H.P. Oliver Quotes

A good friend keeps your secrets for you. A best friend helps you keep your own secrets.

A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.

I have not the particular shining bauble or feather in my cap for crowds to gaze at or kneel to, but I have power and resolution for foes to tremble at.

But I also say this: that light is an invitation to happiness, and that happiness, when it's done right, is a kind of holiness, palpable and redemptive.

In all the silent manliness of grief.

There is only one question: / how to love this world.

I often feel that life is about to begin, only to realize it is almost over.

Though I play at the edges of knowing, truly I know our part is not knowing, but looking, and touching, and loving

Old age is fifteen years older than I am.

You can have the other words-chance, luck, coincidence, serendipity. I'll take grace. I don't know what it is exactly, but I'll take it.

Sweet Auburn, loveliest village of the plain.

A man-of-war is the best ambassador.

What is all our histories, but God showing himself, shaking and trampling on everything that he has not planted.

Because of the dog’s joyfulness, our own is increased. It is no small gift.

The ambitious are forever followed by adulation for they receive the most pleasure from flattery.

Black is too morbid; red will set them on edge; pink is too juvenile; orange is freakish

As long as you're dancing, you can break the rules.

I believe in kindness. Also in mischief.

And if I should live to be The last leaf upon the tree In the spring, Let them smile, as I do now, At the old forsaken bough Where I cling.

Villainy, when detected, never gives up, but boldly adds impudence to imposture.

There is, of course, a world of difference between cricket and the movie business ... I suppose doing a love scene with Racquel Welch roughly corresponds to scoring a century be fore lunch.

We now know that memories are not fixed or frozen, like Proust's jars of preserves in a larder, but are transformed, disassembled, reassembled, and recategorized with every act of recollection.

Curiosity is the surest sign of intelligence

Everything we know has come from stories that have been told over and over again as truth. Those stories turn into history.

I keep writing children’s books, I keep making children’s books, because I still have them inside of me.

Such dainties to them, their health it might hurt; It 's like sending them ruffles when wanting a shirt.

Some take their gold in minted mold, and some in harps thereafter, but give me mine in bubbles fine and keep the change in laughter.

If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.

Southern people are bigger-hearted and kinder than I had any right to expect.

Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Modesty: the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.

I will not be influenced, governed, or controlled, in my temporal interests by any ecclesiastical authority or pretended revelation whatever, contrary to my own judgment.

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 best result of mathematics is to be able to do without it.

I'm a dramatist. Dramatists have a right to look at history and interpret it the way they see it.

While we've youth in our hearts, we can never grow old.

If you make the movie from your heart and it stands over time, that's what matters to me.

It is the nature of stone to be satisfied. It is the nature of water to want to be somewhere else.

Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.

The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort.

But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.

An easy life is rarely meaningful and a meaningful life rarely easy.

A genius of comedy His talent brought joy and Laughter to all the world.

Western man wrote "his" history as if it were the history of the entire human race.

The future is about a plant-based diet.

We have to undo the millions of little white lies that America told itself and the world about the American Black man.

Sunrise What is the name of the deep breath I would take over and over for all of us? Call it whatever you want, it is happiness, it is another one of the ways to enter fire.

Most of us came here in chains and most of you came here to escape your chains. Your freedom was our slavery, and therein lies the bitter difference in the way we look at life.

I want to be braver and more honest about my life. When you're sexually abused, there's a lot of damage.

WEEDS AND NETTLES, BRIARS AND THORNS, HAVE THRIVEN UNDER YOUR SHADOW, DISSETTLEMENT AND DIVISION, DISCONTENTMENT AND DISSATISFACTION, TOGETHER WITH REAL DANGERS TO THE WHOLE.