John Quotes

Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half.

When you stop fighting, that's death.

Under the Geneva Convention, for example, a POW is required only to provide name, rank, and serial number and cannot receive any benefits for cooperating.

The best of all monopoly profits is a quiet life.

Bush is an idiot and he's President, so anything's possible

You can fool some of the people part of the time in a rock and roll song, fifty million Elvis Presley fans can't be all wrong.

The longer we remain without confessing, the worse it is for us, the more entangled we become in the bonds of sin, and therefore the more difficult it is to give an account.

The doctor listens in with a stethoscope and hears sounds of a warpath Indian drum.

The biggest weapon is to stay peaceful

How Sweet the name of Jesus... the rock on which I build, my shield and hiding place, my never failing treasury, filled with boundless stores of grace.

My grand point in preaching is to break the hard heart, and to heal the broken one.

It is the duty of the long-term investor to endure great losses with equanimity.

If we will not endure a king as a political power, we should not endure a king over the production, transportation, and sale of any of the necessaries of life.

If we wait upon God, there is no danger. If we rush on, He must let us see the consequences of it.

Sometimes you need to distance yourself to see things clearly.

There's nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be.

Indwelling sin always abides whilst we are in this world; therefore it is always to be mortified.

I knew the stars, the flowers, and the birds, The gray and wintry sides of many glens, And did but half remember human words, In converse with the mountains, moors, and fens.

I have masturbated myself out of serious problems in my life.

Things have to be funny first, and if they want to have a point, that's awesome.

Even bees, the little almsmen of spring bowers, know there is richest juice in poison-flowers.

They say stay in the lines, but there's always something better on the other side.

I'm a mess of unfinished thoughts.

Yosemite Park is a place of rest, a refuge from the roar and dust and weary, nervous, wasting work of the lowlands, in which one gains the advantages of both solitude and society.

I wish I knew where I was going. Doomed to be carried of the spirit into the wilderness, I suppose. I wish I could be more moderate in my desires, but I cannot, and so there is no rest.

Men in a ship are always looking up, and men ashore are usually looking down.

The problem of the modern economy is not a failure of a knowledge of economics; it's a failure of a knowledge of history.

This liberal doxy must be impaled upon the member of a particularly large stallion.

Stop!' I cried imploringly to my god-like mind.

The whole freedom of man consists either in spiritual or civil liberty.

'Tis the witching hour of night, Orbed is the moon and bright. And the stars they glisten, glisten, Seeming with bright eyes to listen- For what listen they?

Whoever can surprise well must conquer.

When we know our own strength, we shall the better know what to undertake with hopes of success.

One can't be angry when one looks at a penguin.

Not that smart. Not that hot. Not that nice. Not that funny. That's me: I'm not that.

Collaboration is multiplication.

The best recommendation I can have is my own talents, and the fruits of my own labors, and what others will not do for me, I will try and do for myself.

Whatever he was-that robot in the Garden of Eden, who existed without mind, without values, without labor, without love-he was not man.

Where God's Spirit does not reign, there is no humility, and men ever swell with inward pride.

It is a most blessed thing to be subject to the sovereignty of God.

The whole gospel is contained in Christ.

Can true repentance exist without faith? By no means. But although they cannot be separated, they ought to be distinguished.

Sometimes it takes just living your life a certain way to be able to open yourself to the rhythm of the cosmos.

Directing is all about storytelling. It's not about equipment, or anything else.

No structure of virtue can possibly be raised in our soul unless, first, the foundations of true humility are laid in our heart.

... there's been a lot of balls that have been pounding in that end zone.

What to do when inspiration doesn't come; be careful not to spook, get the wind up, force things into position. You must wait around until the idea comes.

That's the way I remember them, heading for an exit.

Our capacity to retaliate must be, and is, massive in order to deter all forms of aggression

Men marry what they need. I marry you.