David Hare quote: "The theatre is the best way of showing the gap between what is said and what is seen to be done, and that is why, ragged and gap-toothed as it is, it has still a far healthier potential than some poorer, abandoned arts."

Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.
DAVID HARE

Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides.
DAVID HARE

The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
DAVID HARE

Children always turn to the light.
DAVID HARE

The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.
DAVID HARE

Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature.
DAVID HARE

Nothing is further than earth from heaven, and nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.
DAVID HARE

Some people carry their heart in their head and some carry their head in their heart. The trick is t...
DAVID HARE

To those whose God is honor; only disgrace is a sin.
DAVID HARE

No one but a fool is always right.
DAVID HARE

Strength was the virtue of paganism; obedience is the virtue of Christianity.
DAVID HARE

Sudden resolutions, like the sudden rise of mercury in a barometer, indicate little else than the va...
DAVID HARE

Smiles are the language of love.
DAVID HARE

The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism.
DAVID HARE

The future of American film lies on television.
DAVID HARE

In oratory the will must predominate.
DAVID HARE

Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.
DAVID HARE

Are we simply waving farewell to the days when some of the most interesting thinking in Europe and A...
DAVID HARE

In those days, the early 1980s, TV and film were interchangeable.
DAVID HARE

The silence between us was profound. I thought it was his job to say something. Only now do I unders...
DAVID HARE

that the erotic charge is very important in his writing. It really doesn't matter whether he was gay...
DAVID HARE

As human beings, we are all not conducting just one narrative but many narratives all at the same ti...
DAVID HARE

An inability to handle language is not the same thing as stupidity.
DAVID HARE

He's been both an example and an inspiration to us all.
DAVID HARE

I couldn't be happier. This is a brilliant choice.
DAVID HARE

When they speak, dead frogs fall out of their mouths.
DAVID HARE

[Mr. Stoppard said yesterday the award was] wholly deserved and I'm completely thrilled. ... has blo...
DAVID HARE

The thing about Shakespeare is, whatever his politics were, the one thing he wasn't was an anarchist...
DAVID HARE

In the London production, Powell was represented much more, if you like, as a hero. I admire him as ...
DAVID HARE

Not only has Harold Pinter written some of the outstanding plays of his time, he has also blown fres...
DAVID HARE

The one thing that 'Via Dolorosa' has is no opinions. To me, curiosity is 50 times as valuab...
DAVID HARE

If the purpose of the stumpy little NFT theatre under Waterloo Bridge is not to acquaint young audie...
DAVID HARE

Politics is just a function of business now, just a tributary of the great entrepreneurial capitalis...
DAVID HARE

In the '70s, terrorism was much more serious, in that many more people got killed.
DAVID HARE

Surely our job while we're here on Earth is to learn about the world, not to create parallel uni...
DAVID HARE

You can't get a contemporary story about what is going on inside government, and how society see...
DAVID HARE

There is no being eloquent for atheism. In that exhausted receiver the mind cannot use its wings, - ...
AUGUSTUS HARE

Nothing good bursts forth all at once. The lightning may dart out of a black cloud; but the day send...
AUGUSTUS HARE

Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.
HARE CHARLES

The puritan through life's sweet garden goes to pluck the thorn and cast away the rose.
KENNETH HARE

Some people carry their hearts in their heads; very many carry their heads in their hearts. The diff...
AUGUSTUS HARE

Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.
AUGUSTUS HARE

Nothing is farther than earth from heaven; nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.
AUGUSTUS HARE

What a person praises is perhaps a surer standard, even, than what he condemns, of his character, in...
AUGUST HARE

Half the failures in life arise from pulling in one's horse as he is leaping.
AUGUST HARE

Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.
AUGUST HARE

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. It is wholesome and bracing for the mind to hav...
AUGUST HARE

So what we see in the wild may be really sophisticated.
BRIAN HARE

They know when they need help.
BRIAN HARE

It just happens that because they're all doing it at the same time, it helps them catch the monkey. ...
BRIAN HARE

They work together to chase monkeys, and they're quite effective when they chase them together.
BRIAN HARE

I am going to be a rookie myself when I first step out there on Sept. 10. You can't simulate what a ...
BRIAN HARE

Dogs have a talent for reading social cues in a very sophisticated way.
BRIAN HARE

Wolves have bigger brains than dogs, so it was thought the wolves would do better. And chimpanzees a...
BRIAN HARE

It looks like dogs really do understand what we are trying to tell them, they are thinking about wha...
BRIAN HARE

If someone says, 'we'd be keen', then we'd chalk it as an option.
BRIAN HARE

The experiments show that chimpanzees spontaneously recognize that when they are faced with a proble...
BRIAN HARE

It's clear the Bush administration isn't willing to accept its responsibility.
BILL HARE

