H.P. Oliver Quotes

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

On poetry: Everyone wants to know what it means. But nobody is asking, How does it feel?

Always there is something worth saying about glory, about gratitude.

There were times over the years when life was not easy, but if you're working a few hours a day and you've got a good book to read, and you can go outside to the beach and dig for clams, you're okay.

Man has will, but woman has her way.

The past which is not recoverable in any other way is embedded, as if in amber, in the music, and people can regain a sense of identity.

You can love someone like your son, even if he's not your biological son, and you can love someone like your father, even if he's not your biological father.

All eternity is in the moment.

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

Theory is the essence of facts. Without theory scientific knowledge would be only worthy of the madhouse.

The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.

If some people got their rights they would complain of being deprived of their wrongs.

To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work.

When it's over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement. I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms.

Waking consciousness is dreaming – but dreaming constrained by external reality

Music evokes emotion and emotion can bring it's memory.

It's better to dance like a fool, than to stand around like an idiot.

Congratulations, Congress! 77% disapproval rating! You may be about to become the English language's most offensive C-word.

Being a Mets fan is like lending someone a lot of money and you just know that you'll never get paid back.

It's pretty physically unsettling, living life on a visa.

I do think a carpenter needs a good hammer to bang in the nail.

I have made many serious statements - I just can't remember any of them. I guess they mustn't have been very important.

Hearts are fragile things. That's why you have to be so careful.

Please understand. Please forgive me. I prayed every day for you to be alive, until hope became painful. Don't hate me. I still love you.

Retreat, hell! We're not retreating, we're just advancing in a different direction.

I would not trade you a billion dollars for the kids I led to combat in Vietnam or in fact any of the Marines that I served with for a quarter of a century.

The terrorists that we are up against today do not rely upon cell phones and SAT phones and emails. They rely on couriers. You cannot intercept what a courier is telling somebody

We lie by not telling you things...We don't lie by telling you things that aren't true.

If I play, I try to concentrate on producing my best.

You don't need people's opinion on a fact.

Apologizing - a very desperate habit - one that is rarely cured. Apology is only egotism wrong side out.

The pregnant quarry teem'd with human form.

History, in other words, is just a device to be used by well-paid boobherds to drive the American cattle in bovine content to their pastures or to the abattoir.

Eloquence may set fire to reason.

Hope, like the gleaming taper's light, Adorns and cheers our way; And still, as darker grows the night, Emits a brighter ray.

I think food culture is always evolving, and there will constantly be people looking both forward and back. That's what makes it exciting.

Taxes are the price we pay for a civilized society.

We can know a lot. And still, no doubt, there are rash and wonderful ideas brewing somewhere; there are many surprises yet to come.

There is no time like the old time, when you and I were young!

Have you ever seen a really good chocolate dish & women? It affects women not like men. It’s incredible.

Very young children love and demand stories, and can understand complex matters presented as stories, when their powers of comprehending general concepts, paradigms, are almost nonexistent.

The greatest act of faith is when a man understands he is not God.

Of praise a mere glutton, he swallow'd what came, And the puff a dunce, he mistook it for fame; Till his relish grown callous, almost to displease, Who pepper'd the highest was surest to please.

I tell you this to break your heart, by which I mean only that it break open and never close again to the rest of the world.

Mr. President, no one is saying you broke any laws, we're just saying it's a little bit weird you didn't have to.

The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius.

I feel a sudden clear focus and perspective. There is no time for anything inessential.

It takes me several days, after I get back to Boston, to realize that the reference "the president" refers to the president of Harvard and not to a minor official in Washington.

And I do not want anymore to be useful, to be docile, to lead / children out of the fields into the text / of civility, to teach them that they are (they are not) better than the grass.

Snow was falling, so much like stars filling the dak trees that one could easily imagine its reason for being was nothing more the prettiness.