John Hawkes Quotes

Running with the wrong crowd will never help you.

It's easy to have the wrong type of people around you.

When you surround yourself with the wrong people it's going to backfire every time.

Get rid of the friends who want you to spend your whole day doing nothing with them. They're not your friends. They're your enemies.

If I were to give advice, I would say to parents that they ought to be very careful whom they allow to mix with their children when young; for much mischief thence ensues, and our natural inclinations are unto evil rather than unto good.

No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.

I knew what could happen to my son if he was sent to the wrong school and got in with the wrong crowd.

Bad company is like a nail driven into a post, which, after the first and second blow, may be drawn out with little difficulty; but being once driven up to the head, the pincers cannot take hold to draw it out, but which can only be done by the destruction of the wood.

Better be alone than in bad company.

It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company.

I've always been attracted to negative influences - I thought that meant you were smart.

In two years, I spent all my money on cars, watches, boots, discos, restaurants, and friends who, in reality, were not friends at all. For a boy like me, who grew up in a poor neighbourhood and without money, it was dangerous.

The fact is, when you are young, if you are mingling with wrong people, you tend to be misguided. You tend to be brainwashed easily.

He who must needs have company, must needs have sometimes bad company.

The great danger of being around un-excellent people is that you start to become like them without even knowing it.

You really need to be careful of who you hang out with and who you listen to. They can lead you down the wrong path.

If you choose bad companions, no one will believe that you are anything but bad yourself.

And I could see this boy doing his homework and thinking about my sister naked. And I could see them holding hands at football games that they do not watch. And I could see this boy throwing up in the bushes at a party house. And I could see my sister putting up with it. And I felt very bad for both of them.

I was hanging out with some of what my mother would consider the wrong kind of kids. With no direction, no motivation. I would hang out in the lunchroom all day, or the handball courts

It's hard, but sometimes it is better to have no friends for a time than to have the wrong friends. The wrong group can lead you down all kinds of paths you really don't want to be on. And retracing your steps can be a long and hard journey

If you run around with 9 losers pretty soon you'll be the 10th loser.

I watch the people I hang around, 'cause if you hangin' with people who still got their foot in the street, that really involves you as well. It's definitely all about the company I keep. If you don't want anything to do with the streets or whatever, but you got everybody around you in the street, you just as much a part of it as they are. A lot of times it's very hard; you gotta straight cut off people, you know what I mean? If it ain't good for you, you just gotta turn your back to it.

Facts are ventriloquist’s dummies. Sitting on a wise man’s knee they may be made to utter words of wisdom; elsewhere, they say nothing, or talk nonsense, or indulge in sheer diabolism.

We're in a strange state in our world where we sort of have that belief - and I have it too - that if it's written down there's got to be some truth in it. We haven't quite got to the spot where you go: "Well, it doesn't necessarily mean it's true." It could actually be completely made up and made to look very nice. So, we have to get to the point where scandal and those kinds of things are less and less important because otherwise we won't have anyone willing to run as politicians.

The fact that someone says something doesn't mean it's true. Doesn't mean they're lying, but it doesn't mean it's true.