Here is the moment where the international community can be held up by the United States or choose t...
BILL HARE

When you walk around the conference hall here, delegates are saying there are lots of issues on the ...
BILL HARE

They've released the brakes on the Kyoto process.
BILL HARE

A statesman, we are told, should follow public opinion. Doubtless, as a coachman follows his horses;...
AUGUSTUS HARE

Man without religion is the creature of circumstances.
AUGUSTUS HARE

A mother should give her children a superabundance of enthusiasm; that after they have lost all they...
AUGUSTUS HARE

Since the generality of persons act from impulse, much more than from principle, men are neither so ...
AUGUSTUS HARE

As to the pure all things are pure, even so to the impure all things are impure.
AUGUSTUS HARE

The intellect of the wise is like glass; it admits the light of heaven and reflects it.
AUGUSTUS HARE

What hypocrites we seem to be whenever we talk of ourselves! Our words sound so humble, while our he...
AUGUSTUS HARE

It is well for us that we are born babies in intellect. Could we understand half what mothers say an...
AUGUSTUS HARE

The Puritan through Life's sweet garden goes To pluck the thorn and cast away the rose
KENNETH HARE

Wow. We kind of looked at each other and said 'what?' He was very calm. He wasn't emotional at all. ...
PHIL HARE

You should talk to your family.
PHIL HARE

Today is really all about Lane. I told a reporter today he has been like my brother.
PHIL HARE

There's been lots of tears here today. I had to tell the staff at 8 o'clock. ... I think he's just a...
PHIL HARE

Now 43 precincts with Democrats who voted for candidates for Congress (in the primary) will have no ...
PHIL HARE

What a person praises is perhaps a surer standard, even than what he condemns, of his own character,...
AUGUSTUS HARE

There's an entire generation of hunters in North Dakota that are just accustomed to CRP being there....
DAN HARE

The potential that exists, quite frankly, for CRP to go away is there in 2007. In the wildlife world...
DAN HARE

What I'm trying to do is light a spark under folks to take it into their own hands a bit and make th...
DAN HARE

The potential to lose half in 2007 and another 800,000 acres the following year is a tremendous impa...
DAN HARE

Examples would indeed be excellent things were not people so modest that none will set, and so vain ...
AUGUSTUS HARE

It is a proof of our natural bias to evil, that gain is slower and harder than loss in all things go...
AUGUSTUS HARE

Crimes sometimes shock us too much; vices almost always too little.
AUGUSTUS HARE

Only when the voice of duty is silent, or when it has already spoken, may we allowably think of the ...
AUGUSTUS HARE

Happy the boy whose mother is tired of talking nonsense to him before he is old enough to know the s...
AUGUSTUS HARE

To Adam Paradise was home. To the good among his descendants home is paradise.
AUGUSTUS HARE

The power of faith will often shine forth the most when the character is naturally weak.
AUGUSTUS HARE

A man prone to suspect evil is mostly looking in his neighbor for what he sees in himself.
AUGUSTUS HARE

Many are ambitious of saying grand things, that is, of being grandiloquent.
AUGUSTUS HARE

I learned a lot living in that environment.
JUSTIN HARE

I was actually a little nervous because I was really hoping we would be a No. 16 or a 15 seed. When ...
JUSTIN HARE

The NCAA Tournament is your ultimate goal. You know you've got to take it one game at a time, and th...
JUSTIN HARE

We thought we were going out for a political planning meeting at his house.
PHIL HARE

In darkness there is no choice. It is light that enables us to see the difference between things; ...
A.W. HARE AND J.C. HARE

The craving for sympathy is the common boundary-line between joy and sorrow.
A.W. HARE AND J.C. HARE

Do you wish to find out a person's weak points? Note the failings he has the quickest eye for in o...
A.W. HARE AND J.C. HARE

Jealousy is said to be the offspring of Love. Yet, unless the parent makes haste to strangle the c...
A.W. HARE AND J.C. HARE

Everybody has his own theatre, in which he is manager, actor, prompter, playwright, sceneshifter, b...
A.W. HARE AND J.C. HARE

Men are the cause of women not loving one another. [Fr., Les hommes sont la cause que les femmes n...
A.W. HARE AND J.C. HARE

The only way of setting the will free is to deliver it from wilfulness.
A.W. HARE AND J.C. HARE

Reviewers are forever telling authors they can't understand them. The author might often reply: I...
A.W. HARE AND J.C. HARE

Few persons have courage enough to appear as good as they really are.
A.W. HARE AND J.C. HARE

A Christian is God Almighty's gentleman.
A.W. HARE AND J.C. HARE

Our poetry in the eighteenth century was prose; our prose in the seventeenth, poetry.
A.W. HARE AND J.C. HARE

