H. A. L. Fisher Quotes

I am not a passenger in anything I do. I am and always will be a leader.

You have to work hard at things.

With my responsibilities comes having to manage my time more efficiently.

Teams are often pretty clear about what they can do or are willing to do.

Nothing prepares a family for having multiple children at once.

Basketball used to be my top priority.

I am and always will be a leader.

I'm more focused on the positives of why I'm here. I'll be able to address those things in due time. Right now it's about the Thunder and Oklahoma City.

My parents didn't have the opportunities that my wife and I have now, from a quality of life standpoint.

I'm not chasing money, so I'm not looking at just trying to stretch out a deal artificially just to have a certain number.

I have people that I'm close to that give me things to read throughout the season, and in particular in the playoffs and the postseason.

My character has always been important to me. That was the one thing that I knew, no matter what, I had to hold that strong.

What better can any of us do than to reach for our own stars ... and know which they are?

You can't wish a body any worse luck than to get what he wants.

On New Year's Day every calendar, large and small, has the same number of dates. But we soon learn that the years are of very different lengths.

History is worth reading when it tells us truly what the attitude toward life was in the past.

gossip ... is only fiction produced by non-professionals.

I'm as fixed in my opinion as the man who thought he was a hard-boiled egg.

Father sticks to it that anything that promises to pay too much can't help being risky.

Professional psychologists seem to think that they are the only people who make sense out of human actions. The rest of us know that everybody tries to do just this. What else is gossip?

the most elementary experience of life proves that the effects of compulsion last exactly as long as the physical or moral club can be applied.

don't let anything make you believe that there are not as many decent men in the world as women, and they're just as decent. Life isn't worth living unless you know that - and it's true.

America is rising with a giant's strength. Its bones are yet but cartilages.

Human beings. People's stories. That's really what gets me excited.

I'm not even fifty yet, but I still feel like Instagram and Spotify - I'm trying to stay with it! It's not easy. The world is going so fast.

This human condition and people's stories. That's what I love. The other thing is traveling.

I use that as my responsibility on the show, to be the pragmatist.

I think connection makes me vulnerable. Commitment makes me vulnerable, really.

I'm really obsessed with the past.

No, but I'm really lucky, because I'm not the superhero.

The longer I live, the more convinced I am that Christianity is one long shout of joy!

Once you start, there is no end to who is to go in and who is to be left out.

I can see only one safe rule for the historian: that he should recognize in the development of human destinies the play of the contingent and the unforeseen.

Falling in love was not really a choice; it just struck me.

For so many generations, a woman's only career path was to marry well and to marry up. Those days have changed.

Liberals and conservatives are looking for entirely different things. Their attitudes toward romance and how they court are really dramatically different. There's almost no overlap.

You can really get poked in the back and not feel it very much, but just a feather around your lips and you really do feel it.

Women apparently are quite drawn to men who have differences rather than similarities in their histocompatibility system. They pick it up by smell, and they can pick it up from kissing.

Hair that looks like it's been naturally sun-bleached makes you seem youthful, like you spend a lot of time outdoors. And that appeals to most people.

Touch is the mother of the senses. Not only are women more sensitive when they touch, but they're also more sensitive to being touched.

Office romances are few, short, and not usually destructive.

People have been looking for love potions since hunter-gatherer societies.

Scientists know that women gravitate to men who have a different immune system from theirs.

There is more and more data indicating that there is a biological basis to your political views.

I was married and divorced at 23.

Women, it turns out, are built to lead - particularly in the modern world.

Hair that gleams can send a clear sign that you're young and in your prime, whatever your actual age.

The only people you and I are likely to know in common are people in the news - politicians, journalists and celebrities.

Haiti is the poorest country in the western hemisphere; some say the poorest in the world.

We still have community, but we don't seem to have local community. Even in a small town where you know your neighbors and your mother's down the street, they're not in arm's length.