Chad Harbach Quotes

There are no whys in a person's life, and very few hows. In the end, in search of useful wisdom, you could only come back to the most hackneyed concepts, like kindness, forbearance, infinite patience. Solomon and Lincoln: This too shall pass. Damn right it will. Or Chekhov: Nothing passes. Equally true.

Chad Harbach

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• It was a good place for getting lost in, a city no one ever knew, a city explored from the neutral heart outward, until after many years, it defined itself into a jumble of clearings separated by stretches of the unknown, through which the narrowest of paths had been cut.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Good
  • Heart
  • Lost

• The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.

  

  Ulysses S. Grant
  • Art
  • War
  • Simple

• It is time which imparts strength to all things and brings them to maturity.

  

  Hippocrates
  • Time
  • Maturity

• Beauty is in the strangest places. A piece of garbage floating in the wind. And that beauty exists in America. It exists everywhere. You have to develop an eye for it and be able to see it.

  

  Alan Ball
  • America
  • Wind

• Thanks to my reading, I have never been caught flat-footed by any situation, never at a loss for how any problem has been addressed... It doesn't give me all the answers, but it lights what is often a dark path ahead.

  

  James Mattis
  • Reading
  • Dark
  • Path

• I have to look at myself in the mirror and tell myself that I'm beautiful, even if I don't necessarily believe it.

  

  Alex Morgan
  • Believe
  • Beautiful
  • Mirror

• The only honest reaction and true loyalty that we get is from our animals.

  

  Dick Van Patten
  • True
  • Loyalty

• After President Obama took office, his campaign book 'The Audacity of Hope' receded into his past fast. Its sweet, naive, bipartisan 'let's reason together' passages fell away, too.

  

  John Dickerson
  • Book
  • Together
  • Hope

• I'd earned over a million dollars by the time I was old enough to vote.

  

  Brian Wilson
  • Time
  • Enough
  • Vote

• Professional people make everything look perfect, they make everything that you're wearing look great, if it's in a picture or on the runway.

  

  Alessandra Ambrosio
  • People
  • Great
  • Perfect

• To be with a man who hasn't tried every line, who hasn't broken up with a woman every which way you can break up with them, is kind of nice.

  

  Uma Thurman
  • Up
  • Men
  • Nice

• Love will fly if held too lightly Love will die if held too tightly . . .

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Love
  • Die
  • Fly

• As a citizen, and as the state's lawyer, I believe in an evolving Constitution. A flexible Constitution leaves room for us to consider not merely how the world once was, but how it ought to be.

  

  Eliot Spitzer
  • World
  • Believe
  • Lawyer

• To create the protection for the corporations, government is actually growing bigger than ever before, in every part of the world. Yet it’s growing extremely thin as a protector of people.

  

  Vandana Shiva
  • People
  • World
  • Growing

• Humans are born curious, creative, and intuitive.

  

  Ken Robinson
  • Humans
  • Curious
  • Intuitive

• We all have a stake in the battle against Ebola.

  

  Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
  • Battle
  • Stakes
  • Ebola

• I hate it. It looks like a stickup at 7-Eleven. Five guys standing there with their hands in the air.

  

  Norm Sloan
  • Hate
  • Hands
  • Guys

• The diversity of India cannot thrive on facile attempts to create the homogeneous category of "Indian." Nor can it thrive on dubious attempts to gloss over xenophobic provincialism or a highly culpable state-sponsored marginalization of a minority community.

  

  Nyla Ali Khan
  • Community
  • Diversity
  • India

• Today we take New England clam chowder as something traditional that makes our roots as American cooking very solid, with a lot of foundation. But the first person who decided to mix potatoes and clams and bacon and cream, in his own way 100 to 200 years ago, was a modernist.

  

  Jose Andres
  • American
  • Today
  • Cooking

• Every person in the organization must change inside their hearts and minds, so that they themselves become principle centred.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Mind
  • Heart
  • Vision

• There are no whys in a person's life, and very few hows. In the end, in search of useful wisdom, you could only come back to the most hackneyed concepts, like kindness, forbearance, infinite patience. Solomon and Lincoln: This too shall pass. Damn right it will. Or Chekhov: Nothing passes. Equally true.

  

  Chad Harbach
  • Persons
  • Kindness
  • Infinite