John Quotes

Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.

Gratitude is the ability to experience life as a gift. It liberates us from the prison of self-preoccupation.

The law does not expect a man to be prepared to defend every act of his life which may be suddenly and without notice alleged against him.

Temptation provokes me to look upward to God.

Knock, and it shall be opened unto you.

I am content with what I have, little be it, or much.

A people without the memories of heroic suffering and sacrifices are a people without a history.

I will answer anything I can with honor, but not about others.

Nowadays you can't be loud enough!

Our response to an offense determines our future.

Praise will lead you to vanity, and blame will lead you to self-pity, and both are bad for writers.

Probably one of the worst things that happened to photography is that cameras have viewfinders.

The astrologers and historians write that the ascendant as of Oxford is Capricornus, whose lord is Saturn, a religious planet, and patron of religious men.

It's easy to talk about what you're going to do but your actions speak words.

The batsman's technique was like an old lady poking her umbrella at a wasp's nest.

Decide what you want to be.... Pay the Price ... And be what you want to be.

Arms in the hands of citizens may be used at individual discretion... in private self-defense.

But the key shift in focus will be from counter-insurgency operations to more and more cooperation with Iraqi security forces and to building Iraqi security capacity.

The problem is yes, everything works. Doing everything at once makes you marginal at everything... at best.

Learn to love yourself first, instead of loving the idea of other people loving you.

Beauty is truth, truth beauty,-that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.

I refuse to "look up." Optimism nauseates me. It is perverse. Since man's fall, his proper position in the universe has been one of misery.

Did you never run for shelter in a storm, and find fruit which you expected not? Did you never go to God for safeguard, driven by outward storms, and there find unexpected fruit?

Drive a hundred miles and the barbecue changes.

My philosophy all my life has been the pursuit of excellence.

If I were a teacher, I would recommend that all my students very hurriedly read most of Orwell's books, especially 1984 and Animal Farm, because then they'd begin to understand the world we live in.

The moment I accept that there's an artistic, redeeming quality in puns, I have a horrible feeling I'll get hooked.

You can't *discover* that the brain is a digital computer. You can only *interpret* the brain as a digital computer.

In tribulation immediately draw near to God with confidence, and you will receive strength, enlightenment, and instruction.

The love of Jesus is at once avid and generous. All that He has, all that He is, He gives; all that we are, all that we have, He takes.

To serve Mary and to be her courtier is the greatest honor we can possibly possess; for to serve the Queen of Heaven is already to reign there; and to live under her command is more than to govern.

You don't want to pitch a tent and live inside the Louvre. You want to check it out, appreciate it, and move somewhere else.

Animation is the one type of movie that really does play for the entire audience. Our challenge is to make stories that connect for kids and adults.

Love is whatever you can still betray. Betrayal can only happen if you love.

War loses a great deal of its romance after a soldier has seen his first battle.

How sweet the name of Jesus sounds In a believer's ear! It soothes his sorrows, heals his wounds, And drives away his fear.

They wrote it that my moustache was insured for 13 million.

Be assured that God does more in us than we for Him; and that what we do is only for Him in proportion as it is He Himself who works it in us.

I cannot be what I am not.

I don't believe in killing whatever the reason!

You don't have to be a star to get a cheese sandwich. You just have to be first.

I hope someday you will join us and the world will live as one.

I definitely look like a toddler. I feel comfortable and I have a lot of fun out there [John Mulaney Show]. And if I were to be extremely egotistical, I'd say I got a tiny bit better.

Things don't exist until they exist.

Time sneaks up on you like a windshield on a bug.

What if everything that happened here, happened for a reason?

There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse.

The Bible is the one Book to which any thoughtful man may go with any honest question of life or destiny and find the answer of God by honest searching.

I like lime-flavoured yoghurt. The end. There is no religion. It’s a man-made fabrication. Once you understand that, you’ll be a happier individual. Atheism is as pointless as satanism.

You really should do some research for a change instead of just listening to the voices in your head.