Harold Russell Quotes

It is not what you have lost but what you have left that counts.

Harold Russell

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• One of my other nicknames was Thomas Edison, because I invented so many moves.

  

  Earl Monroe
  • Many
  • Other
  • Edison

• I always felt that anorexia was the form of breakdown most readily available to adolescent girls.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • Always
  • Adolescent
  • Anorexia

• Music is universal too. Even deaf people like to dance, love rhythm, and can kind of pick it up.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • People
  • Up
  • Music

• When the movie starts playing on TV and DVD, that's when you really see what the movie is.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Movie
  • You
  • See

• Everyone asks me why someone Turkish is making Greek yogurt. In Greece, it is not called 'Greek yogurt.' Everywhere in the world it is called 'strained yogurt.' But because it was introduced in this country by a Greek company, they called it 'Greek yogurt.'

  

  Hamdi Ulukaya
  • World
  • Country
  • Me

• The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate.

  

  O. Henry
  • True
  • Fate
  • Unknown

• Believing you're something that you're not excites the mind and the imagination. And it's hopeful.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Mind
  • You
  • Imagination

• I just got sick of not being able to raise money for a movie - that's what happens, so I just made my own.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • Money
  • Movie
  • Sick

• My parents are my major supporters. I look up to Denzel Washington, Jack Nicholson and Jim Carrey. They have all opened my mind and helped me with my craft.

  

  Adam Hicks
  • Mind
  • Parents
  • Helped

• All forms of art are consciousness expanders, and I am convinced that they will take us further, and more consciously, than drugs.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
  • Art

• When I was one-and-twentyI heard him say again,'The heart out of the bosomWas never given in vain;'Tis paid with sighs a plentyAnd sold for endless rue.'And I am two-and-twentyAnd oh, 'tis true, 'tis true.

  

  A. E. Housman
  • Heart
  • True

• The greatest, strongest, mightiest plea for the church of God in the world is the existence of the Spirit of God in its midst, and the works of the Spirit of God are the true evidences of Christianity. They say miracles are withdrawn, but the Holy Spirit is the standing miracle of the church of God to-day.

  

  Charles Spurgeon
  • World
  • God
  • True

• When the hounds of spring are on winter's traces, The mother of months in meadow or plain Fills the shadows and windy places With lisp of leaves and ripple of rain.

  

  Algernon Charles Swinburne
  • Mother
  • Spring
  • Rain

• Teachers shape so much of what a kid's upbringing can be.

  

  Curtis Granderson

• Friends are thieves of time.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Time
  • Friends

• In school, I really felt like I didn't fit a type. I think everybody had a hard time putting me in a category. They all sort of realized, 'Hmm, you don't really look like a soprano. You're not really a character belter.'

  

  Jessie Mueller
  • Time
  • School
  • Character

• I tend to listen to the classical composers: Rachmaninov, Satie.

  

  Eithne Pádraigín Ní Bhraonáin

• If I'm going to work, hopefully I have a late call time, and can hang out with Rain and our nanny until we shoot.

  

  Marisol Nichols
  • Time
  • Work
  • Rain

• Longevity, for a columnist, is a simple proposition: Once you start, you don't stop. You do it until you die or can no longer put a sentence together. It has always been my intention to die at my desk, although my most cherished ambition is to outlive the estate tax.

  

  Charles Krauthammer
  • Together
  • Stop
  • Die

• I believe I could commit a crime. We all can. It depends on which situations we find ourselves in. In despair, I would steal food if my children were hungry.

  

  Karin Fossum
  • Believe
  • Children
  • Food

• I think what's really important is to challenge yourself. You can very easily fall into the rut of, 'We know it works! We'll use that old chestnut.'

  

  David Leitch
  • Important
  • Fall
  • Challenge

• One of the great liabilities of history is that all too many people fail to remain awake through great periods of social change.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • People
  • History
  • Social Change

• I think it's like a relay race. You run, and you hand over the baton, and your kids pick it up. They take the stuff they want, throw the rest away, and keep running. That's what life is about.

  

  Billy Crystal
  • Life
  • Up
  • Kids

• It is not what you have lost but what you have left that counts.

  

  Harold Russell
  • Life
  • Lost
  • Left