John Quotes

If you are pissing people off, you know you are doing something right

My hope is that the music creates a strange, beautiful, overwhelming - sometimes even frightening - landscape, and invites you to get lost in it.

Love is a promise; love is a souvenir.

The single biggest time waster in the world is not completing what you start.

You have to do a little bragging on yourself even to your relatives-man doesn't get anywhere without advertising.

When you see Jesus as your Treasure, the Spirit has blown through your heart.

Whenever I get upset, I remember that it takes 42 muscles to frown and only 4 to stick up your middle finger.

My head’s under water but I’m breathing fine

It's never hard to sing the blues. Everyone in the world has the blues . . .

No matter what you got, the blues is there

You never outgrow your need to preach to yourself the gospel.

The cat sat on the mat is not a story. The cat sat on the other cat’s mat is a story.

If you can think about it, you can create it.

Live as though only God and yourself were in this world, so that your heart may not be detained by anything human.

There isn't a war on terror, there is a war of terror.

You try to play the song better than you had before.

The most frequent promise in the Bible is ‘I will be with you.’

The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.

We must not be concerned only with that which troubles us, but with all that troubles God.

In economics, the majority is always wrong.

with the breakdown of the medieval system, the gods of chaos, lunacy, and bad taste gained ascendancy.

Your life is in your hands, to make of it what you choose.

Without conviction that you can make change happen, you will not act, even if you see the vision. Your feelings will hold you back.

To seek Divinity merely in books is to seek the living among the dead... seek God within your own soul.

In the dark beside me, she smelled of sweat and sunshine and vanilla.

People in Medicaid ought to have access to the same insurance as the rest of the population. If they are segregated, it will be a poor plan for poor people.

Relax. Just relax and have fun doing what you're doing. Don't worry so much about being results oriented. Just commit yourself to the moment.

But everyone has a chance. Every big guy started off small.

As there can be no causeless wealth, so there can be no causeless love or any sort of causeless emotion.

No matter how vast your knowledge or how modest, it is your own mind that has to acquire it.

Humanism is the creed of those who believe that in the circle of enwrapping mystery, men's fates are in their own hands - a faith that for modern man is becoming the only possible faith.

There are sons of God who do not yet appear so to us, but now do so to God; and there are those who, on account of some arrogated or temporal grace, are called so by us, but are not so to God.

We are nowhere forbidden to laugh.

Blaming Obama for Iraq violence is like blaming Daniel Craig because Octopussy sucked.

America doesn't have an abortion problem - it has an unwanted pregnancy problem, and an abortion symptom.

I'm a man that has a vision as to how this world can be, and I've gathered myself through all the ordeals that I had to make me a well-rounded person and still fight for justice.

Everything's very perfectly balanced; for all the horrible things in the world there's lots of good things.

I think of my art materials not as junk but as garbage. Manure, actually: it goes from being the waste material of one being to the life-source of another.

When you work at street level you never know who's going to walk through your door.

Love is the tyrant of the heart; it darkens Reason, confounds discretion; deaf to Counsel It runs a headlong course to desperate madness.

Humility is the only thing that no devil can imitate.

Whatever be the ground of one's distress, it should drive him to, not from God.

To convey one’s mood in seventeen syllables is very diffic

You spend so much time in your profession it ought to be something you love.

I've seen the people who talk about their love lives in print invariably have doomed relationships with the person they're talking about.

The common denominator for success is work.

The fundamental principle of Christianity is to be what God is, and he is light.

I'd like to be seen as an average Australian bloke. I can't think of... I can't think of a nobler description of anybody than to be called an average Australian bloke.

When we eat vegetarian foods, we needn't worry about what kind of disease our food died from; this makes a joyful meal!

Problems can only be solved by the people who have them. You have to try and coax them and love them into seeing ways in which they can help themselves.