Will Harvey Quotes

If we act like prey, they’ll act like predators

The fact is that more people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single reason. That, that my friends, that is true perversion!

I was head over heels, now I just see my heel in your head

Ironically your greatest spiritual asset is what appears to be your greatest obstacle: your obsession with yourself. Today we live in the age of individualism. – Richard Harvey

There was a family joke that Lucy's first words were, "Nicholas is bugging me!

I couldn't convince her that if I had a book with me, I wasn't lonely.

Civilization has provided no peace, no spectacle, no assurance to the human heart which can transcend the simple, ever-changing, matchless beauty and peace of the natural world

Words rarely answer what the heart suffers, but there is a God who does.

People become successful the minute they decide to.

When my children complain that I'm forgetful, I remind them that DAD is just ADD spelled sideways.

Nationalism and ethnic pride, in the long run, delay human development, and the misery they cause must be recognized. If enough people saw that, maybe we wouldn't have so many wars.

A man is only as common as his dreams.

Don't water your weeds

You must read to lead. Reading feeds. It opens our souls to a long line of counselors.

If you put a smile on someones face, it was a good day.

I propose that the forces of corporate totalitarianism are deliberately destroying this entire world in order to sell their simulated version of it back to us at a profit.

Very possibly this was the night my white-knight complex, as Solange put it, would get me killed. Someone had better write a poem about it. It was only fair.

Give me a literary love that doesn't need words, that flows like silent water and speaks to the bone. There I lose myself in the fantasy.

Harvey Dent: You either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain.

He was a man with a chest, and he wanted to give thoughtful expression to the passion of his heart.

With great hotness comes great responsibility.

What kind of a day was it? A day like all others, that alters and illuminates our times. And you were there.

What's the matter with you?" I hissed at her as we followed Kieran and Solange inside.'She's royalty!'"And a vampire, remember?"'Oh yeah, ' Chloe paused. 'Nope, princess trumps vampire.

We can't, it seems, live without [capitalism] even as we complain about it.

Myrtle Mae, you have a lot to learn, and I hope you never learn it.

Everything in Scripture is either preparation for the Gospel, presentation of the Gospel, or participation in the Gospel.

His work was defined by emphasis on the subversiveness philosophy, which asks questions, as opposed to the self-satisfaction of politics, which believes it has answers and insists on them.

Yeah.You got me through

There comes a time in every Salome's life when she should no longer be dropping the last veil.

We rarely recognize the extent to which human happiness requires struggle.

It didn't matter what I wore, or how much sleep I'd had or not had, he always looked at me as if his world began and ended with me.

The common-sense notion that 'There is a time and place for everything' gets carried into a set of prescriptions which replicate the social order by assigning social meanings to spaces and times.

Dreaming is free.

Don’t shoot what it looks like. Shoot what it feels like.

Good God! how should the mitral valves prevent the regurgitation of air and not of blood?

We must learn to accept life and to accept ourselves ... with a shrug and a smile ... because it's all we've got.

Fear of success can also be tied into the idea that success means someone else's loss. Some people are unconsciously guilty because they believe their victories are coming at the expense of another.

If you deny yourself commitment what can you do with your life?

Greatness in the last analysis is largely bravery-courage in escaping from old ideas and old standards.

Every man treats himself as society treats the criminal.

The important thing is not that we can live on hope alone but that life is not worth living without it.

Find something you love to do and you'll never have to work a day in your life.

Of course people are afraid. But honestly facing that fear seeing it for what it is is the only way of putting it to rest.

In times like these it helps to recall that there have always been times like these.

We find it hard to believe that other people's thoughts are as silly as our own but they probably are.

It takes no compromising to give people their rights. It takes no money to respect the individual. It takes no survey to remove repressions.

Every time I do a movie like 'Finding Neverland' or 'Chocolat' or 'Shakespeare' in Love, ' we deal with the creative process, but there's humor and fun along the way. I always love that kind of movie.

Golf is a game in which you yell 'fore, ' shoot six, and write down five.

I worked every day - Christmas Eve, birthdays - trying to become a great basketball player. Everywhere I went, I had a basketball.

Umpires are necessary evils. That's just the nature of the beast. For years, people have looked on umpiring as a job they could get any postman to do.