Top 100 Harold Fry Quotes
#1. The story of Harold Fry and his unlikely pilgrimage began as an afternoon play for radio. For many years, I have been writing plays and adapting novels for 'Woman's Hour' and the 'Classic' series. So this was originally a three-hander play, broadcast one sunny afternoon on BBC Radio 4.
Rachel Joyce
#2. Hashtag Harold Fry. Hashtag Queenie Hennessy. Hashtag unlikely pilgrimage. Hashtag hospice. Hashtag respect. Hashtag live forever. I don't know. Your names seem to be all over the place.
Rachel Joyce
#3. We are quick to stick labels on others - especially those who don't fit in with the norm. 'Harold Fry' is about a broken marriage; 'Perfect' is about a broken person. They are both about finding kindness where you least expect it.
Rachel Joyce
#4. We teach children how to measure and how to weigh. We fail to teach them how to revere, how to sense wonder and awe.
Harold S. Kushner
#5. I began photographing in 1946. Before that, I was a painter and drawer, with my mother and father's support. They were a bit pissed when I went into photography. They thought photographers were guys who took pictures at weddings.
Harold Feinstein
#6. Criticism is valuable ... and self-congratulatory experiences are not.
Harold Prince
#7. Tate University - a large football stadium with a college attached.
Harold Lloyd
#8. Billy Crystal knows how to make people laugh. He's got 30 years on stage ... there's no telling him what's funny.
Harold Ramis
#9. I'm somebody who plays the piano ... sometimes.
Harold Budd
#10. Given a fair wind, we will negotiate our way into the Common Market, head held high, not crawling in. Negotiations? Yes. Unconditional acceptance of whatever terms are offered us? No.
Harold Wilson
#11. I believe that we are going to have a much deeper appreciation of what kinds of abnormalities in cancer cells and in the surrounding cells that feed and respond to cancers are vulnerabilities that will allow us to make better predictions of which kinds of drugs will work to treat these cancers.
Harold E. Varmus
#12. Take away the Holocaust and what do you have left? Without their precious Holocaust, what are the Jews? Just a grubby little bunch of international bandits and assassins and squatters who have perpetrated the most massive, cynical fraud in human history.
Harold Covington
#13. When came the invasion of privacy.That kind of thing turns the newspaper from a friendly organ - not necessarily appeasing everybody - into the enemy. It's one reason why newspapers have suffered circulation falls.
Harold Evans
#14. Greatness recognizes greatness, and is shadowed by it.
Harold Bloom
#15. Behind every successful man you'll find a woman who has nothing to wear.
Harold Coffin
#16. We are not the Church in failure, running out the back door while the devil kicks in the front door. We are the Church of Luke 10:19 that has authority over all the power of the enemy.
Harold R. Eberle
#17. As an addict who will read anything, I obeyed, but I am not saved, and return to tell you neither what to read nor how to read it, only what I have read and think worthy of rereading, which may be the only pragmatic test for the canonical.
Harold Bloom
#19. Our biggest single theme is trying to make the NIH work better with the same amount of money.
Harold E. Varmus
#20. Affirmative action works but we're going to need to muster all our political resources if we are to keep it in place.
Harold Washington
#21. Youth are the leaders of tomorrow. Those who practice the Spiritual Exercises of Eck will know how to lead by the example of love instead of the methods of force and lies, which are the standards of leaders under the spell of the negative force.
Harold Klemp
#22. As we unfold spiritually, the reality of our inner life enters new dimensions and we must change with it.
Harold Klemp
#24. I realized early on that the academy and the literary world alike
Harold Bloom
#25. If you concentrate on finding whatever is good in every situation, you will discover that your life will suddenly be filled with gratitude, a feeling that nurtures the soul
Harold S. Kushner
#26. Prayer is simply coming into the presence of God. Because when you come into the presence of God, even the things you don't have matter a lot less.
Harold S. Kushner
#27. Australians were unique due to our corals, our apples, our gum trees and our kangaroos.
Harold Edward Holt
#28. Love won't come through unless the heart is open. To work with an open heart is to love or care for something or someone more than you do for yourself. This is the first step to the divine love that we all are looking for.
Harold Klemp
#29. A peculiarity of the higher arithmetic is the great difficulty which has often been experienced in proving simple general theorems which had been suggested quite naturally by numerical evidence.
Harold Davenport
#30. In Cuba I have always understood harsh treatment of dissenting voices as stemming from a "siege situation" imposed upon it from outside. And I believe that to a certain extent that is true.
Harold Pinter
#31. I met someone who said they'd figured out my genre: "madcap redemption comedy." I'll buy that.
