Henry Chancellor Quotes

James Bond had very little to do with the navy at all: it was a convenient front. Bond was secret service from the start ... ~ Henry Chancellor

To Fleming, and to his readers, James Bond was a real person living in the modern world. The details of his life appear only sporadically in the books, but they proved vitally important in grounding him in his time, which made his extraordinary and often implausible adventures seem possible. ~ Henry Chancellor

A little reckless bravery may end up saving your life. ~ Henry Chancellor

So much of James Bond was Ian Fleming himself. Ian was never able to write about anything he did not know, or any place he had not been. James Bond had been around for a long time
as long, in fact, as Ian Fleming had been dreaming himself into fantasy situations. When he finally emerged on paper, 007 was a toughened-up younger-brother version of Ian himself: more straightforward, less interesting, the kind of young hothead Ian might have been had he not valued power above adventure. ~ Henry Chancellor

What is Friendship? Something deep That the heart can spend and keep: Wealth that greatens while we give, Praise that heartens us to live. ~ Henry Van Dyke

Men do not avail themselves of the riches of God's grace. They love to nurse their cares, and seem as uneasy without some fret as an old friar would be without his hair girdle. They are commanded to cast their cares upon the Lord, but even when they attempt it, they do not fail to catch them up again, and think it meritorious to walk burdened. ~ Henry Ward Beecher

When people hold you in high esteem, it's very delicate relationship. When they meet you they're putting all their chips up. It's make or break. ~ Henry Rollins

God not only loves the obedient - He enlightens them. ~ Henry B. Eyring

By turns our purity inspires and our impurity casts us down. ~ Henry David Thoreau

My mother, a very eclectic listener, had the first Doors album and gave it to me when I expressed interest in the band. It was one of the first records I ever had. As the years passed, the babysitters who used to look after me would bring their Doors albums to the apartment, and that's how I got to hear their later work. ~ Henry Rollins

In a world that is being darkened by evil images and dishonest messages, you have been blessed to recognize more easily the flashes of light and truth. You have learned for yourself that light grows brighter as you receive it gladly. It will become brighter and brighter until the perfect day when we will be in the presence of the Source of the light. ~ Henry B. Eyring

Active scholars are uniquely attracted by a high-quality graduate school of arts and sciences. Faculty members consider the teaching and training of new generations of graduate students as their highest calling. They believe that working with graduate students maintains and develops their professional skills more effectively than any other activity. It may be the main reason for the great attraction of academic jobs. Laboratory scientists have told me that the opportunity to work with graduate students keeps them in the university. For them, other options would center on research in commercial laboratories, but there the principal investigator would be assisted by technicians, and that is considered a far less creative interaction. ~ Henry Rosovsky

If the history of the American sentence were a John Ford movie, its second act would conclude with the young Ernest Hemingway walking into a saloon, finding an etiolated Henry James slumped at the bar in a haze of indecision, and shooting him dead. ~ Adam Haslett

There is nothing perfectly secure but poverty. ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Man takes great pains to heap up riches, and they are like heaps of manure in the furrows of the field, good for nothing unless they be spread. ~ Matthew Henry

If I have enough ego to say I'm a writer, a director, a producer, and an actor, I should have the energy and the knowledge to write a scene for this great actor named Henry Fonda and direct him in it and have it work. ~ Peter Fonda

In the mouths of many men soft words are like roses that soldiers put into the muzzles of their muskets on holidays. ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

It doesn't matter," said Persephone. "He [Henry] wasn't supposed to do that. While I ruled with him, we only made a few exceptions, and even then there were so many caveats that no one ever really made it back to the surface. He violated everything he's stood for since the dawn of humanity to save your life. ~ Aimee Carter

Inspiration is trying the unknown. ~ Abdulazeez Henry Musa

Religion is not changed as easily as a shirt. ~ Henry IV

A method of procuring sensations? Do you think then, that a man who has once committed a murder could possibly do the same crime again? Don't tell me that." says Dorian.
"Oh! anything becomes a pleasure if one does it too often," says Lord Henry ~ Oscar Wilde

