Hidy Ford Quotes

Nulla dies felix - call no day fortunate till it be ended. ~ Ford Madox Ford

I don't know what anyone has to be proud of. ~ Ford Madox Ford

Was this then Lent, pressing hard on the heels of Saturnalia? Not ~ Ford Madox Ford

But decent augurs grin behind their masks. They never preach to each other. ~ Ford Madox Ford

What distinguished man from the brutes was his freedom. When, ~ Ford Madox Ford

Inspector had been in the library, and might possibly have ~ Ford Madox Ford

Few Germans were imaginative enough to be irresponsible, but ~ Ford Madox Ford

[W]e are almost always in one place with our minds somewhere quite other. ~ Ford Madox Ford

But charity begins surely with the char! ~ Ford Madox Ford

What did you do on Armistice Night? My beloved is mine and I am his! ~ Ford Madox Ford

He carried that obsession with him always. And in the end, by its very wrongness, it saved his life. ~ Ford Madox Ford

For Mrs. Satterthwaite interested herself - it was the only interest she had - in handsome, thin, and horribly disreputable young men. ~ Ford Madox Ford

These trenches are like Pompeii, sir. ~ Ford Madox Ford

When, then, a man was deprived of freedom he became like a brute. To ~ Ford Madox Ford

It was business, and business may be presumed to cover quite a lot of bad taste. ~ Ford Madox Ford

It is a queer world and fantastic world. Why can't people have what they want? ~ Ford Madox Ford

His sister-in-law Sylvia represented for him unceasing, unsleeping activities of a fantastic kind. ~ Ford Madox Ford

For love is like a journey in mountainous country, up through the clouds, and down into the shadows to an unknown destination. ~ Ford Madox Ford

The rocks would be there a million years after the light went for the last time out. ~ Ford Madox Ford

It was as if a man should have jumped out of a frying pan into - a duckpond. ~ Ford Madox Ford

Words passed, but words could no more prove an established innocence than words can enhance a love that exists. ~ Ford Madox Ford

That in effect was love. It struck him as astonishing. The word was so little in his vocabulary ... ~ Ford Madox Ford

Isn't there any heaven where old beautiful dances, old beautiful intimacies prolong themselves? ~ Ford Madox Ford

The repressions of the passionate drive them mad. ~ Ford Madox Ford

That monstrosity you honour with your name - which is also mine, thank you! ~ Ford Madox Ford

He was grotesque, really. But joy radiated from his homespuns when you walked beside him. It welled out; it enveloped you. ~ Ford Madox Ford

Otherwise the world could not continue - the children would not be healthy. And ~ Ford Madox Ford

I couldn't regard myself as personally repulsive. No man can, or, if he ever comes to do so, that is the end of him. ~ Ford Madox Ford

And it was a most remarkable, a most moving glance, as if for a moment a lighthouse had looked at me. ~ Ford Madox Ford

In the Ford Motor Company, we emphasize service equally with sales. ~ Henry Ford

There are no crown princes at Ford, ~ Edsel Ford

Gentlemen don't earn money. Gentlemen, as a matter of fact, don't do anything. They ~ Ford Madox Ford

Ford comes first before everything else I do in my life. ~ William Clay Ford, Jr.

But of course he hates you for being in the army. All the men who aren't hate all the men that are. ~ Ford Madox Ford

So you cannot teach me a great deal about the shady in life. I was in the family of a Middlesex County Councillor. In ~ Ford Madox Ford

Being correspondent of a Left paper with a name like Eisenstein deprived one of one's chance of usefulness. Besides ~ Ford Madox Ford

Open the book to page ninety-nine and read, and the quality of the whole will be revealed to you. ~ Ford Madox Ford

I thought suddenly that she wasn't real; she was just a mass of talk out of guidebooks, of drawings out of fashion-plates. ~ Ford Madox Ford

Being a miner he sat on his heels more comfortably than on a chair ~ Ford Madox Ford

Everybody wants to be someplace he ain't. ~ Henry Ford

The signal for the train's departure was a very bright red; that is about as passionate a statement as I can get into that scene. ~ Ford Madox Ford

The Ford Motor Co. should stand for something more than cars and trucks. There is a Ford way of doing things that we cannot lose ... We need to be continuously polishing that Ford oval. ~ William Clay Ford, Jr.