Every Irishman has a potatoe in his head.
A.W. HARE AND J.C. HARE

There are certainly more people in the business world who would score high in the psychopathic dimen...
ROBERT D. HARE

Never put much confidence in such, as put no confidence in others. A man prone to suspect evil is mo...
J. C. HARE

Half the failures in life arise from pulling in one's horse as he is leaping.
A. W. HARE

Measurement and categorization are, of course, fundamental to any scientific endeavor, but the impli...
ROBERT D. HARE

All the reading in the world cannot immunize you from the devastating effects of psychopaths. Everyo...
ROBERT D. HARE

Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are.
JULIUS CHARLES HARE

The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.
J. C. HARE

Psychopaths view any social exchange as a 'feeding opportunity,' a contest or a test of will...
ROBERT D. HARE

Psychopaths are social predators, and like all predators, they are looking for feeding grounds. Wher...
ROBERT D. HARE

Guilt?” he remarked in prison. “It’s this mechanism we use to control people. It’s an illusi...
ROBERT D. HARE

[G]ood people are rarely suspicious: they cannot imagine others doing the things they themselves are...
ROBERT D. HARE

He will choose you, disarm you with his words, and control you with his presence. He will delight yo...
ROBERT D. HARE

Science cannot progress without reliable and accurate measurement of what it is you are trying to st...
ROBERT D. HARE

The mind is like a sheet of white paper in this, that the impressions it receives the oftenest, and ...
JULIUS CHARLES HARE

Many psychopaths describe the traditional treatment programmes as finishing schools where they hone ...
ROBERT D. HARE

The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.
JULIUS CHARLES HARE

Half the failures of this world arise from pulling in one's horse as he is leaping.
JULIUS CHARLES HARE

I always said that if I wasn't studying psychopaths in prison, I'd do it at the stock exchan...
ROBERT D. HARE

These findings suggest there's a novel brain-signaling pathway in obesity-related heart failure and ...
JOSHUA M. HARE

These findings suggest that there's a novel brain-signaling pathway in obesity-related heart failure...
DR. JOSHUA M. HARE

My biggest objection to Marxism has been the presumption that industry should exist at all. I think ...
DAVID DAVID KATZMAN

I gave a funny speech at my wife's birthday party, and I'm thinking, 'Hey, I've stil...
LARRY DAVID

The area where I grew up in Birmingham was very diverse - I was aware of my race but not overly awar...
DAVID HAREWOOD

Birmingham people are the salt of the earth, and I've carried that with me all around the world....
DAVID HAREWOOD

In the last couple of years I've been facing down a lot of the demons of the past and trying to ...
DAVID COVERDALE

George W. Bush: a person who is the ultimate outcome of the American condition. Someone promoted abo...
DAVID LANGE

Stories hold conflict and contrast, highs and lows, life and death, and the human struggle and all k...
DAVID LYNCH

Studying consciousness tells us more about how the world is fundamentally strange. I think we have a...
DAVID CHALMERS

The Doctor' is the kind of character - because the guest cast is changing all the time, there ar...
DAVID TENNANT

It's so warm now, and Thanksgiving came so early - is it just me, or does it not really feel lik...
DAVID LETTERMAN

Bilingualism lets you have your cake and eat it. The new language opens the doors to the best jobs i...
DAVID CRYSTAL

I can mention many moments that were unforgettable and revelatory. But the most single revelatory th...
DAVID ATTENBOROUGH

Being dyslexic, I was told that I was an idiot all the time.
DAVID BAILEY

Every man who is high up loves to think that he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, and le...
DAVID BAILEY

The first half of the 20th century belongs to Picasso, and the second half is about photography. The...
DAVID BAILEY

I always go for simplicity.
DAVID BAILEY

I didn't try and do fashion pictures. I tried to do portraits of girls wearing dresses.
DAVID BAILEY

All I could do at school was paint and draw and that was the only time I ever passed any exam. It wa...
DAVID BAILEY

You can't really copy what I do because I don't do anything.
DAVID BAILEY

I hate being so nostalgic about the Sixties.
DAVID BAILEY

People want security in this insecure world.
DAVID BAILEY

I don't think my work does reflect my nationality - I don't like the idea of nationalism.
DAVID BAILEY

It's not about composition. It's the way you feel about how your objects should relate to ea...
DAVID BAILEY

Girls are more attractive to me than dresses.
DAVID BAILEY

Rockers are the nicest people to photograph. They have no inhibitions.
DAVID BAILEY

Being trendy is dangerous. I've never been trendy, which is why I've never really fallen out...
DAVID BAILEY

I don't see the point of photographing trees or rocks because they're there and anyone can p...
DAVID BAILEY

