John Saul Quotes

There's a lot of people around here, me included, who think she talked him into an early grave, and that he wasn't the least bit sorry to go. ~ John Saul

The terrible dark, where nothing, not even time itself, existed. ~ John Saul, Midnight Voices

She felt that she'd been watching a shadow. A shadow of the dead. ~ John Saul, Shadows

It had been no more than three minutes since she had awakened, laughing quietly, from her dream. Now the quiet laughter was over, and Polly MacIver was dead. ~ John Saul, Second Child

Time is always relative.... For the terminally ill, six months are a lifetime, and not a very long one. To a three-year-old waiting for Christmas, it's an eternity so distant it's not even worth thinking about. ~ John Saul

What it would be like to simply disappear into the blackness, to float forever in silence and nothingness. ~ John Saul

Forty-three years old, and still afraid of my father. Some tycoon, hunh? ~ John Saul

The silence of the building closed around him like a shroud. ~ John Saul, Shadows

All I want is to be left alone. That's why I have that fence. It's not only to keep the critters in. It's to keep people out. ~ John Saul

Until lunchtime, he'd had no idea, really, what love was, but now he knew.
It made you happy, and it made you want to dance, and it made you feel funny.
But most of all, you knew you had someone you could trust.
Someone you could tell everything to. Absolutely everything. ~ John Saul

Griefs upon griefs! Disappointments upon disappointments. What then? This is a gay, merry world notwithstanding. ~ John Adams

Greek has a formula for every event - weddings, christenings, buying a new dress, having a haircut, talking about children, going away, coming back, leaving a house, leaving a home. Kalo risiko is for a new house. Kalo means good. Risiko means fate, but sounds ominously like danger. ~ John Mole

The pressures of being a parent are equal to any pressure on earth. To be a conscious parent, and really look to that little being's mental and physical health, is a responsibility which most of us, including me, avoid most of the time because it's too hard. ~ John Lennon

Doubt is brother-devil to Despair. ~ John Boyle O'Reilly

To really evolve as awareness, be just like your own being in a self like yours and on a planet like this one. ~ John De Ruiter

It takes two to make peace. ~ John F. Kennedy

Democracy is never a final achievement. It is a call to an untiring effort. ~ John F. Kennedy

When politicians use fear, they are playing into the enemy's hand. ~ John Mellencamp

Fictional characters are made of words, not flesh; they do not have free will, they do not exercise volition. They are easily born, and as easily killed off. ~ John Banville

I will say that growing up as a kid in an urban environment and having lived in cities all my life, the one achievement that everyone can look forward to is getting the perfect parking spot. ~ Saul Perlmutter

...it is the smallest house in the Lane. And besides that, it is the only one that is rather dilapidated and needs a coat of paint. But Mr. Banks, who owns it, said to Mrs. Banks that she could have either a nice, clean, comfortable house or four children. But not both, for he couldn't afford it. And after Mrs. Banks had given the matter some consideration she came to the conclusion that she would rather have Jane...and Michael...and John and Barbara, who were Twins and came last. So it was settled... ~ P.L. Travers

Those rituals of getting ready to write produce a kind of trance state. ~ John Barth

We are enjoying in Africa what I call the democracy dividend. The progress we are seeing, economic development are all part of the dividend of good governance, respect for human rights, rule of law. It has created an enabling environment that allows not only foreigners to come in and invest but for Ghanaians to invest. It has created an atmosphere for our young people to be creative, innovative ~ John Dramani Mahama

The most important question is, 'Am I asking the most important question?' The second most important question is, 'Am I asking the most important question in the most important way?' ~ John Paul Caponigro

We reject the view that in this life some Christians do not sin. 1 John 1:9; 1 Tim. 1:15. ~ Anonymous

Imagination is the faculty of the mind that God has given us to make the communication of his beauty beautiful. ~ John Piper

Government itself at length must fall To nature's state, where all have right to all. ~ John Dryden

Ask not that the journey be easy; ask instead that it be worth it. ~ John F. Kennedy

At the top of the hill stood a cross and a little below at the bottom was a stone tomb. In my dream, just as Christian came up to the cross his burden loosened from his shoulders and fell off his back. It tumbled and continued to do so down the hill until it came to the mouth of the tomb where it fell inside and was seen no more. Christian was so glad and overjoyed and in his excitement he said, He has given me rest by his sorrow and life by his death. ~ John Bunyan

What we (U.S.) have done, is undertaken diplomacy through public assertions that tend to alienate everyone. ~ John Prendergast

Well, I was making a record, and I had to choose a name, because they said, you know, you can't make a record under the name of Reg Dwight, because it's never going to - you know, it's not attractive enough. ~ Elton John

Too rarely is the individual teacher so free from the dictation of authoritative supervisor, textbook on methods, prescribed course of study, etc., that he can let his mind come to close quarters with the pupil's mind and the subject matter. ~ John Dewey

12aNow, Israel, what does the LORD your God require from you, but to 1fear the LORD your God, to walk in all His ways and blove Him, and to serve the LORD your God with call your heart and with all your soul, ~ John F. MacArthur Jr.

A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them. ~ John C. Maxwell

It is a world to see. ~ John Lyly

Interns are invisible. You can tell an executive your name a hundred times and that executive will never remember it because they have no respect for someone at the bottom of the barrel, working for free. ~ Shane Kuhn

I see myself at crossroads in my life, mapless, lacking bits of knowledge - then, the Moon breaks through, lights up the path before me ... ~ John Geddes

Change needs practice. And practice needs patience. ~ John Fairclough

Neither party should be defined by pandering to the outer reaches of American politics and the agents of intolerance, whether they be Louis Farrakhan and Al Sharpton on the left, or Pat Robertson or Jerry Falwell on the right. ~ John McCain

I've had a number of near misses during my travels that in retrospect seem of greater concern than they did at the time. I guess that is what happens with age. ~ John Prendergast

Don't be scared to walk alone. Don't be scared to like it. ~ John Mayer

They were all down there trying to wire the shackle. Each one of them alone, clinging to the stem of a mushroom anchor with one breath inside. One breath. It didn't matter if you got the shackle wired or not. There was no up. When your breath was done, no up."

John Casey, Spartina ~ John Casey

A1 Great Britain has to look at the longer term. ~ John Surtees

She's still taking on water. A dessert blessing, an ocean curse ~ John Green

Religion is still parasitic in the interstices of our knowledge which have not yet been filled. Like bed-bugs in the cracks of walls and furniture, miracles lurk in the lacunae of science. The scientist plasters up these cracks in our knowledge; the more militant Rationalist swats the bugs in the open. Both have their proper sphere and they should realize that they are allies. ~ John B. S. Haldane

Barack Obama is one of the greatest politicians in American history. ~ John Podhoretz

Finally, for all of us but a lucky few, the dream of playing big-time baseball is relinquished so we can get on with grown-up things. ~ John Thorn

But I think the American people expect more from us than cries of indignation and attack. The times are too grave, the challenge too urgent, and the stakes too high to permit the customary passions of political debate. We are not here to curse the darkness, but to light the candle that can guide us through that darkness to a safe and sane future. As Winston Churchill said on taking office some twenty years ago: if we open a quarrel between the present and the past, we shall be in danger of losing the future. ~ John F. Kennedy

America's families will be safer in a world where we're strong, where we're engaged, but where we're respected. ~ John Edwards

There are monsters in all walks of life. One doesn't need unlimited power to create victims. One only needs to be desperate. ~ John Jackson Miller

And when Elmer was about to slip out to the kitchen with her to make lemonade, Benham held him by demanding, 'What do you think of John Wesley's doctrine of perfection?'
'Oh, it's absolutely sound and proven,' admitted Elmer, wondering what the devil Mr. Wesley's doctrine of perfection might be. ~ Sinclair Lewis

The fourth way to get a boy to like you is to be yourself. Now, I am contractually obligated as an adult to give that advice, even though it doesn't work. But yeah, be yourself, even though no one has any idea what it means to be yourself. Like whose self would I otherwise be being? ~ John Green

There can be but one will the master in our salvation, but that shall never be the will of man, but of God; therefore man must be saved by grace. ~ John Bunyan

We might find it easy to look at some majestic view like a glorious sunset or the grandeur of the mountains and ponder the magnificence of God's handiwork. But this sense needs to extend beyond the "wow" moments to encompass all of our experience of his world. We have the same problem when we only recognize God in some incredible occurrence in our lives and forget that he provides for us, cares for us and protects us moment by moment, day after day. God did not just create at some time in the past; he is the Creator - past, present and future." (The Lost World of Genesis One.) ~ John H. Walton

For Spirits when they please Can either sex assume, or both; so soft And uncompounded is their essence pure, Not tied or manacled with joint or limb, Nor founded on the brittle strength of bones, Like cumbrous flesh; but in what shape they choose Dilated or condensed, bright or obscure, Can execute their airy purposes, And works of love or enmity fulfil. ~ John Milton

Whether fighting or spitting, my discipline is unforgiving! ~ John Cena

You can make money or you can make excuses. Your choice. ~ John Addison