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To be part of what you're singing about is somewhat painful. You've got to climb inside it all.
— Merle Haggard
When we love most, and love happily, then we are at our topmost bent, and soar further above the earth than anything else can carry us.
— H. Rider Haggard
I can't be gay! I'm a happily married conservative, just like Ted Haggard and Larry Craig.
— Stephen Colbert
It sounds like something from a Woody Guthrie song, but it's true; I was raised in a freight car.
— Merle Haggard
The guitar's not all that expensive either, when you compare it to gettin' a toothpulled or something.
— Merle Haggard
I was referred to Mike Jones from the concierge at a Marriott hotel when I asked for a masseur.
— Ted Haggard
God bless Merle Haggard. He did all the things that Johnny Cash was supposed to have done.
— Lewis Grizzard
When is truth pleasing? It is only when we clothe it's nakedness with rags of imagination, or sweeten it with fiction, that it can please.
— H. Rider Haggard
If the evangelicals vote, they determine the election.
— Ted Haggard
I called to buy some meth, but I threw it away.
— Ted Haggard
A sharp spear," runs the Kukuana saying, "needs no polish.
— H. Rider Haggard
Yea, all things live forever, though at times they sleep and are forgotten.
— H. Rider Haggard
For surely the food that memory gives to eat is bitter to the taste, and it is only with the teeth of hope that we can bear to chew it. (Ayesha)
— H. Rider Haggard
Adventurer: he that goes to meet whatever may come. Well, that is what we all do in the world one way or another ...
— H. Rider Haggard
How can a world be good in which Money is the moving power, and Self-interest the guiding star?
— H. Rider Haggard
The great wheel of Fate rolls on like a Juggernaut, and crushes us all in turn, some soon, some late
— H. Rider Haggard
Thinking can only serve to measure out the helplessness of thought.
— H. Rider Haggard
Around 14, I was turned on to Shania, Reba, Merle Haggard, Garth Brooks, Trisha Yearwood ... and I've followed it ever since.
— Laura Bell Bundy
There is no loneliness like the loneliness of crowds, especially to those who are unaccustomed to them.
— H. Rider Haggard
Love her who is present, for be sure she who is absent is false to thee;
— H. Rider Haggard
Everything has an end, if only you live long enough to see it.
— H. Rider Haggard
Memo to Merle Haggard: Miracles really do happen. I
— Rachel Cohn
Mistrust all men, and slay him whom thou mistrustest overmuch; and as for women, flee from them, for they are evil, and in the end will destroy thee.
— H. Rider Haggard
I've got two families.
— Merle Haggard
I woke up!" he replied, eye twinkling in his haggard face, "and that's reason enough to be happy!
— Ron Hall
We run to place and power over the dead bodies of those who fail and fall; ay, we win the food we eat from out the mouths of starving babes.
— H. Rider Haggard
There's just a few people that call themselves stars can actually sit down with a guitar and sing you a song.
— Merle Haggard
I fancy I only got a rap on the head, which knocked me stupid.
— H. Rider Haggard
I don't think there's ever been a friendly divorce.
— Merle Haggard
Pride is a good horse if thou ridest wisely
— H. Rider Haggard
Hey, hey, the working man, the working man like me. I ain't never been on welfare, that's one place I won't be.
— Merle Haggard
Civilization is only savagery silver-gilt.
— H. Rider Haggard
It's cool when your husband starts to sing some old Merle Haggard song and I can pop in with a harmony and it doesn't sound too bad.
— Trisha Yearwood
If I hear another line dance song I think I'm going to puke.
— Merle Haggard
The Garden of Eden, no doubt, looked fair before man was, but I always think that it must have been fairer when Eve adorned it.
— H. Rider Haggard
Holy fairy feathers, why does he have to be so handsome? Why couldn't a haggard old man have washed ashore?
— Amy Jarecki
Then there came a vision to me, a vision that was sent in answer to my prayer, or, perchance, it was a madness born of my sorrows.
— H. Rider Haggard
How much is your sin going to cost me?
— Ted Haggard
Back when the country was strong, back before Elvis and before the Vietnam war came along.
— Merle Haggard
I have never observed that the religious are more eager to die than the rest of us poor mortals.
— H. Rider Haggard
The turn I made was not the one I planned. And I watched my social standing slip away from me, while I watched the bottle slowly take command.
— Merle Haggard
We're bar room buddies and we're the best kind, nobody messes with that friend of mine. Chug-a-lug-a-lug-a-lugga, bar room buddy of mine.