And Paris, when you avoid the more conspicuous resorts, and when you are unprovided with congenial companionship can prove nearly as overwhelming as is, say, Birmingham on a Sunday. ~ Ford Madox Ford

IT has been remarked that the peculiarly English habit of self-suppression in matters of the emotions puts the Englishman at a great disadvantage in moments of unusual stresses. ~ Ford Madox Ford

You see in such a world as this, an idealist -or perhaps it's only a sentimentalist-must be stoned to death. He makes the others so uncomfortable. He haunts them at their golf. ~ Ford Madox Ford

The world is full of places to which I want to return ~ Ford Madox Ford

If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses. ~ Henry Ford

It was detestable to him to be in control of another human being – as detestable as it would have been to be himself a prisoner. ~ Ford Madox Ford

Why can't people have what they want? The things were all there to content everybody; yet everybody has the wrong thing. ~ Ford Madox Ford

Oh, child,' the Father exclaimed, 'whether it's St Martha or that Mary that made the bitter choice, not one of them ever looked more virtuous than you. Why aren't ye born to be a good man's help-meet? ~ Ford Madox Ford

Only two classes of books are of universal appeal. The very best and the very worst. ~ Ford Madox Ford

She asked herself the eternal question – and she knew it to be the eternal question – whether no man and woman can ever leave it at the beautiful inclination. ~ Ford Madox Ford

New York is large, glamorous, easy-going, kindly and incurious, but above all it is a crucible - because it is large enough to be incurious. ~ Ford Madox Ford

She said that she did not wish for any monuments to the Hurlbird family. At the time I thought that that was because of a New England dislike for necrological ostentation. ~ Ford Madox Ford

All feminine claws, he said to himself, are sheathed in velvet; but they can hurt a good deal if they touch you on the sore places of the defects of your qualities
even merely with the velvet. ~ Ford Madox Ford

He thought he suddenly understood. For the Lincon-shire sergeant-major the word Peace meant that a man could stand up on a hill. For him it meant someone to talk to. ~ Ford Madox Ford

I am not going to be so American as to say that all true love demands some sacrifice. It doesn't. But I think that love will be truer and more permanent in which self-sacrifice has been exacted. ~ Ford Madox Ford

But to betray her with battalion ... That is against decency, against Nature ... And for him, Christopher tietjens, to come down to the level of the men you met here! ~ Ford Madox Ford

You have to wait together - for a week, for a year, for a lifetime, before the final intimate conversation may be attained ... and exhausted. So that ... That in effect was love. ~ Ford Madox Ford

It was probably indecent to think of a corpse as impotent. But he was, very likely. That would be why his wife had taken up with the prize-fighter Red Evans Williams of Castell Goch. ~ Ford Madox Ford

I am a Ford, not a Lincoln. ~ Gerald R. Ford

Higher than the beasts, lower than the angels, stuck in our idiot Eden. ~ Ford Madox Ford

she had always considered that, far from the world of Ealing and its county councillors who over-ate and neighed like stallions, there were bright colonies of beings, chaste, beautiful in thought, altruist and circumspect. And, till that moment, she had imagined ~ Ford Madox Ford

Edsel is the artist in our family. Art is something I know nothing about. ~ Henry Ford

The greatest day of my life was the day I married Mrs. Ford. ~ Henry Ford

There's just some kind of men you have to shoot before you can say hidy to 'em. Even then, they ain't worth the bullet it takes to shoot 'em. ~ Harper Lee

She at least was broad-minded, and moreover she understood the workings of the human heart. It was creditable for a man to ruin himself for the object of his affections. But this at least she found exaggerated. ~ Ford Madox Ford

I prefer the old masters, by which I mean John Ford, John Ford, and John Ford. ~ Orson Welles

Fellows come in and tell the most extraordinarily gross stories - so gross that they will positively give you a pain. And yet they'd be offended if you suggested that they weren't the sort of person you could trust your wife alone with. ~ Ford Madox Ford

