John Kabat Zin Quotes

I think a lot of composers get into trouble just making up a plot and expecting an audience to follow that. ~ John Eaton

Happiness is a warm gun. ~ John Lennon

Cities may be rebuilt, and a People reduced to Poverty, may acquire fresh Property: But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty once lost is lost forever. When the People once surrendered their share in the Legislature, and their Right of defending the Limitations upon the Government, and of resisting every Encroachment upon them, they can never regain it. ~ John Adams

If he can't do it with Ferrari, well, he can't do it. ~ John Surtees

People get God and religion confused. I think God is a bit too hip to join any of his unauthorized fan clubs. ~ John Fugelsang

I felt bad for lying to John, who was about as honest as Abe Lincoln on sodium Pentothal. ~ Mark Adams

Without a sense of urgency , people ... won't make needed sacrafices. Instead they cling to the status quo and resist.' - Quoting John Kotter ~ Adam M. Grant

I keep falling off the edge of the stage because I can't see it. I can't see my wrinkles in the mirror either, though. ~ John Lydon

Some people in the church, like Martin Luther King, Jr., came out against segregation. But if you look at the bulk of organized religion, you will discover that it endorsed slavery and quoted the Bible to approve it; the Pope even owned slaves. ~ John Shelby Spong

It set him free," said Lee. "It gave him the right to be a man, separate from every other man."
"That's lonely."
"All great and precious things are lonely."
"What is the word again?"
"Timshel - thou mayest. ~ John Steinbeck

And when a man's feelings are hurt he wants to strike at something, and Abel was in the way of his anger. ~ John Steinbeck

Rosasharn, you're jest one person, an' they's a lot of other folks. You git to your proper place. I knowed people built theirself up with sin till they figgered they was big mean shucks in the sight a the Lord.
But, Ma
No. Jes' shut up an' git to work. You ain't big enough or mean enough to worry God much. An' I'm gonna give you the back a my han' if you don' stop this pickin' at yourself. ~ John Steinbeck

Memory is the place where our vanished days secretly gather ... The past seems to be gone and absent. Yet the grooves in the mind hold the traces and vestiga of everything that has ever happened to us. Nothing is ever lost or forgotten. ~ John O'Donohue

Oh,' she said, too bone-weary to pretend: 'I would far rather that I love you as I saw yesterday I do than that I had gone on worshiping you as I did not long since.' And she turned away hastily, and did not see that Little John would reach out to her; and half-running, went to Tuck's cottage, where she could pull on her half-dry clothes, and become a proper outlaw again. At least, she thought, fighting back tears, like this I am Cecil, with a place among friends, and a task to do. I am someone. I wonder if perhaps if I am no longer Cecil, I am no one at all. ~ Robin McKinley

I always wanted it to be multi-cam from the beginning. In the first seeds of the idea, I wanted a live audience, multi-cam show. That was very important for me. ~ John Mulaney

It may sound ridiculous to say that Bell and his successors were the fathers of modern commercial architecture - of the skyscraper. But wait a minute. Take the Singer Building, the Flatiron Building, the Broad Exchange, the Trinity, or any of the giant office buildings. How many messages do you suppose go in and out of those buildings every day? Suppose there was no telephone and every message had to be carried by a personal messenger? How much room do you think the necessary elevators would leave for offices? Such structures would be an economic impossibility. ~ John J. Carty

Many otherwise decent men and women could find no other solution. They are willing to degrade themselves to their basest levels to prevent the traditional laborer from rising in status or, to put it bluntly, from "winning," even though what he wins has been rightfully his from the moment he was born into the human race. I ~ John Howard Griffin

Yes I have a belt. I wear big pants because my ass is huge. So I can't go to a store by off the rack a size that is appropriate for my waist because they don't fit my ass! ~ John Cena

Most readers will be shocked by the clear record of history linking Adolf Hitler and the Roman Catholic Church in a conspiracy to exterminate the Jews ~ John Hagee

God does nothing except in response to believing prayer. ~ John Wesley

Occam's razor theory of combat: The simplest way of kicking someone's ass was usually the correct one. ~ John Scalzi

My objective is to leave my family adequately catered for, but I want my children to make their own way. I want them to have pride in their own achievements. ~ John Caudwell

Milton saw not, and Beethoven heard not, but the sense of beauty was upon them, and they fain must speak. ~ John Ruskin

Cold one day, sweet the next; irresistibly flirty one moment, resistibly obnoxious the next. ~ John Green

I would not have you think me regretful, or melancholy. Life has been good to me - and every age has its gifts for the man who is willing to work for them and use them temperately. And nothing is more ungraceful, more ludicrous, than the spectacle of one who attempts to linger over the pleasures of an age he had outlived, and ignore the advantages of his own time of life. ~ John D. Swain

We all miss you so much. It just never ends. It feels like we were all wounded in your battle, Caroline. I miss you. I love you. ~ John Green

I keep some portion of my early gleam; Brokenly bright, like moonbeams on a river, It lights my life, a far illusive dream, Moves as I move, and leads me on forever. ~ John Townsend Trowbridge

I could never be a member of a single party. I want the best of all worlds, thank you. ~ John Lydon

Man's home is nature; his purposes and aims are dependent for execution upon natural conditions. Separated from such conditions they become empty dreams and idle indulgences of fancy. ~ John Dewey

People usually forget 90 percent of what they learn in a class within 30 days. He further showed that the majority of this forgetting occurs within the first few hours after class. ~ John Medina

I'm so proud of you that it makes me proud of me. I hope you know that. ~ John Green

Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim poses. ~ John Weitz

It was quality that killed Lilly; it was the end of The Great Gatsby, which was not her ending, which was not an ending within her grasp. ~ John Irving

Oh yeah, dancing's part of my soul. I enjoy it, it makes people happy, and it makes me happy. ~ John Travolta

Sometimes that's a year, sometimes it's 18 months, where all I'm doing is taking notes. I'm reconstructing the story from the back to the front so that I know where the front is. ~ John Irving

Even though the Bible is an ancient document, every person in every situation in every society that's ever existed can find in this book things that endure forever. Here's a book that never needs another edition. It never needs to be edited, never has to be updated, is never out of date or obsolete. It speaks to us as pointedly and directly as it ever has to anyone in any century since it was written. It's so pure that it lasts forever. ~ John F. MacArthur Jr.

One night i rode home - it was a confession - and i came staggering across the yard and i fell into the rosebush and crawled up the stairs on my hands and knees and i was sick on the floor beside my bed. In the morning I tried to tell him I was sorry, and do you know what he said? 'Why, Tom, you were just jolly'. 'Jolly,' if I did it. A drunken man didn't crawl home. Just Jolly ~ John Steinbeck

There is nothing wrong with going to bed with someone of your own sex. People should be very free with sex
they should draw the line at goats. ~ Elton John

Mythology is about Good VS Evil, is it not? We can pretend runes and astrology and reading tea leaves ... But to whom do we pray when we are terrified? Carl Sagan's essays? ~ John Steakley

Actually, they were very strange parents,' I told her. 'Neither of them were what you might call conventional people. And they had an extremely peculiar approach to parenting. Sometimes I felt as if I were little more than a tenant in their house, as if they weren't entirely sure what I was doing there. But they never mistreated me, nor did they ever do anything to hurt me. And perhaps they loved me in their own way. The concept itself might have been slightly alien to them.'
'And did you love them?'
'Yes, I did,' I said without hesitation. 'I loved them both very much. Despite everything. But then children usually do. They look for safety and security, and one way or another Charles and Maude provided that.' (p. 556) ~ John Boyne

I went to Princeton High School, when I was very serious about being an artist. I was in a theatre family but I didn't want to become an actor. ~ John Lithgow

Making recess appointments when the Senate isn't in recess is neither rational nor moderate. It's a raw misuse of executive power by a president whose love of government is his most vulnerable spot with the electorate. ~ John Podhoretz

For knowledge, great knowledge, may be obtained in the mysteries of the gospel, without any work of grace in the soul. You see, even if a man has all knowledge, he may still be nothing, and so, consequently, not be a child of God. ~ John Bunyan

Slavery was not a bad day on the job. It was not your boss yelling at you. It was not hard work for little pay. This was a full system of human subjugation. ~ John Ridley

Not judging truth to be in nature better than falsehood, but setting a value upon both according to interest. ~ John Dryden

Cancer is a word, not a sentence. ~ John Diamond

You, too, be courageous! The world needs convinced and fearless witnesses. It is not enough to discuss, it is necessary to act! ~ Pope John Paul II

I believe L. Ron Hubbard resolved the human mind, and in resolving it he has also resolved human pain - that's what I really think has happened here. ~ John Travolta

John Danforth, I thought, was a great senator and did a great job with the United Nations. I think he's a good man. ~ Ken Mehlman