Robert Hyland Quotes & Sayings

Stories, like food, lose their flavor if cooked in a hurry. — Ngugi Wa Thiong'o

It's only when it's smoothed out by history and we try to make sense of it - this incredibly complicated period when everyone's doing something different every day - that we look for those stylistic similarities and we say, "Well, that's what that was about," and sort of forget all the other nuance. I definitely feel that that's true for this time in my community of artists, and I'm sure that it was true at other times too. — Missy Mazzoli

To love a poet is to love a moment. — James Wylder

We confide in our strength, without boasting of it, we respect that of others, without fearing it. — Thomas Jefferson

In the silence of the night, streetlights talk each other by touching their lights each other! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

It seems The Adversary needs neither their guilt nor their request, but simply their return. In other words, since repentance is the process whereby guilt is turned into gratitude, He doesn't mind if they skip a step and go directly to gratitude. — Geoffrey Wood

Regardless of nationality, all men are brothers. God is "our Father who art in heaven." The commandment "Thou shalt not kill" is unconditional and inexorable ... The lowly Nazarene taught us the doctrine of non-resistance, and so convinced was he of the soundness of that doctrine that he sealed his belief with death on the cross ... When human law conflicts with Divine law, my duty is clear. Conscience, my infallible guide, impels me to tell you that prison, death, or both, are infinitely preferable to joining any branch of the Army. — Ben Salmon

My intention, of course, had been to wake up early and call Father Dominic to warn him about Heather. But intentions are only as good as the people who hold them, and I guess I must be worthless because I didn't wake up until my mother shook me awake, and by then it was 7:30, and my ride was leaving without me. — Meg Cabot

I found during my time covering the NHL that the enforcers were some of the most accessible guys and the most low-key guys. I think that's somewhat of a natural thing. I don't know if that's because it's the big guy that everybody fears, and then you're sort of surprised and taken by the fact that he's actually a nice guy. — John Branch

As an ice dancer, we take our on-ice relationships so seriously, and that's really the way we like to go about it. — Charlie White

We have disagreements as to what race does and ought to mean, but we have a remarkable consensus on what it is, without any ability to define it technically. — Barbara Katz Rothman

I'm scared I'll never stop comparing my life without him to how my life was when I was with him. — Colleen Hoover