Paul Hoffman Quotes

That's why it's much better not to have friends if you have the strength of character to do without them. In the end friends always turn into a nuisance of one kind or another. But if you must have them let them alone and accept that you must allow everyone the right to exist in accordance with the character he has, whatever it turns out to be. ~ Paul Hoffman

My God, Cale, if you only knew with what little sense the world is run. There has been no disaster visited on mankind that was not warned of by someone - never, not in all the history of the world. And no one who ever gave such warnings and was proved right ever got any good out of it. ~ Paul Hoffman

If there was to be a new Europe, there not only had to be a common market, but also great mobility in labor. ~ Paul Hoffman

Get on your feet or die. ~ Paul Hoffman

It's pointless to blame someone for being themselves and looking to their own interests. ~ Paul Hoffman

I would like to say that no man ever was given finer cooperation than that given me by President Truman. ~ Paul Hoffman

I know everything I know about. ~ Paul Hoffman

T was once famously said that it is as well that wars are so ruinously expensive, else we would never stop fighting them. However well said, it seems also to be endlessly forgotten that, while there may be just wars and unjust wars, there are never any cheap wars. ~ Paul Hoffman

Revenge is the best revenge. ~ Paul Hoffman

In its best prewar year, Europe with almost 300 million people had a gross national product of 150 billion dollars. In that same year, the United States with 150 million people had a gross national product of 300 billion dollars. ~ Paul Hoffman

You're the right colour for the Angel of Death, Mister Cale. But a little short.' 'I could cut your head off and stand on it. Then I'd be taller. ~ Paul Hoffman

If you fight cruelty with kindness, it's the kindness that goes away, not the cruelty. ~ Paul Hoffman

Among the reasons for this was the fact that the U.S.A. is one mass market. It is only when you have a mass market that large-scale manufacturing which involves very substantial expenditures can be justified. ~ Paul Hoffman

Again she did not seem to hear, still looking into Cale's eyes. Then slowly, hopelessly, she dropped her gaze.
"I understand," she said.
It was that, of course, that pierced him as if she had stabbed him through the heart. To him it was the sound of lost faith and it was unendurable. He felt he'd become a kind of god in her eyes, and it was simply impossible to give up her adoration. ~ Paul Hoffman

Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it as it is to its victims - the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. ~ Paul Hoffman

Where have you come from boy?'
He looked at her again.
'From hell, to take you away in the night and eat you. ~ Paul Hoffman

That's how the world is, and there is nothing an insignificant nobody like you, or even a significant somebody like me, can do about it. ~ Paul Hoffman

The heart of a child can take forty-nine blows before it's damaged for ever and what's done can never be undone. ~ Paul Hoffman

Sometimes, war being the unjust and drastic creature it is, those in whom he invested hopes took an arrow in the chest, the useless, by chance, thrived to irritate him another day. ~ Paul Hoffman

You should never tell your best friend anything you wouldn´t be prepared to tell your worst enemy. ~ Paul Hoffman

But I felt that most of us in the world today gave priority to our personal interests. ~ Paul Hoffman

Only inferior minds speak or write in order to discover what they think. ~ Paul Hoffman

Treat others as you would expect to be treated by them, ~ Paul Hoffman

The magic was in the Marshall Plan itself. It provided an opportunity for appealing and constructive work. In a sense, the mission chiefs were given the opportunity to help act as architects for the new Europe that was envisioned. ~ Paul Hoffman

- Why you?
- ( ... ) I'm the best.
- Modest of you.
- I am the best. Modesty has nothing to say about it. ~ Paul Hoffman

To be sociable is a risky thing - even fatal - because it means being in contact with people, most of whom are dull, perverse and ignorant and are really with you only because they cannot bear their own company. Most people bore themselves and greet you not as a true friend but as a distraction - like a dancing dog or some half-wit actor
with a fund of amusing stories. ~ Paul Hoffman

Solitude is a wonderful thing in two ways. First, it allows a man to be with himself, and second, it prevents him being with others. ~ Paul Hoffman

