Top 100 Haig's Quotes
#1. In Haig's presence, Kissinger referred pointedly to military men as "dumb, stupid animals to be used" as pawns for foreign policy.
Bob Woodward
#2. The American films just have so much more publicity and so much more money behind them that it's so hard to compete.
Georgina Haig
#3. I think the new generations in America, the America's youth, no longer care about Vietnam. They don't want to hear any more about it.
Alexander Haig
#4. I think that's all just a bit of luck that I've gotten to do such different stuff. I don't know if it's a good thing to not do something, just 'cause it's too similar to what you've done.
Georgina Haig
#5. They only had Saturdays, because Mondays were a little bit too close to Sundays for Sunday's liking, as if Monday were a collapsed star in the week's solar system, with an excessive gravitational pull.
Matt Haig
#6. Humans, in the day that has been the Earth, have been here for less than a minute. We're a late-night piss in the toilet, that's all we are.
Matt Haig
#7. I wanted to be dead. No. That's not quite right. I didn't want to be dead, I just didn't want to be alive.
Matt Haig
#8. You reach a certain age
sometimes it's fifteen, sometimes it's forty-six
and you realize the cliche you have adopted for yourself isn't working.
Matt Haig
#10. A durable, long-term U.S.-China strategic relationship is even more important now than in previous decades. The relationship will continue to grow and prosper to the mutual benefit of all peoples.
Alexander Haig
#11. Even more staggeringly, depression is a disease so bad that people are killing themselves because of it in a way they do not kill themselves with any other illness. Yet people still don't really think depression really is that bad. If they did, they wouldn't say the things they say.
Matt Haig
#12. I liked the warmth of her body against mine and realized the pathos of being a human. Of being a mortal creature who was essentially alone but needed the myth of togetherness with others. Friends, children, lovers. It was an attractive myth. It was a myth you could easily inhabit.
Matt Haig
#13. Australians just don't see that many Australian films, but it's also our responsibility as filmmakers and the responsibility of the funding bodies to remember that audiences want to be entertained, and people are entertained in lots of different ways.
Georgina Haig
#14. It was then I realised the one thing worse than having a dog hate you is having a dog love you.
Matt Haig
#15. Anxiety takes away all the commas and full stops we need to make sense of ourselves.
Matt Haig
#16. He just stared at me, his eyes shining blank circles, and seemed to know exactly who it was, standing behind the juniper bushes. But he stayed quiet. He was a good dog. And I loved him.
Matt Haig
#17. For those that don't know, a human is a real bipedal life form of midrange intelligence, living a largely deluded existence on a small, waterlogged planet in a very lonely corner of the universe.
Matt Haig
#18. It is not the length of life that matters. It's the depth. But while burrowing, keep the sun above you.
Matt Haig
#19. Sooner or later something had to give. But President Bush, faced with the unprecedented affront of 9-11, could not wait to take action. So he had to do what we were capable of doing, and he did it brilliantly.
Alexander Haig
#20. The Council's expanding the refuges, at least, but it's still nonsensical.
Francesca Haig
#21. The world awaits Beijing's hosting of the 2008 Olympics, an occasion which will bring into the global spotlight the dramatic advances China is making in enhancing the quality of life for its people.
Alexander Haig
#22. It's dull. It's the dullest life you can imagine. Here, you have pain, and loss, that's the price. But the rewards can be wonderful, Gulliver.
Matt Haig
#23. A paradox: The things you don't need to live - books, art, cinema, wine, and so on - are the things you need to live.
Matt Haig
#24. I think that basically we are all helping people. All the time. Every time any of us speaks openly about mental health, we are helping normalize an illness that is still handled with protective goggles and safety gloves.
Matt Haig
#25. Humans, I was discovering, believed they were in control of their own lives, and so they were in awe of questions and tests, as these made them feel like they had a certain mastery over other people, who had failed in their choices, and who had not worked hard enough on the right answers.
Matt Haig
#26. Noise is life.
Silence is death.
But now, just for this moment, silence doesn't seem so bad. It seems like a desired ending, a destination, a place where noise wants to reach.
Matt Haig
#27. Everyone represses everything. Do you think any of these "normal" human beings really do exactly what they want to do all the time? 'Course not. It's just the same. We're middle-class and we're British. Repression is in our veins.
Matt Haig
#28. There will be days when the fishing is better than one's most optimistic forecast, others when it is far worse. Either is a gain over just staying home.
Roderick Haig-Brown
#29. (A male human's testicles were the most attractive thing about him, I realized, and vastly unappreciated by humans themselves, who would very often rather look at almost anything else, including smiling faces.)
Matt Haig
#30. You had to stay consistent to life's delusions. All you had was your perspective, so objective truth was meaningless. You had to choose a dream and stick with it. Everything else was a con.And once you had tasted truth and love in the same potent cocktail there had to be no more tricks.
