The deep joy we take in the company of people with whom we have just recently fallen in love is undi...
JOHN CHEEVER I've been homesick for countries I've never been, and longed to be where I couldn't be.
JOHN CHEEVER I do not understand the capricious lewdness of the sleeping mind.
JOHN CHEEVER The task of an American writer is not to describe the misgivings of a woman taken in adultery as she...
JOHN CHEEVER The organizations of men, like men themselves, seem subject to deafness, near-sightedness, lameness,...
JOHN CHEEVER A lonely man is a lonesome thing, a stone, a bone, a stick, a receptacle for Gilbey's gin, a stooped...
JOHN CHEEVER People named John and Mary never divorce. For better or for worse, in madness and in saneness, they ...
JOHN CHEEVER Strange and predatory and truly dangerous, car thieves and muggers -- they seem to jeopardize all ou...
JOHN CHEEVER My veins are filled, once a week with a Neapolitan carpet cleaner distilled from the Adriatic and I ...
JOHN CHEEVER We praise Him, we bless Him, we adore Him, we glorify Him, and we wonder who is that baritone across...
JOHN CHEEVER Art is the triumph over chaos.
JOHN CHEEVER Literature has been the salvation of the damned, literature has inspired and guided lovers, routed...
JOHN CHEEVER Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos… to celebrate a world that lies spread out around...
JOHN CHEEVER Homesickness is nothing Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time.
JOHN CHEEVER Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil -- not the strength to choose between the two.
JOHN CHEEVER I can't write without a reader. It's precisely like a kiss-you can't do it alone.
JOHN CHEEVER Homesickness is nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time.
JOHN CHEEVER Good writers are often excellent at a hundred other things, but writing promises a greater latitude ...
JOHN CHEEVER What I am going to write is the last of what I have to say. I will say that literature is the only c...
JOHN CHEEVER It was a splendid summer morning and it seemed as if nothing could go wrong.
JOHN CHEEVER Fear tastes like a rusty knife and do not let her into your house.
JOHN CHEEVER That's the way I remember them, heading for an exit.
JOHN CHEEVER He was a tall man with an astonishing and somehow elegant curvature of the spine, formed by an enlar...
JOHN CHEEVER When I remember my family, I always remember their backs. They were always indignantly leaving place...
JOHN CHEEVER Fiction is experimentation; when it ceases to be that, it ceases to be fiction.
JOHN CHEEVER I can’t write without a reader. It’s precisely like a kiss—you can’t do it alone.
JOHN CHEEVER People look for morals in fiction because there has always been a confusion between fiction and phil...
JOHN CHEEVER He had that spooky bass voice meant to announce that he had entered the kingdom of manhood, but Rosa...
JOHN CHEEVER Our country is the best country in the world. We are swimming in prosperity and our President is the...
JOHN CHEEVER All literary men are Red Sox fans - to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your lif...
JOHN CHEEVER Literature has been the salvation of the damned, literature has inspired and guided lovers, routed d...
JOHN CHEEVER A lonely man is a lonesome thing, a stone, a bone, a stick, a receptacle for Gilbey's gin, a stooped...
JOHN CHEEVER For me a page of good prose is where one hears the rain. A page of good prose is when one hears the ...
JOHN CHEEVER Another historical peculiarity of the place was the fact that its large mansions, those relics of an...
JOHN CHEEVER Farragut's first visitor was his wife. He was raking leaves in yard Y when the PA said that 734-508-...
JOHN CHEEVER Life lives, life dies. Life laughs, life cries. Life gives up and life tries. But life looks differe...
SUSAN CHEEVER Addiction isn't about substance - you aren't addicted to the substance, you are addicted to ...
SUSAN CHEEVER A fierce literary woman with a penchant for married men, Margaret Fuller was ultimately torn between...
SUSAN CHEEVER Whenever there was a crisis, I found a man to help me take the edge off the feelings of helplessness...
SUSAN CHEEVER When women are angry at men, they call them heartless. When men are angry at women, they call them c...
SUSAN CHEEVER Death is terrifying because it is so ordinary. It happens all the time.
SUSAN CHEEVER There is no such thing as expecting too much.
SUSAN CHEEVER The program of A.A., as written by Bill Wilson and Dr. Smith, only has one purpose: to get you sober...
SUSAN CHEEVER Cabinets today are so specialized, you can create your own personal activity zones.
