John Quotes

... if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was hurricane.

If you can't hold your drink, don't

High living can lead to low feelings

You are ultimately responsible for your life and no one else.

At some point we must stop editing everyone else' story and start writing our own.

We worried for decades about WMDs – Weapons of Mass Destruction. Now it is time to worry about a new kind of WMDs – Weapons of Mass Disruption.

You put the thing that does the killing between your teeth, but you never give it the power to kill you

It´s a metaphor: you see, you put the killing thing right between your teeth, you just don't give it the power to do it's killing.

The measures themselves are easily distorted to suit reporting purposes.

Everyone should have a hippie painter anarchist in their lives. It's the guys in silvered aviators with guns that you've got to be wary of.

Socialism is the way, the truth, and the light.

Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns.

Is it or is it not a matter of importance that a young man starts out in life with an ability to shut his jaw hard and say "I will, " or "I will not, " and mean it?

Crying adds something: crying is you, plus tears.

...Mrs. Bostwick's face was heavy and lethargic, without any strength or delicacy, and it bore the deep marks of what must have been a habitual dissatisfaction.

...never be disappointing - you may wound me, but you must never be disappointing...

The self-righteous scream judgments against others to hide the noise of skeletons dancing in their own closets.

I'm annoyed by those who love mankind but are discourteous to people.

The worst kind of tyrant was the one who once had been the victim.

Sometimes we get so caught up in appearing smart that we become afraid to ask the question that will actually make us smart.

Don't ask questions that you don't want the answer to.

R.E.A.L. conversation: Recognize judgments. Express thoughts neutrally. Ask questions. Listen for verbal & non-verbal messages.

I’m really not up for answering any questions that start with how, when, where, why, or what.

The day will happenwhether or not you get up

The day will come when some more powerful man will get fame and riches from my invention, but nobody will believe that poor John Fitch can do anything worthy of attention.

They’ve not forgotten him: worse, they never heard of him.

Integrity of life is fame's best friend, Which nobly, beyond death, shall crown the end.

No star fades faster than that of a high school athlete.

I can't afford to say yes to all my staff's desires, but one thing is certain – I can't afford the outrageous cost of not listening to their requests.

It 'appens to be true. An' if'n yew want ter stay moi friend, yew'd best 'old yer turpitudinous twaddle of a tongue an' listen fer once.

...you listen first with the ears - then, you wait and listen for what your heart feels - then you consider what they've said - then, you reply ...

He'd been saving up his love for years and years, waiting for the right personto spend his fortune on.

Lovers die inward that their flames conceal.

...yes, I am your priest, your magician, your lover - I make charms to incant your presence...

It’s a full-time job being homeless. It’s a full-time job being poor.

Death starves us of life. So we learn to fabricate our own immortalities.

O I will accompany the windUntil the chainOf my white bonesDrifts like fine sandAnd I become compassing.I become the

If death is no longer a fear, we're really free. Free to take any risk under the sun for Christ and for love.

The real question is: to whom does the meaning of the art of the past properly belong ? To those who can app|y it to their own lives, or to a cultural hierarchy of relic specialtsts?

I don't think your missing pieces ever go inside you again once they go missing.

Be happy in the day - Today is enough - Each moment is all we need in the today given and not the tomorrow to come

She had the experience to suffer with discretion.

But sometimes the scars go too deep and the stories are too personal to share.

I’ll be like Esther. Your daughter.”“You ain’t that strong.

A person is an entity of a sort to which the only proper and adequate way to relate is love.

...and here's a secret for you - everything beautiful is sad...gilded with impermanence...

Men who believe in good and evil, and who believe that good should win, should watch for those moments when it is possible to play God

I have gathered a posy of other men's flowers and nothing but the thread that binds them is mine own.

Now I understand why you grow so many flowers."She shifted her head, not understanding.I said, "To cover the stink of sulphur.

If we'd put them in a vase in the living room, they would have been everyone's flowers. I wanted them to be mt flowers.