Hanlon Quotes & Sayings

Tell me, when you are alone with him [ Max Beerbohm ] Sphinx, does he take off his face and reveal his mask? — Oscar Wilde

If you expect a kick in the balls and you get a slap in the face, it's a victory. — Ardal O'Hanlon

Fuck, No I'll handle this, i'm going to kick her ass and throw her out of the window. Then, I'll climb into my box and let your people clean up the mess. — H.M. Ward

There is the Toilet Monster, who comes into the bathroom if you sit on the toilet for too long. — Abby Hanlon

I heard a story about a woman who grew up in Texas. When she was having trouble in her life, she would visit her grandmother, who lived nearby and always had a kind word and some wisdom to pass on. One day she was complaining to her grandmother about some situation and her grandmother just turned to her, smiled sadly, and said, "Sometimes, darlin', you've just got to rise above yourself in this life." I've remembered that wise advice many times as I've faced trouble in my life. — William Hudson O'Hanlon

Marriage is when two people are joined together to become one desperately boring person. — Ardal O'Hanlon

Football is the best way to get to know a people and a city. — Ardal O'Hanlon

You have attributed conditions to villainy that simply result from stupidity. — Robert A. Heinlein

What helped me was working with my breathing, specifically, using my breathing to stay sharp and focused under pressure and then cool and calm when the pressure was relieved. — Glen Hanlon

I have long been something of a climate-change sceptic, but my views in recent years have shifted. For me, the most convincing evidence that something worrying is going on lies right here in the Arctic. — Michael Hanlon

Men embody adventure, women embody hearth and home, and that has been pretty much it.
Even as a child, I noticed that Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz spent her entire time trying to get back home to Kansas, and Alice in Wonderland dreamed her long adventure, then woke up just in time for tea. — Gloria Steinem

So why had he come? He'd said he'd had no choice, but for centuries men had chopped off their own limbs, faked insanity, gone into hiding or to prison rather than to war. Was there some dark flaw in his psyche? Did he have some perverse need to destroy? To kill? — Dominique Wilson

When we endure our own tragedies or trials, most of us develop some empathy and compassion for others who are suffering. The trick is to keep that sense of compassion going throughout our daily lives, when we are likely to go on automatic pilot and move back into being judgmental, especially when times are tough. — William Hudson O'Hanlon

One of the most common words in the invalidating, self-blaming stories we believe about ourselves or our situations is the word "should." The psychologist Albert Ellis has coined the phrase "Stop shoulding on yourself." When you tell yourself that you should feel or be another way, you are likely to feel bad about yourself. As an alternative, try telling yourself that it is okay to feel or be the way you are, even though you have some idea that you should feel or be different. — William Hudson O'Hanlon

I want to give myself. I just want to give everything I have, everything I am. — Emme Rollins

Global warming, indeed much of environmentalism, has become a new religion. Like the old religions, environmentalism preaches much good sense, is well meaning, but has a worrying lack of logic at its core. — Michael Hanlon

Running is never fun. Running is something that you do when there's a man chasing you with a knife. — Ardal O'Hanlon

Focke's razor: Never attribute to plot holes that which is adequately explained by miracles. — Kevin Focke

So, you are now talking to birds?"
Hanlon glanced back from looking up at the tree the crow sat in and said, "Not all birds, just crows, oh, and hawks and eagles, sometimes ospreys, but never vultures."
She laughed at his attempt at humor, "Why don't you talk to vultures?"
"Well, Sassy, because vultures aren't very good conversationalists. Doug Hiser -Montana Mist coming soon 2010 — Doug Hiser

It isn't just a village. The houses aren't just places to live. Everything belongs to everybody. Everyone belongs to everyone else. Even a single person can make a difference. — Joanne Harris

As long as I live, I will always remember those wee children standing at the railing on that ship. - John Hanlon, the sailor — Deana J. Driver

I make a lot of jokes about vegetarians in my act but most of them don't have the strength to protest. — Ardal O'Hanlon

It is [Simon] Wessely's often-unconcealed "derision" directed towards people with ME -- a disease from which people die and which appears on Coroners' death certificates as the cause of death -- which arouses such anger, an anger that is not confined to patients in the UK but encompasses medical scientists in other countries whose decision-makers have come under Wessely's thrall. — Michael Hanlon

One good thing about teaching calculus is that you develop a hardened attitude towards repeating yourself. — Philip J. Hanlon

...[the birds] were the yellow of all yellows, the kind of yellow that every other yellow secretly wishes to be. — Redmond O'Hanlon

Explanations involving conspiracy, greed, and even stupidity are easier to generate and accept than more complex explanations that may be closer to the truth.

A bit of wisdom called Hanlon's Razor advises us 'Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.' I would add a clumsier but more accurate corollary to this: 'Never attribute to malice or stupidity that which can be explained by moderately rational individuals following incentives in a complex system of interactions.' People behaving with no central coordination and acting in their own best interest can still create results that appear to some to be clear proof of conspiracy or a plague of ignorance. — Douglas W. Hubbard

Hanlon's Razor: Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.2 — Steven Pinker

Are we going to do any thinking today, or is it going to be all math? — Philip J. Hanlon

Falling in love creates beauty in every facet of life. A hovering bee, a gentle flowing creek, pale blue sky, the crinkle at the corner of an old woman's eye, bare feet on velvet moss, a songbird in a bush, even the howl of a far away wolf become so beautiful to those finding a new love. It was like that for Sassy and Hanlon, everything seemed sharper and clearer. It was like a new view of the world that they had never known existed had opened up to them. Doug Hiser Montana Mist — Doug Hiser

his beating heart, her tears absorbed by — EC Hanlon

The world doesn't make any heroes anymore. — Graham Greene