Top 81 John Christopher Quotes
#1. If any lesson from war is to be learned, John, it must be always to prepare for the unexpected and face the unthinkable.
Christopher Fowler
#2. Then I went to the windows and pulled them open. The rain had stopped and the night was very still, black except for the glow behind the western hills that marked the Burning Lands. A dog barked far off, once and no more.
John Christopher
#3. It's funny - Frankie Valli's story and that advice that he was just getting from, you know, Christopher Walken's character, is very true for someone who's in a creative field.
John Lloyd Young
#4. A reader should know what he might reasonably expect under a particular label.
John Christopher
#5. The end comes to all of us ... but the end comes quicker to those who do not live their lives as they choose. If your life is not your own, then in what way is it living?
Christopher John Farley
#6. Satan called - he's changed the sheets, fluffed the pillows and laid out the complimentary chocolate. Hell is ready for John Edwards.
Christopher Titus
#7. The mercy of heaven is greater than you or your sins. Let your sadness be dispersed by its glorious beams. Do not let apathy prevent you from seizing the moment for repentance. It matters not how wickedness has flourished. Divine grace can flourish still more abundantly.
Christopher St John
#8. Mum," said Christopher. "It's a demon. I don't think a poker will hurt it."
"It will where I'm going to put it," said Mrs. Mayer.
John Connolly
#9. John: 'Have mercy. I don't want to die!'
Sita: 'Then you should never have been born.
Christopher Pike
#10. Everyone recognized she was without malice and therefore she provoked none.
John Christopher
#11. A general does not use the same troops over and over again.
John Christopher
#12. Morality, for all the conditioning to which the human mind has been and is subjected, is always a personal choice in the last analysis.
John Christopher
#14. There are times when thinking about something is the worst possible policy.
John Christopher
#15. Before you have faith you must believe, and before you believe there must be evidence of some sort to persuade the mind. Faith is remembering that evidence and holding to it against all that seems to challenge or contradict it.
John Christopher
#16. My mum is in a mental hospital. There's a fine line between genius and insanity. Winston Churchill, Mozart, John Lennon. These people all had a touch of crazy that fuelled their brilliance. They were not locked up for it like my mum. Pft. Then again, Winston Churchill never tried to kill my dad.
Christopher Titus
#17. With apologies to Judy Garland and Cole Porter, all the world does NOT love a clown. John Wayne Gacy might have been the final nail in the coffin in terms of anyone associating clowns with funny (if a bunch of clowns die, do they all fit into one coffin?)
Christopher Lombardo
#18. Even if it is nonsense, it is often useful to know what kind of nonsense men believe.
John Christopher
#19. There is always something to lose. But maybe more to gain.
John Christopher
#20. Having achieved what I thought was an ultimate ambition, I found, as I think is often the case, that there remained something more.
John Christopher
#23. His anger was as great as mine, but hot where mine was cold.
John Christopher
#24. At the time, the United States had an attorney general named John Ashcroft, who had stated that America had "no king but Jesus" (a claim that was exactly two words too long).
Christopher Hitchens
#25. In the early stages of writing children's books, an experienced lady editor said that while girls read boys' books, the converse was not true, and I may have been influenced by that.
John Christopher
#26. Christopher Carson, whose renown as Kit Carson has reached almost every ear in the country was born in Madison county, Kentucky, on the 24th of December, 1809.
John Stevens Cabot Abbott
#27. To voice doubts was unthinkable, but that did not means that doubts did not exist.
John Christopher
#28. What people adore about superhero movies is the signal quality of the Christopher Nolan films - their complete lack of irony when it comes to the portrayal of heroism and the need for heroes to confront evil.
John Podhoretz
#29. People may be persuaded that the machine is doing good. In fact, good is only capable of being done on a small scale. Evil is more versatile. You can hate those you have never seen, all the vast multitudes of them, but you can only love those you know - and that with difficulty.
John Christopher
#30. You would always beat me; not so much because you are a better fighter as because you will not accept defeat.
John Christopher
#31. I have known John McCain personally since 1982. I wrote a well-received speech for him.
Christopher Buckley
#32. A man faced death, but when death drew back forgot it until the next time.
John Christopher
#33. On 'Frasier,' a network executive once suggested that one week we have John Lithgow play Frasier and Kelsey Grammar play Lithgow's role on '3rd Rock From the Sun;' I've been deeply afraid of the idea of a crossover ever since.
Christopher Lloyd
#34. Really, what's not to love in John McCain, satire-wise? As if he had not already been good enough to us, then came his nomination of Sarah Palin. Here, truly, was a gift from the gods of satire.
Christopher Buckley
#35. The apple which tempts my characters is the one that will remove the knowledge of good and evil. I suppose it's something of a reversal of the conventional Eden story: Freedom of thought is perhaps the greatest good, and needs to be fought for and sacrificed for.
John Christopher
#36. There but for the grace of God,' said John Bradford in the sixteenth century, on seeing wretches led to execution, 'go I.' What this apparently compassionate observation really means--not that it really 'means' anything--is, 'There by the grace of God goes someone else.
Christopher Hitchens
#38. The original version of 'The White Mountains' was probably just about worth publishing.
John Christopher
#39. Comparisons are odious
Cervantes, Christopher Marlowe, John Donne, ect...
Talon Rihai
#40. We had been friends. We could not become strangers. It left only one thing: we must be enemies.
John Christopher
#41. If the elect could perish then Jesus Christ should be very unfaithful to His Father because God the Father hath given this charge to Christ, that whomsoever He elected, Christ should preserve them safe, to bring them to heaven. John 6:39.
