John Quotes

Nothing is more important to me than my family, my faith, and my friends.

As the Swiss inscription says: Sprechen ist silbern, Schweigen ist golden,- "Speech is silvern, Silence is golden;" or, as I might rather express it, Speech is of Time, Silence is of Eternity.

Parting they seemed to tread upon the air, Twin roses by the zephyr blown apart Only to meet again more close.

Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art-- Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like nature's patient, sleepless Eremite.

Sweet is the infant's waking smile, And sweet the old man's rest-- But middle age by no fond wile, No soothing calm is blest.

employers sense in me a denial of their values...they fear me. i suspect that they can see that i am forced to function in a century which i loathe.

The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character building values of the privation of the poor.

Men have been swindled by other men on many occasions. The autumn of 1929 was, perhaps, the first occasion when men succeeded on a large scale in swindling themselves.

You cannot base a whole movie on just the imagery alone. It has to be the story and the characters.

All my life I been doin' what people tell me to do. Now, I'm telling them.

I went on to Cincinnati. I had got a taste of the big cities and them bright lights. I stayed there until I was about 18 or 19 and then I went on to Detroit.

Love is the Answer. What was the Question?

I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything.

You can go to church and sing a hymn, Judge me by the colour of my skin, You can live a lie until you die, One thing you can't hide is when you're crippled inside.

There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance.

Be prepared to organize nonviolent workshops - a teach-in around what is happening in America today. Organize your teachers and schoolmates, and be prepared to engage in some action.

With books we stand on the shoulders of giants.

The Church which taught men not to keep faith with heretics, had no claim to toleration.

Americans have an expectation that the Postal Service will abide by its well-known, although unofficial, motto - a commitment to deliver.

When you have great players, playing great, well that's great football!

That is the conviction we must come to in our meditation, that the darkness cannot quench the light.

Nothing you do particularly matters. But I'm not sure that's a great excuse for doing it poorly.

Some trees flourish, others die. Some cattle grow strong, others are taken by wolves. Some men are born rich enough and dumb enough to enjoy their lives. Ain't nothing fair. You know that.

I have seen flowers come in stony places And kind things done by men with ugly faces, And the gold cup won by the worst horse at the races, So I trust, too.

The days that make us happy make us wise

Since the printing press came into being, poetry has ceased to be the delight of the whole community of man; it has become the amusement and delight of the few.

Charm is a glow within a woman which casts a most becoming light on others.

Reasoning with a child is fine, if you can reach the child's reason without destroying your own.

It’s my failure to sound like my heroes that’s allowed me to sound like myself.

I'd like to think the best of me was still hiding up in my sleeve.

I like giving people something they don't want to miss the next time. It's a show with little twists and turns and curves. It has me being silly and stupid and compassionate and completely deep.

Newton was not the first of the age of reason, he was the last of the magicians.

I admire Obama, and I like him. I think he has a great deal of talent. He should be applauded for his eloquence and for his ability to motivate millions.

We should be I hope finally realizing what Vladimir Putin is. He's an old colonel, KGB, apparatchik, and he dreams of the restoration of the Russian empire.

Take up our quarrel with the foe: To you from falling hands we throw.

The gift of sight to see beyond The darker clouds of now!

When you live in hysteria, people start thinking emotionally.

The virtuous mind that ever walks attended By a strong siding champion, Conscience.

Anger and just rebuke, and judgment given, That brought into this world a world of woe, Sin and her shadow Death, and Misery, Death's harbinger.

In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.

To escape jury duty in England, wear a bowler hat and carry a copy of the Daily telegraph.

The reason why we fail to prevail with unconverted men is due to our more fundamental failure to prevail with God in prayer.

Of all the fire mountains which like beacons, once blazed along the Pacific Coast, Mount Rainier is the noblest.

In every case, I find pre-planning noble, but not always that useful in comedy. You know comedy once you're doing it.

The trouble today is that we have too many laws.

I've never bought a stock unless, in my view, it was on sale.

We serve a gracious Master who knows how to overrule even our mistakes to his glory and our own advantage.

Home isn’t really a place. It’s the people who makes it what it is. I have a great home.

It's alright to do things the way you want. There is no map to life, no blueprints to survival, you can create your world day by day if you have a clear vision and an unwillingness to give up.

Swimming upstream in the music business is a hard thing to do.