H. Rider Haggard Quotes

Laughter and bitterness are often the veils with which a sore heart wraps its weakness from the world.

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• It is one of the ironies of the ministry that the very man who works in God's name is often hardest put to find time for God. The parents of Jesus lost Him at church, and they were not the last ones to lose Him there.

  

  Vance Havner
  • Time
  • God
  • Parents

• Pity is the deadliest feeling that can be offered to a woman.

  

  Vicki Baum
  • Feeling
  • Woman
  • Pity

• I think one of the great things about being a musician is that you never stop learning.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Great
  • Think
  • Stop

• Leaders should always expect the very best of those around them. They know that people can change and grow.

  

  Warren Bennis
  • People
  • Change
  • Best

• In the final analysis this congressional race is always going to be a close race, whether there's a presidential race or governor's race or not. But is this a better year? Yes, this would probably be a better year.

  

  Baron Hill
  • Better
  • Year
  • Presidential

• Maybe some people that only listen to electronic music will pick up my record and get turned on to some of the story songs, some of the more country-type stuff.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • People
  • Up
  • Music

• So, it's like: I'm an OK singer; I'm an OK guitar player and you put them together and... it's just OK.

  

  Callie Thorne
  • Together
  • You
  • Player

• I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.

  

  Patrick Wang
  • Time
  • Find
  • Strange

• I'm evangelical.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Evangelical

• It's easier to rip somebody to shreds while you're making them laugh.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • You
  • Laugh
  • Easier

• Writing is always a restorative process. It's like paddling a kayak. When you're writing, you can't do anything else. You're in the space you're in. So, in that way, it's enormously centering and restorative.

  

  Tabitha King
  • Writing
  • Space
  • Process

• In any case, his judgment and set of values, acting alone or through his assistants, determine not only what is gold and what is dross but the design of the history which he creates out of the metal. The historian decides what is significant, and what is not.

  

  Samuel E. Morison
  • History
  • Alone
  • Design

• My music is bejewelled, it's colourful, it's romantic, it shines.

  

  Carly Rae Jepsen
  • Music
  • Romantic
  • Shines

• Saving enough to retire has become impossible for most Americans.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Enough
  • Impossible
  • Most

• I think New York audiences are some of the brightest in the world, and certainly the most enthusiastic.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • World
  • Think
  • New York

• For all its terrible faults, in one sense America is still the last, best hope of mankind, because it spells out so vividly the kind of happiness that most people actually want, regardless of what they are told they ought to want.

  

  Ferdinand Mount
  • People
  • America
  • Hope

• Frankly, right is right and wrong is wrong, particularly when a parent is talking to a child. A bright line around moral responsibility is very important.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Jr.
  • Important
  • Responsibility
  • Moral

• I've done more than 70 auditions in about four years. Early on, it was hard for me because I'd become so attached to these characters, and then you'd be told, 'No.' I'd get very upset when I was younger. But now it comes with the territory.

  

  Olivia DeJonge
  • Done
  • Me
  • Early

• The spectator, we might put it, contracts by infection the characteristic disease of the actor, the attenuation of selfhood that results from impersonation.

  

  Lionel Trilling

• In the evening you hear the scream of bats,

  

  Georg Trakl

• My interest is in making sure we‘ve got the kind of comprehensive energy policy that can bring down gas prices. If, in order to get that passed, we have to compromise in terms of a careful, well-thought out oil strategy that was carefully circumscribed to avoid significant environmental damage. I don't want to be so rigid that we can't get something done.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Done
  • Energy

• It is the consistency of the information that matters for a good story, not its completeness. Indeed, you will often find that knowing little makes it easier to fit everything you know into a coherent pattern.

  

  Daniel Kahneman
  • Good
  • Consistency

• Time travel may be achieved one day, or it may not. But if it is, it should not require any fundamental change in world-view, at least for those who broadly share the world view I am presenting in this book.

  

  David Deutsch
  • Time
  • World
  • May

• Laughter and bitterness are often the veils with which a sore heart wraps its weakness from the world.

  

  H. Rider Haggard
  • World
  • Heart
  • Laughter