F. A. Harper Quotes

True politeness is to social life what oil is to machinery, a thing to oil the ruts and grooves of existence. False politeness can shine without warming and glitter without vivifying.

All that we can't say is all we need to hear.

I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.

There's no love like a lost love and no pain like a broken heart.

I believe that love expands. As you give love out, it's received and reciprocated and it grows. That's the beauty of it.

Canada appears content to become a second-tier socialistic country, boasting ever more loudly about its economy and social services to mask its second-rate status.

I'm more afraid of falling than I am of flying high. I'm not as scared of dying as I am of growing old. Every battle has its glory and its consequence.

Set your sights not just on the next few weeks ... set your sights on the years ahead - because our vision will look that far ahead.

Boo was our neighbor. He gave us two soap dolls, a broken watch and chain, a pair of good-luck pennies, and our lives.

It turns out that there is something more magnificent than nature. It's love.

You just hold your head high and keep those fists down. No matter what anybody says to you, don't you let 'em get your goat. Try fighting with your head for a change...

Sometimes the Bible in the hands of one man is worse than a whiskey bottle in the hands of another.

You rarely win, but sometimes you do.

I think because we're such a trading nation, I think Canadians understand that first and foremost we're part of the global economy.

There will always be crazy things that happen in our lives, but love is the central connector. If we commit to love and partnership, the other stuff doesnt matter.

Stop talking about tomorrow. You owe it to yourself to do whatever you can to live you can to live a better life today.

Try a recipe that uses leafy vegetables like kale, or switch to filling, high fiber grains like whole-wheat pasta.

I expect perfection from myself.

I think I play center field better than I do anywhere else. I have enough speed and enough reaction to know where the ball goes off the bat.

People say, "How do you write songs?" I say, "Patience." I may have a track that's hot, but no words. I'll just let it sit for years, because I know they're going to meet. They'll find it.

Mike Trout is unbelievable. He's one of the best players in baseball right now, if not the best.

Intense love is often akin to intense suffering.

I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand.

Change happens from the bottom up - all of us as individuals deciding that we will and we do have an impact.

Now...in an abundant society where people have laptops, cell phones, ipods and minds like empty rooms, I still plod along with books.

I believe that all taxes are bad.

My objectives are very limited. I want to do the best I can with the talent God gave me. I hope to goodness that every novel I do gets better and better, not worse and worse.

There's a lot of ugly things in this world, son. I wish I could keep 'em all away from you. That's never possible.

Believe in yourself, work hard, work smart and passionately present your best self to the world.

Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself.

Genetics do play a role in how you consciously or subconsciously manifest your true self.

Stand up and finish what you started

There's no finish line. That's a big pill for people to swallow, Every single day for the rest of your life, you are going to have to make better food choices, and move around a bit more.

Atheists say no one can prove the existence of God but I say no one can disprove that God exists I see God in everything I feel his presence everywhere to me I know that he exists.

Are you proud of yourself tonight that you have insulted a total stranger whose circumstances you know nothing about?

The responsibility to nightmare is to wake up.

There are some men in this world who are born to do our unpleasant jobs for us. Your father's one of them.

I'm gonna be a new kind of clown. I'm gonna stand in the middle of the ring and laugh at the folks.

Fundamentally, we all want the same thing. We want to love. We want to be loved, and we want to matter.

Characters make their own plot. The dimensions of the characters determine the action of the novel.

No man can feel the iron which enters another man's soul.

I think I'll be a clown when I get grown.... There ain't one thing in this world I can do about folks except laugh, so I'm gonna join the circus and laugh my head off.

Programming is an explanatory activity.

I'm not excusing crime or those who bring poison into the community, but I do want brothers and sisters in prison to know someone cares.

She knew full well the enormity of her offense, but because her desires were stronger than the code she was breaking, she persisted in breaking it.

We're paying the highest tribute you can pay a man. We trust him to do right. It's that simple.

I believe in the power of the human spirit.

It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.

Ladies pick funny things to be proud of.

Everybody’s gotta learn, nobody’s born knowing.