Arvid Harnack Quotes & Sayings

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She stiffly followed, still fully dressed in the elaborate navy-and-white gown she had worn all evening. It was hard not to feel as if the bare walls and surfaces she passed had been bled, leeched, into the cloth encasing her. Stripped paint and sacrificed heirlooms clinging to her, demanding she make everything right once more. — Anne Mallory

When you find that a book is poor ... waste no more time upon it. — James Bryce

Every duty is a charge, but the charge of oneself is the root of all others. — Mencius

You can't fulfill all the expectations of everyone you know, so you might as well go ahead & disappoint them & get it over with. — Joyce Meyer

American voters should understand that Congress will always find a way to spend every last dollar sent to Washington. — Ron Paul

Read everything you can get your hands on. — Alina Bronsky

Curiously, the balance seems to come when writing is woven into every aspect of my life, like eating or exercising - one flows constantly into the next: I'll wake up and have coffee, read the news, then write a letter or two (always in longhand), then go teach, and after teaching write a bit in a journal - dreams, what I had for breakfast and lunch and why I had it, what's on the iPod, sexual habits, etc. - then read a bit, then work on a real bit of writing ... you get the idea. — Kevin Keck

It is logical for a U.S. person to give their money away while they are alive, as the government will take it from you when you die in taxes. — Chuck Feeney

An important part of what the state does is preserving its history. — James R. Thompson

I was unable to sleep and I would stay up and draw these little cartoons. Then a friend showed them around. Before I knew it I was a cartoonist. — Lynda Barry

We allowed each other a number of "philosospasms" per year; these were episodes of obsessive/compulsive behavior, often involving sexual affairs with students, or periods of deep, intricate despair, or occasionally intense political adventures which made us very vulnerable to the media and the public and caused us great discomfort. But our agreement was that we would support each other during these spasms, and would treat that momentary reality as though it were the only true reality, which, of course, in so doing, it was. — David Cronenberg

Engaged in a fiery dance, their bodies were linked and seperated by the flashing blades. At times they nearly touched, taut skin only a hair's breadth away, but then momentum would whirl them apart, and they would withdraw for a second, only to join again. Their sinuous forms wove together like twisting ropes of windblown smoke. — Christopher Paolini

There shall never be another season of silence until women have the same rights men have on this green earth. — Susan B. Anthony

You have the biggest impact on controlling, on affecting local lives as mayor. It's so much more important than being a state legislator. — Dick Murphy