Harold Ramis
#32. This party is a bit like an old stagecoach. If you drive along at a rapid rate everyone aboard is either so exhilarated or so seasick that you don't have a lot of difficulty.
Harold Wilson
#33. The recurrence of fundamentals is essential to perpetuity.
Harold B. Lee
#34. The quest for God is the quest for true happiness.
Harold Klemp
#35. Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.
Harold Bloom
#36. We want to take care of our employees, because they take care of our family.
Harold Taylor
#37. Indeed the three prophecies about the death of individual art are, in their different ways, those of Hegel, Marx, and Freud. I don't see any way of getting beyond those prophecies.
Harold Bloom
#38. I'm more interested in the quality of the work than its medium.
Gale Harold
#39. The task of understanding a culture built on the oral tradition is impossible to students steeped in the written tradition. p.55
Harold A. Innis
#40. We cling to hierarchies because our place in a hierarchy is, rightly or wrongly, a major indicator of our social worth.
Harold Leavitt
#42. We do not intend to part from the Americans and we do not intend to be satellites. I am sure they do not want us to be so. The stronger we are, the better partners we shall be; and I feel certain that as the months pass we shall draw continually closer together with mutual confidence and respect.
Harold Macmillan
#43. I never really had much problem scoring a fight, you call it the way you see it. The most important thing is concentration you really got to concentrate.
Harold Lederman
#44. How one handles success or failure is determined by their early childhood.
Harold Ramis
#45. 90% of what we did the Press didn't know about, and 90% of what they did know about they got wrong.
Harold Macmillan
#46. I'm not trying to change an image, I'm just trying to make sure that the facts match the image. The facts are basically that I'm a builder. I have not dissembled any company nor split up any companies, nor do I ever buy any companies with that intent.
Harold Simmons
#47. I am interested in garnering the white vote, and the black vote, and the Latin vote, and the Asian vote, and the business vote, and the labor vote.
Harold Washington
#48. It is an irony that the more possessive you are, the more love you demand, the less you receive, while the more freedom you give, the less you demand, the more love you will receive.
Harold H. Bloomfield
#49. We need to know not only what is done but what is purposed and said by those who shape the destines of states and realms." Horace Greeley
Harold Holzer
#50. If you don't wake up at three in the morning and want to do something, you're wasting your time.
Harold Eugene Edgerton
#51. All canonical writing possesses the quality of making you feel strangeness at home.
Harold Bloom
#52. He was always very kind and considerate to anybody below him," recalled Harold Cherniss. "But not at all to people who might be considered his intellectual equals. And this, of course, irritated people, made people very angry, and made him enemies." Wendell
Kai Bird
#53. The problem of life is to change worry into thinking and anxiety into creative action.
Harold Bridgwood Walker
#54. Often writing is like a struggle to get back to a kind of belated, quite impure virginity.
Harold Brodkey
#55. Stephen Douglas's oratory was designed for the galleries, Lincoln's for his peers
Harold Holzer
#56. Writing with a simplified alphabet checked the power of custom of an oral tradition but implied a decline in the power of expression and the creation of grooves which determined the channels of thought of readers and later writers.
Harold Innis
#57. I define influence simply as literary love, tempered by defense. The defenses vary from poet to poet. But the overwhelming presence of love is vital to understanding how great literature works.
Harold Bloom
#58. Lincoln must have welcomed the chance that evening to escape from such friends, if only to submit to a final fitting for the recently delivered inaugural suit from the Chicago tailors Titsworth & Brother.
Harold Holzer
#59. Sooner or later, we all learn that our immortality is rooted not in our professional involvements and achievements, but in our families. In time, all of our wins and losses in the workplace will be forgotten. If our memories endure, it will be because of the people we have known and touched.
Harold S. Kushner
#60. There would be nights when I would wake up and couldn't get back to sleep. So I would go downstairs and write. The staff had a pool going on how many pages of typing I would bring in here in the morning.
Harold H. Greene
#61. Love is not like a buffet line where the person in front of you threatens to take too much and leave too little for you. Love is like a muscle; the more it is exercised today, the more it can be used tomorrow.
Harold S. Kushner
#62. We are learning to work with intuition, which actually is Soul giving us gentle guidance to make our life better.
Harold Klemp
#63. I can't believe that what anyone is at this moment saying has ever happened has never happened. Nothing has ever happened. Nothing. This is the only thing that has ever happened.
Harold Pinter
#64. I really wish people - maybe it's naive - wish people had priorities and were willing to be artistic patrons.
Harold Prince
#65. Beckett despite his professed preference for Racine, is master and victim, and as such pervades Beckett's canonical drama, Endgame. Beckett's Hamlet follows the French model, in which excessive consciousness negates action, which is at some distance from Shakespeare's Hamlet.
