H.P. Oliver Quotes
I would never use a long word, even, where a short one would answer the purpose.
That is the strangest thing about the world: how it looks so different from every point of view.
The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men - from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms.
Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant.
Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine.
Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.
I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn.
Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads.
The sun and its retinue of planets drift as a group through the vast gulfs of space that separate the stars.
I'm better with my hands, and I always loved the slightly romantic idea of starting with bits of wood and being able to create something to sit on, to eat from, to store your clothes in.
Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.
Life is like the ocean. You can either be the ball floating on the waves, or make your own waves.
Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss!
Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.
People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be 'consistent'.
As a Marine officer in combat, I was responsible for the lives and safety of all the Marines who served with me.
Don't start,” he warned. “What?” she said, grinning. “I'm sure all the big, bad trappers have a bun-bun in their houses.
If I had a formula for bypassing trouble, I would not pass it around. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it.
...It's more important than ever that we find new ways to cultivate curiosity - because our careers, our happiness, and our children's flourishing all depend upon it.
True security lies in the unrestrained embrace of insecurity - in the recognition that we never really stand on solid ground, and never can.
In other cases, when the medium becomes entranced, the demonstration of a communicator's separate intelligence may become stronger and the sophistication less.
An emperor in his nightcap will not meet with half the respect of an emperor with a crown.
I would have promised those terrorists a trip to Disneyland if it would have gotten the hostages released. I thank God they were satisfied with the missiles and we didn't have to go to that extreme.
there are other senses - secret senses, sixth senses, if you will - equally vital, but unrecognized, and unlauded.
I never considered myself a fall guy. I know what I did. I know why I did it. I'm not ashamed of it.
It's one thing to say don't commit atrocities on the battlefield. It's another thing to say don't get caught doing atrocities.
Snapshots, moments, mere seconds: as fragile and beautiful and hopeless as a single butterfly, flapping on against a gathering wind.
I was very careful never to take an interesting job. If you have an interesting job, you get interested in it.
I have found by experience that they who have spent all their lives in cities contract not only an effeminacy of habit, but of thinking.
The deadliest of all deadly things: It kills you both when you have it and when you don’t.
Even the wisest woman you talk to is ignorant of something you may know, but an elegant woman never forgets her elegance.
So this is how you swim inward. So this is how you flow outwards. So this is how you pray.
Above all, I would not expect a wise race, at great expense, to set loose an army of self-replicating robots.
