John Grady Quotes

I didn't mean I'd seen everything, John Grady said.
I know you didn't.
I just meant I'd seen some things I'd as soon not of.
I know it. There's hard lessons in this world.
What's the hardest?
I dont know. Maybe it's just that when things are gone they're gone. They aint comin back.
Yessir. ~ Cormac McCarthy

If I dont go will you go anyways?
John Grady sat up and put his hat on. I'm already gone, he said. ~ Cormac McCarthy

John Grady looked at the table. The paper cat stepped thin and slant among the shapes of cats thereon. He looked up again. Yessir, he said. Just me and him. ~ Cormac McCarthy

A man is always right to pursue the thing he loves.
No matter even if it kills him?
I think so. Yes. No matter what. ~ Cormac McCarthy

The sad fact is that the vast majority of drunks stay drunks. There's a small minority of us who reach that fork in the road where one side says 'live' and the other says 'drink'. ~ John Larroquette

Logic rests on the axiom that existence exists. Logic is the art of non-contradictory identification. ~ Ayn Rand

The animals possess a soul and men must love and feel solidarity with our smaller brethren. All animals are fruit of the creative action of the Holy Spirit and merit respect and they are as near to God as men are. ~ Pope John Paul II

People do all sorts of things impulsively and follow those impulses into strange places. ~ John Darnielle

It is well for us if we have learned to listen to the sweet persuasion of the Beatitudes, but there are crises in all lives which require also the emphatic "Thou shalt not" of the decalogue which the founders wrote on the gateposts of their commonwealth. ~ John Greenleaf Whittier

How could I compete with a debtless man? ~ John Steinbeck

The invasion of the Church by the world is a menace to the extension of Christ's Kingdom. In all ages conformity to the world by Christians has resulted in lack of spiritual life and a consequent lack of spiritual vision and enterprise. A secularized or self-centered Church can never evangelize the world. ~ John Mott

Yes, war is hell. It is awful. It involves human beings killing other human beings, sometimes innocent civilians. That is why we despise war. ~ John O. Brennan

The one most valuable lesson humanity ought to have learned from philosophy is that it is impossible to make sense of truth without acknowledging God as the necessary starting point. ~ John F. MacArthur Jr.

When we lived in Juneau, Alaska, it was a town of about 7,000 people, and totally isolated; the only way to get to it was by ship. ~ John C. Hawkes

You may look upon some providences once and again, and see little or nothing in them, but look "seven times," that is, meditate often upon them, and you will see their increasing glory, like that increasing cloud (1 Kings 18:44). ~ John Flavel

Health note: My stomach is getting out of bounds; the seams of my vendor's smock are creaking ominously. ~ John Kennedy Toole

Who friendship with a knave hath made, Is judged a partner in the trade. ~ John Gay

Yes, I can see her almost perfect in this cracked darkness. ~ John Green

The effect of prizes on one's career - if that is what to call it - is considerable, since they give one more clout with publishers and more notoriety among journalists. The effect on one's writing, however, is nil - otherwise, one would be in deep trouble. ~ John Banville

For a stalk to grow or a flower to open there must be time that cannot be forced; nine months must go by for the birth of a human child; to write a book or compose music often years must be dedicated to patient research ... To find the mystery there must be patience, interior purification, silence, waiting ... ~ Pope John Paul II

Tell me if I'm mistaken, but isnt't that my girlfriend in the graveyard?"
"You are not mistaken."
"And she's straddling some guy."
"That's correct," said Colin.
Hassan pursed his lips and nodded. "And- I just want to make sure we have our facts straight here- she's naked."
"She certainly is."
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And then he raced forward about ten paces, cupped his hands over his mouth, and screamed, "I AM BREAKING UP WITH YOU!" Still, though, a goofy grin was on his face. ~ John Green

I do think better of womankind than to suppose they care whether Mister John Keats five feet high likes them or not. ~ John Keats

If there is any animal in the whole category of four-legged creatures that more thoroughly deserves to be called a pig than the pig, I don't know what it is. He looks like a pig, he behaves like a pig, and he eats like a pig - in fact he is a pig, and Adam never did anything better than when he invented that name and applied it. ~ John Kendrick Bangs

People go wrong in their fellowships before they go wrong in their doctrine. ~ John R. Rice

We know the Republicans are happy to keep the country in the dark, and if we Democrats are to recapture the power necessary to assert our values, we must find the energy, courage, creativity and unity to map out a brighter day for the people we sincerely want to serve. ~ John Yarmuth

Failure is not a one-time event; it's how you deal with life along the way. Until you breathe your last breath, you're still in the process, and there is still time to turn things around for the better. ~ John C. Maxwell

A mentor must always guide, never push. It was my job to listen to them, offer my perspective, and encourage them to pursue the ideals they believed to be true. ~ John Wooden

The worst mistake a boss can make is not to say 'well done'. ~ John Ashcroft

I love working with Gary Sinise. ~ John Larroquette

The greatest burden in the world is superstition, not only of ceremonies in the church, but of imaginary and scarecrow sins at home. ~ John Milton

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

Trees endure the hot sun and rainstorms by sending their roots down deeper. The adversity they face is eventually the source of great stability. The harshness of the elements surrounding them causes them to seek another source of life. They will one day come to the place that even the greatest of windstorms cannot affect their ability to produce fruit. ~ John Bevere

Preserving the memories so others will remember... ™ ~ John Michael

If you wanna be a hero, well Just Follow ME. ~ John Lennon

We are in our own dark Eden where the snake is not selling the Tree of Knowledge. He is selling love, and if you take a bite of that apple, you will go the way of Abel when this is clearly the land of Cain. ~ Shane Kuhn

I never saw any good that came of telling truth. ~ John Dryden

I keep on reading the Morning Star newspaper to see if there's any hope, but it seems to be in the 19th century; it seems to be written for dropped-out, middle-aged liberals. ~ John Lennon

She was a round, curvy woman who, for Parker, brought to mind a figure assembled from a selection of soft fruits. Aside ~ John Connolly