ELLEN CHEEVER My family is from Liverpool, so I have some of those vowel sounds, I've got the slack tone of so...
JOHN OLIVER Protest and anger practically always derives from hope, and the shouting out against injustice is al...
JOHN BERGER No man is to be credited for his mere authority's sake, unless he can show Scripture for the mai...
JOHN WYCLIFFE By ensuring that no one in government has too much power, the Constitution helps protect ordinary Am...
JOHN ROBERTS Human beings, we have dark sides; we have dark issues in our lives. To progress anywhere in life, yo...
JOHN NOBLE Learn as many mistakes and what not to do while your business or product is small. Don't be in s...
DAYMOND JOHN Being thrown into the fire and getting the thing turned around in a hurry made it more difficult. Th...
JOHN ELWAY This Constitution was not made for a day, nor is it composed of such flexible materials as to be war...
JOHN TYLER Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.
JOHN LENNON Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.
JOHN MORTIMER No power on earth has a right to take our property from us without our consent.
JOHN JAY Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself.
JOHN LOCKE High School is like a spork: it's a crappy spoon and a crappy fork, so in the end it's just ...
JOHN MAYER When I was growing up in rural Alabama, it was impossible for me to register to vote. I didn't b...
JOHN LEWIS The documented incidences of voter fraud are very rare, yet throughout the country, forces have mobi...
JOHN LEWIS Seeing that a Pilot steers the ship in which we sail, who will never allow us to perish even in the ...
JOHN CALVIN I was introduced to the Turducken in New Orleans. And it wasn't Thanksgiving. Glenn at the Gourm...
JOHN MADDEN Christians were instructed to serve others, and the thanksgiving was for the grace of God and the fa...
JOHN CLAYTON Is it possible that the portrait of the divine Son of God is an exaggeration, at best, or a complete...
JOHN CLAYTON Was the real Jesus of history one and the same as the Christ of faith whom we read about in the New ...
JOHN CLAYTON I believe any question that man can ask has a reasonable answer-at least an answer that is as consis...
JOHN CLAYTON Almost every time I am in a lectureship on a college campus, young people will say, If there is a Go...
JOHN CLAYTON I guess none of us like to look back in our lives to a time when we made poor judgments and foolish ...
JOHN CLAYTON In the surface of the paper there is only length and width-there is no such thing as thickness.
JOHN CLAYTON Why is it any more reasonable to believe that God has always been than it is to say that matter has ...
JOHN CLAYTON What is the origin of God?
JOHN CLAYTON The emphasis on the birth of Christ tends to polarize our pluralistic society and create legal and e...
JOHN CLAYTON The denominational world tries to pressure its members to focus on the birth of Christ, but in doing...
JOHN CLAYTON Not only are Christians writing about Jesus, but also Communists, Jews, atheists and agnostics are t...
JOHN CLAYTON There was no instruction to be thankful that the Christians were special people, chosen people. Ther...
JOHN CLAYTON It is my fervent hope and prayer that by exposing my mistakes and by pointing out the things that we...
JOHN CLAYTON We are assuming that we exist, that there is reality, and that the matter of which we are made is re...
JOHN CLAYTON The purpose of this study is to offer a logical, practical, pragmatic proof of the existence of God ...
JOHN CLAYTON Since I was an atheist for many years and came to believe in God through my studies in science, it f...
JOHN CLAYTON How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.
JOHN BURROUGHS You wouldn't do something for a receiver to catch the ball if the quarterback couldn't throw...
JOHN MADDEN I'm not everybody's cup of tea. But sometimes criticism can be hurtful. Be respectful. I'...
ELTON JOHN The prison-industrial complex, poverty, and the school system has more effect on a young black male ...
JOHN LEGEND I have learned in fashion to be a little savage.
JOHN FAIRCHILD Perhaps they thought I was on a fact-finding mission, never for one moment thinking that a man of my...
JOHN PRESCOTT My consultant keeps telling me sudden death could come at any moment.
JOHN TAVENER As you grow older, you learn a few things. One of them is to actually take the time you've allot...
JOHN BATTELLE When California was wild, it was the floweriest part of the continent.
JOHN MUIR Inherent in architecture, it involves everything in life so that there is absolutely no end to it. B...
JOHN LAUTNER My folks always let me go to the movies every Saturday. We were really motion-picture goers.
