John Cleaver Quotes

I'm the demonslayer. Come and get me. ~ Dan Wells

Your life is defined by death, and each time you face it you grow stronger. You learn more, and feel more. It sounds stupid to say it like this, but not dying makes you more alive. ~ Dan Wells

Hello, Bradley,' said Mom. She'd regained her composure after my outburst, and now raised her camera. 'Stand close.'
'No, Mom,' I said. 'No pictures.'
'But you're friend's here now,' she said, waving us together. 'Smile!'
'I don't need a picture with-' the flash snapped '-another guy. That's great, Mom, thank you. Send that one to Dad and tell him we're going steady. ~ Dan Wells

I peered deeper into the mirror, searching. Who was staring back? He looked like me, he talked like me, his body moved when mine did. I swayed to the right, then left, then back to centre; the person in the mirror did the same. This was the thing that terrified me the most – more than the victim, more than the demon, more even than the dark thoughts. It was the fact that the dark thoughts were mine. That I couldn't separate myself from evil, because most of the evil in my life came from inside my own head. ~ Dan Wells

It's a pretty big shock to realise that the only people you can identify with are psychopathic killers. ~ Dan Wells

It doesn't matter what other people think when you're right - John Cleaver ~ Dan Wells

So you went bike riding, then," she said. "Just around town? Out on the forest trails somewhere?"
"Yes," I said, "we went out to Forman's place."
Her face twisted, eyes widening, eyebrows curling, nostrils flaring. It was her "shocked" face, with a dash of "confused." "Really?"
"Of course not," I said, "but the face you just made almost makes this conversation worth it. ~ Dan Wells

Nice is nice," Hayter-Ross said. "But being a bitch gets results. ~ John Scalzi

Occasionally, you get a nice surprise when someone covers your song in an extraordinary way. ~ John Barry

Dr. Wyman preached a God I couldn't quite see in my mind, and certainly couldn't love. I dimly pictured some kind of Grandfather, who dealt out to bad people their awful "just deserts," which I thought must be poisoned food at the end of delicious meals. ~ John Hersey

(John Cheever thought that you couldn't even type a business letter without revealing something of your inner self - isn't that the truth?) ~ Mason Currey

We think you'll find that every woman in her heart of hearts longs for three things: to be romanced, to play an irreplaceable role in a great adventure, and to unveil beauty. That's what makes a woman come alive. ~ John Eldredge

A happy people I call them still, whose peace and genuine morals have not been contaminated with European vices; and whose errorsare only the errors of ignorance, and not the rooted depravity of a pretended civilization, and a spurious and mock Christianity. ~ John Gabriel Stedman

The aim of Operation Mindfuck was to lead people into such a heightened state of bewilderment and confusion that their rigid beliefs would shatter and be replaced by some form of enlightenment. ~ John Higgs

And you know what? At the end of the day, it gets down to Obama and Romney. And what it's going to get down to is this. Obama is going to say, 'I inherited a mess and I'm making it better.' And Romney is going to say, 'you haven't made it good enough. And I can do far better than you have done.' ~ John Kasich

Mighty things from small beginnings grow. ~ John Dryden

I believe that men are here to grow themselves into best good that they can be - at least, this is what I want to do. ~ John Coltrane

When I hold you in my arms and I feel my finger on your trigger I know no one can do me no harm because happiness is a warm gun. ~ John Lennon

For globalization to work for America, it must work for working people. We should measure the success of our economy by the breadth of our middle class, and the scope of opportunity offered to the poorest child to climb into that middle class. ~ John Sweeney

He found, using fifty stones to keep track, that he could easily remember the names of all fifty states, and he knew the capitols of a lot of them. He knew his times tables all the way up to twelves, and he knew when they'd signed the Declaration of Independence and when John Glenn landed on the moon.

But he was keenly aware that he didn't know how to tell if nuts were good to eat, or what berries will make you sick, or what mushrooms were poisonous, and he slowly began to wonder why not one person had ever taught him anything useful. ~ Michael Montoure

But, you know, I'd be happy just making music. ~ John Lurie

But it's pretty hard to get a liberal off their mental grooves.) ~ John Ringo

When I wake up in the morning, the first thing I look at is the checking account report from the day before. I love checking accounts. I dream about them. ~ John Stumpf

Happy brains are all alike; every unhappy brain is unhappy in its own way. ~ John Brockman

Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish. ~ John Henry Newman

Such is friendship, that through it we love places and seasons; for as bright bodies emit rays to a distance, and flowers drop their sweet leaves on the ground around them, so friends impart favor even to the places where they dwell. With friends even poverty is pleasant. Words cannot express the joy which a friend imparts; they only can know who have experienced. A friend is dearer than the light of heaven, for it would be better for us that the sun were exhausted than that we should be without friends. ~ Saint John Chrysostom

