F. A. Harper Quotes

Things are always better in the morning.

It's not necessary to tell all you know.

It's past time the feds scrapped the Canada Health Act.

There is no greater fraud than a promise not kept.

It's not enough to do the tasks that are expected or required of us. We have to give more, do more, be more.

Writing is a process of self-discipline you must learn before you can call yourself a writer. There are people who write, but I think they're quite different from people who must write.

Every moral has a story, every story has and end. Every battle has its glory, and its consequence.

I do not intend to dispute in any way the need for defence cuts and the need for government spending cuts in general. I do not share a not in my backyard approach to government spending reductions.

...but before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself.

I'll lose about 20 pounds during the season.

Prejudice, a dirty word, and faith, a clean one, have something in common: they both begin where reason ends.

Everybody makes money when times are good. It's when times are not so good that the groundwork is laid for the next generation.

Whether Canada ends up as o­ne national government or two national governments or several national governments, or some other kind of arrangement is, quite frankly, secondary in my opinion...

Way back about nineteen-twenty there was a Klan... The Ku Klux's gone... It'll never come back.

Atticus told me to delete the adjectives and I'd have the facts.

Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.

Be grateful for each moment we have and be happy, but more than anything live it fully.

As long as someone else controls your history the truth shall remain just a mystery

After all, enforced national bilingualism in this country isn't mere policy. It has attained the status of a religion. It's a dogma which one is supposed to accept without question...

I do not think the mere extension of the ballot a panacea for all the ills of our national life. What we need to-day is not simplymore voters, but better voters.

Distance is temporary, but our love is permanent. This may be the last time I see you, but if you keep me in your heart, together we shall be eternal; if you believe, we shall never part.

Every mother should endeavor to be a true artist.

You look like gold. I've been fooled before, but now I know I've made the mistake in the past. But now I, now I know the difference from gold and brass.

Canada is a Northern European welfare state in the worst sense of the term, and very proud of it.

This world is vast enough to handle anything you dare to dream.

I am a disaster magnet. I came home from our first anniversary vacation with jellyfish stings, a puncture wound from a wrought iron pineapple and a cork-shaped bruise in my cleavage.

Dessert doesn't count if you eat under an assumed identity.

A room to myself is a luxury that I do not always enjoy.

Baseball needs more superstars.

That happens every time I get behind a guitar, regardless of what I'm saying, 'cause music is freedom and being free is the closest I've ever felt to being spiritual.

It's not necessary to tell all you know. It's not ladylike--in the second place, folks don't like to have somebody around knowin' more than they do.

CrossFit is all about constantly-varied, high-intensity movements. And to do these movements, you have to have a certified coach to take you through this - or any type of physical activity.

I'm not telling anyone, 'Quit your job and be homeless to go for your dream.'

I think the number one safe haven where people put their money is to invest in yourself first.

You can't be free if the cost of being you is too high.

All work and no play make any forensic pathologist a dull boy.

Don't let what you have to heal from blind you to how much there is to heal for.

Ladies bathed before noon, after their three o'clock naps, and by nightfall were like soft teacakes with frostings of sweat and sweet talcum.

The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a courtroom, be he any color of the rainbow, but people have a way of carrying their resentments right into a jury box.

People in their right minds never take pride in their talents.

Take my hand when you are worried Take my hand when you're alone Take my hand and let me guide you Take my hand to lead you home.

Some negroes lie, some are immoral, some negro men are not be trusted around women - black and white. But this is a truth that applies to the human race and to no particular race of men.

Canada is big enough to make a difference but not big enough to threaten anybody. And that is a huge asset if it's properly used.

I want my teammates to know I have their backs.

True politeness is to social life what oil is to machinery, a thing to oil the ruts and grooves of existence. False politeness can shine without warming and glitter without vivifying.

The CrossFit program is broad, general and inclusive, and most of all, the movements can be scaled down to any level of athlete. Just watch what I do with it on 'The Biggest Loser.'

All of us have to figure out our own passion, our own journey. Follow your heart.

Life is amazing. Live it to the fullest. Stay as long as you can.

It's all part of the pattern. This is a story of scandal and corruption, investigations, refusals to take responsibility. If this government continues in office, this will continue.

Corruption is not a Canadian value!