John Hart Quotes & Sayings

We can all live with doubts. It's the knowing that breaks us.

Iron House — John Hart

But death and blood was part of what it took to go from boy to man, no matter what my mother had to say about it. — John Hart

For a year, Johnny lived the new, brutal truth that he was on his own.
But that's the way it was. What had been concrete one day proved sand the next; strength was illusion; faith meant shit. So what? So his once-bright world had devolved to cold, wet fog. That was life, the new order. Johnny had nothing to trust but himself, so that's the way he rolled - his path, his choices, and no looking back. — John Hart

She turned the water scalding hot and scrubbed her face until it hurt, but the eyes still looked wrong. She tore off her clothes and stepped into the shower; but it was not enough.
The dirt was on the inside. — John Hart

It's not an exaggeration to say that we're on the verge of a meltdown. — John Hart

Art, after all, is traditionally displayed against vacancies: paintings on dun walls, sculptures in empty spaces, music in quiet halls. — John Hart

Now, she lived with her dogs in a small house by a creek in the country, and her life had become a simple thing. — John Hart

Our questions, which began politely, were politely ignored. — John Hart

Denial was a weapon; it killed truth, numbed the mind, and I was a junkie. — John Hart

Lightening falls, all you can do is- pray God that it doesn't fall on you. — John Hart

Tomorrow is soon enough to contemplate the multitude of your sins." He — John Hart

I'd been awake for thirty-six hours and driving for ten. Restless weeks, sleepless nights, and the decision stole into me like a thief. I never planned to go back to North Carolina- I'd buried it- but I blinked and found my hands on the wheel, Manhattan a sinking island to the north. I wore a week-old beard and three day denim, felt stretched by an edginess that bordered on pain, but no one here would fail to recognize me. That's what home was all about, for good or bad. — John Hart

We can live with doubts," Jessop said "It's the knowing that breaks us. — John Hart

The last word smelled of desperation,and the old lawyer sighed. 'I can tell you that the law is an ocean of darkness and truth, and that lawyers are but vessels on the surface. We may pull one rope or another, but it is the client, in the end, who charts the course. — John Hart

But the sin of Adam and Eve brought about a new kind of work as part of the punishment for sin. Work was now more difficult, painful, and less productive than it should have been. It brought sweat, fatigue, and toil never intended for us by our Creator. — John Hart

When your life is shit, it's easy to forget just how many good people are in the world. — John Hart

But things can change, that's what I told myself. Mistakes can be undone, wrongs righted. That's what brought me home. Hope. — John Hart

Because some things should never be forgotten." He smoothed the girl's unruly hair. "Not if we hope to live better lives." * — John Hart

I'm sixty-nine years old, and I have no plans to run for reelection. Do you think I give a damn? — John Hart

Like her, he cared more for the future than the past, more for hope than anger. — John Hart

the glass. The sergeant put — John Hart

Go to hell.
Come back burning. — John Hart

I'm a killer, not a thief. — John Hart

But childhood was not all good, nor were its lessons. Good came with the bad, as dark did with light and weakness with strength. Nothing was simple or pure; everyone had secrets. What — John Hart

Disgust was an organ in Hunt's gut. The more he thought about it, the more it churned. — John Hart

Then she turned for the great mouth of a door, and by the time it inhaled her, she was a much older woman. — John Hart

Are you familiar with the word inspiration? The meaning of it? Where it comes from?...In the Dark Ages no understood the things that made some people special. Every soul in that dark, difficult time faced the same limitations, every soul except a precious few who saw things differently, the poets, inventors, artists, stone masons. Regular folks didn't understand how a person could wake up one day and see the world differently. They thought it was a gift from God. Thus the word "inspiration." It means breathed upon...breathed upon by God himself. — John Hart

saw how I slumped in — John Hart