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Men are often capable of greater things than they perform. They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.


Sir Hugh Walpole

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HUGH PRATHER I have my moments. Ever since I was a boy, I never was someone who was at ease with happiness. Too o...
HUGH LAURIE I'm very comfortable with the nature of life and death, and that we come to an end. What's m...
HUGH HEFNER Women are frightening. If you get to 41 as a man, you're quite battle-scarred.
HUGH GRANT We came back right over the World Trade Center and could see, even from that altitude, the devastati...
HUGH SHELTON And I particularly like the whole thing of being boss. Boss and employee... It's the slave quali...
HUGH GRANT Save for thee and thy lessons, man in society would everywhere sink into a sad compound of the fiend...
HUGH MILLER They can see the brave silhouette from almost anywhere in the District of Columbia and use it as a c...
HUGH SIDEY The financing of all TV shows is dictated by finding an audience between 18 and 49. I have now passe...
HUGH LAURIE Becoming a father, I think it inevitably changes your perspective of life. I don't get nearly en...
HUGH JACKMAN In my wildest dreams, I could not have imagined a sweeter life.
HUGH HEFNER Nothing is perfect. Life is messy. Relationships are complex. Outcomes are uncertain. People are irr...
HUGH MACKAY I run six-to-eight miles a day, plus weights and aerobics in the lunch hour. I also lie a lot, which...
HUGH LAURIE The strange thing - and this is one of the advantages of being incredibly shallow and superficial - ...
HUGH LAURIE Creating my own world in a comic or selling my first penny newspaper aged nine was a way of gaining ...
HUGH HEFNER Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes.
HUGH PRATHER I had spent some time in the outback, but to meet Aboriginals and work with them was wonderful. It g...
HUGH JACKMAN To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward is in...
HUGH PRATHER Whenever we condemn, we cloak the world in pain.
HUGH PRATHER Negative feedback is better that none. I would rather have a man hate me than overlook me. As long a...
HUGH PRATHER Meditation is all about the pursuit of nothingness. It's like the ultimate rest. It's better...
HUGH JACKMAN I frequently dream of having tea with the Queen.
HUGH GRANT Exercise is the chief source of improvement in our faculties.
HUGH BLAIR It's much more straightforward to get finance when you have an Oscar.
HUGH HUDSON What people don't know about oppression is that the oppressor works much harder. You always grew...
HUGH MASEKELA