We should wage war not to win war, but to win peace. ~ Paul Hoffman

Hypocrites,' replied Cale, 'I've come across a lot of them recently. I mean by that I understand now how many of them there are. ~ Paul Hoffman

Mathematician need only peace of mind and occasionally, paper and pencil. ~ Paul Hoffman

Feeling sorry for yourself is a universal solvent of salvation. ~ Paul Hoffman

There are times we are givers, but others time we have to let others give to us. ~ Paul Hoffman

It's one of the greatest mistakes of cultivated people to take it as given that because they have sophisticated minds they also have sophisticated emotions. But what kind of soul feels sophisticated hatred or sophisticated grief, for, say, a murdered child? Is the broken heart of the educated and refined person different from that of the savage? Why not say that the enlightened and knowledgeable feel the pain of childbirth, or the kidney stone, in a different way to unpolished commoner or chav? Intelligence has many shades, but rage is the same color everywhere. Humiliation tastes the same to everyone. ~ Paul Hoffman

Just as the purpose of the liver is to act as a sump for the poisons of the body, the soul has its organs for containing and isolating the toxic discharge of human suffering. ~ Paul Hoffman

Even for the very clever it can be like breaking bones to stand back from something that's been in front of you all your life. ~ Paul Hoffman

Until two days ago what had driven him was the will to survive: deep, animal, full of rage - but always part of him had not cared at all whether he lived or died. Now he did care, and very deeply, and so for the first time in a long time he was afraid. To love life is, of course, a wonderful thing, but not on this day of all days. ~ Paul Hoffman

Think of how strange the colours and sights of the world would be for a blind man abruptly made to see or a man deaf from birth hearing the playing of a hundred flutes ~ Paul Hoffman

No news is ever as good or as bad as it first seems ~ Paul Hoffman

What are those humps on her chest? ~ Paul Hoffman

The Europeans had made two promises to the United States if Marshall Plan help was forthcoming. The first promise was maximum self-help on the part of every country; and second, maximum mutual aid. ~ Paul Hoffman

The wicked have weakness other than their willingness to kill and maim. Even the bleakest, cruelest soul can have its tender spots. Even the harshest desert has its pools, its shady trees and gentle streams. ~ Paul Hoffman

How can I know for sure if it's my son speaking and not you?"
"You never can, my lord. Just as no man can ever be sure that he alone is a thinking and feeling creature and everyone else a machine that only pretends to feel and think. ~ Paul Hoffman

Yes, Jean Monnet was the father of the concept of a United States of Europe and his efforts more than those of any other single man helped change the thinking of European leaders. ~ Paul Hoffman

The full potential of labor can be utilized only if there is mobility in labor. ~ Paul Hoffman

However, from the very beginning of the program, we made it perfectly clear that we would be out of Europe in four years; that whatever was to be accomplished had to be accomplished in that period of time. ~ Paul Hoffman

After working as a producer on many pop, electronica and some soundtrack, incidental music projects, I became more focused on film and TV scores. ~ Paul Wardingham

The Istiqlal was powerful, which did not at all coincide with his conception of it, nor with the picture the organization painted of itself: a purely defensive group of selfless martyrs who were willing to brave the brutality of the French in order to bring hope to their suffering countrymen. ~ Paul Bowles

Arizona has always been anti-black. ~ Paul Mooney

The basic anxiety, the anxiety of a finite being about the threat of non-being, cannot be eliminated. It belongs to existence itself. ~ Paul Tillich

When it seems humanly impossible to do more in a difficult situation, surrender yourself to the inner silence and thereafter wait for a sign of obvious guidance or for a renewal of inner strength. ~ Paul Brunton

what is a psychopath? The short version." "A person who is superficially charming and well-spoken; demonstrates inflated self-esteem, arrogance, and a sense of superiority; is consistently deceitful and prone to pathological lying; is cunning and manipulative, maneuvering others for his or her own personal gain; has no remorse and feels no guilt; is callous, inconsiderate, and unconcerned by the pain and suffering of others; shows shallow affect, demonstrating a limited range and depth of emotional responses and feelings; exhibits minimal fear responses and a disinclination to change behavior in response to pain or negative social stimuli; and gets bored easily, needing constant stimulation. ~ Paul Draker