Harold Bloom
#66. What cannot be achieved in one lifetime will happen when one lifetime is joined to another.
Harold S. Kushner
#67. It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance.
Harold S. Geneen
#68. It is the duty of Her Majesty's government neither to flap nor to falter.
Harold Macmillan
#69. Again he felt in a profound way that he was both inside and outside what he saw; that he was bith connected, and passing through. Harold began to understand that this was also the truth about his walk. He was both a part of things, and not.
Rachel Joyce
#70. To be fully and authentically human, we have to be prepared to take off the armor we usually go around wearing to keep the world from hurting us. We have to be prepared to accept pain, or else we will never dare to hope or to love
Harold Kushner
#71. For you it is possible to do anything; the only thing impossible for you to do is to do wrong, inasmuch as you are knowledge and justice and love.
Harold Percival
#72. I've never been able to understand where great artists come from.
Harold Prince
#73. My Dad always used to say, " The first hundred years are the hardest ! After that it's a piece of cake !
Harold Lee
#74. To be a husband or wife, to be a parent, is inevitably to be aware of so many disappointing, exasperating things about your mate or child, but at the same time to see those people in depth, to see them with both eyes, and to be reminded of why you still love them.
Harold S. Kushner
#75. You cannot life another soul until you are standing on higher ground than he is.
Harold B. Lee
#76. Today, as a result of the policy of Macmillan's Government, Great Britain presents in the United Nations the face of Pecksniff and in Katanga the face of Gradgrind.
Conor Cruise O'Brien
#77. Emily Dickinson sublimely unnames even the blanks.
Harold Bloom
#78. I was always crazy about New York, dependent on it, scared of it - well, it is dangerous - but beyond that there was the pressure of being young and of not yet having done work you really liked, trademark work, breakthrough work.
Harold Brodkey
#79. I had a lot of fun working with John Candy. We had a pretty good rapport.
Harold Ramis
#80. Man can no more leave God out of his philosophies than he can live without his heart or see without his eyes.
Edward Harold Begbie
#81. From "boyhood up," as Lincoln once confided to his old friend Ward Hill Lamon, "my ambition was to be President.
Harold Holzer
#82. In reality, that was going to be very messy from an antitrust standpoint and meet a lot of resistance from the top management at Hasbro. That was a whole different story.
Harold L. Vogel
#83. There are some things we should feel guilty about, but the guilt feelings should attach to the deed, not to the doer.
Harold S. Kushner
#84. Self-Realisation. Soul recognition. The entering of Soul into the Soul Plane and there beholding Itself as pure Spirit. A state of seeing, knowing, and being.
Harold Klemp
#85. It's very difficult to feel contempt for others when you see yourself in the mirror.
Harold Pinter
#86. One thing is certain: We can't go back. The musical will never be the same as it was.
Harold Prince
#87. The main essentials of a successful prime minister are sleep and a sense of history.
Harold Wilson
#88. Regardless of the day or the hour; whether in seeming good times or bad, the Christian lives in the world for the good of the world and for the sake of the world.
Harold Lindsell
#89. Harold says one of the most cowardly things ordinary people do is to shut their eyes to Facts. It
C.S. Lewis
#90. Shakespeare and his few peers invented all of us.
Harold Bloom
#91. The artist is obliged to invent the self who will paint his pictures.
Harold Rosenberg
#92. The prospect of future lives in remote heavens as a compensation for the inadequacy of our present lives is a bad tradeoff for losing out on the present.
Francis Harold Cook
#93. Those experiences "made us who we are today!" It's just the way things are ...
Harold Homer Anderson
#94. It was difficult being a conscientious objector in the 1940's, but I felt I had to stick to my guns.
Harold Pinter
#95. I only ask to go where the Lord would have me go, and only to receive what the Lord would have me receive, knowing that more important than sight is the witness that one may have by the witness of the Holy Ghost to his soul that things are so and that Jesus is the Christ, a living personage.
Harold B. Lee
#96. There is a power in people who dream big and who try hard.
Harold Klemp
#97. The happiest people I know are people who don't even think about being happy. They just think about being good neighbors, good people. And then happiness sort of sneaks in the back window while they are busy doing good.
Harold S. Kushner
#98. All businesses, including gasoline stations and restaurants, should close ever Sunday ... by force of legislative fiat through the duly elected officials of the people.
Harold Lindsell
#99. If there's one thing America will always lead the world in," Harold said, "it's assholes with guns.
Jason Mott
#100. Marxism is like a classical building that followed the Renaissance; beautiful in its way, but incapable of growth.
Harold Macmillan
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