JOHN WAYNE I was ashamed to admit I was hipped to the idea of acting. That's why I started in with the prop...
JOHN WAYNE I've loved reading all my life.
JOHN WAYNE Nothing is so discouraging to an actor than to have to work for long hours upon hours in brightly li...
JOHN WAYNE I'd read up on the history of our country and I'd become fascinated with the story of the Al...
JOHN WAYNE Get off your butt and join the Marines!
JOHN WAYNE Everybody that I was in school with had an uncle or father in the law, and I started to realize that...
JOHN WAYNE Real art is basic emotion. If a scene is handled with simplicity - and I don't mean simple - it&...
JOHN WAYNE In westerns, you meet a hardy bunch of characters. There is no jealousy on such pictures.
JOHN WAYNE I was sure I'd set the world on fire, and it was hard for a young feller like me to realize the ...
JOHN WAYNE I don't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers ...
JOHN WAYNE All I'm for is the liberty of the individual.
JOHN WAYNE Nobody should come to the movies unless he believes in heroes.
JOHN WAYNE When you come to see a picture of mine, I want you to know that I'm not going to do anything tha...
JOHN WAYNE You learn a lot more from the lows because it makes you pay attention to what you're doing.
JOHN ELWAY I've experienced the highest of highs and lowest of lows. I think to really appreciate anything ...
JOHN ELWAY If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer ...
JOHN WOODEN Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realised that the imagery in my mind wasn't i...
JOHN LENNON Take care, be kind, be considerate of other people and other species, and be loving.
JOHN LITHGOW Buildings should serve people, not the other way around.
JOHN PORTMAN No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
JOHN DONNE Self-righteousness has killed more people than smoking.
JOHN MCCARTHY If you don't interfere with me, I'll always do something really good.
JOHN MALKOVICH I think people took Grenada for what it turned out to be, which was a very specific incident and fro...
JOHN NEGROPONTE Generalizations, like brooms, ought not to stand in a corner forever; they ought to sweep as a matte...
JOHN LUKACS Well, if you're true to yourself you're going to be true to everyone else.
JOHN WOODEN The mind is its own place and in itself, can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.
JOHN MILTON I'm not interested in my legacy. I made up a word: 'live-acy.' I'm more interested i...
JOHN GLENN The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shir...
JOHN HEYWOOD Those who agree with us may not be right, but we admire their astuteness.
JOHN HEYWOOD Would ye both eat your cake and have your cake?
JOHN HEYWOOD When all candles be out, all cats be grey.
JOHN HEYWOOD Written by a sponge dipped in warm milk and sprinkled with sugar.
JOHN CIARDI It is easy enough to praise men for the courage of their convictions. I wish I could teach the sad y...
JOHN CIARDI What has any poet to trust more than the feel of the thing? Theory concerns him only until he picks ...
JOHN CIARDI Every game ever invented by mankind, is a way of making things hard for the fun of it!
JOHN CIARDI A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in the students.
JOHN CIARDI Poetry lies its way to the truth.
JOHN CIARDI Intelligence recognizes what has happened. Genius recognizes what will happen.
JOHN CIARDI Nothing goes further toward a man's liberation than the act of surviving his need for character.
JOHN CIARDI The day will happen whether or not you get up.
JOHN CIARDI You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
JOHN CIARDI Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they hav...
JOHN CIARDI The classroom should be an entrance into the world, not an escape from it.
JOHN CIARDI With any of the movies I've had a chance to do, or any of the TV shows I've had a chance to ...
JOHN CENA Lay this unto your breast: Old friends, like old swords, still are trusted best.
JOHN WEBSTER Old friends are best.
JOHN SELDEN They say stay in the lines, but there's always something better on the other side.
JOHN MAYER Rome was not built in one day.
JOHN HEYWOOD You win by working hard, making tough decisions and building coalitions.
JOHN ENGLER I love the description of Gothic churches before the printed word, that they were the bibles of the ...
JOHN MCGAHERN The last thing on my mind was to be an actor, but I had a crush on a cute girl in the drama departme...
JOHN RATZENBERGER He who laughs most, learns best.
JOHN CLEESE Some people feel fulfillment from a bitter end - it gives them some sort of sense of reality. But, w...
JOHN BOYEGA I've never eaten just a few bites of things I liked in my life.