I remember going to my school careers advisor and asked about jobs that required scuba divers. It was a phase. ~ Paul Putner

She went to the fence and sat there, watching the gold clouds fall to
pieces, and go in immense, rose-coloured ruin towards the darkness. Gold
flamed to scarlet, like pain in its intense brightness. Then the scarlet
sank to rose, and rose to crimson, and quickly the passion went out of
the sky. All the world was dark grey. Paul scrambled quickly down with
his basket, tearing his shirt-sleeve as he did so. ~ D.H. Lawrence

Fire taps something ancient and vital in each of us, something both snarling and reverential. ~ Caroline Paul

When Earth's last picture is painted And the tubes are twisted and dried When the oldest colors have faded
And the youngest critic has died
We shall rest, and faith, we shall need it
Lie down for an aeon or two
'Till the Master of all good workmen Shall put us to work anew
And those that were good shall be happy They'll sit in a golden chair
They'll splash at a ten league canvas With brushes of comet's hair
They'll find real saints to draw from Magdalene, Peter, and Paul
They'll work for an age at a sitting And never be tired at all.
And only the Master shall praise us. And only the Master shall blame.
And no one will work for the money.
No one will work for the fame.
But each for the joy of the working, And each, in his separate star,
Will draw the thing as he sees it.
For the God of things as they are! ~ Rudyard Kipling

In the words of Jewish liturgical scholar Lawrence Hoffman, 'Jews do offer freely composed prayers ... But overall, it is the fixed order and content of Jewish prayer that gives it its distinctiveness and that demands the personal commitment to prayer as a discipline. ~ Lauren F. Winner

When you're in the womb, you're in a sterile environment. When you enter the birth canal and are born, you're no longer in a sterile environment. Very quickly you have bacteria living on your skin, in your nose and throat. ~ Paul A. Offit

Let her wake as when she close her eyes. That was all Jenny asked for. That was all she begged for on this March night that was perfectly equal to the day, unique in all the season. Let her be the same sweet girl, unburdened by gifts or sorrow. ~ Alice Hoffman

Your song, what does it know?
Deepinsnow,
Eepinow,
E-i-o. ~ Paul Celan

I thought you could build a story that would function as a machine or else a complex of machines, each one moving separately, yet part of a process that ultimately would produce an emotion or a sequence of emotions. You could swap out parts, replace them if they got too old. And this time you would build in some redundancy, if only just to handle the stress.
One question was: Would the engine still work if you were aware of it, or if you were told how it actually functioned? Maybe this was one of the crucial differences between a story and a machine. ~ Paul Park

I'm not pessimistic about anything. ~ Paul Watson

My grief was cold. It was nothing to share. It was nothing to speak about, nothing to feel. ~ Alice Hoffman

Irish and Italian are my two favourite people. ~ Paul Haggis

It is a peculiar thing to believe that you know someone intimately only to find that you really do not. It is like finishing a book only to discover that you have missed several key chapters.
THE LETTER Chapter 9 page 104 ~ Richard Paul Evans

Well, life is not just a business of standing on dry land and occasionally getting your feet wet. It is merely an illusion that some of us stand on one bank and some on the opposite. So long as we stand like that we are not living at all, but dreaming. So jump, jump in, and let the shock wake us up. Even if we drown, at least for a moment or two before we die we shall be awake and alive. ~ Paul Scott

Helen Hunt is terrific, and I got to do a couple of guest spots with Helen and Paul Reiser on 'Mad About You.' ~ Lyle Lovett

One never took the time to savour the details; one said: another day, but always with the hidden knowledge that each day was unique and fatal, that there never would be a return, another time. ~ Paul Bowles

