D. P . Hall Quotes

Today, life will offer me many lessons. I will learn nothing.

My father was a really great man. I'll never forget the last thing he ever said to me. Nor will I ever repeat it.

Many people talk as if they have all the answers, whereas I know I don't. That's probably why no one listens to me.

We must first pray, that God would make us wise; before we can wish, he would make us happy.

Even the best things ill used become evils; and, contrarily, the worst things used well prove good.

Not to be afflicted is a sign of weakness; for, therefore God imposeth no more on me, because He sees I can bear no more.

Let me know myself; let others guess at me.

The best ground untilled, soonest runs out into rank weeds. A man of knowledge that is negligent or uncorrected, cannot but grow wild and godless.

Those who give not till they die show that they would not then if they could keep it any longer.

He is great enough that is his own master.

For every bad there might be a worse; and when one breaks his leg let him be thankful it was not his neck.

God loveth adverbs; and cares not how good, but how well.

How endless is that volume which God hath written of the world! Every creature is a letter, every day a new page.

He that taketh his own cares upon himself loads himself in vain with an uneasy burden. I will cast all my cares on God; He hath bidden me; they cannot burden Him.

As you see in a pair of bellows, there is a forced breath without life, so in those that are puffed up with the wind of ostentation, there may be charitable words without works.

Rich people should consider that they are only trustees for what they posses, and should show their wealth to be more in doing good than merely in having it.

What fools are we, to be besotted with the love of our own trouble, and to hate our liberty and rest!

[W]e all lie down in our bed of earth as sure to wake as ever we can be to shut our eyes.

Our body is a well-set clock, which keeps good time, but if it be too much or indiscreetly tampered with, the alarm runs out before the hour.

A man's opinion is in others; his being is in himself.

This field is so spacious that it were easy for a man to lose himself in it; and if I should spend all my pilgrimage in this walk, my time would sooner end than my way.

Nothing doth so fool a man as extreme passion. This doth make them fools which otherwise are not, and show them to be fools which are so.

The idle man is the devil's cushion.

I first adventure, follow me who list And be the second English satirist

I have seldom seen much ostentation and much learning met together.

The idle man is the Devil's cushion, on which he taketh his free ease: who, as he is uncapable of any good, so he is fitly disposed for all evil motions.

There is many a rich stone laid up in the bowels of the earth, many a fair pearl laid up in the bosom of the sea, that never was seen, nor never shall be.

The blood that is once inflamed with wine is apt to boil with rage.

How apt nature is, even in those who profess an eminence in holiness, to raise and maintain animosities against those whose calling or person they pretend to find cause to dislike!

And, if I were so low that I accounted myself the worst of all, yet some would account themselves in worse case.

...Covetousness, looking more at what we would have than at what we have.

Those that dare lose a day, ate dangerously prodigal; those that dare misspend it, are desperate.

Stories told around the water-cooler as well as statistics confirm that a man's competence is more likely to be presupposed, a woman's questioned.

Presidents today spend more time speaking than they do reading or thinking.

I think it's healthy to say that the American people now have direct access and that we have sufficient confidence as people in our own ability to judge, to make intelligent decisions.

Increasingly, campaigns have become narcotics that blur our awareness of problems long enough to elect the lawmakers who must deal with them.

I'll never be August Wilson - but what I can be is more of myself.

You don’t know what’s going to happen in the end, and that’s what the best plays are.

Sometimes, unfortunately, hatred is more powerful than progress.

I always say that I'm a writer who writes more from place than race.

I always felt like Broadway was not for me - in terms of ticket price, in terms of what was on there. I never saw myself reflected in the mirror of the Great White Way.

Unlike films, which can be easily disseminated worldwide via DVDs and the Internet, plays struggle to find an international audience.

Even when life appears to be going in circles the view is always changing if you are paying attention.

Horror movies are hard work. Why don't we make a horror workout?

Don't criticize something you know nothing about. It only brings people down and makes everyone miserable.

Culture is something that we all share and we are all the poorer for anyone excluded from it.

There’s no comparison. Veganism is the single most important thing that one can do today.

In a way, 'Billy Elliot' was autobiographical. I can't dance, but I think his dancing was me discovering about writing and literature.

From kings to groundlings, Shakespeare made his work profound for everybody. That is how it should be. There is no hierarchy in theatre. It makes everyone part of a collective.

Climbing had captured my soul.