H.P. Oliver Quotes

It's amazing how close I have been, all this time, to my old life. And yet the distance that divides me from it is vast.

..we'll deal with it, because the good outweighs the bad.

Books like Twilight are not art. They are mass-produced crap that is meant to be consumed by the widest possible audience, for the largest possible profit.

Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other.

I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy - I don't disparage envy, but I don't accept it as legitimately my master.

I learned that the Holy Water better be fresh, that I need practice throwing the spheres, and that someone has to watch my back so asshats don't steal my demons.

I guess the tone of jokes is often, at best, irreverent, but it always comes from a place of deep love.

I would much rather America was a more stable, wonderful place. You know, I love it.

Veterans' issues are quite close to my heart. I find it quite hard to talk about, actually.

That's the thing about best friends. That's what they do. They keep you from spinning off the edge.

Things would get difficult again. But that was okay too. The bravery was in moving forward, no matter what.

i suppose that's the secret, if you're ever wishing for things to back the way they were. You just have to look up.

Maybe all of these different possibilities exist at the same time, like each moment we live has a thousand other moments layered underneath it that look different.

We’ll go.” Her voice is surprisingly deep and forceful. Set in her sunken, shipwreck face, her eyes burn like two smoldering coals. “We’ll fight.

So are you going to be my knight in shining armor or what?' Kent does a little bow. 'You know I can't resist a damsel in distress.

It's Connecticut: being like the people around you is the whole point.

Fourth period I have "life skills", which is what they call gym when you're old enough to be offended by forced physical activity (Elody thinks they should call it slavery instead, for accuracy).

Snowfall is expected to considerably exceed the normal range, both in frequency and quantity.

Things take the time they take. Don't worry.

You are young. So you know everything. You leap into the boat and begin rowing. But, listen to me. Without fanfare, without embarrassment, without doubt,I talk directly to your soul. Listen to me.

I wanted to hurry into the work of my life; I wanted to know, whoever I was, I was alive for a little while.

The world is: fun, and familiar, and healthful, and unbelievably refreshing, and lovely. And it is the theater of the spiritual; it is the multiform utterly obedient to a mystery.

Sing, if you can sing, and it not still be musical inside yourself.

I live in a perpetual present. I don't look back and I don't look forward. I just live from week to week.

I trust to luck. I am planning to be a millionaire before I die but I don't have a plan as to how that will happen.

I delivered leaflets for my dad and was paid £5 per thousand, which was slave labour.

Television came looking for me; it was never a plan to become a presenter.

It took me a while to get established - success didn't happen overnight.

I worked on local papers, before taking a job as a webmaster with a very well known telecommunications company in London, as I thought the internet was the future.

I'm wary of the new contactless ways of paying. The idea of paying with your phone is a little worrying: I have lost more than one over the years.

I find it so easy to read qualified commentators who are 180 degrees opposed to each other.

It is said by the rebels at Roxbury that Col. Watson has given his quota to support the people.

If you’re not pissing someone off, you probably aren’t doing anything important.

It's the sum of many parts which grow to be something great.

[John] Calvin's Institutes is often called a summary of Christian piety. You can't say that about many modern works of theology. You can say it of Calvin.

I think everyone who has an interest in Reformed theology, or just in Christian theology more generally, should read John Calvin Institutes.

Until the American majority is willing to live within its means, it can hardly force its political leaders to do so.

The only person who can fix education is the student.

Real value means people value-and creating value really means helping people choose better lives.

The liberal arts are the arts of communication and thinking. 'They are the arts indispensable to further learning, for they are the arts of reading, writing, speaking, listening, figuring.

If we do not find happiness in the present moment, in what shall we find it?

I have seen her and sister cry over a book for an hour together, and they said, they liked the book the better the more it made them cry.

A volcano may be considered as a cannon of immense size.

Actresses will happen in the best regulated families.

To babble is to make a feminine noise somewhat resembling the sound of a brook, but with less meaning.

Diplomacy is living in state.

Gather kittens while you may, Time brings only sorrow; And the kittens of today; Will be old cats tomorrow.

I want to successfully make the transition from a life in professional sports to another life, without running into major upheavals.

There is a conservation of matter and of energy, there may be a conservation of life; or if not of life, of something which transcends life.

But although life is not energy, any more than it is matter, yet it directs energy and thereby controls arrangements of matter.