The foundation of our faith is not a book, although the Bible is an essential and divinely inspired witness to what God has done and desires of us in turn; nor is it a set of laws, although the commands of God show the way to salvation. The foundation of our faith is the one whom God sent, his Son who has a name, Jesus, the Word of life who could be heard, seen and touched (1 John 1,1). Faith is a personal response to this Lord who died to save us. ~ Francis George

I think you couldn't do this role or you couldn't be Frankie Valli himself unless you had a natural falsetto. And I had sort of discovered it by accident as a child or a young adult when you realize you have a special skill that you don't really have any use for you, and you just take it out at parties or to amuse your friends or to annoy your girlfriends. ~ John Lloyd Young

Butforme, theAlps and their peoplewerealikebeautiful in their snow, and their humanity; and I wanted, neither for them nor myself, sight of any thrones in heaven but the rocks, or of any spirits in heaven but the clouds. ~ John Ruskin

Men say their pinnacles point to heaven. Why, so does every tree that buds, and every bird that rises as it sings. Men say their aisles are good for worship. Why, so is every mountain glen and rough sea-shore. But this they have of distinct and indisputable glory,
that their mighty walls were never raised, and never shall be, but by men who love and aid each other in their weakness. ~ John Ruskin

They say that when a man is going to drown, when he finally gives up the struggle - it's sort of blissful, for a moment. And then he drowns. ~ John Hodge

On the one hand, undeserved success gives no satisfaction ... but, on the other hand, well-deserved failure gives no satisfaction either. ~ John Calvin

John McCain from the very beginning has been unflinchingly loyal to Sarah Palin. He has never thrown her under the bus. He has never conceded it was a bad decision to pick her. He has never ever said a bad word against her. ~ Rachel Maddow

Though we take from a covetous man all his treasure, he has yet one jewel left; you cannot bereave him of his covetousness. ~ John Milton

Dad: "You're a survivor yourself, then?" Augustus: "I am. I didn't cut this fella off for the sheer unadulterated pleasure of it, although it is an excellent weight-loss strategy. Legs are heavy!" Dad: ~ John Green

Events of October 1962 indicated, as they had all through history, that control of the sea means security. Control of the seas can mean peace. Control of the seas can mean victory. The United States must control the seas if it is to protect your security ... ~ John F. Kennedy

The disposition of the heart is man's, but the preparation of the tongue is the Lord's." [Prov. 16:1, 9, conflated.] It is an absurd folly that miserable men take it upon themselves to act without God, when they cannot even speak except as he wills! ~ John Calvin

I wondered whether I could find a Great Perhaps here at all or whether I had made a grand miscalculation. ~ John Green

After preliminary work by a number of other distinguished mathematicians and economists, game theory as a systematic theory started with von Neumann and Morgenstern's book, 'Theory of Games and Economic Behavior,' published in 1944. ~ John Harsanyi

Aside. "How long will it take?" He was scared, and he wasn't pretending. "Not long," I said. "Not long at all." You ~ John Connolly

The trick, of course, is to find a profession you like and one that will also feed your writing, and not eat up all your time. ~ John Gardner

Yeah, I think that's it ... It's like Jesse James. He became really popular because he lasted so long. You know, there is some degree of truth to the fact that time will dignify anything, too. ~ John Milius

Patience, grasshoper ~ John Green

We all know our duty better than we discharge it. ~ John Randolph

I listen to a lot of Chicago blues, I suppose. It reminds me of growing up, I guess. But I'm also obsessed by close-harmony groups. Actually, I'm fascinated particularly by brother duos, how they blend together. The Everly Brothers, the Stanley Brothers, The McQuarrys. There's something inherently magical about harmony. ~ John C. Reilly

If life had a second edition, how I would correct the proofs. ~ John Clare

Maybe every essay automatically is in some way experimental - less an outline traveling toward a foregone conclusion than an unmapped quest that has sprung from the word 'question'. ~ John D'Agata

Jesus does put radical demands before people, but so did Isaiah and so does Proverbs. The New Testament is new in the same way that Isaiah was new or that Genesis was new over against Exodus.21 While there are statements Jesus makes that no prophet or wise teacher could have made, these are statements such as the "I am" declarations in John's Gospel; they relate to his being the incarnate one and the Savior. ~ John E. Goldingay

John Bonham was probably the most influential in terms of playing style and timing. ~ Tommy Lee

I know of no person or group that is taking nearly adequate advantage of the graphical potentialities of the computer. ~ John Tukey