Harry Overstreet Quotes

#1. If minds are truly alive they will seek out books, for books are the human race recounting its memorable experiences, confronting its problems, searching for solutions, drawing the blueprints of it futures.

Harry Allen Overstreet

#2. But one creature said at last, I am tired of clinging. Though I cannot see it with my eyes, I trust that the current knows where it is going. I shall let go, and let it take me where it will. Clinging, I shall die of boredom.

Richard Bach

#3. The secret of all true persuasion is to induce the person to persuade himself.

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#4. The average citizen expresses pride in the American Bill of Rights and then seeks to protect his real estate by restrictive covenants.

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#5. A person remains immature, whatever his age, as long as he thinks of himself as an exception to the human race.

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#6. Think about what life will be like without me because I've already considered that question. And I've decided that no life at all would be better than living without you.

Diana Palmer

#7. Newspapers have developed what might be called a vested interest in catastrophe. If they can spot a fight, they play up that fight. If they can uncover a tragedy, they will headline that tragedy.

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#8. Yeah, well, we're all jerks at one time or another. Don't beat yourself up over it.

Sarah Felix Burns

#9. Honey, no offense, but sometimes I think I could shoot you and watch you kick.

Raymond Carver

#10. Superstition is, always has been, and forever will be, the foe of progress, the enemy of education and the assassin of freedom.

Robert Green Ingersoll

#11. I consider every drummer that ever played before me an influence, in every way.

Buddy Rich

#12. The immature mind hops from one thing to another; the mature mind seeks to follow through.

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#13. I may safely predict that the education of the future will be inventive-minded. It will believe so profoundly in the high value of the inventive or creative spirit that it will set itself to develop that spirit by all means within its power.

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#14. The happiest thing that can be said about democracy ... is that it is one of the few systems that has been willing to risk a long period of confusion and mixed purposes for the sake of giving man a chance to grow up in mind and responsibility.

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#15. You'll never get that freedom back again once people start paying you attention, and especially not once they start paying you money.

Austin Kleon

#16. To the immature, other people are not real.

Harry Overstreet

#17. Sorrow, gladness, yearning, hope, and love belong to all of us, in all times and in all places. Music is the only means whereby we feel these emotions in their universality.

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#18. Recreation is not a secondary concern for a democracy. It is a primary concern, for the kind of recreation a people make for themselves determines the kind of people they become and the kind of society they build.

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#19. Better a dish of illusion and a hearty appetite for life than a feast of reality and indigestion therewith.

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#20. To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill. It is in fact the consuming illness of our time.

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#21. I firmly believe that if your environment works for you and your family, it translates into a better life.

Candice Olson

#22. One of the most important phases of maturing is that of growth from self-centering to an understanding relationship to others. A person is not mature until he has both an ability and a willingness to see himself as one among others and to do unto those others as he would have them do to him.

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#23. Fortune has played me a sad trick by letting me live on and on.

Belle Boyd

#24. Time the devourer of everything.

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#25. That quiet mutual gaze of a trusting husband and wife is like the first moment of rest or refuge from a great weariness or a great danger - not to be interfered with by speech or action which would distract the sensations from the fresh enjoyment of repose.

George Eliot

#26. Goodness is a special kind of truth and beauty. It is truth and beauty in human behavior.

Harry Allen Overstreet