Matt Haig
#31. To see something, you have to believe in it. Really believe it. That's the first elf rule. You can't see something you don't believe in. Now try your hardest and see if you can see what you have been looking for.
Matt Haig
#32. You can always find ways to make it different, as long as it's a really well-written script and well-written character.
Georgina Haig
#33. A watched pot never boils. That's all you need to know about quantum physics.
Matt Haig
#34. If you have children and love one more than another, work at it. They will know, even if it's by a single atom less. A single atom is all you need to make a very big explosion.
Matt Haig
#35. Start fires. But only metaphorically. Unless you are cold and it's a safe setting. In which case: start fires.
Matt Haig
#36. I think you're just always trying to find really great, interesting female roles. That's the thing for me. You do have to think about what you're signing up for.
Georgina Haig
#37. Be proud to act like a normal human being. Keep daylight hours, get a regular job, and mix in the company of people with a fixed sense of right and wrong.
The Abstainer's Handbook (second edition, p. 89)
Matt Haig
#38. Beauty breeds beauty, truth triggers truth. The cure for writer's block is therefore to read.
Matt Haig
#39. The price for being intelligent enough to be the first species to be fully aware of the cosmos might just be a capacity to feel a whole universe's worth of darkness.
Matt Haig
#40. I think that perhaps the classic propagandists of the - in the Second World War was Winston Churchill. He was extremely skilled and adept at it.
Alexander Haig
#41. It was their own offensive, not ours, that consummated their ruin. They were worn down not by Joffre, Nivelle and Haig, but by Ludendorff. See
Winston S. Churchill
#42. That's not a lie, it's a terminological inexactitude.
Alexander Haig
#43. MINDS ARE UNIQUE. They go wrong in unique ways. My mind went wrong in a slightly different way to how other minds go wrong. Our experience overlaps with other people's, but it is never exactly the same experience.
Matt Haig
#44. I had never been one of those males who were scared of tears. I'd been a Cure fan, for God's sake.
Matt Haig
#45. We didn't do anything wrong, but among the lessons learned, given the magnitude of the problems we now face in Afghanistan, a major U.S. force on the ground would convince the world we were in for the long-haul recovery of a country devastated by 21 years of warfare.
Alexander Haig
#46. That's what starts to happen, when you know it is possible for you to feel pain you have no control over. You become vulnerable. Because the possibility of pain is where love stems from. And that, for me, was very bad news indeed.
Matt Haig
#47. I think intellectualism can be a barrier to reading. The point of a book - song, film, whatever - is to FEEL it. That's why we're here, no?
Matt Haig
#48. Don't always try to be cool. The whole universe is cool. It's the warm bits that matter.
Matt Haig
#49. It's not you. It's them. (No, really. It is.)
Matt Haig
#50. But stories aren't always lies. They are things stored in all our imaginations-hence the name stories-and it is the author's job to point them out.
Matt Haig
#51. One life form's gold is another life form's tin can.
Matt Haig
#52. Knowledge is finite. Wonder is infinite.
Matt Haig
#53. People with mental illnesses aren't wrapped up in themselves because they are intrinsically any more selfish than other people. Of course not. They are just feeling things that can't be ignored. Things that point the arrows inward.
Matt Haig
#54. One of the most talented writers out there is Brian Haig.
Vince Flynn
#55. Never say 'pull yourself together' or 'cheer up' unless you're also going to provide detailed, foolproof instructions.
Matt Haig
#56. Kissing was very much like eating. But instead of reducing the appetite, the food consumed actually increased it. The food wasn't matter, it had no mass, and yet it seemed to convert into a very delicious energy inside me.
Matt Haig
#57. I started out as a Cold Warrior, even my last years in grade school.
Alexander Haig
#58. I have fished through fishless days that I remember happily without regret.
Roderick Haig-Brown
#59. The Humans is a laugh-and-cry book. Troubling, thrilling, puzzling, believable and impossible. Matt Haig uses words like a tin-opener. We are the tin.
Jeanette Winterson
#60. Light was everything. Sunshine, windows with the blinds open. Pages with short chapters and lots of white space and
Short.
Paragraphs.
Light was everything.
Matt Haig
#61. Listening to music, I realised, was simply the pleasure of counting without realising you were counting.
Matt Haig
#62. I was drinking a cup of tea. I actually enjoyed tea. It was so much better than coffee. It tasted like comfort.
Matt Haig
#63. Forcing yourself to see the world through love's gaze can be healthy. Love is an attitude to life. It can save us.
Matt Haig
#64. As I look back at the span of the Cold War in those early days, in the '50s, for example, there was a great deal of Soviet propaganda here in the United States, but it was clumsy, and it was anchored to a lot of ideological support in certain circles in America itself.
Alexander Haig
#65. A cat, I discovered, was very much like a dog. But smaller, and without the self-esteem issues.
