Hal Schrieve Quotes

It's about loving someone and seeing them as a part of your family. I think some people have the capacity to see different people as part of their family and some don't. ~ Hal Schrieve

For all his learning or sophistication, man still instinctively reaches towards that force beyond. Only arrogance can deny its existence, and the denial falters in the face of evidence on every hand. In every tuft of grass, in every bird, in every opening bud, there it is. ~ Hal Borland

Forever be happy, never be content, and always know the difference. ~ Hal Elrod

The pride in finishing a marathon is much greater than all the pain endured during the marathon. ~ Hal Higdon

Ranger locked eyes with me. "Please," he said.
Tank and Hal were goggle-eyed. They weren't used to "please." I wasn't used to it either. But I liked it.
Okay," I said. "Be careful. He's insane. ~ Janet Evanovich

There's no good guys and bad guys. ~ Hal Holbrook

Where you are is a result of who you were, but where you go depends entirely on who you choose to be. ~ Hal Elrod

Whatever success I've achieved has come from pretty much doing the opposite of what I've been told or expected to do. ~ Hal Riney

The 1st secret to success is to simply master your ability to get started, to take the first step. If you want to get physically fit, simply pack a gym bag everyday and get in the car. Once you do, where else are you going to go? ~ Hal Elrod

By accepting life before it happens, and letting go of your inner resistance to all things you cannot change, you unlock true emotional freedom from all of your self-imposed emotional pain. ~ Hal Elrod

October is the fallen leaf, but it is also a wider horizon more clearly seen. It is the distant hills once more in sight, and the enduring constellations above them once again. ~ Hal Borland

I should have loved,' Hal said after a very long silence. Neville's eyes filled with tears. ' Aye. You Should have loved. ~ Sara Douglass

Only by fighting for democratic power do workers educate themselves up to the level of being able to wield that power. ~ Hal Draper

American soldiers in battle don't fight for what some president says on T.V., they don't fight for mom, apple pie, the American flag ... they fight for one another. ~ Hal Moore

Some people are like ants. Give them a warm day and a piece of ground and they start digging. There the similarity ends. Ants keepon digging. Most people don't. They establish contact with the soil, absorb so much vernal vigor that they can't stay in one place, and desert the fork or spade to see how the rhubarb is coming and whether the asparagus is yet in sight. ~ Hal Borland

Why is it that when a baby is born, we often refer to him or her as 'the miracle of life' but then we accept mediocrity for our own lives? Where along the way did we lose sight of the miracle that WE are? ~ Hal Elrod

The cocktail party has a simple function in modern society. Its basic purpose is to pay off social debts. ~ Hal Boyle

Mark Twain married the daughter of one of New York State's leading Abolitionists, Jervis Langdon, who helped Frederick Douglass who became the great Negro leader to escape from slavery. ~ Hal Holbrook

A shameful fact about humanity is that some people can be so ugly that no one will be friends with them. It is shameful that humans can be so cruel, and it is shameful that humans can be so ugly. ~ Hal Johnson

Ray Bradbury's entire oeuvre exemplifies the crumbling of SCIENCE FICTION into the open interplay of science fiction, fantasy and horror. ~ Hal Duncan

What is the purpose of any one workout? Enjoyment? Improvement? Coach said so? Whatever, the hour you run often is the best hour of the day. ~ Hal Higdon

When everything is out, you gotta take it in. ~ Hal Leonard Publishing Company

Autumn is the eternal corrective. It is ripeness and color and a time of maturity; but it is also breadth, and depth, and distance. What man can stand with autumn on a hilltop and fail to see the span of his world and the meaning of the rolling hills that reach to the far horizon? ~ Hal Borland

Professors simply can't discuss a thing. Habit compels them to deliver a lecture. ~ Hal Boyle

Anything you want for life is available to you, the universe is just waiting for you to take the necessary action(s) before it gives you what you want. ~ Hal Elrod

Start taking your SELF to the next level so you can take your SUCCESS to the next level. It only happens in that order. ~ Hal Elrod

A borderline suffers a kind of emotional hemophilia; [s]he lacks the clotting mechanism needed to moderate [her] spurts of feeling. Stimulate a passion, and the borderline emotionally bleeds to death. ~ Jerold Kreisman, Hal Straus

It's better to waste money, than it is to waste time. You can always get more money. ~ Hal Sparks

You can't foresee all the consequences of your actions - But that's no excuse to do nothing. ~ Hal Jordan

The art of writing is not as solitary as one might think. When it finally dawns on us one day that our task as writers is to share what we know of the human spirit, we suddenly discover that we were never truly alone. ~ Hal Zina Bennett

Parenthetically, in the West's current war against Islamic fundamentalist terrorism, it would be good for the leaders to remember this "Islamic tactic of warfare." According to this "religious" doctrine of Islam, what Muslims say does not have to be true - after all, to them, "War is deception." And the end justifies the means. ~ Hal Lindsey

It's all Irish politics."
Hal looked at me sharply and shook a finger in my face. "That's bloody dangerous, getting involved in that. You be careful."
I gaped at Hal. "I can't believe you just said that to me."
"What?" Hal protested, shrugging his shoulders and looking aggrieved.
"I called to ask Gunnar for help with the Bacchants yesterday and he shut me down. No well-wishing, no pleas to be careful, nothing. So now we're dealing with the aftermath of what happens when I try to go it alone, , and you tell me to be careful about Irish politics?"
"Well, I know precisely where Gunnar's coming from. It's not our job to keep the magical peace."
"Neither is it mine."
~ Kevin Hearne

If you ever wondered why fishing is probably the most popular sport in this country, watch that boy beside on the water and you will learn. If you are really perceptive you will. For he already knows that fishing is only one part fish. ~ Hal Borland

Nature seems to look after her own only up to a certain point; beyond that they are supposed to fend for themselves. ~ Hal Borland

In a city of illusion, where change is what the city does, it's no wonder Las Vegas is the court of last resort, the last place to start over, to reinvent yourself in the same way that the city does, time after time. For some it works; for some it doesn't, but they keep coming and trying. ~ Hal Rothman

Summer is a promissory note signed in June, its long days spent and gone before you know it, and due to be repaid next January. ~ Hal Borland

I like struggle. ~ Hal Sparks

The earth's distances invite the eye. And as the eye reaches, so must the mind stretch to meet these new horizons. I challenge anyone to stand with autumn on a hilltop and fail to see a new expanse not only around him, but in him, too. ~ Hal Borland

I'm a writer and director. And the movie I've seen a million times is 'Coming Home,' directed by Hal Ashby and starring Jon Voight, Jane Fonda and Bruce Dern. ~ Jonathan Levine

It costs a great deal of money to do a musical, and the more money involved, the more big business influences the artform. ~ Hal Price

More important than the time that you start your day is the mindset with which you start your day. ~ Hal Elrod

Lending Out Books

You're always giving, my therapist said.
You have to learn how to take. Whenever
you meet a woman, the first thing you do
is lend her your books. You think she'll
have to see you again in order to return them.
but what happens is, she doesn't have the time
to read them, & she's afraid if she sees you again
you'll expect her to walk about them, & will
want to lend her even more. So she
cancels the date. You end up losing
a lot of books. You should borrow hers. ~ Hal Sirowitz