John Brooke Quotes

He was a faithful servant, and made himself so valuable to those who employed him that they will find it hard to fill his place. He was a good husband and father, so tender, wise, and thoughtful, that Laurie and I learned much of him, and only knew how well he loved his family, when we discovered all he had done for them, unsuspected and unassisted. ~ Louisa May Alcott

John Brooke is acting dreadfully, and Meg likes it! ~ Louisa May Alcott

Most of us think wonderful things about people, but they never know it. Too many of us tend to be tight-fisted with our praise. It's of no value if all you do is think it; it becomes valuable when you impart it. ~ John C. Maxwell

President Clinton was often known as the first black president. I wouldn't be upset if I could earn the right to be the second. ~ John F. Kerry

I put things down on sheets of paper and stuff them in my pockets. When I have enough, I have a book. ~ John Lennon

The truths of nature are one eternal change, one infinite variety. There is no bush on the face of the globe exactly like another bush; there are no two trees in the forest whose boughs bend into the same network, nor two leaves on the same tree which could not be told one from the other, nor two waves in the sea exactly alike. ~ John Ruskin

Of course it's possible for political essays to be artful. I just want to call into question the dominance of content over form in the history of the essay. I want us to recognize that there's art involved in making this stuff, because we still don't approach the constructed nature of the essay with the same appreciation that we do poetry or fiction. ~ John D'Agata

Yet, in 1850 nearly all the railroads in the United States lay east of the Mississippi River, and all of them, even when they were physically mere extensions of one another, were separately owned and separately managed. ~ John Moody

God bestows great gifts on human beings with perfect justice, but not All gifts we are given come from God. Some gifts come from society or culture, and it is here that problems develop. ~ John Mark Reynolds

His every syllable flirted. Honestly, he kind of turned me on. I didn't even know that guys could turn me on-not, like, in real life ~ John Green

Instead, there was only the kind of silence that comes when someone takes away a clock to be repaired and after a time you become aware of its absence because its gentle, reassuring tick is gone and you miss it so. ~ John Connolly

You cannot overestimate the unimportance of practically everything. ~ John C. Maxwell

God, in glorifying the saints in heaven with eternal felicity, aims to satisfy his infinite grace or benevolence, by the bestowment of a good infinitely valuable, because eternal: and yet there never will come the moment, when it can be said, that now this infinitely valuable good has been actually bestowed. ~ John Piper

You're not swimming in glory until you find someone to swim with you. Glory isn't glory if you don't have someone to share it with. It's just pride and bullshit on your own.
Unbelievable. Will Jones wasn't only one badass cowboy; he pretty much could have been the love child of John Wayne and Yoda. ~ Nicole Williams

After a couple of attempts at making shorts, I decided to make a feature film with a friend, Tom Hall, whom I've worked with ever since. ~ John Carney

I do not want, John. You know I do not understand what is advertisement and what is not advertisement. ~ Vladimir Nabokov

If a steaming hot potato fell in your hands you would get it off you as soon as you could. Do the same with negative destructive thoughts- just release them as fast as you can. ~ John Assaraf

While they came from a variety of religious backgrounds and held a wide variety of religious beliefs, each of our presidents in his own way has placed a special trust in God. ~ John F. Kennedy

All flowers are flirtatious - particularly if they carry hyphenated names. The more hyphens in the name, the flirtier the flower. The one-hyphen flowers - black-eyed Susan; lady-smock; musk-rose - may give you only a shy glance and then drop their eyes; the two-hyphen flowers - forget-me-not; flower-de-luce - keep glancing. Flowers with three or more hyphens flirt all over the garden and continue even when they are cut and arranged in vases. John-go-to-bed-at-noon does not go there simply to sleep. ~ Willard R. Espy

Humanism believes in salvation by works of law. By vast appropriations of money, and dedicated labor, [it] is trying to save all nations and races, all men from all problems, in the hopes of creating paradise on earth. [It] is trying to bring peace on earth and goodwill among men by acts of state and works of law, not by Jesus Christ. ~ Rousas John Rushdoony

Dreams were important, unconscious riddles that mirrored the heart. ~ John Katzenbach

God commands you to pray, but forbids you to worry. ~ John Vianney

After over six hundred hours of listening, John knew two more things: That the most profound truth lay in the labyrinths that coiled behind a green door in the interviewee's mind the very second that Alfred Kinsey said, "Tell me about your fantasies"; and, two, that with the proper information and the correct stimuli he could get carefully chosen people to break through those doors and act out their fantasies, past moral strictures and the boundaries of conscience, taking him past his already absolute knowledge of mankind's unutterable stupidity into a new night realm that he as yet was incapable of imagining. Because the night was there to be plundered; and only someone above its laws could exact its bounty and survive. ~ James Ellroy

And suddenly they came out of the woodwork. I don't actually know what that expression means. What come out of the wood work? Cockroaches maybe. Mice? Are these rhetorical questions, like I just learned about on one of my rare visits to school? Was that a rhetorical question? Is it a paradox when you ask rhetorically if a rhetorical question is a rhetorical question? I think I'd better stop before I get a headache. ~ John Marsden

British journalists tend to believe that people who become good at something do so because they seek fame and fortune. This is because these are the sole motives of people who become British journalists. But some people, operating at higher levels of mental health, pursue activities because they actually love them. ~ John Cleese

Before verse can be human again it must learn to be brutal. ~ John Millington Synge

I feel that Marco Polo has really been misrepresented - has never really gotten his due. ~ John Fusco

Many a modern preacher is far less concerned with preaching Christ and Him crucified than he is with his popularity with his congregation. A want of intellectual backbone makes him straddle the ox of truth and the ass of nonsense. Bending the knee to the mob rather than God would probably make them scruple at ever playing the role of John the Baptist before a modern Herod. The acids of modernity are eating away the fossils of orthodoxy. ~ Fulton J. Sheen

I'd love to go back to Broadway if there was a place for me there. I would absolutely go back; it's just a part of me. ~ Brooke Elliott

I got my first television at Stanford when I was 20, and I used to watch 'The Dick Van Dyke Show'. He played my father on 'Becker,' and he's still one of my heroes. Along with John Cleese, he's my favourite physical comedian. ~ Ted Danson

Never cry over anything that can't cry over you ~ John Marsden

If you could kick the person responsible for most of your troubles, you wouldn't be able to sit down for weeks. ~ John C. Maxwell

- John is a dangerous fanatic.
- And you are not ? - asked Dagon.
- I'm just dangerous. ~ Michael Scott

Foreign languages are another favourite topic, and as these men are bilingual they have a fair notion of what it means to speak and think in many different idioms. ~ John Millington Synge

We used to send up the idea of getting to the top. John would shout, "Where are we going, fellas?" We'd shout back, "To the top, Johnny! ~ George Harrison

It's been a great adventure, everything I hoped for. But it's time to go home. I miss my family. I miss the Earth. ~ John Phillips

I've had an amazing professional life, personal life, but at 64 to have a son who gives us that much love and enjoyment is, wow! ~ Elton John

In response to a question about his team's execution - "I'm all in favour of it. ~ John McKay

How deceptively light they are, the truly decisive steps we take in life. ~ John Banville

If a dying Savior could bring us to God's grace, surely a living Savior can keep us in His grace. ~ John F. MacArthur Jr.

Make love, not war. ~ John Lennon

There is still no cure for the common birthday. ~ John Glenn