John Quotes
...when you're a writer, you become deeper and more uniquely distinct, the more you go inside yourself...
...If I ever got sloppy and maudlin, it would be for the streets of my childhood—but no self- respecting writer should ever eulogize a slum...
...and his eyes had that splendid innocence, that opaque blue candour of the satanically fallen. ~ The French Lieutenant’s Woman
Write what you want to write and would like to read, not for any invisible audience. Your readers will find you.
The aging Adams delightedly describes being surrounded by books on so many different subjects that interested him as "baits on fishhooks".
The Disciplined Leader is someone who focuses on the 20 percent of activities that drive 80 percent of results.
Interestingly, the more Americans report knowing about Muslim countries, the more likely they are to hold positive views of those countries. (p. 155)
You're like Lady MacBeth without the murder.""Thank you. You have no idea how much of a compliment that is to me.
I am motivated by thoughts of my sorrowful little client and the screwing that he got. I'm the only lawyer Donny Ray has, and it will take much more than paper to slow me down.
Keep practicing, " he told her."Until I get it right?" she said. But he corrected her."No. Until you don't get it wrong.
As you remove toxic people from your life, you free up space and emotional energy for positive, healthy relationships.
As he read, I feel in love the way you fall asleep: slow, and then all at once.
As the old Ranger adage went "If a person doesn't expect to see someone, odds are he won't.
You should see it, ” he said. “V for Vendetta, I mean.”“Okay, ” I said. “I’ll look it up.”“No. With me. At my house, ” he said. “Now.
...I've marked our sacred place not with stones - I've put it my art to keep it safe...
All order, I've come to understand, is theoretical, unreal — a harmless, sensible, smiling mask men slide between the two great, dark realities, the self and the world — two snake pits.
When we find out an Idea, by whose Intervention we discover the Connexion of two others, this is a Revelation from God to us, by the voice of Reason.
Emotion lay at the very heart of the process of perception, intertwined with intellectual functions, yet adding to perception a quality that reason lacked.
Modernity gone wrong has isolated humanity and made human reason autonomous of (and dismissive toward) revelation.
I took the plug out of the chemical bath of lust that my wits were soaking in and waited for it to empty. I smoked a cigarette while I contemplated the return of reason.
Truth is, something exists, and everything exists for a reason. Regardless if the reason is known or unknown, knowable or unknowable, reason exists and can be named.
This isn't Dungeon & Dragons, dude. Just because I'm wearing black doesn't mean I have the Find & Remive Traps skill.
You're a vampire?""Yes.""So what does that make me, your victim?""You're clearly not as dumb as you look.
Perhaps it's true that all men love their fathers, no matter how terrible the things they do to their sons: there is a part of us that remains forever in debt to those responsible for our existence.
It is strange to be here. The mystery never leaves you.
The monsters of our childhood do not fade away, neither are they ever wholly monstrous
There comes a moment for all of us when our childhood ceases to be an excuse. In your case, I would say that, as with many English, the moment is somewhat delayed.
And on some level it walways felt like kids paying at being grown
Being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or possessions.
The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited, he must not make himself a nuisance to other people.
No man's life, liberty or property are safe while the legislature is in session.
The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom.
He who let's the world, or his own portion of it, choose his plan of life for him, has no need of any other faculty than the ape-like one of imitation
Slaves are governed by the fear of man, and, whenever the fear of man replaces the fear of God in a society, slavery reappears and increases.
To think that one morning we will open our eyes and see Jesus for who He really is living a good morning for all of eternity
Only in America can you be pro-death penalty, pro-war, pro-unmanned drone bombs, pro-nuclear weapons, pro-guns, pro-torture, pro-land mines, and still call yourself 'pro-life.
America may be unique in being a country which has leapt from barbarism to decadence without touching civilization.
We have at any rate one advantage over Time and Space. We think them whereas it is extremely doubtful whether they think us!