John Quotes

For Nature is love, and finds haunts for true love, Where nothing can hear or intrude; It hides from the eagle and joins with the dove, In beautiful green solitude.

Burning hot is the ground, liquid gold is the air; Whoever looks round sees Eternity there.

We must not be content to be cleansed from sin; we must be filled with the Spirit.

Fight to escape from your own cleverness. If you do, then you will find salvation and uprightness through Jesus Christ our Lord.

I think I was first awakened to musical exploration by Dizzy Gillespie and Bird. It was through their work that I began to learn about musical structures and the more theoretical aspects of music.

Pretending to be other people is my game and that to me is the essence of the whole business of acting.

Liberty of conscience is for those who truly fear the Lord. A fundamental task of the state is the establishment of pure religion.

It's hard to believe that in the greatest democracy in the world, we need legislation to prevent the government from writing and paying for the news.

We're all pretty bizarre. Some of us are just better at hiding it, that's all.

A friendship built on business can be glorious, while a business built on friendship can be murder.

Nowadays, business is all about productivity - and our folks produce.

A tailor, though a man of upright dealing,-- True but for lying,--honest but for stealing,-- Did fall one day extremely sick by chance And on the sudden was in wondrous trance.

Someone always needs rescuing, yet there's only one person who ever seems to understand you. It's a lot like being Lassie.

From my subjective position, there was no honeymoon.

There was always a lot of American music in England until, obviously when the Beatles came around, then there was a shift towards English music, but before then American music was the main thing...

Especially during the first nine months, there was so much going on with trying to hire 55 people to run the city, it was hard to imagine any honeymoon.

A marveilous newtrality have these things mathematicall, and also a strange participation between things supernaturall and things naturall.

Peace need not be impracticable, and war need not be inevitable.

The supreme reality of our time is the vulnerability of our planet.

We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things. Not because they are easy, but because they are hard.

Skepticism: the mark and even the pose of the educated mind.

A country is as strong, really, as its citizens. And I think that mental and physical health - mental and physical vigor - go hand in hand.

Of what use, educationally speaking, is it to be able to see the end in the beginning?

Any innovation in matters of faith is extremely pernicious and utterly damnable!

I ain't quiet.. everybody else is too loud.

I am so excited about Canadians ruling the world.

If you really want to find out what you're capable of, you cannot put limits on yourself, and you definitely cannot be cautious.

It is the thoughts and intents of the heart that shape a person's life.

O Lord, never suffer us to think that we can stand by ourselves, and not need thee.

Learn to see things backwards, inside out, and upside down.

The stars are the land-marks of the universe.

Prayer is to the spiritual life what the beating of the pulse and the drawing of the breath are to the life of the body.

nonlinear interactions almost always make the behavior of the aggregate more complicated than would be predicted by summing or averaging.

Our growing softness, our increasing lack of physical fitness, is a menace to our security.

Don't let making a living prevent you from making a life.

And I'm afraid, in this day and age, trust, which I count so, you know, I love loyalty. I love trust.

Sectional football games have the glory and the despair of war, and when a Texas team takes the field against a foreign state, it is an army with banners.

Somewhere in the world there is a defeat for everyone. Some are destroyed by defeat, and some made small and mean by victory. Greatness lives in one who triumphs equally over defeat and victory.

I am moonlighting for the Buddha.

What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.

I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money's sake.

Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.

Creativity is a gift. It doesn't come through if the air is cluttered.

I believe in evolution. But I also believe, when I hike the Grand Canyon and see it at sunset, that the hand of God is there also.

After it is all over, the religion of man is his most important possession.

Anybody can write music of a sort. But touching the public heart is quite another thing.

But I've been freestyling and messing around with rhyming since I was 13. That's when I really started listening to hip-hop music.

You can defeat fear through humor, through pain, through honesty, bravery, intuition, and through love in the truest sense.

If you have some respect for people as they are, you can be more effective in helping them to become better than they are.

Americans have been conditioned to respect newness, whatever it costs them.