John Quotes

Chaucer, like Homer, writes about a journey, but as a Christian he has a different goal. Homer wanted to go home, but Chaucer's pilgrims want a place of man's true home: paradise

If there is heaven then there must be hell too, don't think that The God is merciful, he didn't create hell for himself.

You are as young as you feel. If you begin to feel the warmth of your soul, there will be a youthfulness in you that no one will be able to take away from you.

Youth to youth, like the dragon-flies chasing each other, and love like the sun warming them through and through.

And I envy you. You have the one thing that matters. You have all your discoveries before you.

The rest of the rebels were recruited from the ranks of the young and excitable and had rather more enthusiasm than skill.

We were in a phase, through television and the movies, of living only vicariously. Even faintly sordid silliness excited us if it put us in contact with love.

...I always thought youth were idealists - now, I'm not so sure - I'm more idealistic now then at 17...

We do not need to operate according to the idea of a predetermined program for our lives.

He had his choice, and he liked the worst.

To be or to do? Which way will you go?

If you reject feedback, you also reject the choice of acting in a way that may bring you abundant success.

You’ll never have control over other people's decisions, or what cards life deals you. Your power lies in the choosing of your response. That is the one thing you can control.

Facing different options, you must always choose the one that makes you most uncomfortable, the one that creates a tingling feeling of excitement inside your body.

Laws, like sausages, cease to inspire respect in proportion as we know how they are made.

We are enjoined whenever we behold the gifts of God in others so to reverence and respect the gifts as also to honor those in whom they reside.

A problem well-defined is a problem half solved.

Most ardent reformers are accompanied by but equal portion of dullness . John Quincy Adams

So much of what we read and write these days is disposable.

If only we were angels, with transparent bodies and transparent thoughts...

Great communicators exemplify the power that building relationships, creating respect and achieving results can have.

The beliefs which we have the most warrant for have no safeguard, but a standing invitation to the whole world to prove them unfounded.

When students learn to wrestle with questions about purpose, audience, and genre, they develop a conceptual view of writing that has lifelong usefulness in any communicative context.

Your steady rain of words soaked me to the skin

30 or 40 of such voluntary gentlemen would do more in a day than 100 of the rest that must be press'd to it by compulsion.

Students would be assessed on effort rather than skill. You didn't have to be a natural athlete to do well in gym.

Writing is something you do alone. Its a profession for introverts who want to tell you a story but don't want to make eye contact while doin

Story!" The dwarf snorted. "You'll be talking about "happily ever after" next. Do we look happy? There's no happily ever after for us. Miserabily ever after, more like.

Each of us is a story, waiting for a devoted reader who will take us off the shelf and embrace all our plot twists.

The power of your story may not lie in its drama, but in its absolutely perfect relationship to your cause.

Advocating well with a personal story is not a call to simply “Insert Story Here.

[T]here is something to recommend a story that ends.

I love books where I can't wait to turn every page, songs that grab me the first time I hear them, and films that make me totally forget about the craft because I am totally engaged in the story.

...Tolstoy said, happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story - then what does that make us?...

We are the nation of human progress, and who will, what can, set limits to our onward march?

The knowledge of God’s Word without love is a destructive force because it puffs us up with pride and legalism.

Because he was suffering doubts about himself and his future, Adams may have felt comfort demeaning the behavior and the character of women.

John Quincy Adams, denying his sons permission to come home for college holidays for under-performance: "I would feel nothing but sorrow and shame at your presence.

...the gospel has an answer to both pride and guilt.

That is how war corrupts us. It plays on our pride in our own free will.

Neither man nor angel can discern hypocrisy, the only evil that walks invisible except to God alone.

Cherubs fan our foolish fires, filling hearts with mad desires. They prick our pride and haughtiness with quick, angelic naughtiness.

That's how you should be. Accept your burden and carry it, with joy.

Through your eyesI am learningto see myself.Through your heartI am learningto love myself.In the chrysalisof your acceptanceI can feel myselfbecoming.

The point is, whether or not they show it at dinner parties, writers learn, by a necessity of their trade, to be the sharpest of observers.

You can't possibly know that you're going to be a writer!" Miss Frost said. "It's not a career choice.

...each person is required to ask, 'what is my authority?' - on what do you base your decisions? if it's yourself, then you are without excuse...

...what makes a writer a prophet is his ability to speak truth...

...authority is the unmistakeable tone in the voice of a true writer...

...if you've got writer's block, you aren't empty - maybe it's just like Twitter - overwhelmed, and loading seems to be taking a while...