John Quotes

Like your job. Love your wife.

Evil hiding among us is an ancient theme.

We only have two hours to change people's lives.

And right now, you two jackwagons are right in the middle of my living room and I'm coming to take out the trash.

If we knew each other's secrets, what comforts we should find.

I can certainly see that you know your wine. Most of the guests who stay here wouldn't know the difference between Bordeaux and Claret.

The friend of silence comes close to God. In secret he converses with him and receives his light.

We see nothing till we truly understand it.

When I sit down to make a sketch from nature, the first thing I try to do is to forget that I have ever seen a picture.

Love carries through many difficulties easily and makes heavy burdens light.

You have to start knowing yourself so well that you begin to know other people. A piece of us is in every person we can ever meet.

Think of giving not only as a duty but as a privilege.

Brian and I were both science students. You know science sort of math and physics side, you know.

There's a cancer on the presidency.

Reach for the heavens, and hope for the future, and all that will be, not what we are.

There is no more vulnerable human combination than an undergraduate.

I've lived history. I've made history, and I know I'll have my place in history. That's not egoism.

Ideas are easy. Execution is everything. It takes a team to win.

The flea, though he kill none, he does all the harm he can.

The creation of a world view is the work of a generation rather than of an individual, but we each of us, for better or for worse, add our brick to the edifice.

The true mark of greatness is not found in what a person does with their own life. It is found in helping others discover that, they too, can become great.

So by the time I taught myself the bass guitar at the age of 14, my hands were already pretty nimble.

No one who shall invoke this Mother of Grace with devotion and perseverance can possibly perish forever.

The only valid test of leadership is the ability to lead, and lead vigorously.

To those whom much is given, much is expected.

There are no 'white' or 'coloured' signs on the foxholes or graveyards of battle.

Tell us, pray, what devil This melancholy is, which can transform Men into monsters.

Time is not a road - it is a room.

I've been in pain hope it doesn't show I've been insane well the time is slow

Something like trying to protect yourself all the time, things like trying to outwit fate. Those things can be the worst thing you can do for yourself.

Rock music is electronic music, dependent entirely on electronic circuitry and amplification.

You can only be called a hypocrite if you judge others first.

America had an emphasis on the individual and so education became available for everyone.

Managers will work for a salary. Entrepreneurs create new businesses. Many people have capital, but instead of making money for business they build houses for rent. It's easy money to collect rental.

Just a word of advice. Whenever you're furious with your parents or you think they're terrible, just remember, you vomited on them and they kept you.

What's the point in being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable? How very odd, to believe God gave you life, and yet not think that life asks more of you than watching TV.

You gave me a forever within the numbered days, and I'm grateful.

Give fools their gold, and knaves their power; let fortune's bubbles rise and fall; who sows a field, or trains a flower, or plants a tree, is more than all.

The green earth sends her incense up. From many a mountain shrine; From folded leaf and dewey cup She pours her sacred wine.

I hear the tread of pioneers Of nations yet to be, The first low wash of waves where soon Shall roll a human sea.

Beware the ends of the earth and the exotic: the drama is on your doorstep wherever the slums; are, wherever there is malnutrition, wherever there is exploitation and cruelty.

I believe the greater the handicap, the greater the triumph.

Mercy requires that we learn to love others, to value their welfare more than our own!

Why would you want to be politically correct when you can be right?

Jesus did not come to the Earth to start 285 squabbling denominations fighting over the Bible. How like the devil to divide Christians over the Bible.

After you start learning all about the mechanics of piloting a riverboat, you stop seeing all the pretty sunsets and you start thinking about the weather.

To holy people the very name of Jesus is a name to feed upon, a name to transport. His name can raise the dead and transfigure and beautify the living.

The only concession you can make is to what you believe is right.

Once you have found the right shot to introduce the scene-written your first declarative sentence-then the rest flows. You've found the key to the whole scene.

My drawings at first were made altogether in watercolors, but they wanted softness and a great deal of finish.