Ed Harris Quotes

The time to relax is when you don't have time for it.

I love Amsterdam. The city is vibrant and alive. It's fresh and so open. It's definitely one of my favorite places.

The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.

I have no interest in understanding sheep, only eating them.

The problem with religion, because it's been sheltered from criticism, is that it allows people to believe en masse what only idiots or lunatics could believe in isolation.

Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time; what we really want is for things to remain the same but get better.

And be grateful. Our scars have the power to remind us that the past was real.

Human emotions are a gift from our animal ancestors. Cruelty is a gift humanity has given itself.

When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?'

Either God can do nothing to stop catastrophes like this, or he doesn't care to, or he doesn't exist. God is either impotent, evil, or imaginary. Take your pick, and choose wisely.

Happiness is a direction, not a place.

History repeats itself, but in such cunning disguise that we never detect the resemblance until the damage is done.

The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, 'I was wrong'.

You can be a king or a street sweeper, but everyone dances with the Grim Reaper.

There's no point in burying a hatchet if you're going to put up a marker on the site.

I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti

‎True love isn't expressed in passionately whispered words an intimate kiss or a embrace; before two people are married, love is expressed in self-control, patience, even words left unsaid.

When you let God be God you can let humans be humans. When we place God in His rightful place in our lives, we don't struggle so much when human relationships let us down.

Just because something is good doesn't mean we should pursue it right now. We have to remember that the right thing at the wrong time is the wrong thing.

A puppet is free as long as he loves his strings.

There are a lot of people who say that bombing cannot win the war. My reply to that is that it has never been tried. . . and we shall see.

You will not persuade me with appeals to my intellectual vanity.

I happened to be in the right place at the right time.

Whenever feasible, one should always try to eat the rude.

Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.

The two words 'information' and 'communication' are often used interchangeably, but they signify quite different things. Information is giving out; communication is getting through.

She always had that about her, that look of otherness, of eyes that see things much too far, and of thoughts that wander off the edge of the world.

I believe that a child going without an education is a crime.

We have a choice. We have two options as human beings. We have a choice between conversation and war. That's it. Conversation and violence. And faith is a conversation stopper.

How we pay attention to the present moment...determin es the character of our experience and...the quality of our lives.

I don't see how you can write anything of value if you don't offend someone.

Attacks on cities are strategically justified in so far as they tend to shorten the war and so preserve the lives of allied soldiers.

You can do what you decide to do — but you cannot decide what you will decide to do.

Art is long. Life is short. A picture can become for us a highway between a particular thing and a universal feeling.

I've been taking a trapeze class for the last couple of years. I'm working on my double back flip right now.

How can we be “free” as conscious agents if everything that we consciously intend is caused by events in our brain that we do not intend and of which we are entirely unaware? We can’t.

My mother had a saying: 'Kamala, you may be the first to do many things, but make sure you're not the last.

Write about what you know and care deeply about. When one puts one's self on paper - that is what is called good writing.

In the inner place where true artists create there exists a pure child.

Happiness. Simple as a glass of chocolate or tortuous as the heart. Bitter. Sweet. Alive.

Here’s to books, the cheapest vacation you can buy.

I often sit back and think, I wish I'd done that, and find out later that I already have.

The most romantic things a man can do for a woman are the little things that let her know that she's on his mind and in his heart.

You must understand that when you are writing a novel you are not making anything up. It's all there and you just have to find it.

The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.

When God knows you're ready for the responsibility of commitment, He'll reveal the right person under the right circumstances.

What's important for my daughter to know is that... if you are fortunate to have opportunity, it is your duty to make sure other people have those opportunities as well.

There are a lot of mindless moments in my tunes.

You don't get anything worth getting, by pretending to know things you don't know.

You don't need to follow trends to be stylish.