JOHN MADDEN The main ingredient of stardom is the rest of the team.
JOHN WOODEN A coach is someone who can give correction without causing resentment.
JOHN WOODEN Just try to be the best you can be; never cease trying to be the best you can be. That's in your...
JOHN WOODEN If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?
JOHN WOODEN Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
JOHN WOODEN Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.
JOHN LOCKE It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all...
JOHN LOCKE It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the tr...
JOHN LOCKE The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.
JOHN LOCKE It doesn't matter how long my hair is or what colour my skin is or whether I'm a woman or a ...
JOHN LENNON I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people cal...
JOHN LENNON I believe time wounds all heels.
JOHN LENNON The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. I...
JOHN LENNON When you're drowning, you don't say 'I would be incredibly pleased if someone would have...
JOHN LENNON If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, th...
JOHN LENNON I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I've always...
JOHN LENNON You don't need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are!
JOHN LENNON Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.
JOHN LENNON All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptat...
JOHN LOCKE In response to the challenge of strangers, sport arose as a sublimated representation of a community...
JOHN THORN I'm really passionate about pantomime because it is often the first introduction for a child to ...
JOHN BARROWMAN You have to keep persevering. An actor goes to a lot of auditions and doesn't get the part.
JOHN MCENROE Unemployment is sky-rocketing; deflation is in our future for the first time since the Great Depress...
JOHN MELLENCAMP A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work.
JOHN LUBBOCK So much of what we do is ephemeral and quickly forgotten, even by ourselves, so it's gratifying ...
JOHN WILLIAMS Remaining childish is a tremendous state of innocence.
JOHN LYDON There's rock n' roll in hip-hop, there's rock n' roll in pop music, there's rock...
JOHN VARVATOS Get off your horse and drink your milk.
JOHN WAYNE The ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world are the ones who do.
JOHN MCAFEE I can never consent to being dictated to.
JOHN TYLER There, I guess King George will be able to read that without his spectacles!
JOHN HANCOCK When you have a regime that would be happier in the afterlife than in this life, this is not a regim...
JOHN BOLTON Well, you could take several stories off the buildings of most U.S. government agencies and we'd...
JOHN BOLTON You don't need to spend tens of millions of dollars on political consultants to tell you what yo...
JOHN BOLTON Diplomacy is not an end in itself if it does not advance U.S. interests.
JOHN BOLTON Just as the Security Council was largely irrelevant to the great struggle of the last half of the tw...
JOHN BOLTON I'm a conservative Republican. I have been since I was 15 years old and participated in the '...
JOHN BOLTON People say you favor assassination, what do you think war is? Except that it's assassination on ...
JOHN BOLTON There's no religious test under the constitution. That's what it says. Period.
JOHN BOLTON North Korea is going to get away with keeping its nuclear weapons.
JOHN BOLTON I think that, especially among conservatives, there's a clear understanding that there are three...
JOHN BOLTON A lot of people have said to me, 'That's a great idea, running for president. You'll get...
JOHN BOLTON The U.N. is one of many competitors in a marketplace of global problem solving.
JOHN BOLTON I don't do carrots.
JOHN BOLTON My philosophy is not a bean-counting, accounting 'look at this.' It is a philosophy that sma...
JOHN BOLTON Politicians, like generals, have a tendency to fight the last war.
JOHN BOLTON Reform is not a one-night stand.
JOHN BOLTON I think the International Criminal Court could be a threat to American security interests, because t...
JOHN BOLTON There is no such thing as the United Nations.
JOHN BOLTON Everybody pursues their national interests. The only one who gets blamed for it is the United States...
JOHN BOLTON There is no patriotic obligation to help advance the career of a politician who is otherwise pursuin...
JOHN BOLTON We estimate that once Iraq acquires fissile material - whether from a foreign source or by securing ...
JOHN BOLTON There's no such thing as the United Nations. If the U.N. secretary building in New York lost 10 ...
JOHN BOLTON In the United States, there is a broadly shared view that the U.N. is one of many potential instrume...
JOHN BOLTON It's not natural disasters that are to blame for the deprivation of the North Korean people, but...
JOHN BOLTON Negotiation is not a policy. It's a technique. It's something you use when it's to your ...
JOHN BOLTON I haven't given up on the possibility that sweet reason will prevail.
JOHN BOLTON