Jack Higgins quotes

“Words become meaningless, the mind cuts itself off from reality for a little while, a necessary breathing space until one is ready to cope.”
-- Jack Higgins

Source : Jack Higgins (2016). “The Liam Devlin Novels: The Eagle Has Landed, Touch the Devil, and Confessional”, p.18, Open Road Media

#Cutting Quotes #Reality Quotes #Breathing Quotes

“I realized fear one morning, with the blare of the fox hunter's sound. When they're all chasin' the poor bloody fox, 'tis safer to be dressed like the hound.”
-- Jack Higgins

Source : FaceBook post by Jack Higgins from Aug 07, 2015

#Morning Quotes #Sound Quotes #Hunters Quotes

“My Irish passport makes me look like a chief of staff for the Provisional IRA.”
-- Jack Higgins

#Ira Quotes #Looks Quotes #Staff Quotes

“Human beings are not like they are portrayed in Hollywood. They are individuals who are a mixture of good and bad.”
-- Jack Higgins

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#Hollywood Quotes #Mixtures Quotes #Individual Quotes

“I really don't know why the Muslims do what they are doing. Those terrorists don't seem to have a moral code.”
-- Jack Higgins

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#Moral Quotes #Terrorist Quotes #Code Quotes

“I like when people question if the characters are really villains or protagonists. These types are very interesting to write about.”
-- Jack Higgins

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#Writing Quotes #Character Quotes #People Quotes

“I am for liberty of conscience in its noblest, broadest, and highest sense. But I cannot give liberty of conscience to the pope and his followers, the papists, so long as they tell me, through all their councils, theologians, and canon laws that their conscience orders them to burn my wife, strangle my children, and cut my throat when they find their opportunity.”

“In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.”

“This is what I find most magnetic about successful givers: they get to the top without cutting others down, finding ways of expanding the pie that benefit themselves and the people around them. Whereas success is zero-sum in a group of takers, in groups of givers, it may be true that the whole is greater than the sum of the parts.”

“Each of us is carving a stone, erecting a column, or cutting a piece of stained glass in the construction of something much bigger than ourselves.”

“We are apt to say that a foreign policy is successful only when the country, or at any rate the governing class, is united behind it. In reality, every line of policy is repudiated by a section, often by an influential section, of the country concerned. A foreign minister who waited until everyone agreed with him would have no foreign policy at all.”

“For me, songwriting is something like breathing: I just do it. But that doesn't mean you're fantastic.”

“Practicing meditation is just like breathing. While working we breathe, while sleeping we breathe, while sitting down we breathe... Why do we have time to breathe? Because we see the importance of the breath, we can always find time to breathe. In the same way, if we see the importance of meditation practice we will find the time to practice.”

“We read to understand, or to begin to understand. We cannot do but to read. Reading almost as much as breathing, is our essential function.”

Source : "A History of Reading". Book by Alberto Manguel, 1996.

“My music is homegrown from the garden of New Orleans. Music is everything to me short of breathing. Music also has a role to lift you up - not to be escapist but to take you out of misery.”

“Get up my friend. If you're still breathing, there's still time enough for greatness.”