John Quotes

A reduction in meat consumption is the most powerful single act that you can take to halt the destruction of our environment and preserve our natural resources.

The first treasure California began to surrender after the Gold Rush as the oldest: her land.

You have to love your work. You have to save money instead of spending all of it. Look for areas you can compete in. Work damn hard. Most importantly, you have to love it.

Accurately recalling an entire day of fishing is like trying to push smoke back down a chimney, so you settle on these specific moments.

Get yourself out of whatever cage you find yourself in.

Thus shadow owes its birth to light.

Wealth is a means to an end, not the end itself. As a synonym for health and happiness, it has had a fair trial and failed dismally.

We are not living in a private world of our own. Everything we say and do and think has its effect on everything around us.

What do you do to help us win when you're not scoring baskets?

Let our chief goal, O God, be your glory, and to enjoy You forever.

The human heart has so many crannies where vanity hides, so many holes where falsehood works, is so decked out with deceiving hypocrisy, that it often dupes itself.

. . .There are moments when time does stop. We must be alert enough to notice such moments . . .

Christ died"--that is history; "Christ died for our sins"--that is doctrine. Without these two elements, joined in an absolutely indissoluble union, there is no Christianity.

What is today a matter of academic speculation begins tomorrow to move armies and pull down empires.

Wisdom comes from experience, but experience is not enough. Experience anticipated and experience revisited is the true source of wisdom.

The principle of neutrality ... has increasingly become an obsolete conception, and, except under very special circumstances, it is an immoral and shortsighted conception.

To be quite blunt, I make pictures for money, to pay the rent.There are some great artists in the business. I am not one of them.

When you're being stalked by an angry mob with raspberries, the first thing to do is to release a tiger.

Praise the sea; on shore remain.

He feels all our sorrows, needs, and burdens as his own. That is why it is said that the sufferings of believers are called the sufferings of Christ.

They that know God will be humble. They that know themselves cannot be proud.

A bookshop is powder-magazine, a dynamite-shed, a drugstore of poisons, a bar of intoxicants, a den of opiates, an island of sirens.

When I see a barrier, I cry and I curse, and then I get a ladder and climb over it.

Love created this world, & the lack of it can kill it. Selfishness, self-absorption , arrogance & indifference never built anything.

Your life has little purpose if you are separate from your own knowledge within.

Ooh you're the best friend that I ever had I've been with you such a long time You're my sunshine and I want you to know That my feelings are true I really love you Oh you're my best friend

Freedom is indivisible, and when one man is enslaved, all are not free.

We have nine hungry Rottweilers on the farm.

The impact of racism has changed our look at ourselves because basically racism was meant to make us look unfaithfully at ourselves, and to not treasure our institutions.

Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain.

Don't follow a defeated foe. Follow Christ. It is costly. You will be an exile in this age. But you will be free.

Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a man.

With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration.

If you are a leader, you should never forget that everyone needs encouragement. And everyone who receives it - young or old, successful or less-than-successful, unknown or famous - is changed by it.

As happens sometimes, a moment settled and hovered and remained for much more than a moment. And sound stopped and movement stopped for much, much more than a moment.

A person's rightful due is to be treated as an object of love, not as an object for use.

Honest, open communication is the only street that leads us into the real world... We then begin to grow as never before. And once we are on this road, happiness cannot be far away.

I later spent... five to eight months in hospitals in New Jersey, always on an involuntary basis, and always attempting a legal argument for release.

Some people strengthen the society just by being the kind of people they are.

The core political values of our free society are so deeply embedded in our collective consciousness that only a few malcontents, lunatics generally, ever dare to threaten them.

You might sooner get lightning out of incense smoke than true action or passion out of your modern English religion.

Dream small dreams. If you make them too big, you get overwhelmed and you don't do anything. If you make small goals and accomplish them, it gives you the confidence to go on to higher goals.

Shame was an emotion he had abandoned years earlier. Addicts know no shame. You disgrace yourself so many times you become immune to it.

You are so busy being YOU that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are.

In the long run we are all dead.

As I grew up I was fervently desirous of becoming acquainted with Nature.

Maturity does not always come with age; sometimes age comes alone.

If you start today to do the right thing, you are already a success even if it doesn’t show yet.

Life is a matter of choices, and every choice you make makes you.

The very essence of a free government consists in considering offices as public trusts, bestowed for the good of the country, and not for the benefit of an individual or a party.