J.V. Hart Quotes

It is thus more potent, as well as more economical, to disarm the enemy than to attempt his destruction by hard fighting ... A strategist should think in terms of paralysing, not of killing.

All men have the stars, but they are not the same things for different people.

The one reality you can't evade is personal experience.

The amount of "followers" you have does not make you better than anyone else. Hitler had millions. Jesus had twelve.

Love is always real, even when it doesn’t last.

Very important to celebrate victories, however tiny, I always say.

Are you willing to go the extra mile in this new year to know God?

God didn't give Adam and Eve the right to decide what was good and evil. He gave them the right to choose between good and evil.

Time is the most valuable commodity we have, worth more than gold, yet wasted more than all else. Efficient use of time begins with prayer.

Almost anything can be funny if said the right way - but it has to be said the right way.

The one thing about the business of entertainment is that you have to learn patience.

Jealousy smells like the water in the bottom of a flower vase after the flowers have died.

The nature of faith, I think, is based so much on one's capacity for hope for those whom you love.

You need to know that even as life develops in superficially disappointing ways, there is still fun to be had.

To appear unambitious amongst the ambitious is to invite loathing or fear. To be in the game, but not playing with intent to win, is to be the enemy.

Those who do not have imaginary conversations do not love.

The funny thing is, all my friends are short. I wasn't aware of tall people till I got to high school. I didn't know they existed. I was sheltered.

All damaged people are dangerous. Survival makes them so.' 'Why?' 'Because they have no pity. They know what others can survive, as they did.

I'll always have to force myself to see the positive, because I'm wired badly, I'd say. I'm just naturally a bit under, a bit depressed.

I don't care how busy I am - I will always make time for what's most important to me.

I don't think you get successful to brag and throw what you have in the world's face. That's all private.

You've got to put yourself in positions to take away what can be said.

My success comes in making fun of whatever you're doing. That's my way.

Before I look stupid and not know what a word means or how to pronounce it, I'll stop the whole production, "Hey, real quick, guys. Define this word for me. Somebody."

When you're in love, love makes you do crazy things, and can take you down a whirlwind of a road.

HartBeat Productions is a company established by me; it's mine. I run it. I have employees.

[The essences of things] are suspended on the invisible dimension whose vibrance has been denied the human eye at all times save in the intuition of ecstasy.

One must be drenched in words, literally soaked in them.

Stars scribble on our eyes the frosty sagas, The gleaming cantos of unvanquished space. (Cape Hatteras

There is nothing like tasting the grit of fear for rediscovering that the umbilical cord is made of piano wire.

The frivolity with which all theatrical activity is conducted has one consoling feature-there are no rules of behavior that apply regularly to any part of the theatre.

I'm trying to maintain a level of realness that my fans can appreciate.

There's so many documentaries out there right now and everything's exposing wrestling.

Foolish. Stupid. I knew it. I knew my reaction was unreasonable, bu the heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing. Blaise Pascal said that, and I've always found it to be true.

It's kind of an art, going out and performing. I'd like fans to remember me as a guy who would go out and entertain them, give them quality matches, and not just the same old garbage every week.

Evidence for or against God, if it is there, saturates every moment of the experience of existence, every employment of reason, every act of consciousness, every encounter with the world around us.

The world is unable to provide any account of its own actuality, and yet there it is all the same.

It's a real man who can go out with a woman who's taller than he is. That's an alpha male right there.

Stress will either drive you crazy or drive you to your knees. It depends on who is in control of your life.

True holiness is not achieved by what we do, but what we allow God to do in us.

The theatre breeds its own kind of cruelty, and its sadism takes on a keener edge since it can be enjoyed under the innocent guise of critical judgment.

The military weapon is but one of the means that serve the purposes of war: one out of the assortment which grand strategy can employ.

The unexpected cannot guarantee success, but it guarantees the best chance of success.

Charity in the theater begins and ends with those who have a play opening within a week of one's own.

Reconciliation is the fastest way to change your life.

In reality, it si more fruitful to wound than to kill. While the dead man lies still, counting only one man less, the wounded man is a progressive drain upon his side.

It's been a few days since I've seen my kids. My hearts racing; I can't wait to hold them. This is just a glimpse into God's heart at Mass.

I'm at my 3 year-olds year-end concert. It's full of very off-key, mostly unfocused children, but this father is still beaming. Must be how God feels on Sunday.

When everything changes we learn who we really are. What’s really important. What we want most. We discover the truth in moments of disarray.

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