John Quotes

Christmas is an indictment before it becomes a delight. It will not have its intended effect until we feel desperately the need for a Savior.

You are perfect and have no synonym

Sometimes to return is a vulgarity.

...when you're broken, everything gets a little honester - you make mistakes and don't give a damn - you give up on perfection, but get real...

Great wits are to madness near alliedAnd thin partitions do their bounds divide.

I know what happens a the end of falling-landing

The problem, of course, is that there's no way of knowing that your last good day is your Last Good Day. At the time, it's just another good day.

Funerals, I had decided, are for the living.

The reason is obvious. You're my grandfather, okay. Like it or not, you're who you are and i'm who i am. And i'm here right now, so what are we going to do about it? -Adam Cayhall-

Feeling tired of your four walls?Jesus commanded us to "GO", not sit! (Mark 16:15) Just saying!

All of these are like sparks in the midnight sky, shedding their light on a world where even a flicker of hope shines like a beacon, illuminating the seas of darkness.

If people were rain I was a drizzle and she was a hurricane.

...Use your finger to trace the scar upon my chest- I lied - it wasn't a knife wound, but a scrape from a nail sliding under a fence to see you...

We were just standing there, and her eyes were so interesting. Not in the usual way of being interesting, like being extremely blue or extremely big or flanked by obscenely long lashes or anything.

The eyes were of a color which he could never decide on, afterwards when he told the story he used to say they were the color of everything in Spring.

...who would have known the dark eyes staring into mine would become our children's eyes...?

...did you know that in your eyes there are bright flecks of green and orange - and that they are lovely?...

I worked hard to meet his eyes, even though they were the kind of pretty that’s hard to look at..

You can’t burn down a made-up place.

... the house is on fire, but go ahead - finish painting the verandah...

A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inactions, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury

And we'll call you...hmmm. Pudge.""Huh?""Pudge, " the Colonel said. "Because you're skinny. It's called irony, Pudge. Heard of it? Now, let's go get some cigarettes and start this year off right.

Milk should be homogenized-not people.

To be successfully independent, you must view life as if all of your love ones are dead and the world is against you.

[M]an is not permitted without censure to follow his own thoughts in the search of truth, when they lead him ever so little out of the common road.

It is common knowledge that 87% of the problems of the world are caused by cats. No cats, no problems."Hank the Cowdog

Cats are absolute individuals, with their own ideas about everything, including the people they own.

Either you like cats or you don't. Whole nations have been divided on what people thought of an animal that mates openly, walks in silence and keeps its own counsel.

If cats could count, they’d start getting nervous around the time they put paid to their fifth life.

I don't think you're dying, " I said. "I think you've just got a touch of cancer.He smiled. Gallows humor.

An upturned life is righted in the box.

You can die from kitsch. And we're close to it.

Peter Van Houten was the only person I’d ever come across who seemed to (a) understand what it’slike to be dying, and (b) not have died.

The hardest thing about being a writer is convincing your wife that lying on the sofa is work.

Brand-new truths are probably not Truths.

if we work together, we can do everything, if we just watch each other, we can do nothing

Blame has no purpose, and it is a lousy teacher.

What troubled me most is that although I was an unwilling observer, I felt guilty myself as if something in what I witnessed touched a shameful and repressed desire.

Condemn you me for that the duke did love me?So may you blame some fair and crystal river, For that some melancholic distracted manHath drowned himself in’t.

What was it about women and crying that made me feel like crap? They must have guilt pheromones in their tears.

Let go into His arms until you find yourself obsessed on things divine

Don't try fixing something that is already broken in the first place.

...we've let go of so many things, but never each other's hand ...

There is no romance without finance.

When we are forced to endure what we cannot endure, something breaks inside our minds. That broken-mindedness is commonly called trauma.

The next day we were all shooting up. "Jeez. Look at the size of the cotton he just threw in the spoon." "Yea. What are you trying to prove?" They had a good laugh at my expense.

~Life is a drama, when there is no drama in your life than there will be.~

To be as vehement as he is is to be almost non-committal.

It is lovely to meet an old person whose face is deeply lined, a face that has been deeply inhabited, to look in the eyes and find light there.

The problem with aging is not that it's one damn thing after another—it's every damn thing, all at once, all the time.