Christopher Love
#42. I wanted to ask which war
the Boer or the Crimean? It was amazing how old people could talk about The War, as though that meant something.
John Christopher
#43. Only very slowly and late have men come to realize that unless freedom is universal it is only extended privilege.
John Edward Christopher Hill
#44. Christopher Walken was probably the most experienced dancing partner I've had in movies, because he has the same background as I do. He's from theatre, Broadway and off-Broadway, and we both shared that.
John Travolta
#46. If we do the work that we can do in this country, the work that we will do when John Kerry is President, people like Christopher Reeve will get up out of that wheelchair and walk again.
John Edwards
#47. If there was anything I learned from John the Baptist, it was that the sooner you confess a mistake, the quicker you can get on to making new and better mistakes.
Christopher Moore
#48. Movies, TV, sports, come and go, but what you stand for is what people remember. Mandela, Martin Luther King, John Kennedy are people who really stood for something and were willing to die for it. You don't see a whole lot of that any more.
Christopher Judge
#49. If one is seeking reasons for disloyalty, it is useful to find something one can resent.
John Christopher
#50. I think before I act
and then think again. I am not entirely a coward, but I do not lose myself in action as you do.
John Christopher
#51. What tricks the mind is what the mind is glad to be tricked by.
John Christopher
#52. Christopher Nolan's astounding third Batman feature, 'The Dark Knight Rises,' represents the true maturation of the superhero movie - and provides the key to understanding the bottomless craving moviegoers have for these films, 34 years after the Christopher Reeve Superman gave birth to the genre.
John Podhoretz
#53. As Pa said, censorship encouraged people to believe nonsense.
John Christopher
#56. And though I remember her name I cannot recall her face. All things pass.
John Christopher
#57. Whisper to the flashing water your real name, write your signature in the sand, and shout your identity to the sky until it answers to you in thunder.
Christopher John Farley
#58. I also hate those holidays that fall on a Monday where you don't get mail, those fake holidays like Columbus Day. What did Christopher Columbus do, discover America? If he hadn't, somebody else would have and we'd still be here. Big deal.
John Waters
#59. Technology, publicity and sexuality have their place in music, but they are all subordinate to the pleasures and power of true vocal talent.
Christopher John Farley
#60. It is hard to be defensive toward a danger which you have never imagined existed.
John Christopher
#61. We all have to learn to live with our losses, and to use our regrets to spur us on in the future.
John Christopher
#62. One enjoys friendship most when times are good, when the sun shines and the world is kind. But it is the sharing of adversity that knits men together.
John Christopher
#63. I asked him a number of questions and I got some very interesting answers. Ken's heroes, according to Christopher, would be people like John Wayne, of course.
Stacy Keach
#64. A long time ago. I came to the understanding that all men are friends by convenience and enemies by choice.
John Christopher
#65. More and more I had come to see the Capped as lacking what seemed to me the essence of humanity, the vital spark of defiance against the rulers of the world.
John Christopher
#66. I want a love as deep as the sea, A love that will forever carry me, Away....Where I can go far away from this land...to forget about the love I lost in the sand.
Christopher St. John Sampayo
#67. The moors themselves were barer, of course. The heather still grew, but the moorland grasses were gone; the outcrops of rocks jutted like teeth in the head of a skull.
John Christopher
#69. It is pardonable for children to yell that they believe in fairies, but it is somehow sinister when the piping note shifts from the puerile to the senile.
Christopher Hitchens
#70. I'm a big fan of Elmore Leonard, and I've read Ian Rankin, Christopher Brookmyre and so on. But I'd never read a crime novel that made me feel emotional at the end.
John Gordon Sinclair
#71. The order should not have been given,' she said. 'It was not done for the city but for your private ends.'
I shook my head. 'There is no difference.'
You believe that?'
A Prince must, or he is no Prince.
John Christopher
#72. John Gielgud told us this story about Mae West. She was asked, 'Do you ever smoke after you've had sex?' She answered, 'I never looked.
Christopher Isherwood
#73. Have a drink, and try to relax. All right, have another drink. There are times when getting drunk's not a bad idea.
John Christopher
#74. Not much ever really comes of commissions, really. The last one that really came up with something truly concrete was the Warren Commission, and for all its good work, most Americans persist in believing that Oswald was working in tandem with the CIA, FBI, Lyndon Johnson, and the John Birch Society.
Christopher Buckley
#75. The secret of success in battle lies often not so much in the use of one's own strength but in the exploitation of the other side's weaknesses.
John Christopher
#76. Joshua grinned: "I think we'll both do better than my cousin John and his 'hold them underwater until they agree with you' sermon.
Christopher Moore
#77. Daddy," said the toddler, now seething with righteous indignation, "you are a poo-poo head!"
Feigning outrage, JFK lowered his voice. "John," he said, "no one calls the President of the United States a poo-poo head.
Christopher Andersen
#78. There are disappointments in all men's lives, even those who have achieved their ambition, and there are compensations.
John Christopher
#79. He was sometimes stern but more often kindly
just according to his lights, but he saw the world in simple shades of black and white, and found it hard to be patient with things that struck him as foolishness.
John Christopher
#80. It is because they are so strong that she hides her feelings.
John Christopher
#81. Fritz was melancholic by nature, and could tolerate his own gloom. I do not think this is so with you, who are sanguine and impatient. In your case, remorse and despondency could be crippling.
John Christopher