H. A. L. Fisher Quotes

Humans seek connection above all else, and we are willing to destroy things to attain it.

I have walked a stair of swords, I have worn a coat of scars.I have vowed with hollow words, I have lied my way to the stars-Songs of Sapphique

Probably one of the most private things in the world is an egg before it is broken.

First we eat, then we do everything else.

I cannot count the good people I know who, to my mind, would be even better if they bent their spirits to the study of their own hungers.

There is communion of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine drunk.

You may feel that you have eaten too much...But this pastry is likefeathers - it is like snow. It is in fact good for you, a digestive!

...having bowed to the inevitability of the dictum that we must eat to live, we should ignore it and live to eat...

Go far from home and yo will have a long way back.

You shouldn't have to convince anyone to choose you. There is no real choice in love.

We're all so afraid of what everyone around us thinks that we risk ourselves to desperation. It's utterly stupid. It's utterly frightening. But it's utterly human.

That's the most pathetic part of being a human, the emotions you don't ask for or want, they just rush you anyway.

Offstage, I couldn't put things into words, and that was the one thing I'd always been able to rely on. Putting my feelings into words and praying they wouldn't be able to get out again.

The only thing worst than being hurt is everyone knowing that yoou're hurt.

I have already made up my mind, don't confuse me with facts.

I was always a stranger at home, in all the places I ever lived.

I breathe just to be near you...

People who need people are threatened by people who don’t. The idea of seeking contentment alone is heretical, for society steadfastly decrees that our completeness lies in others.

I know how closely most of us tend to hold on to whatever cache of patience we've managed to amass over a lifetime and I appreciate your squandering some of your cherished stash here.

The minute your group gets so big you don't know anybody in it and they don't know you, there's hell to pay.

I told her that the pills will let her slip off and that when a person dies there comes a long clean sleep.” “That’s all, ” Alexandria whispers, echoing after her, “a long clean sleep.

Pen and paper have been my life, now they may herald my death. But I asked for these, the traditional tools of my trade, and to my surprise my request has been granted.

Face the complexity involved in making ethical choices.

Because we are a globally connected village, we need to remember that our choices are not isolated. They have a powerful ripple effect, and that ripple is global.

Leadership responsibility is multidimensional and cannot be described in one or two words. It is personal, interpersonal, environmental and societal.

We think we can control our lives, but our lives control us. And everything that touches our lives controls us. People have less power than they think they do. It's just the reactions we control.

We fail in the work of grace and love when there is too much of us and not enough of God.

Men with high baseline levels of testosterone marry less frequently, have more adulterous affairs, commit more spousal abuse, and divorce more often.

The way you see yourself and others will significantly impact your ability to give your time, treasure or talents.

Secrets have an unfortunate way of spreading far beyond those they were intended for.

We are at that age that balances between independence and conferring with your friends about every miniscule decision you make. I've never liked that part of adolescence.

Tell me a truth, Senna.""I don't know how.""Then tell me a lie.""I don't love you.""The truth is for the mind, " he says. "Lies are for the heart. So let's just keep lying.

Why did it take the threat of dying to truly notice how exquisite a sunrise or sunset could be?

There are no good or bad stocks. The company is either good or bad. Stocks are just stocks.

The stock market is almost magical because it always leads the economy. It goes down long before the economy drops and then heads higher long before the economy rebounds. It always has.

our dispassionate acceptance of attrition...[can] be matched by a full use of everything that has ever happened in all the long wonderful-ghastly years to free a person's mind from his body.

Writing is capturing life, recording the human condition, and trying to glean meaning from it.

Why can't we say 'When!' about money the way we say 'When!' about coffee?

Why me?” I secreted into her ear.“You were the only one I saw, ” she whispered back, making my heart burst.

If you took everything I’d ever found hot in a girl and piled them into a corner, you’d get Cricket Hunt standing in a corner.

You know how they say that religion is the opiate of the masses? Well, I took masses of opiates religiously.

When was the last time someone was so overjoyed to see you, so brimming with love and affection that they literally ran to greet you? A dog will do that for you--ten, twenty, thirty times a day.

It's you, ” David says, “our queen with your crown, going into some body of water where we cannot follow you.

Walls have ears.Doors have eyes.Trees have voices.Beasts tell lies.Beware the rain.Beware the snow.Beware the manYou think you know.-Songs of Sapphique

We should all start to live before we get too old. Fear is stupid. So are regrets.― Marilyn Monroe

I will never stop loving you, I know it’s a cliché but it’s damn true.

What did I get in return? Coldness and emotional detachment. You are selfish and bitter and you wouldn’t know a good thing if it fell out of the sky at your feet.

Sometimes I wonder if we're all a little like Harold (a rooster). Real life carries on around us while we strut around in our own yards, thinking we're the ones in charge of things.

There should be no crying in copyediting.

If I were rich, I would buy him a new black suit. ... If I had next week's allowance and had not spent this week's on three Cherry Flips ...