Create the impression of endless willingness to compromise and you almost invite deadlines. That's the challenge we now have in North Korea and have had in North Korea for 10 years. In this sense, diplomacy and foreign policy and other elements of political activity have to be closely linked and have to be understood by the negotiators ~ Henry A. Kissinger

Government planning always involves compulsion. ~ Henry Hazlitt

He that ceaseth to be a friend never was a good one. ~ Henry George Bohn

Though cares and sorrows e'er must come, Though heart be rent, I know that God will give me strength, When mine is spent. ~ Henry Ward Beecher

Life, as it is called, is for most of us one long postponement. ~ Henry Miller

again. But this time, her anus was exposed, and ~ Thomas Henry

We have our own thoughts, and if we want others to know them, we must tell them. ~ Henry Cloud

The stabbing horror of life is not contained in calamities and disasters, because these things wake one up and one gets very familiar and intimate with them and finally they become tame again. No, it is more like being in a hotel room in Hoboken let us say, and just enough money in one's pocket for another meal. ~ Henry Miller

The Universal Soul, as it is called, has an interest in the stacking of hay, the foddering of cattle, and the draining of peat-meadows. ~ Henry David Thoreau

Power is the great aphrodisiac. ~ Henry A. Kissinger

Ivy League bumblers and drunks who had once pulled the levers of secret gov't in an age of high anxiety...These were the bastards who beat the bastards, unless it was all just dumb luck. ~ Henry Bromell

There are thousands who are in opinion opposed to slavery and to the war, who yet in effect do nothing to put an end to them; who, esteeming themselves children of Washington and Franklin, sit down with their hands in their pockets, and say that they know not what to do, and do nothing. ~ Henry David Thoreau

But I think the bomb instead constitutes merely a first step in a new control by man over the forces of nature too revolutionary and dangerous to fit into old concepts. ~ Henry L. Stimson

This was the sound he cherished when alone in the stillness of his rooms. He sought and guarded the stillness, so that it might prevail there till the inevitable sounds of life, once more, comparatively coarse and harsh, should smother and deaden it - doubtless by the same process with which they would officiously heal the ache in his soul that was somehow one with it. ~ Henry James

If you have only two or three things that you can enjoy and they are things which time and decay may remove from you, what are you going to do in old age? ~ Henry Ward Beecher

In the late fifties Romney had been a forceful advocate of breaking up GM. That, he believed, would make everyone leaner and more competitive. In 1957 he went before the Kefauver Senate committee on monopolies. Before he testified he was summoned to the Ford headquarters by Henry Ford and Ernie Breech, the chairman of the company, who were nervous about what he was going to say and wanted to get some idea of his thrust. Romney explained what he wanted: the breaking up of GM and perhaps even Ford. "But that would just make the competition tougher," Ford had said. "If you broke up GM the rest of us would suffer." "That's exactly what I mean," Romney had said. "Listen, I think it's tough enough the way it is - it's a damn hard dollar," Ford had answered. ~ David Halberstam

'Duck Dynasty' is a ridiculous show, and long may it wave. America and democracy will endure. They've seen a lot worse. ~ Henry Rollins

The best teachers of humanity are the lives of great men. ~ Charles Henry Fowler

Here then, as I lay down the pen and proceed to seal up my confession, I bring the life of that unhappy Henry Jekyll to an end. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

No matter what happens, I will always be there for you, even if you do not remember who I am. ~ Aimee Carter

Almost any garden, if you see it at just the right moment, can be confused with paradise. ~ Henry Mitchell

It was surreal to think the Queen of England not only knew who I was but thought enough of what I do to give me an award. ~ Henry Winkler

Open all your pores and bathe in all the tides of nature, in all her streams and oceans, at all seasons. ~ Henry David Thoreau

I love you," he said, and I wondered which one of us he was trying to convince. "You're like a secret nobody else has heard yet, and the selfish part of me is glad that other people don't know you the way I do, because if they saw how perfect you are, every one of them would try to steal you away from me. ~ Lisa Henry