J. J. Hardy Quotes

Did it never strike your mind that what every woman says, some women may feel?

My eyes were dazed by you for a little, and that was all.

It was still early, and the sun's lower limb was just free of the hill, his rays, ungenial and peering, addressed the eye rather than the touch as yet.

When yellow lights struggle with blue shades in hairlike lines.

...our impulses are too strong for our judgement sometimes

The biggest difference between successful people and unsuccessful people is that successful people are willing to do what unsuccessful people are not.

It’s time to WAKE UP and make empowering choices.

The path to success is through a continuum of mundane, unsexy, unexciting, and sometimes difficult daily disciplines compounded over time

317 is a prime, not because we think so, or because our minds are shaped in one way rather than another, but because it is so, because mathematical reality is built that way.

A science is said to be useful if its development tends to accentuate the existing inequalities in the distribution of wealth, or more directly promotes the destruction of human life.

Exposition, criticism, appreciation, is work for second-rate minds.

The fact is there are few more popular subjects than mathematics. Most people have some appreciation of mathematics, just as most people can enjoy a pleasant tune.

In the cathedral of my heart a candle will always be lit for you.

The Afghan War has clearly reached a stage similar to that moment at your child's party where you realise you've forgotten to give the other parents a pick up time.

The only way you can ever accuse a Conservative of hypocrisy is if they walk past a homeless person without kicking him in the face.

You can inherit male-pattern baldness from your mother's father, but not a tendency to fight in the First World War.

War makes good history but peace is poor reading.

Ladies know what to guard against, because they read novels that tell them of these tricks.

It is rarely that the pleasures of the imagination will compensate for the pain of sleeplessness.

Let me enjoy the earth no less because the all-enacting light that fashioned forth its loveliness had other aims than my delight.

I agree to the conditions, Angel; because you know best what my punishment ought to be; only - only - don't make it more than I can bear!

Where we are would be Paradise to me, if you would only make it so.

She was of the stuff of which great men's mothers are made. She was indispensable to high generation, hated at tea parties, feared in shops, and loved at crises.

Sometimes I shrink from your knowing what I have felt for you, and sometimes I am distressed that all of it you will never know.

Black chaos comes, and the fettered gods of the earth say, Let there be light.

War makes rattling good history.

Dialect words are those terrible marks of the beast to the truly genteel.

He knelt and bent lower, till her breath warmed his face, and in a moment his cheek was in contact with hers. She was sleeping soundly, and upon her eyelashes there lingered tears.

I hate publicists and publicity. But I love the people.

I like to be other people, not me. And when you're on the red carpet, it's like, 'Here's Tom Hardy.' I don't want to be me. That's why I play other people.

I'm into parlor dramas. I'm into theatre. I'm trained for the stage. I trained to do Chekhov and Shakespeare, I was trained for the stage.

There's an abundance of exposure when you start working in American films. Inevitably you become a brand and that has to be controlled.

I had a huge imagination. My granddad says I was a bit of a Walter Mitty character.

The rise of Islam offers perhaps the most impressive example in world history of the power of words to alter human behavior in sudden, surprising ways.

It appears that ordinary men take wives because possession is not possible without marriage, and that ordinary women accept husbands because marriage is not possible without possession

And as long as you’re making choices unconsciously, you can’t consciously choose to change that ineffective behavior and turn it into productive habits.

The best-dressed woman is one whose clothes wouldn't look too strange in the country.

For any serious purpose, intelligence is a very minor gift.

No one has yet discovered any warlike purpose to be served by the theory of numbers or relativity, and it seems unlikely that anyone will do so for many years.

No one really expects me to do anything offensively. But I expect a little more.

Northern Ireland is part of Ireland, not Britain, as can clearly be seen from aerial photographs.

Most harm is done by people who are awake.

Capitalism is a great idea in theory, but in practice it just doesn't work.

If a path to the better there be, it begins with a full look at the worst.

- the ethereal, fine-nerved, sensitive girl, quite unfitted by temperament and instinct to fulfil the conditions of the matrimonial relation with Phillotson, possibly with scarce any man.

We ought to have lived in mental communion, and no more.

Indifference to fate which, though it often makes a villain of a man, is the basis of his sublimity when it does not.

I am the family face; flesh perishes, I live on, projecting trait and trace through time to times anon, and leaping from place to place over oblivion.

They spoke very little of their mutual feeling; pretty phrases and warm expressions being probably unnecessary between such tried friends.

...he seemed to approach the grave as an hyperbolic curve approaches a line, less directly as he got nearer, till it was doubtful if he would ever reach it at all.