Ed Harris Quotes
Over this odd world, this half the world that's dark now, I have to hunt a thing that lives on tears.
Memories and loneliness look backward, fear looks around, but faith always looks forward.
The best combination of parents consists of a father who is gentle beneath his firmness, and a mother who is firm beneath her gentleness.
Golf requires only a few simple Rules and Regulations to guide the players in the true nature of its sporting appeal. The spirit of the game is its own referee.
Probably the most distinctive characteristic of the successful politician is selective cowardice.
We want to stay on the straight and narrow path and serve God, yet we continue a practice that often pulls us in the wrong direction.
The habit of spending nearly every waking moment lost in thought leaves us at the mercy of whatever our thoughts happen to be. Meditation is a way of breaking this spell.
Nuclear war is inevitable, says the pessimists; Nuclear war is impossible, says the optimists; Nuclear war is inevitable unless we make it impossible, says the realists.
The reason that truth is stranger than fiction is that fiction has to have a rational thread running through it in order to be believable, whereas reality may be totally irrational.
Meditation suffers from a towering PR problem.… If you can get past the cultural baggage, though, what you’ll find is that meditation is simply exercise for your brain.
New material demands new methods, and new methods fling a challenge to old convention.
Our world is fast succumbing to the activities of men and women who would stake the future of our species on beliefs that should not survive an elementary school education.
We truly possess only what we are able to renounce; otherwise, we are simply possessed by our possessions.
The commonest fallacy among women is that simply having children makes them a mother - which is as absurd as believing that having a piano makes one a musician.
Good teaching must be slow enough so that it is not confusing, and fast enough so that it is not boring.
Honesty consists of the unwillingness to lie to others; maturity, which is equally hard to attain, consists of the unwillingness to lie to oneself.
We can often endure an extra pound of pain far more easily than we can suffer the withdrawal of an ounce of accustomed pleasure.
It is time that scientists and other public intellectuals observed that the contest between faith and reason is zero-sum.
The art of living consists in knowing which impulses to obey and which must be made to obey.
Actors need steely determination. It's a tough profession with plenty of knocks along the way. You have to be very determined and never take 'no' for an answer.
Never let your fears be the boundaries of your dreams. Happiness is a direction, not a place.
With Donald Trump, you know, what I would tell you is that he's got shelf life like I never would have guessed.
For the arts epitomize, intensify and clarify the experience of beauty for us as nothing else can.
The core of science is not a mathematical modeling--it is intellectual honesty. It is a willingness to have our certainties about the world constrained by good evidence and good argument.
Being yourself is not remaining what you were, or being satisfied with what you are. It is the point of departure and far from the goal.
I do feel a little embarrassed and ashamed that I was sort of saying, "Oh, yes, I used to do country music, but I didn't inhale." Which is not true at all. I inhaled the hell out of country music.
Perseverance is the most overrated of traits, if it is unaccompanied by talent; beating your head against a wall is more likely to produce a concussion in the head than a hole in the wall.