H.P. Oliver Quotes

People are always going to say stupid things, and you're always going to be able to make jokes about that, but it should be the last thing you add in, because it's the easiest thing.

Music can lift us out of depression or move us to tears - it is a remedy, a tonic, orange juice for the ear.

Most people are willing to take the Sermon on the Mount as a flag to sail under, but few will use it as a rudder by which to steer.

The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theater and causing a panic.

You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.

Politics has become infused with narcissism in America.

Beloved, let the fact of what our Lord suffered for you grip you, and you will never again be the same

I am now face to face with dying. But I am not finished with living.

When will you have a little pity for every soft thing that walks through the world, yourself included.

Ads are baked into content like chocolate chips into a cookie. Except, it’s actually more like raisins into a cookie - because nobody f-‍-‍-ing wants them there.

A man is known by the silence he keeps.

Every day I walk out into the world / to be dazzled, then to be reflective.

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

Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children.

It's not the extremes and the treats that are the problem. It's the everyday.

Ye may have skill in the nature of things, yet nature can do more than all physicians put together; and God is far more above nature.

Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.

Wealth accumulates, and men decay.

It's a great time to be doing political satire when the world is on a knife edge.

A river is more than an amenity, it is a treasure.

For my part I think it is a less evil that some criminals should escape, than that the government should play an ignoble part.

A few honest men are better than numbers.

I have to live in the richest, deepest, most productive way I can

There is a little plant called reverence in the corner of my soul's garden, which I love to have watered once a week.

Creativity involves the depth of a mind, and many, many depths of unconsciousness.

When you look at a movie, you look at a director's thought process.

Little things are great to little men.

And when it started to get dark you pointed to the sky, and told me there was a star for every thing you loved about me.

When you're dealing with serious subjects, there is a pressure to be absolutely sure that you know what you're doing.

Some people are so heavenly minded that they are no earthly good.

In terms of brain development, musical performance is every bit as important educationally as reading or writing.

Don't you stay at home of evenings? Don't you love a cushioned seat in a corner, by the fireside, with your slippers on your feet?

Do not trust the cheering, for those persons would shout as much if you or I were going to be hanged.

i think of all the thousands of billions of steps and missteps and chances and coincidences that have brought me here. Brought you here, and it feels like the biggest miracle in the world.

Learn the sweet magic of a cheerful face.

Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

He is exactly the poem I wanted to write.

Let me keep my mind on what matters, which is my work, which is mostly standing still and learning to be astonished.

The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.

The man of action has the present, but the thinker controls the future.

The morning cup of coffee has an exhilaration about it which the cheering influence of the afternoon or evening cup of tea cannot be expected to reproduce.

I heard a bird sing In the dark of December A magical thing And sweet to remember. 'We are nearer to Spring Than we were in September,' I heard a bird sing In the dark of December.

I saw that worrying had come to nothing and gave it up. And took my old body and went out into the morning, and sang.

Music is part of being human.

I had rather have a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that which you call a Gentle-man and is nothing else.

Shall I refuse my dinner because I do not fully understand the process of digestion?

Congress never loses its capacity to disappoint you.

Tenderness is a virtue.

From quite an early age I realised the effect that good food can have on others.

There was never an idea started that woke up men out of their stupid indifference but its originator was spoken of as a crank.