H.P. Oliver Quotes

My fight is not for racial sameness but for racial equality and against racial prejudice and discrimination.

Fridays are the hardest in some ways: you’re so close to freedom.

Anybody who claims to be excited for April Fools' Day is probably a sociopath.

Dystopian novels help people process their fears about what the future might look like; further, they usually show that there is always hope, even in the bleakest future.

The greatest thrill is not to kill- but to let live.

Give your kids a bloody knife and fork and let me put some fresh food in front of them they can eat.

I love you Denver Beck," she whispered. "I have for a long time." Then she stepped back. "Now it's your turn to decide if you love me.

Man has his will, but woman has her way.

If we perform as a unit and if every single player gives it his very best, everything can happen.

I'm going to fight my way out, I'm going to take all my equipment and all my wounded and as many dead as I can. If we can't get out this way, this Division will never fight as a unit again.

As for murmurs, mother, we grumble a little now and then, to be sure; but there's no love lost between us.

Can you dance?" she asked before she could stop herself. "I can," he said, affronted. "I'm really good with the slow songs.

Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.

Reason means truth and those who are not governed by it take the chance that someday the sunken fact will rip the bottom out of their boat.

Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.

We have met the enemy and they are ours.

We shake with joy, we shake with grief. What a time they have, these two housed as they are in the same body.

There are a hundred paths through the world that are easier than loving. But who wants easier?

Death is never easy when you know the people doing the dying.

One of the joys of going to the movies was that it was trashy, and we should never lose that.

I think Neuer changed the game of goalkeeping in the World Cup.

Uncertainty is where things happen. It is where the opportunities - for success, for happiness, for really living - are waiting.

Cooking is the ultimate giving!

Maybe I don't like people as much as the rest of the world seems to...But occasionally, people will pleasantly surprise me and I'll fall in love with them, so go figure.

why are trying so hard to fit in, when you're born to stand out

If your ancestors cut down all the trees, it’s not your fault, but you still don’t live in a forest.

Listen--are you breathing just a little, and calling it a life?

... Let us risk the wildest places, Lest we go down in comfort, and despair.

Beware how you take away hope from any human being.

‎'The demon cried, waving its furry arms above his head like a demented orangutan.

I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken.

Most people are much more unusual and complicated and eccentric and playful and creative than they have time to express.

Once you learn how to make people laugh, then you get to choose exactly how you want to make them laugh.

There is only one cardinal rule: One must always listen to the patient.

The Irish gave the bagpipes to the Scotts as a joke, but the Scotts haven't seen the joke yet.

A man never rises higher than when he does not know whither his path can still lead him.

Democracy is like a tambourine, not everyone can be trusted with it.

Reason may be the lever, but sentiment gives you the fulcrum and the place to stand on if you want to move the world.

My past is my wisdom to use today. . . my future is my wisdom yet to experience. Be in the present because that is where life resides.

To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.

Keep your faith in God, but keep your powder dry.

You never know / What opportunity / Is going to travel to you, / Or through you.

The State, in choosing men to serve it, takes no notice of their opinions. If they be willing faithfully to serve it, that satisfies.

Anybody who's been through a divorce will tell you that at one point. they've thought murder. The line between thinking murder and doing murder isn't that major.

I'm trusting in the Lord and a good lawyer.

40% of what I've done was a mistake. I now call it R&D.

Look, I want to love this world as though it's the last chance I'm ever going to get to be alive and know it.

Don't let us make imaginary evils, when you know we have so many real ones to encounter.

I'm not a villain, I've never hurt anyone. I'm just a tawdry character who explodes now and again.

You're actually using your brain. That's what comes from associating with me.