H. L. Richardson Quotes

Good men must be affectionate men.

Within each piece, I create an intriguing balance between jewelry and the body, and an intensity which draws others to it.

I want my photos to be fresh and urgent. A good photograph should be a call to arms.

The only thing that can stop you is the doubt that you carry in your mind.

Preserve and treat food as you would your body, remembering that in time food will be your body.

I want all Hispanics in the Republican Party, in the Democratic Party, whether Latin Americans, Central Americans, Cubans, Mexicans, I want us to unite.

I don't have all the answers. I need your help, your guidance, and your leadership to tackle the challenges before us.

Education enables people and societies to be what they can be.

Forgiveness releases you from a past that no longer defines you. Allow yourself to move on.

The best motivating factor of all, however, is divine intervention, or what I like to call The Magic of Grace.

I will take a pie in the face any time for a worthy cause.

Manage your mind. When we direct our thoughts and words toward the outcome we most desire, we ignite grace.

If you want to enjoy life more fully, the trick is to teach yourself to live in the insightful mode more often.

It is the empty seats that listen most raptly.

And whatever my weight, I've always been skinny from the waist up.

I don't think I'd have any friends if I didn't obscure at least 99% of my thoughts.

I don't really talk to people.

Mathematics is persistent intellectual honesty.

Acting is the ability to dream on cue.

Actors are the jockeys of literature. Others supply the horses, the plays, and we simply make them run.

I like talking to engineers best. They built bridges, they're very precise, very disciplined, yet I find they have roving minds.

For tutors, although they may make youth learned, do not always make them virtuous.

All work is the avoidance of harder work.

Tyranny and fantasy both like to write everyone else's lines.

I watch worry and anxiety being pandered to through technology which is neutral.

You have two kinds of secrets. The ones only you know. The ones only you don't.

From sixteen to twenty, all women, kept in humor by their hopes and by their attractions, appear to be good-natured.

Married people should not be quick to hear what is said by either when in ill humor.

The plays and sports of children are as salutary to them as labor and work are to grown persons.

Women love to be called cruel, even when they are kindest.

I need my friends, I need my house, I need my garden.

Keep as near as ever you can to the first sources of supply—fruits and vegetables.

Well. I don't suppose you have to believe in ghosts to know that we are all haunted, all of us, by things we can see and feel and guess at, and many more things that we can't.

I became a writer because I love to read, yet I never get to unless I'm reviewing a book or doing research.

If you're going to spend two or three years immersed in a subject, you better be deeply interested in it, or it won't be interesting to the reader.

I love smart commercial fiction. Susan Isaacs, for example and the readers who interest me are, in the preponderance, women. I am one of them; I like the books they like.

I'm very interested, in all my books, in community, what binds people together, which I think is an obvious consequence of being the fourth of six children.

How quickly a person in pain whom you can't help becomes a reproach. And then, no doubt, a thorn.

The last thing we need to do, relating to teachers, is the key to a good education in this country is a strong teacher. I would have a minimum wage for all our teachers, $40,000 per year.

It [Border fence] hasn't worked. What has worked is more border patrols... What has worked is some technology.

The United States is for a two-state solution. The United States wants to see the Israelis and Palestinians come together.

As state leaders, I think its important for us to provide our perspectives on issues we face every day - like access to school spending, access to health care and governing in a global economy.

Well, does he still have his fingernails? Making inquiries while negotiating the release of a US Army pilot from North Korea, in Time.

You can count on time for two things. One is that it will pass. The other is that it will never shut up.

Make no mistake, the point of cutting the personal income tax and the capital gains cut is to send an unmistakable message to business leaders.

John McCain will pay hundreds of dollars for his own shoes. But we're the ones who have to pay for his flip-flops.

The basic problem most people have is that they are doing nothing to solve their basic problem.

I have always photographed loneliness because that is my life.

Our beliefs become the rules we live by, and then here's what happens: We make ourselves right.

The more I trust my intuition and act on its wisdom, the more extraordinary my life becomes.