, growing and experimenting.

When I die, they'll bury the blues with me. But the blues will never die.

If you spend too much time worrying about how other people perceive you, you'll never break the rules.

But hereof be assured, that all is not lawful nor just that is statute by civil laws; neither yet is everything sin before God, which ungodly persons allege to be treason.

African people need to stop shouting 'nationtime' until they are clear about the responsibilities of running a nation.

The point is the love story. We live in a love story in the midst of war.

I was criticized for being too much concerned with the average Canadians. I can't help that; I am one of them!

My favorite piece [piece of music] is the one we hear all the time if we are quiet.

Fair is the marigold, for pottage meet.

I'm playing the guys who are going to fight. If you're not into this, I'm going to someone else

when my office would require me to either violate my conscience or violate the national interest, then I would resign the office; and I hope any conscientious public servant would do the same.

A man that extols himself is a fool and an idiot

Man's mind is like a store of idolatry and superstition; so much so that if a man believes his own mind it is certain that he will forsake God and forge some idol in his own brain.

Faith alone saves, but the faith that saves is not alone.

Everything is eternal Nothingness does not exist No thing has ever become nothing And nothing has never become something What is has always been and will always be

Filmmaking is exploring. Why would I want to make a film about something I already understand?

When you, awareness, are mastered by the deepest that you know the truth of, then you are no longer awareness. You are oneness aware mastering your self and your life.

Language has not the power to speak what love indites: The soul lies buried in the ink that writes.

God's delay's are not His denials

The main thing a musician would like to do is to give a picture to the listener of the many wonderful things he knows of and senses in the universe.

I'm proud of my medals. I always was proud of them.

It is nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice.

Nothing short of God can satisfy your soul.

Without proper self-evaluation, failure is inevitable.

Many leaders don't listen, and it is one of the greatest methods we have of learning. You need to listen to those under your supervision and to those who are above you.

To Turn all the treasures we possess into the channel of universal love becomes the business of our lives.

A nation that destroys its own people is a nation without hope.

The worst prison would be a closed heart.

Is it not excessively ridiculous to seek the good opinion of those whom you would never wish to be like?

Live for each second without hesitation