John Quotes

Disunity costs votes.

To most of us the future seems unsure. But then it always has been; and we who have seen great changes must have great hopes.

Very few things in life are worthy of the kind of emotional distress we put ourselves through.

When you're dreaming with a broken heart, the waking up is the hardest part. You roll outta bed and down on your knees and for a moment you can hardly breathe.

... a speculator is one who runs risks of which he is aware and an investor is one who runs risks of which he is unaware.

We will not have any more crashes in our time.

I disagree with what the majority of the American people want.

We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, Loved and were loved, and now we lie In Flanders fields.

The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below

This [defeat] has taught me a lesson, but I'm not sure what it is.

One small breeze doesn't make a wind storm.

It's the melody within the heart that helps us to endure.

Ain't that America, home of the free? Little pink houses for you and me.

Natalie from the Dixie Chicks could have said what she said before 9-11 and no one would have cared.

Ink is the blood of the printing-press.

So dear I love him, that with him, all deaths I could endure, without him, live no life.

And oft, though wisdom wake, suspicion sleeps At wisdom's gate, and to simplicity Resigns her charge, while goodness thinks no ill Where no ill seems.

A thousand fantasies Begin to throng into my memory, Of calling shapes, and beckoning shadows dire, And airy tongues that syllable men's names On sands and shores and desert wildernesses

Neither tolerance nor intolerance is grounded in science and reason, but they are themselves acts of faith grounded in social custom and the politics of expediency and power.

Evangelism without social work is deficient; social work without evangelism is impotent.

Nature in her green, tranquil woods heals and soothes all afflictions.

No temple made with hands can compare with Yosemite.

It is necessary to rouse the heart to pray, otherwise it will become quite dry. The attributes of prayer must be: love of God, sincerity, and simplicity.

What is important is not victory or the position of a victor, but rather the labor of striving towards God and devotion to Him.

If you want to walk on water, you have to get out of the boat.

Biblically, waiting is not just something we have to do until we get what we want. Waiting is part of the process of becoming what God wants us to be.

Jesus is mysterious not just because of what we don't know about him, but because of what we do know about him.

To suppose that whatever God requireth of us that we have power of ourselves to do, is to make the cross and grace of Jesus Christ of none effect.

Before the work of grace the heart is ‘stony.’ It can do no more than a stone can do to please God.

It is one thing to fear God as threatening, with a holy reverence, and another to be afraid of the evil threatened.

Complacency is almost always the product of success or perceived success

Whatever you do in terms of telling a story, the most important thing that you can define is who you are.

Successful people do all the things that unsuccessful people don't want to do.

Anonymity is a shield from the tyranny of the majority.

If you don’t own a home, buy one. If you own one home, buy another one, and if you own two homes buy a third and lend your relatives the money to buy a home.

We are in the middle of the most transforming technological event since the capture of fire.

The future's here, we are it, we are on our own

O, God of wonder, enlarge my capacity to be amazed at what is amazing, and end my attraction to the insignificant.

Why Christians do what they do is just as important as what they do. Bad motives ruin good acts.

Mathematics is the abstract key which turns the lock of the physical universe.

Love is not a feeling to be felt, it's an action to be learned.

From the experience of the past we derive instructive lessons for the future.

Slavery is the great and foul stain upon the North American Union.

It is a sad and shocking fact that many religious people are in Hell.

I'm broke, I'm bored and I'm back.

The level of consumption that we identify with success is utterly unsustainable. We're gobbling up the world.

If the world were a big apartment, we wouldn't get our deposit back.

Shadows are in reality, when the sun is shining, the most conspicuous thing in a landscape, next to the highest lights.

Only three men in the Confederate army knew what I was doing or intended to do; they were Lee and Stuart and myself.

Well, it made you famous.