Harthouse Quotes & Sayings

To apply general tools to specific problems is to fail. — Michael Crichton

I was living on Earth, where everything anyone needs pops out of replicators. Lack of professional credentials isn't really a big issue in the heartland of the Federation the way it is in other places, after all. — Michael A. Martin

Now you see, Tom," said Mr. Harthouse ( ... ); "every man is selfish in everything he does, and I am exactly like the rest of my fellow-creatures. — Charles Dickens

Why dwell on negative thoughts? When you can think positively. — Lailah Gifty Akita

It's quite amazing to me, as I walk around a supermarket or a health food shop, to observe the number of Fairtrade choices: not just staples such as coffee, tea, fresh fruits and rice, but cocoa and chocolate, herbs and spices, honey, ice cream, and jams. — Sheherazade Goldsmith

If you wait for the weekend to live,
you're not living 71% of your life. — Khang Kijarro Nguyen

And we'd drink huge amounts of scotch and coke, which is a ghastly sweet drink ... And now people don't drink nearly as much, for good reason. We're all a little wiser. — Bill Bruford

First he sympathized with Cuba, then with China, and when the cruelty of their regimes began to appall him, he resigned himself with a sigh to a sea of words with no weight and no resemblance to life. — Milan Kundera

There was a piece of ornamental water immediately below the parapet, on the other side, into which Mr. James Harthouse had a very strong inclination to pitch Mr. Thomas Gradgrind Junior. — Charles Dickens

Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face. — Michel De Montaigne

The true man neither guiltily conceals nor anxiously explains nor vulgarly parades. — Clarence Darrow

None of them knew the downright pleasure of enchantment, of not suspecting but knowing the things behind things. — Toni Morrison

It is no sin to be tempted; the wickedness lies in being overcome. — Honore De Balzac

That's the past tense, Tom,' returned Mr. James Harthouse, striking the ash from his cigar with his little finger. 'We are in the present tense, now.' 'Verb — Charles Dickens

I'll look as if I'm dead, and that won't be true.'
I said nothing.
'You understand. It's too far. I can't take this body with me. It's too heavy.'
I said nothing.
'But it'll be like an old abandoned shell. There's nothing sad about an old shell ... '
I said nothing.
'It'll be nice, you know. I'll be looking at the stars, too. All the stars will be wells with a rusty pulley. All the stars will pour out water for me to drink ... '
I said nothing.
'And it'll be fun! You'll have five-hundred million little bells; I'll have five-hundred million springs of fresh water ... '
And he, too, said nothing more. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery