H.P. Oliver Quotes

I told you, " he whispers back. I can feel his breath just tickling the space behind my ear, making my hair prick up on my neck. "I like you.""You don't know me, " I say quickly."I want to, though.

Do your own thing on your own terms and get what you came here for

Ask me no questions, and I'll tell you no fibs.

Aus Lügen, die wir glauben, werden Wahrheiten, mit denen wir leben.

Everything is permitted, Nothing is true.

There's nothing that keeps its youth, so far as I know, but a tree and truth.

Immer wieder behauptete Unwahrheiten werden nicht zu Wahrheiten, sondern, was schlimmer ist, zu Gewohnheiten.

Wer lügt, hat die Wahrheit immerhin gedacht.

Umgangsformen sind Formen, die zunehmend umgangen werden.

Der Papst ist der einzige Konzern-Vize, der seinen Chef nie zu sehen bekommt. Nicht einmal bei der Weihnachtsfeier.

WTF is praying gonna do for Vegas? Apparently God likes mass shootings.

God bless Dunkin' Donuts.

Liebe macht nicht blind. Der Liebende sieht nur weit mehr als da ist.

If they really want us to be happy, they'd let us pick ourselves.

His eyes are blazing with light, more light than all the lights in every city in the whole world, more light than we could ever invent if we had ten thousand billion years.

Beware how you take away hope from another human being

They say that just before you die your whole life flashes before your eyes, but that's not how it happened for me.

Let me tell you something about dying: it's not as bad as they says.it's the coming-back-to-life part that hurts.

Heaven is a place where all the dogs you've ever loved come to greet you.

Wer ein Theater füllen will, bedient sich der Dramaturgie. Um es zu leeren genügt Ideologie.

Authentic religion is not a theology test. It's a love test.

A child's education should begin at least 100 years before he was born.

Some men never recover from education.

[S]he'd realized that he had loved her only because she belonged to him.

The hours here are flat and round, disks of gray layered one on top of the other...they move slowly, at a grind, until it seems as though they are not moving at all. They are just pressing down...

The Prince of Hell shrugged. 'Shit Happens

Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor.

Perception is never purely in the present - it has to draw on experience of the past.

The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library, 'The medicines of the soul.

The great thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are going.

It's too late, ' she says.And I say 'It's never too late.

Sometimes, the things people don't say are louder than the words that come out of their mouths.

He and I have a head-nod friendship, since that's pretty much the limit of our interaction.

How superfluous other people can seem when you are convinced you already have the only ones you need.

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

We have shared the incommunicable experience of war, we have felt, we still feel, the passion of life to its top. In our youth our hearts were touched with fire.

If there is one sin—or rather one waste—it is not doing what you have the inclination or gift for.

I like working alone. I feel freer, less constrained. I know what I have to do and I try to do it. There are no superficial hangups.

Money is a servant to politicians and the country.But, if the politicians and the country become the servant of the money, the politicians has failed.

People don't like him (John Poindexter) for the same reason they don't like me…If you get things done in this bureaucracy you step on toes.

Democracy's fatal flaw: There are more dumb people than smart people. Welcome to the new Dark Ages!

There is neither a Heaven nor a Hell. Life after Death is an oxymoron. Life is just another word for existence, and Death is just another word for non-existence.

There is neither a Heaven for a Hell. Life after Death is an oxymoron. Life is just another word for existence, and Death is just another word for non-existence.

I was going to tell you that you look beautiful with your hair down. That's all I was going to say.

In my box of sound bites there are no jackhammers, no snowmobiles, no Jet Skis, no children wailing. Music but no Muzak.It's my box. Put what you want in yours.

All of us know history repeats itself, but mighty few of us recognize the repetition until too late.

People need other people to feel things for them, " she said. "It gets lonely to feel things all by yourself.

I find my thoughts, increasingly, not on the supernatural or spiritual but on what is meant by living a good and worthwhile life—achieving a sense of peace within oneself.

I guess it's the same way trees grow around the very vines that are killing them, so they're strangled and sustained all at once. After a long time, even pain can be a comfort.

Music, I think, he makes me feel like music.