H. A. Berlin Quotes

There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.

We got to keep on being a success.

The fundamental sense of freedom is freedom from chains, from imprisonment, from enslavement by others. The rest is extension of this sense, or else metaphor.

Let's face the music and dance.

I long to be out in the sun with no work to be done.

Philosophers are adults who persist in asking childish questions.

When one is engaged in a desperate defense of one's world and its values, nothing can be given away, any breach in the walls might be fatal, every point must be defended to the death.

Lenin could listen so intently that he exhausted the speaker.

Betrayal clearly has its own reward: the small deep human satisfaction of having one up on someone else. It is the psychology of the mistress, and this regime used it as fuel.

Liberty for wolves is death to the lambs.

For sheer drama, few accounts of slavery match Solomon Northup's tale of abduction from freedom and forcible enslavement.

Listen kid, take my advice, never hate a song that has sold half a million copies.

Heaven... I'm in heaven, and my heart beats so that I can hardly speak.

Anything you can do I can do better, I can do anything better than you.

The very desire for guarantees that our values are eternal and secure in some objective heaven is perhaps only a craving for the certainties of childhood or the absolute values of our primitive past.

No perfect solution is, not merely in practice, but in principle, possible in human affairs, and any determined attempt to produce it is likely to lead to suffering, disillusionment and failure.

The case against the notion of historical objectivity is like the case against international law, or international morality; that it does not exist.

I'd never let anybody share dessert with me or even have a taste.

[B]inary opposites fit nicely the formulation of history as written, but they do little to capture the messy, inchoate reality of history as lived.

Life may be seen through many windows, none of them necessarily clear or opaque, less or more distorting than any of the others.

How much do I love you? I'll tell you no lie. How deep is the ocean? How high is the sky?

A man may be hot but he's not when he's shot cause you can't get a man with a gun.

I've got my love to keep me warm.

The terrible thing about sunlight is it shows the dirt.

It's easier to eat nothing than to eat something.

I'm a real conservative. I never became a hippie, or a groupie. I never wore flowers in my hair.

I've never been a pizza eater. I don't like to hold it and fold it and always burn the roof of my mouth. I hate having greasy fingers.

TV has gotten so boring that the only thing I watch is the news.

I can't stand cell phones and I don't know one single thing about the computer. I have a friend come that lives in my building to check if I have emails. I don't even know what to google.

I watch news from the minute I wake up till 11. Then I switch to Charlie Rose. Fox News all the way.

I just think the Kardashians are just so cheap!

Of course I haven't seen it! I wouldn't look at anything of Kim Kardashian's. I have never seen that show. I just think the Kardashians are just so cheap! No class.

I've never had food in my fridge. All I have in my fridge is one shelf of Canada Dry ginger ale, Diet Cokes on the next shelf, and ZeroWater on the next shelf. That is it.

With practice you can get to be the best within your biological constraints.

There has been studies looking at like musical talent and it shows that there is actually a really large genetic component involved.

They say that falling in love is wonderful, it's wonderful, so they say.

It's February the 22ndAnd I can't tell a lie.

Dancing cheek to cheek.

When a man speaks of the need for realism one may be sure that this is always the prelude to some bloody deed.

One must look at what impiety hates, what puts it in a rage, what it attacks always, everywhere, and with fury - that will be the truth.

The desire not to be impinged upon, to be left to oneself, has been the markof high civilisation both on the part of individuals and communities.

I was struck by the effortless way they moved between musical styles, all the while managing to make each their own. It was instantaneous that I knew I wanted to work with them.

I can't think of very many people who work as hard at the craft of songcraft as Gord Downie does. It was life or death. Every syllable was important.

Gord Downie is extraordinary. It's safe to say there's nobody like that guy that I've ever come across.

The lesson there is that there's no hiding the sound of a band that is bored with its own music. Whatever it takes to create the sound of excitement, that's what you want to do.

Life is 10 percent what you make itand 90 percent how you take it.

The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.

Why are some things easier to remember the more time has passed since they occurred?

People were crazy with pain and secrets.

It all takes time and lessons and places, but I’m learning to listen to my restless heart, telling me to “go, go, go!