F. A. Harper Quotes

I believe very strongly that in this world you have to have values and you have to stand up for your interests and if you don't do those things you're not going to get anywhere.

If it comes out sounding like Dixieland jazz or classical or punk or rock or even slightly metal, that's because that's where I'm going to find inspiration.

I'm painfully middle class.

I refuse to age disgracefully in rock 'n' roll.

I refuse to make uninspired music.

Rest assured, as long as I am alive any book purporting to be with my cooperation is a falsehood.

But sometimes we have to make the best of things, and the way we conduct ourselves when the chips are down.

A friend told me he'd risen above jazz. I leave him there.

You can live a healthy lifestyle and do the best to be aware of your body and conscious, and thats what I attempt to do.

You need a good support system when you're trying to make positive lifestyle changes. If everyone is eating burgers and fries while you're having fish and salad, it's easy to lose your willpower.

Sometimes it’s better to bend the law a little in special cases.

That boy is your company. And if he wants to eat up that tablecloth, you let him, you hear?

Housework is like cleaning fish. No matter how often you do it, it still stinks.

If you're gonna live, then live it up. If you're gonna give, then give it up. If you're gonna walk the Earth, then walk it proud. If you're gonna say the word, you got to say it loud.

Remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.

Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason for us not to try to win.

Millions for defense but not a cent for tribute.

I want to try to be who I am today, not who I was yesterday.

I've always been clear, I support the traditional definition of marriage.

Why didn't someone tell me that I can become a Christian and settle the doubts afterward?

The good news is at this point as I get older, the load has gotten heavier but my shoulders have gotten wider because I've gotten happier so it's a damn good thing.

I'm still old-fashioned. I love dusty old books and libraries.

Id just like to prove to myself that Im all here and all together and can get the best out of myself. Id also like to prove that to a couple of other people.

If you're gonna live, then live it up.

My head works in music, so there's always music there.

It's the idea that we just have to go along, we can't change it, things won't change. I think that's the sad part, the sad reality traditional parties have bred in parts of Atlantic Canada.

We've got to see a state where the Afghan government can handle its own day-to-day security.

If Ottawa giveth, then Ottawa can taketh away.

The majority has no right to impose its religion on the rest. That's a tradition as sacred as the Constitution itself to this country.

A candle throws its light into the darkness, in a nasty world so shines a good deed. Make sure the fortune that you seek is the fortune that you need.

Nothin’s real scary except in books.

I've read a number of relationship books out there. A lot are written towards women.

In some ways, I lament the introduction of civilisation on such a huge scale, because it has given us a lot of room to abuse each other, which we continue to do.

I love being athletic and doing things that are active, even when I'm traveling.

I don't know all the facts on Iraq, but I think we should work closely with the Americans.

Writing is something you'll never learn in any university or at any school. It's something that is within you, and if it isn't there, nothing can put it there.

I appreciate that something I've done has found a safe place to land.

I say guilt, gentlemen, because it was guilt that motivated her. She has committed no crime, she has merely broken a rigid and time-honored code of our society.

Some things You have to let be lost Some battles, some battles You have to leave unfought. Then the truth just wastes away In all we dare not say. And in all we can't explain But I faithfully remain.

Jen and I were accustomed to our father's last-will-and-testament diction, and were at times free to interrupt Atticus for a translation when it was beyond our understanding.

Try fighting with your head for a change... it's a good one, even if it does resist learning.

Those of different faiths and no faith should seek areas of common agreement based on their different perspectives.

See there?" Jem was scowling triumphantly. "Nothin' to it. I swear, Scout, sometimes you act so much like a girl its mortifyin

Health is actually the foundational tool to help us live the life.

When people know they are created with a purpose, and not here by accident, it is life-changing.

Part of the reason we're all committed to coordinated stimulus is we want to stimulate the global economy. We're in a global economy, not just our national economies.p

We got into a recession because the global economy went into the recession and we're a big exporting nation.

I used to get some ego thing out of saying I wasn't a star, just an actress. Forget it. I'm a star. I wanted it. I worked for it. I got it.

A woman who'd lost her first son consoled us with an angel gone ahead to pray for our family-- gone into that sky seeking oxygen, gone into autopsy

God is good all the time. And all the time, God is good.