L'enfer c'est les autres.
aka, "Hell is others." . ~ Jean-Paul Sartre

The Internet is no longer the kind of thing where only six guys in the world can build it. Now, you can write a couple of checks and get one of your own. ~ Paul Vixie

Oh my God. I love rich people. And royalty are the best because they're rich people who can't be fires. ~ Paul Rudnick

When will we realize that one of the greatest mission fields in the West is the pews of our churches every Sunday morning? ~ Paul David Washer

Be acted upon rather than active. In this way, God will do through you alone what all men put together could not do without Him. ~ Vincent De Paul

Here is one of the most beautiful fruits of grace - a heart that is content, more given to worship than demand and more given to the joy of gratitude than the anxiety of want. ~ Paul David Tripp

Our founders got it right when they wrote in the Declaration of Independence that our rights come from nature and nature's God, not from government. ~ Paul Ryan

And Christ, through His own salvific suffering, is very much present in every human suffering, and can act from within that suffering by the powers of His Spirit of truth, His consoling spirit. ~ Pope John Paul II

I have seen a lot of hurt in people who try to do the Lord's work without the Lord's will". ~ Maurice Paul Obonyo

He was so pale the freckles stood out on his face the way they did when he was upset or hadn't slept. She thought they might be telling her something if she could only understand the language of freckles. ~ Alice Hoffman

A sense of hopelessness had weighed me down like a fever since I'd stepped across the border weeks before. And with this fever came a vision that had sharpened, coming into greater focus, as if inviting me to look closer. My first reaction was a laugh of disgust at the ugliness around me, like the reek of a latrine that makes you howl or at the sight of a dirty bucket of chicken pieces covered with flies. After the moment of helpless hilarity passed, what remained was the vow that I never wanted to see another place like this. ~ Paul Theroux

We are the only species on this planet without full employment. ~ Paul Hawken

Death is a master from Germany. ~ Paul Celan

As the growing emphasis on feelings crowds out reason, facts will play a smaller role in public discourse. ~ Paul Craig Roberts

But even the facts do not always tell the truth ~ Paul Auster

Adam Berenson knows how to compose, organize an ensemble, do musical research, play solo and trio piano, write for musical journals, and enlist others to his cause. A very fine musician. ~ Paul Bley

If you can get humor and seriousness at the same time, you've created a special little thing, and that's what I'm looking for, because if you get pompous, you lose everything. ~ Paul Simon

Confession is something we will never outgrow, even if we become the saints God made us to be. Pope John Paul II and Mother Teresa of Calcutta were revered even during their lifetime; but both made frequent use of the Sacrament of Reconciliation. ~ Donald Wuerl

Wisdom: Mate, we're up to our necks in Skrulls! But we remembered the treaty: mutual protection. Here we are! Now, I've lost a couple of people I care about in quick succession, and I am taking no more bollocks from you. I've got this voice in my head, it's half Gandalf and half Mr. Kipling. Who is that?!
Oberon: A VOICE?! YOU MUST NOT FOLLOW IT! IT'S THE MAD ONE, THE DEMON WHO KILLED HIS OWN CHILD AND LED EVERYONE TO DESTRUCTION! THE HIGHER EVOLUTIONARIES OF ALL THE WORLDS HAVE ONLY JUST SUCCEEDED IN CONFINING HIM TO THE DARK REALMS!
Wisdom: Oh. Right. Him. Well, I'm gonna stop following that voice then. Obviously. ~ Paul Cornell

There is always risk in relationships, but bottom line? The world has no meaning apart from relationships. Some are just messier than others, some are seasonal, others are difficult, and a few are easy, but every one of them is important. ~ Wm. Paul Young

Once you fell in love with her, you
loved her until the day you died. ~ Paul Auster

Doing things for yourself (self-preservation) are ok in in small doses and when necessary but over-burdening you life with your own self will weaken your heart, soul connectivity with others ~ Paul Isaacs

See with one eye, feel with the other. ~ Paul Klee