Matt Haig
#66. I played an album called Space Oddity by David Bowie, which, in its simple patterned measure of time, was actually quite enjoyable.
Matt Haig
#67. Imagine all the time we had was bottled up, like wine. and handed over to us. How would we make that bottle last? By sipping slowly, appreciating the taste, or by gulping?
Matt Haig
#68. He wrote me a prescription for more diazepam and advised I take things "one day at a time," as if there were another way for days to be experienced.
Matt Haig
#69. Those who are seeking ways to tap into the potential of e-mail will find themselves in a position to capitalize on the pending explosion in Internet usage.
Alexander Haig
#70. There are as many versions of a book as there are readers.
Matt Haig
#71. On Earth you have to spend a lot of time traveling in between places, be it on roads or on rail tracks or in careers or relationships.
Matt Haig
#72. So this was love. Two life-forms in mutual reliance. I was meant to be thinking I was watching weakness, something to scorn, but I wasn't thinking that at all.
Matt Haig
#73. I
Like
The Way
That when you
Tilt
Poems
On their side
They
Look like
Miniature
Cities
From
A long way
Away.
Skyscrapers
Made out
Of
Words.
Matt Haig
#74. People joke, in our field, about Pythagoras and his religious cult based on perfect geometry and other abstract mathematical forms, but if we are going to have religion at all then a religion of mathematics seems ideal, because if God exists then what is He but a mathematician?
Matt Haig
#75. No two moralities match. Accept different shapes, so long as they aren't sharp enough to hurt.
Matt Haig
#76. Goals are the source of misery. An unattained goal causes pain, but actually achieving it brings only a brief satisfaction.
Matt Haig
#77. You see, the language of words was only one of the human languages. There were many others, as I have pointed out. The language of sighs, the language of silent moments, and most significantly, the language of frowns.
Matt Haig
#78. Unlike a book or a film depression doesn't have to be about something.
Matt Haig
#79. I craved knowledge. I craved facts. I searched for them like lifebuoys in the sea. But statistics are tricky things.
Matt Haig
#80. Memories were just future sadness stored away
Matt Haig
#81. doting, the guy on the sideline at
Brian Haig
#82. Where we are from there is no remorse because action has a logical motive and always results in the best outcome for the given situation.
Matt Haig
#83. This was, I would later realise, a planet of things wrapped inside things. Food inside wrappers. Bodies inside clothes. Contempt inside smiles. Everything was hidden away.
Matt Haig
#84. So the coffee came and I tasted it - a hot, foul, acidic, dual-carbon compound liquid - and I spat it out all over her. A major breach of human etiquette: apparently, I was meant to swallow
Matt Haig
#85. What the fundamentalists are doing is a total negation of their own faith - encouraging and lionizing suicide bombers and killing women and children, hardly in keeping with the teachings of Prophet Mohammed.
Alexander Haig
#86. History is a branch of mathematics. So is literature. Economics is a branch of religion.
Matt Haig
#88. In a thousand years, if humans survive that long, everything you know will have been disproved. And replaced by even bigger myths.
Matt Haig
#89. An annoying thing about depression is that thinking about life is inevitable. Depression makes thinkers out of all of us.
Matt Haig
#90. A river is water is its loveliest form; rivers have life and sound and movement and infinity of variation, rivers are veins of the earth through which the lifeblood returns to the heart
Roderick Haig-Brown
#91. To be calm becomes a kind of revolutionary act. To be happy with your own non-upgraded existence. To be comfortable with our messy, human selves, would not be good for business. Yet we have no other world to live in. And
Matt Haig
#92. The night moves at the speed of panic.
Matt Haig
#93. But there was a leap to be made from not caring about someone to wanting to eat them.
Matt Haig
#94. with the centenary of 1914 rapidly approaching it is high time to stop regarding the first world war as current affairs and douglas haig as our contemporary
Gary Sheffield
#95. There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.' Experience surrounds innocence and innocence can never be regained once lost.
Matt Haig
#96. You are more than the sum of your particles. And that is quite a sum.
Matt Haig
#97. She carried on talking. And as she did so, I realized there could be no cosmic consequence at all if I stopped listening, and with that realization I switched off the phone.
Matt Haig
#98. When Disney was creating Elsa, they based a lot of her movements on that of a ballerina, which was interesting for me to find out because I actually did ballet years ago. That definitely informed some of the ways I made her walk and move.
Georgina Haig
#99. I'm sorry,' I said. 'I'm sorry for everything. For the past and the future.' An apology, said while in dull pain, made me feel as close to human as it was possible to feel. I could almost have written a poem.
Matt Haig
#100. And yet the irony was that she soon placed herself in the margins voluntarily, giving up work for family, because she imagined that when she eventually arrived at her deathbed, she would feel more regret about unborn children than unwritten books.
Matt Haig
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