If you're curious, London's an amazing place.
DAVID BAILEY

I was surrounded by strong women so it had never even occurred to me that women were anything other ...
DAVID BAILEY

The skull is nature's sculpture.
DAVID BAILEY

Anybody can be a great photographer if they zoom in enough on what they love.
DAVID BAILEY

Being handsome wasn't much of a burden. It worked for me.
DAVID BAILEY

Everything I read about hitting a midlife crisis was true. I had such a struggle letting go of youth...
DAVID BOWIE

I had a wonderful childhood, which is tough because it's hard to adjust to a miserable adulthood...
LARRY DAVID

You would think that a rock star being married to a supermodel would be one of the greatest things i...
DAVID BOWIE

People use irony as a defense mechanism.
DAVID BYRNE

Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and ...
DAVID BYRNE

I certainly agree that putting everything into little genres is counterproductive. You're not go...
DAVID BYRNE

Analysis is like a lobotomy. Who wants to have all their edges shaved off?
DAVID BYRNE

I knew I wanted to have a doll of myself on the cover. I thought, I wanna see myself as a Ken doll.
DAVID BYRNE

I've been in beautiful landscapes where one is tempted to whip out a camera and take a picture. ...
DAVID BYRNE

That's the thing about pictures: they seduce you.
DAVID BYRNE

Deep down, I know I have this intuition or instinct that a lot of creative people have, that their d...
DAVID BYRNE

If anything, a lot of electronic music is music that no one listens to at home, hardly. It's rea...
DAVID BYRNE

My favorite time of day is to get up and eat leftovers from dinner, especially spicy food.
DAVID BYRNE

On a bike, being just slightly above pedestrian and car eye level, one gets a perfect view of the go...
DAVID BYRNE

I never listen to the radio unless I rent a car.
DAVID BYRNE

The arts don't exist in isolation.
DAVID BYRNE

There's a certain amount of freedom involved in cycling: you're self-propelled and decide ex...
DAVID BYRNE

Real beauty knocks you a little bit off kilter.
DAVID BYRNE

Do I wear a helmet? Ugh. I do when I'm riding through a precarious part of town, meaning Midtown...
DAVID BYRNE

Cycling is a joy and faster than many other modes of transport, depending on the time of day. It cle...
DAVID BYRNE

You can know or not know how a car runs and still enjoy riding in a car.
DAVID BYRNE

You create a community with music, not just at concerts but by talking about it with your friends.
DAVID BYRNE

Cycling can be lonely, but in a good way. It gives you a moment to breathe and think, and get away f...
DAVID BYRNE

Everything's intentional. It's just filling in the dots.
DAVID BYRNE

I like time off. I'm not a workaholic.
DAVID THEWLIS

I've had an awful lot of good fortune.
DAVID CASSIDY

Every day is a blessing - not to get too schmaltzy, but, really, it is.
DAVID CASSIDY

What happened to me during the last couple of years of 'The Partridge Family' was I became s...
DAVID CASSIDY

There were times when I was a joke, but talent survives.
DAVID CASSIDY

You can't be 24 again; you can't be new when you're 40 years old.
DAVID CASSIDY

Most people view success by the results, and I don't.
DAVID CASSIDY

I think of my career as something apart from myself.
DAVID CASSIDY

You know, many people who become famous and enjoy great success when they're young disappear aft...
DAVID CASSIDY

I wouldn't want to play anything bigger than 10,000 again. I think it's too much, and you lo...
DAVID CASSIDY

Let me tell you, 10,000 is an intimate room. Believe me. I want to be able to connect to everybody i...
DAVID CASSIDY

When you cut your life into a film - 90-some minutes of film - you end up taking snapshots and vigne...
DAVID CASSIDY

Until I really dealt with a lot of the demons in my life - the fear and self-doubt and unresolved is...
DAVID CASSIDY

I gave up my whole life to my career.
DAVID CASSIDY

Just getting your name in the papers and having people talk about you is not always a good thing.
DAVID CASSIDY

There's nothing wrong with becoming a role model, nothing wrong with inspiring people to become ...
DAVID CASSIDY

It's always nice to have people love you, but I'd just like to be judged fairly.
DAVID CASSIDY

It wasn't until later when people became aware of my writing that I would hear begrudgingly, ...
DAVID CASSIDY

If people respond to the songs, whether they love you or hate you, then you've really done your ...
DAVID CASSIDY

The theatre is the best way of showing the gap between what is said and what is seen to be done, and that is why, ragged and gap-toothed as it is, it has still a far healthier potential than some poorer, abandoned arts.

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The theatre is the best way of showing the gap between what is said and what is seen to be done, and that is why, ragged and gap-toothed as it is, it has still a far healthier potential than some poorer, abandoned arts.

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