Hugh Quotes

I think classical music tuition is, well, was when I was a child, was an abomination. I think in some ways it is one of life's great tragedies for everybody who gives up an instrument.

I think the Playboy philosophy is very, very connected to the American dream.

A whole mind cannot create chaos. A conflicted mind can create nothing else.

I got married before I found myself. People should find themselves before they get married.

The poorest ploughman is in Christ equal with the greatest prince that is. Let them therefore have sufficient to maintain them.

I don't think any musician ever thinks about making a statement. I think everybody goes into music loving it.

If you are to be among the noble you must be noble. If you are to be among the wise, you must be wise, if you would be among the pure in heart, you must be pure in heart.

Friendship cannot become permanent unless it becomes spiritual. There must be fellowship in the deepest things of the soul, community in the highest thoughts, sympathy with the best endeavors.

Let us not forget that we can never go farther than we can persuade at least half of the people to go.

Don't fight a fact, deal with it.

Thou shalt not kill; but needst not strive officiously to keep alive.

He spends his life explaining from his pulpit that the glory of Christianity consists in the fact that though it is not true it has been found necessary to invent it.

It's a holy city for music.

Even in the darkness, his smile threw shadows.

You can only expand your capacities by working to the very limit

The gas-law of learning: . . . any amount of information no matter how small will fill any intellectual void no matter how large.

The Book of Mormon is an inexhaustible encyclopedia of knowledge.

Support your friends - even in their mistakes. But be clear, however, that it is the friend and not the mistake you are supporting.

Even should it be conclusively proved that human beings benefit directly from the suffering of animals, its infliction would nevertheless be unethical and wrong.

Addresses are given to us to conceal our whereabouts.

Happiness is the twinkle in your grandmother's eye as you reverse the tractor off her legs.

You know everyone loves to be the villain.

Life is also a mixture of unsolved problems, ambiguous victories and vague defeats-with very few moments of clear peace.

I didn't want to repeat my parents life. I saw in their lives a routine and a lack of dreaming, a lack of the possibilities, a lack of passion. And I didn't want to live without passion.

Nobody suddenly discovers anything. Thing are made slowly and in pain.

We're entering a bionic era where we actually are beginning to see technology that's sophisticated enough to emulate key physiological functions.

A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation.

Play the man, Mastre Ridley; we shall this day light such a cndle, by God's grace in England, as I trust shall never be put out.

If my attention is wandering, there is somewhere it wants to go, so obviously it does not want to be where I am holding it in the name of some self-styled obligation.

Instead of setting goals, seek defining moments. Those are the real tests, because you have to be willing to fail in a pressure situation in front of other people.

My grandmother was utterly convinced I'd wind up as the Archbishop of Canterbury. And, to be honest, I've never entirely ruled it out.

I'm an actor who believes we all have triggers to any stage of emotion. It's not always easy to find but it's still there.

But one of the most fantastic things about Ireland and Dublin is that the pubs are like Paris and the cafe culture. And Dublin, in many ways, is a pub culture.

Don't play for safety - it's the most dangerous thing in the world.

I think that retirement is the first step towards the grave.

All Sacred Scriptures is but one book, and that one book is Christ, because all divine Scripture speaks of Christ, and all divine Scripture is fulfilled in Christ.

I just don't believe in love at first sight any more, even though I've based my whole career on the concept.

The cat is domestic only as far as suits its own ends.

Every way of life produces its own environment and in turn is influenced by that environment.

Women and elephants never forget an injury.

It's women who have embraced their own sexuality, it's why women wear makeup, it's why they wear high heels. It's what civilization is all about.

I truly believe that age - if you're healthy - age is just a number.

To say, my fate is not tied to your fate, is like saying your end of the boat is sinking.

Pain is an event. It happens to you, and you deal with it in whatever way you can.

Actually, I can't imagine anything more tedious than a perfect person, especially if it was someone who also demanded perfection from me.

There is only one immutable law in life - in a gentleman's toilet, incoming traffic has the right of way.

A thing well done is worth doing.

I'd love to retire somewhere like Winchester, where you have one foot on the pavement but a sense of being in the country as well.

[The evidence from cosmology] determines that the cause of the universe is functionally equivalent to the God of the Bible, a Being beyond the matter, energy, space, and time of the cosmos.

Saviour! teach me, day by day, Love's sweet lesson to obey; Sweeter lesson cannot be, Loving Him who first loved me. Charity is the very livery of Christ.