John Quotes
O bluebird, welcome back again, Thy azure coat and ruddy vest, Are hues that April loveth best.
It is said that in some countries trees will grow, but will bear no fruit because there is no winter there.
To truly be committed to a life of honesty, love and discipline, we must be willing to commit ourselves to reality.
Recovery begins with embracing our pain and taking the risk to share it with others. We do this by joining a group and talking about our pain.
Fanaticism comes from any form of chosen blindness accompanying the pursuit of a single dogma.
Major, send a shell first over their heads and let them get in their holes before you open with all your guns.
Out of the dusk a shadow, Then a spark; Out of the cloud a silence, Then a lark; Out of the heart a rapture, Then a pain; Out of the dead, cold ashes, Life again.
I like to think that someone will trace how the deepest thinking of India made its way to Greece and from there to the philosophy of our times
Boyhood is distracted for years with precepts of grammar that are infinitely prolix, perplexed and obscure.
Because she is afraid of not being supported, she unknowingly pushes away the support she needs.
The sky is like a monochromatic contemporay painting, drawing me in its illusion of depth, pulling me up.
TV tends to look for the living equivalents of squeaky-clean Kens and Barbies, but with my dial I'm more like Ken's dirty old uncle.
If you really know what you want out of life, it's amazing how opportunities will come to enable you to carry them out.
Whether I make them or not, there are always sounds to be heard and all of them are excellent.
Hatred grows into insolence when we desire to excel the rest of mankind and imagine we do not belong to the common lot; we even severely and haughtily despise others as our inferiors.
To will is human, to will the bad is of fallen nature, but to will the good is of Grace.
(Acting) is an extension of life. How you're capable of performing in your life, that's how you're capable of performing on screen.
You can fail in films because you don't have the talent, or you have too much humility, or you lack ferociousness. I'm a gangster. If I want something, I'll grab it.
Christ is so in love with holiness, that at the price of His blood He will buy it for us.
Jesus, our head, is already in heaven; and if the head be above water, the body cannot drown.
There are so many things to be considered in making music. The whole question of life itself... I know that I want to produce beautiful music, music that does things to people that they need.
If there is a nuclear tactic being used here, I submit it is the use of that obstruction where a willful minority blocks a bipartisan majority from voting on the President's judicial nominees.
Night and gin and music-the right setting for peeling off the thin clinging layers of bullshit and finding one's way down closer to the essential self.
Treason doth never prosper. What's the reason? Why, when it prospers, none dare call it treason.
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.
The most powerful single force in the world today is neither Communism nor Capitalism, neither the H-bomb nor the guided missile -- it is man's eternal desire to be free and independent.
The nuclear arms race is like two people sitting in a pool of gasoline spending all their time making matches.
The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.
Creative thinking will improve as we relate the new fact to the old and all facts to each other.
The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use; of how to get men of power to live for the public rather than off the public.
Government has hardened into a tyrannical monopoly, and the human race in general becomes as absolutely property as beasts in the plow.
What concerns all, should be considered by all; and individuals may injure a whole society, by not declaring their sentiments. It is therefore not only their right, but their duty, to declare them.