H.P. Oliver Quotes

I think as a rifle platoon and company commander your view is about 1,000 meters in front of you and you hope you can cover that ground and not have to back up and give it up again.

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.

I never considered myself a fall guy. I know what I did. I know why I did it. I'm not ashamed of it.

I came here to tell you the truth, the good, the bad and the ugly.

there are other senses -­ secret senses, sixth senses, if you will -­ equally vital, but unrecognized, and unlauded.

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.

You may have genius. The contrary is, of course, probable.

An emperor in his nightcap will not meet with half the respect of an emperor with a crown.

In other cases, when the medium becomes entranced, the demonstration of a communicator's separate intelligence may become stronger and the sophistication less.

True security lies in the unrestrained embrace of insecurity - in the recognition that we never really stand on solid ground, and never can.

...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.

If I had a formula for bypassing trouble, I would not pass it around. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it.

We have met the enemy and have asked them over later for drinks and dancing.

Never cease striving until you have seen God face to face.

Don't start,” he warned. “What?” she said, grinning. “I'm sure all the big, bad trappers have a bun-bun in their houses.

It's interesting that when economic times were the hardest, that's when many people embraced liberalism.

The past assumes the nature of the present.

We are seeing entertainment become politics and we're seeing people acting out in ways that are extremely violent and destabilizing. No rules apply. We're in an era of no rules now, it seems.

Politeness is the result of good sense and good nature.

What a blessed thing it is, that Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left!

If you want to do something evil, put it inside something boring.

I think that many people in history who had power were bumped off because they had power.

Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw.

One of the strangest things about life is that it will chug on, blind and oblivious, even as your private world - your little carved-out sphere - is twisting and morphing, even breaking apart.

Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else - very rarely to those who say to themselves, 'Go to, now, let us be a celebrated individual!'.

Conspiracy nut, leftist, madman. These are terms of dismissal so you don't have to listen to the argument. It would be healthier and more fun to hear what someone has to say.

Backing down can become a way of life.

I'm British. I don't really have access to my emotions on a daily basis.

When I heard that Hitler had problems with flatulence, it's funny. What - does that make him a funny man? No. It means he had funny moments when his rear end was speaking louder than his mouth.

Every event that a man would master must be mounted on the run, and no man ever caught the reins of a thought except as it galloped past him.

But I suppose film is distinctive because of its nature, of its being able to cut through time with editing.

What flying teaches you is to overcome fear with knowledge.

We seldom speak of the virtue which we have, but much oftener of that which we lack.

Usually when you do shows you're in the middle of the tour and you're all oiled up and it's just another stop. It's so much pressure for just three minutes. My stomach still hurts.

I do believe there are leaders who are like lightning and they come along and they lead. The Lincolns of the world, the Alexander the Greats, they do exist. They have existed.

I make my films like you're going to die if you miss the next minute. You better not go get popcorn.

You can never judge how the film will be taken; you can only make your best effort, and put out what you feel. How it's read, you never can tell. Or remembered for that matter.

God bless my soul! No apple pie.

Our brains are seventy-year clocks. The Angel of Life winds them up once for all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the hand of the Angel of the Resurrection.

When a person has no need to borrow they find multitudes willing to lend.

Where wealth accumulates, men decay.

Having a human conversation is not something I've had any training in either as a comedian or as, you know, a human being.

Juliet!' I whip around but not quickly enough. She's swallowed by the crowd, the gap that allowed her to break for the door closing just as quickly as it opened, a shifting Tetris pattern of bodies.

The disconnect between America and its military is shocking.

Our bounty, like a drop of water, disappears, when diffus'd too widely

Everyone is a creative agent. ... The tools are your imagination and your imagination is limitless.

But the moment you turn a corner you see another straight stretch ahead and there comes some further challenge to your ambition.

I suspect that music has qualities both of speech and writing - partly built in, partly individually constructed - and this goes on all through one's life.

The law is the witness and external deposit of our moral life. Its history is the history of the moral development of the race.

A fish probably has no means of apprehending the existence of water; it is too deeply immersed in it.