Harry Hay Quotes

I always say to people, "If you share my dream, why don't we walk together?" And that's my only organizing tool.

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• Medicine, anything academic, is a very Persian Iranian route to take in life, in one's career.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • Life
  • Career
  • Medicine

• I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • Painting
  • New York
  • Paris

• The problem with rich lists is... it is impossible to know what someone is worth until they have died and you have sold it.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Problem
  • Impossible
  • Rich

• You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Long
  • Book
  • Happiness

• Take your average couscous salad, and it's almost always a sloppy mush, no matter how much attention has gone into getting flavours in there.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Attention
  • Always
  • Salad

• India may be a land of over a 100 problems, but it is also a place for a billion solutions.

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
  • May
  • Problems
  • Place

• It was necessary to have an even depth of corn on the top compared to the sides, so the air would not take the easiest route and not evenly dry the stored corn.

  

  Orville Redenbacher
  • Air
  • Take
  • Sides

• To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Life
  • View
  • Too Much

• I never publicise in advance what I'm going to be singing because I never quite know until I start. I often change my mind halfway through. I sometimes throw in stuff about politics or Shakespeare or do songs in Yiddish.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Mind
  • Change
  • Singing

• They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad that I'm going to miss mine by just a few days.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • People
  • Me
  • Nice

• Enhance and intensify one's vision of that synthesis of truth and beauty which is the highest and deepest reality.

  

  Ovid
  • Truth
  • Reality
  • Vision

• Netweaver was going to be the number one middleware player in the world. We heard about Netweaver day and night. Oracle became number one. No one talks about Netweaver.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • World
  • Night
  • Day

• I've evolved, but I'm the same dude, I'm just in a different place. We all change, we all grow. I shouldn't be in the same place that I was 30 years ago; I should be more intelligent, you know.

  

  Ice T
  • Different
  • Change
  • Intelligent

• I would argue that religion comes from a desire to get to the questions of, 'Where do we come from?' and 'How shall we live?' And I would say I don't need religion to answer those questions.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Live
  • Desire
  • Religion

• The transformation of human consciousness through meditation is frustrated, as long as we think of it in terms as something that I, my self can bring about. because it leads to endless games of spiritual oneupmanship, and Guru competitions.

  

  Alan Watts
  • Long
  • Spiritual
  • Meditation

• He had at last discovered that love had no pith in it, and that the projection of one own's feelings upon the images of a beloved was in the long run, an act of self-mutilation.

  

  Lawrence Durrell
  • Long

• Passion provides purpose, but data drives decisions.

  

  Andy Dunn
  • Passion
  • Purpose

• The people in Dominica and the small communities where I were had no idea who I was, and there's no better security than that.

  

  James Douglas
  • People
  • Small

• I try to write catchy hooks but, at the same time, things that mean something that will provoke thought.

  

  Grace Martine Tandon
  • Time

• Some people have a misunderstanding about the Army. Some people think, 'Hey, you're in the military, and everything is super-hierarchical, and you're in an environment that is intolerable of criticism, and people don't want frank assessments.' I think the opposite is the case.

  

  H. R. McMaster
  • People
  • Think
  • Environment

• Why is everybody afraid of going to Heaven? You want to be here with the smog and the sin and bad people and the war? Or do you want to be in Heaven, sitting next to Jesus, you know?

  

  Drew Carey
  • People
  • Why
  • War

• My favorite thing about Los Angeles is there are businesses that you can call, and they will deliver groceries to your house.

  

  Blake Shelton
  • House

• Remorse: beholding heaven and feeling hell.

  

  George A. Moore
  • Feeling
  • Heaven

• I always say to people, "If you share my dream, why don't we walk together?" And that's my only organizing tool.

  

  Harry Hay
  • People
  • Dream