Hugh Quotes
Arnold Bennett was a writer I admired. He was actually taking notes at his father's deathbed.
On average, Australians watch more than three hours of television a day, compared with 12 minutes a day spent by the average couple talking to each other.
The yearning for strong leadership is more about strength of purpose - clarity of vision - than about merely 'getting tough'.
But the rule seems to be that the bigger and more life-changing the decision, the less it will seem like a decision at all.
Indeed, in the present climate of mistrust of institutions, many people who yearn for a more meaningful and fulfilling life would regard the church as an unlikely place to go for guidance.
The Greeks, who knew everything, understood that without the orgy there is no middle ground between bedlam and Toronto ... we need the healing grace of the orgy in this country.
That special substance according to whose mass and degree of development all the creatures of this world take rank in the scale of creation, is not bone, but brain.
Washington is the only city in the world where you can go to a black-tie dinner and there at the foot of the table is a television set up to catch a press conference.
When we persist in looking for and finding what there is to value within our self, we discover a pure and loving being.
I live now and only now, and I will do what I want to do this moment and not what I decided was best for me yesterday.
What an absurd amount of energy I have been wasting all my life trying to find out how things 'really are', when all the time they weren't.
Fears, indecision, and frustration feed on words. Without words they usually stop. . . . Words are at times good for looking back, but they are confining when I need to act in the present.
Free and just political institutions are absolutely essential to the progress and development both of the individual and of the race.
Oh, the solitariness of sin! There is nothing like it, except, perhaps, the solitariness of death. In that isolation none can reach you, none can feed you.
To be selfish is to sacrifice the nobler for the meaner ends, and to be sordidly content.
It is not the business of religion in these days to isolate herself from the world like John the Baptist. She must go down into the world like Jesus Christ.
This entire process of stellar evolution is by natural process alone. We do not have to invoke Divine intervention at any stage in the history of the life-cycle of the stars that we observe.
The earnings have been pretty good so far, but there's an ambiguity in the market about them, because you'll see Amazon or Microsoft disappointing and then others beating.
I jumped out of perfectly good airplanes and it's a great thrill, and it allows me to share in the dangers that the great men - our great men and women in uniform share in on a regular basis.
We love the blather and boast, the charge and counter-charge of campaigning. Governing is a tougher deal.
The problems seem so easy out there on the stump. Deficits shrink with a rhetorical flourish.
No matter what we talk about, we are talking about ourselves
Like all tools, modern technology has produced some wonderful moments in music and also some horrors.
The notion that better engineering can solve all our problems is rooted in an ignorance of non-linear systems and selective/wishful thinking.
Tact is the rare ability to keep silent while two friends are arguing, and you know both of them are wrong.
Nothing leads more directly to the breach of charity, and to the injury and molestation of our fellow-creatures, than the indulgence of an ill temper.
Those who are learning to compose and arrange their sentences with accuracy and order are learning, at the same time, to think with accuracy and order.
I think that women don't bother disguising their desire and pleasure in dressing up, and that men, for whatever reason, tend to be a little more embarrassed.
Freedom is not doing what you want when you want. Freedom is the power to do what has to be done when it needs to be done.
I refuse to eat a fried egg if the white is still runny or transparent. I really can't be doing it. I always have to flip it over.
From every conceivable angle-economic social, cultural, public health, national defense-conservation of natural resources is an objective on which all should agree.
