John Quotes

In life, if you don't risk anything, you risk everything.

Coaches have to watch for what they don't want to see and listen to what they don't want to hear.

You'll find that empty vessels make the most sound.

Sweetest Echo, sweetest nymph, that liv'st unseen Within thy airy shell, By slow Meander's margent green, And in the violet-embroidered vale.

The single greatest invention man ever conceived in the dollar bill, because I don't want to know the conversion rate for coconuts.

Every time you make a choice that expresses respect for life, you bring a little more love in your body, into your family, into our society, and into a world that is calling out for this blessing.

I almost wish we were butterflies and liv'd but three summer days - three such days with you I could fill with more delight than fifty common years could ever contain.

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.

In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility - I welcome it.

Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.

If you have the guts to be yourself, other people'll pay your price.

Every day you and I walk through God's shop. Every day we brush up against objects of incalculable worth to Him. People. Every one of them carries a price tag, if only we could see it.

the joy that you give to others is the joy that comes back to you

All literary men are Red Sox fans - to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life.

Peace hath higher tests of manhood, than battle ever knew.

The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.

A spy, like a writer, lives outside the mainstream population. He steals his experience through bribes and reconstructs it.

People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness.

The first requirement of politics is not intellect or stamina but patience. Politics is a very long run game and the tortoise will usually beat the hare.

Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

At times failure is very necessary for the artist. It reminds him that failure is not the ultimate disaster. And this reminder liberates him from the mean fussing of perfectionism.

Luck is the residue of design.

Then I saw that there was a way to hell, even from the gates of heaven.

If your job is not making a difference in this world, by all means, get out there and find something else ... You’ll find a sense of making a difference through your work if you simply look for it.

Change is inevitable. Growth is optional.

Your success in investing will depend in part on your character and guts, and in part on your ability to realize at the height of ebullience and the depth of despair alike that this too shall pass.

Words easy to be understood do often hit the mark, when high and learned ones do only pierce the air.

That is the supreme value of history. The study of it is the best guarantee against repeating it.

My names John Bonham, I'm a drummer and I'm potty about cars.

We don't want to merely obey God: we need to catch His heart. It is then we will glimpse the wisdom behind His directives, and not just see them as laws.

Simply put, the promises of God are not automatic; they must be acquired by faith.

Nicotine has been proven addictive harmful to teenagers, threatening normal brain development.

We will first understand how simple the universe is when we recognize how strange it is.

In order to more fully understand this reality, we must take into account other dimensions of a broader reality.

Few things in this world are more predictable than the reaction of conventional minds to unconventional ideas.

The right of a nation to kill a tyrant in case of necessity can no more be doubted than to hang a robber, or kill a flea.

Nothing is more dreaded than the national government meddling with religion.

Give me better wood and I will make you a better cabinet.

Don't let the sun go down on me.

Look at your goals. Look at your behavior. Does your behavior match your goals?

Workers have kept faith in American institutions. Most of the conflicts, which have occurred have been when labor's right to live has been challenged and denied.

Campaign ads are the backbone of American democracy if American democracy suffered a gigantic spinal injury.

I have given you my soul; leave me my name!

You do not know our culture, our ethics, or the unwritten codes that already provide our society more order than could be obtained by any of your impositions.

There’s never a wrong idea. You just keep throwing stuff out and inevitably there are elements of different things that inspire a character or environment.

I love movies that make me cry, because they're tapping into a real emotion in me, and I always think afterwards "How did they do that?"

The sad fact is that international politics has always been a ruthless and dangerous business, and it is likely to remain that way.

Growing up leads to growing old and then to dying And dying to me don't sound like all that much fun

When the accumulation of wealth is no longer of high social importance, there will be great changes in the code of morals.

The spirit of my home is entirely bound up in a quality of space. I have only the objects I need and nothing more. Empty space in which to think and relax is both stimulating and calming.