— Merle Haggard
Faith is the only way we're going to make it. None of us are smart enough to do it on our own.
— Merle Haggard
Thus the husband is buried at Memphis and the wife in Koptos, yet the Ka of the wife goes to live in her husband's tomb
— H. Rider Haggard
We white people think that we know everything.
— H. Rider Haggard
It's easier to force feed people than it is to give 'em what they want. It makes more money.
— Merle Haggard
Willie Nelson's the one who told me the reason it costs so much to get divorced is because it's worth it.
— Merle Haggard
There is no such things as magic, though there is such a thing as knowledge of the hidden ways of Nature.
— H. Rider Haggard
Stop rolling down hill like a snow ball headed for hell.
— Merle Haggard
Take up the tale," quoth Umslopogaas; "it is a merry one.
— H. Rider Haggard
My 10 year old son likes it. He's trying to play guitar and everything. He likes that kind of music.
— Merle Haggard
Passion is like the lightning, it is beautiful, and it links the earth to heaven, but alas it blinds!
— H. Rider Haggard
Listening to other opinions was invariably more profitable than antagonizing their owners by pointing out tiresome objections.
— William Haggard
And then, of course, there's a couple that claim to be, but I haven't done any DNA tests or anything.
— Merle Haggard
'Cause I was already a smoker, it was easy to get addicted. The one thing that they don't teach you about marijuana is how addictive it is.
— Merle Haggard
Everybody likes Johnny Cash. I think the sad part of it is his health is givin' him problems.
— Merle Haggard
A sharp spear needs no polish.
— H. Rider Haggard
And I think it's safe to say that the single very impressive figure to me was Merle Haggard.
— Warren Zevon
Our future was so completely unknown, and I think that the unknown and the awful always bring a man nearer to his Maker.
— H. Rider Haggard
Passion is like the lightening, it is beautiful and it links the earth to heaven, but it blinds.
— H. Rider Haggard
I had some surgery on my feet, which has helped my back some.
— Merle Haggard
Truly wealth, which men spend all their lives in acquiring, is a valueless thing at the last.
— H. Rider Haggard
By God!' he whispered, drawing his breath in sharply, 'it is all pure Rider Haggard and Conan Doyle.
— John Buchan
Women love the last blow as well as the last word, and when they fight for love they are pitiless as a wounded buffalo.
— H. Rider Haggard
For like a rugged tree you are hard and sound at the core.
— H. Rider Haggard
There's one thing I never did do, and that was stink.
— Merle Haggard
Lay in the weeds and wait, and when you get your chance to say something, say something good.
— Merle Haggard
What I seek I Find,what I find I keep.
— H. Rider Haggard
I think that probably, if I were 21 in this society, I would identify myself as a bisexual.
— Ted Haggard
A fantasy of mine is to have an orgy with about six young college guys ranging from 18 to 22 in age.
— Ted Haggard
Women's eyes are always bright, whatever the colour,
— H. Rider Haggard
Although I know no actual precedent for it, in the case of a particularly powerful Double, such as was given in this romance to Queen
— H. Rider Haggard
Staring at the world through the bottom of a glass, all I see is a man who's fading fast.
— Merle Haggard
Momma tried to raise me better, but her pleading I denied, and that leaves only me to blame, cause Momma tried.
— Merle Haggard
[W.H.R.] Rivers is the Rider Haggard of anthropology; I shall be the Conrad.
— Bronislaw Malinowski
If there ever was a poet for the working class Billy Joe Shaver and Merle Haggard would be my nomination.
— David Allan Coe
I'll tell you what the public likes more than anything, it's the most rare commodity in the world - honesty.
— Merle Haggard
The food that memory gives to eat is bitter to the taste, and it is only with the teeth of hope that we can bear to bite it.
— H. Rider Haggard
Running down on a way of life our fighting men have fought and died to keep. If you don't love it, leave it.
— Merle Haggard
You know all the surveys say that evangelicals have the best sex life of any other group.
— Ted Haggard
Laughter is ever young, whereas tragedy, except the very highest of all, quickly becomes haggard.
— Margaret Sackville
At my age, I don't buy but a half a loaf of bread, you know?
— Merle Haggard
I want a church I can stay in for years. I don't want surprises, scandals, or secrets from my church leaders.
— Ted Haggard
Now, I whispered. Boom! boom! boom! went the three heavy rifles, and down came Sir Henry's elephant dead as a hammer, shot right through the heart.
— H. Rider Haggard
A house without love ain't a home.
— Merle Haggard