John Quotes

We save limited resources in terms of who we are physically screening. The approach will allow us to pay more attention to those potential terrorists.

Innovation has never come through bureaucracy and hierarchy. It's always come from individuals.

I prepare for death by living.

You can't have a world where 50 percent of the people are dieting and 50 percent of the people are starving if you want stability.

The opportunity to serve our country—that is all we ask.

I sometimes think that when the prime minister tries to select a weapon it is the boomerang he finds most effective.

Why should the brave Spanish soldiers brag? The sunne never sets in the Spanish dominions, but ever shineth on one part or other we have conquered for our king.

Learn to appreciate the things you have before time forces you appreciate the things you once had.

I am two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so.

I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else.

Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.

He who marvels at the beauty of the world in summer will find equal cause for wonder and admiration in winter.

Money never stays with me. It would burn me if it did. I throw it out of my hands as soon as possible, lest it should find its way into my heart.

I kiss the soil as if I placed a kiss on the hands of a mother, for the homeland is our earthly mother. I consider it my duty to be with my compatriots in this sublime and difficult moment.

Sometimes God calms the storm and sometimes He calms his child.

How do you ask a man to be the last man to die in Vietnam? How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?

It's not life or death, the labyrinth. Suffering. Doing wrong and having wrong things happen to you.

If atheism solved all human woe, then the Soviet Union would have been an empire of joy and dancing bunnies, instead of the land of corpses.

Chaos is God's body. Order is the Devil's chains.

A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.

The true definition of a snob is one who craves for what separates men rather than for what unites them.

Rocket science has been mythologized all out of proportion to its true difficulty.

Because management deals mostly with the status quo and leadership deals mostly with change, in the next century we are going to have to try to become much more skilled at creating leaders.

What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.

I said it was simple. Not easy.

I've only been interested in the artistic side of life.

That the said Constitution shall never be construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press or the rights of conscience.

This would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religion in it.

The Internet is the world's largest library. It's just that all the books are on the floor.

Money can buy a fine dog but it is kindness that makes him wag his tail.

Capitalism, though it may not always give the scientific worker a living wage, will always protect him, as being one of the geese which produce golden eggs for its table.

Writing helped me understand what I was thinking about.

America is the country where you can buy a lifetime supply of aspirin For one dollar and use it up in two weeks.

My advice to you is to start drinking heavily.

Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one's self to be bored.

Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.

It's strange that those we miss the most Are those we take for granted.

Now if the harvest is over, And the world cold, Give me the bonus of laughter, As I lose hold.

The real evil of the Russian communist state is not communism. It is the secret police and the concentration camp.

Since the earliest period of our life was preverbal, everything depended on emotional interaction. Without someone to reflect our emotions, we had no way of knowing who we were.

It's a great life, if you don't weaken.

The zeal, bravery, and good behavior of the officers and men on the night of June 30, and during July 1, was commendable in the extreme.

Dark clouds bring waters, when the bright bring none.

Great grace and small gifts are better than great gifts and no grace.

Without a vision people and the church become self-centered. People start finding fault with one another and the church self-destructs.

If you desire to become a more generous person, don't wait for your income to change. Change your heart.

Never allow others to put obstacles in the pathway of your dreams

The person who does only what he must when he is in the mood or when it's convenient isn't going to be successful.

You cannot enjoy others until you enjoy yourself because you cannot give to others what you do not have.

I'm not where I'm supposed to be, I'm not what I want to be, But I'm not what I used to be. I haven't learned how to arrive; I've just learned how to keep going