John Quotes

But love's a malady without a cure.

No matter how hard you kick, no matter how high you get, you can't go all the way around.

The Constitution is colorblind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens.

If you want to be positive, upbeat, and passionate, you need to take responsibility for being that way.

Giving is the highest level of living.

If your fund doesn't last for the long term, how can you invest for the long term?

We are made strong by what we overcome.

I used to jokingly say, "I don't teach art. I'm an art doctor." Students come to me and say, "My art's sick," and we help them make it well.

If you're smart, you abandon the things that didn't work out so well, and you enlarge upon the things that seem to be successful.

The new rule says that the FBI has the right to go to public places on the same terms and conditions as other members of the public for counterterrorism purposes.

The job of a theoretical physicist is to make mistakes as fast as possible .

People and nations are forged in the fires of adversity.

Confederation is only yet in the gristle, and it will require five years more before it hardens into bone.

When a man has done me an evil turn once, I don't like to give him the opportunity to do so twice.

If you write great songs with meaning and emotion, they will last for ever because songs are the key to everything.

Success is waking up every day and doing what you want to do

Socialism is just another form of religion, and thus delusional.

I’m in love with Montana. For other states I have admiration, respect, recognition, even some affection. But with Montana it is love. And it’s difficult to analyze love when you’re in it.

All worship is an intelligent and loving response to the revelation of God, because it is the adoration of His name.

It isn't what a picture is of, it is what it is about.

Looking foolish does the spirit good. The need not to look foolish is one of youth's many burdens; as we get older we are exempted from more and more.

Vice does not lose its character by becoming fashionable.

Think not the bigotry of another is any excuse for your own.

Worship, the act of freely giving love to God, forms and informs every activity of the Christian's life.

We need the poor as much as they need us.

Good things take time, as they should. We shouldn't expect good things to happen overnight. Actually, getting something too easily or too soon can cheapen the outcome.

Through the humbling dispensations of Divine Providence, men are sometimes fitted for his service.

Knowledge is simply a kind of fuel; it needs the motor of understanding to convert it into power.

I come without five lire. I want to leave without five lire.

Christian holiness does not being sinless, but rather it means struggling not to give in and always getting up after every fall.

May you experience the truth that he, Christ, looks upon you with love.

The purpose of art is nothing less than the upliftment of the human spirit.

We cannot interfere in one area of the ecosystem without paying due attention to both the consequences of such interference in other areas and to the well-being of future generations.

The cemetery of the victims of human cruelty in our century is extended to include yet another vast cemetery, that of the unborn.

Every day of the year is a good day to think more deeply about Good Friday, for Good Friday is the drama of the love by which our every day is sustained.

Good men do not always have grace and favor, lest they should be puffed up, and grow insolent and proud.

Words would be superfluous if we had deeds to show for Them.

If someone is feeling out of sorts or detached it's a great time to bring them in and restate why we are here and what we are trying to do.

Stay focused when you're playing alive, so you're not distracted by something going on.

You cannot build a little guy up by tearing a big guy down. Abraham Lincoln said it...

I mean I look forward to the day when I can be Republican again.

I love your hills and I love your dales, And I love your flocks a-bleating; but oh, on the heather to lie together, With both our hearts a-beating!

The poetry of earth is never dead When all the birds are faint with the hot sun, And hide I cooling trees, a voice will run From hedge to hedge about the new-mown mead.

Making one person smile can change the world - maybe not the whole world, but their world.

But our comedies never endured long without a tragedy.

Four seasons fill the measure of the year; there are four seasons in the minds of men.

Feeling well that breathed words Would all be lost, unheard, and vain as swords Against the enchased crocodile, or leaps Of grasshoppers against the sun.

A band is only as good as its euphonium section.

We know that leadership is very much related to change. As the pace of change accelerates, there is naturally a greater need for effective leadership.

People change what they do less because they are given an analysis that shifts their thinking than because they are shown a truth that influences their feelings.