Hank Green Quotes

I like three-legged dogs, because if I was missing a leg I would be like: „URGH, life sucks when missing a leg. Slow down! I can't walk that fast, I'm missing a freaking leg!!“ And dogs? No! A three legged dog is on it. Exactly the same amount of happy as a four-legged dog! That's why I like three-legged dogs. They have taken their three-leggedness and they embrace it.

I think it's pretty ridiculous to sit back and think that we've changed the horse so much, without realizing that they have changed us an awful lot too.

The way that we look does not have anything to do with the way that we sound, or the way that we are.

Why is it called Piggie-back riding? I'm not a piggie!

We often just accept the things that we like and complain a lot about the things that we don't like. But if we could, like, intensely dwell on the really great things in life the way we intensely dwell on the negative things in life. I think that would be fantastic.

It seems no matter what I read I think "this is not harry potter."

So you go on and on, with this intellectual fly down, your underwear exposed, and toilette paper hanging out the back of your pants.

Ursula Le Guin has been a hero of mine for 20 years. She's done so much, and she will continue to do good even though she's gone. I honestly don't know what I would have become if it weren't for Ursula Le Guin. The first time I read "A Wizard of Earthsea" I realized how balance could be even more epic than war. Suddenly, Fantasy wasn't just wish fulfillment and grandeur, it was real and complex.

What does it mean that social structures among young people are so often predicated upon trying really, really hard to appear to not-be-trying?

I thought what would I give, if it could be true If I could ever feel again the way I felt when I read you

But the truth of the matter is, to live a good life, as a good person, it doesn't matter how you got there. It just matters that you do.

For years this rule has kept me out of hopeless despair: You simply do not feel what is always there. I ask my brain to entertain that pain is the same, that if I feel it all the time, can you really call it pain?

Hank: "If you just say enough things, some of them will end up on those quote websites." // John: "Which, of course, is the point of being a person."

It's almost as if our society values opinion more than it values knowledge.

So the president is like, "Well, once upon a time it was Congress's job to decide whether or not we attacked countries, so let's let them decide." Which is funny, because, as we all know, if Congress were on fire, Congress could not pass the "Pour Water on Congress Act".