Hugh Quotes
Our job this day is to become part of the answer to the world's immense and protracted suffering rather than continuing our ancient task of being part of the difficulty.
When I get to where I can enjoy just lying on the rug picking up lint balls, I will no longer be too ambitious.
Love is a many-sided sacrifice; it means thoughtfulness for others; it means putting their good before self-gratification. Love is impulse, no doubt, but true love is impulse wisely directed.
No hell will frighten men away from sin; no dread of prospective misery; only goodness can cast hell out of any man, and set up the kingdom of heaven within.
Words are poor interpreters in the realms of emotion. When all words end, music begins; when they suggest, it realizes; and hence is the secret of its strange, inexpressible power.
Precious beyond price are good resolutions. Valuable beyond price are good feelings.
No soul is bad enough for a fixed "hell," or good enough for a fixed "heaven," however useful the words may be as pointing to opposite states.
After the sleep of death we are to gather up our forces again with the incalculable results of this life, a crown of shame or glory upon our heads, and begin again on a new level of progress.
Given that we are all descended from Adam and Eve, genetic defects as a result of intra-family marriage would not begin to crop up until after the first few dozen generations.
I always concentrated on doing the very best that I could in the job and the duties that I was assigned.
My goal was to make first lieutenant. I never spent a lot of time worrying about what came after that.
I, first of all, felt a great sense of loss, a sense of condolence for the friends that I had that were killed in that, for the loved ones.
Well, I enjoy sharing in the dangers that we ask our men and women in uniform to share in almost every day.
I feel very confident that Americans flying in the air are safe, and that only under the most dire of circumstances would our pilots even request permission to do that.
Whether or not you could actually increase the size of the force is something that will have to be determined.
And so I'm still giving some thought. I will transition, hopefully, into the corporate world. And I look forward to getting involved in several other areas that I have a great interest in.
When people travel here from across the country, they shed jealousies and politics and prejudices. The mighty climb down. The humble are elevated.
Reagan "has conducted an arms race on earth," boomed Mondale. A race generally implies two parties. The Soviets contributed a little bit to this problem, if Mondale had not noticed.
All paraphrases and expletives are so much in disuse that soon the only way of making love will be to say, "Lie down.
For it is beautiful only to do the thing we are meant for
Better a crust of black bread than a mountain of paper confections, Better a daisy in earth than a dahlia cut and gathered, Better a cowslip with root than a prize carnation without it
Just because you love someone, doesn't mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.
You do not own the molecules. They are stardust. They belong to God. What you do own is your soul. Nobody can take that away from you.
...the best Evil Plan offers something much more for people--a chance to buy into an idea that matters, and share it with people who matter to them.
If your business plan depends on suddenly being "discovered" by some big shot, your plan will probably fail. Nobody suddenly discovers anything. Things are made slowly and in pain.
The only people who can change the world are people who want to. And not everybody does.
Maybe he wasn’t there to lead so much as to provide an illusion to the others that they were being led.
Art suffers the moment other people start paying for it.
Anyone can be an idealist. Anyone can be a cynic. The hard part lies somewhere in the middle—that is, being human.
..The stuff you learn beforehand will never be one-tenth as useful as the stuff you learn the hard way, on the job.
Where's the everlasting peace? Is there even such a thing? Or do we war like alien races war, eternally, against ourselves?
The genius of stable societies is that they achieve stability without stagnation, repetition without monotony, conformity with originality, obedience with liberty.
They're only crayons. You didn't fear them in Kindergarten, why fear them now?
She could tell he was heading toward a bad place. She had seen him go there often enough, knew he had shortcuts he could take to get there in no time.
Our tears are trying to serve a purpose, but we rarely let them. I don't know how we got started with subverting that purpose.