...a flabby lemon and pink giant, who hung his mouth open as though he were an animal at the zoo inviting buns--especially when the ladies were present. [on fellow Brit Ford Madox Ford] ~ Percy Wyndham Lewis

If he had uttered the word "come" she would have followed him to the bitter ends of the earth; if he had said, "There is no hope," she would have known the finality of despair. ~ Ford Madox Ford

Art depends on luck and talent. ~ Francis Ford Coppola

A great deal of the calmness of her insolence had left her. She had expected to have the whole night in which luxuriously to torment the lump opposite her. To torment him and to allure him. ~ Ford Madox Ford

The handful of Germans who had reached the trench had been sacrificed for the stupid sort of fun called. Strategy, probably. Stupid! ... It was, of course, just like German spools to go mining by candle-light. Obsoletely Nibenlungen-like. Dwarfs probably! ~ Ford Madox Ford

I know nothing - nothing in the world - of the hearts of men. I only know that I am alone - horribly alone. ~ Ford Madox Ford

It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning. ~ Henry Ford

But upon my word, I don't know how we put in our time. How does one put in one's time? How is it possible to have achieved nine years and to have nothing whatever to show for it? ~ Ford Madox Ford

I have found that when I intentionally control my thoughts, walk humbly, love and forgive unconditionally, generally, I have a pretty good day. ~ Ford Taylor

If you're going to have a character appear in a story long enough to sell a newspaper, he'd better be real enough that you can smell his breath. ~ Ford Madox Ford

I suppose that my inner soul - my dual personality - had realized long before that Florence was a personality of paper - that she represented a real human being with a heart, with feelings, with sympathies and with emotions only as a bank-note represents a certain quantity of gold. ~ Ford Madox Ford

The object of the novelist is to keep the reader entirely oblivious of the fact that the author exists - even of the fact he is reading a book. ~ Ford Madox Ford

It's strange how fear works. It suddenly stands at your shoulder, and slides its arm around you. Its fist closes on your heart. ~ Michael Ford

AT the slight creaking made by Macmaster in pushing open his door, Tietjens started violently. He was sitting in a smoking-jacket, playing patience engrossedly in a sort of garret bedroom. It had a sloping roof outlined by black oak beams, which cut into squares the cream-coloured patent distemper of the walls. ~ Ford Madox Ford

It doesn't interest me to be Harrison Ford. It interests me to be Mike Pomeroy and Indiana Jones and Jack Ryan. I don't want to be in the Harrison Ford business. I take what I do seriously, but I don't take myself seriously. ~ Harrison Ford

The man looked down at his feet. Tietjens said to himself that it was Valentine Wannop doing this to him. He ought to turn the man down at once. He was pervaded by a sense of her being. It was imbecile. Yet it was so. ~ Ford Madox Ford

Said Ford, "you've got three pints to get through." "Three pints?" said Arthur. "At lunchtime?" The man next to Ford grinned and nodded happily. Ford ignored him. ~ Douglas Adams

The harder you work, the luckier you are, and I worked like hell. ~ Gerald R. Ford

At the same time, Mrs de Bray Pape was saying things to the discredit of Marie Antoinette, whom apparently she disliked. He could not imagine why anyone should dislike Marie Antoinette. Yet very likely she was dislikeable. The French, who were sensible people, had cut her head off, so they presumably disliked her . . ~ Ford Madox Ford

Speculation into thing already produced that is not business ~ Henry Ford

Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits. ~ Henry Ford

It's hard to go through life without killing someone. ~ Richard Ford

Understand the difference between being at work and working. ~ Henry Ford

Anyone who does anything useful will not go unpaid. ~ Henry Ford

While dessert tastes good, woman cannot live on cake alone. ~ Melissa Ford

Our sympathies are most required when they seem least due. ~ Richard Ford

Sometimes you just don't like somebody ~ Henry Ford

Marty stayed busy as a chemistry major at Seattle University, ~ Jamie Ford

Failure is the opportunity to begin again, only more intelligently. ~ Henry Ford

With imagination, you can put something where nothing was. ~ Richard Ford

I've never played anyone but myself on screen. ~ Glenn Ford