Harilela George Quotes & Sayings

I have never heard anyone speculate on the origins and function of irony, but I can say with confidence that it is only a little less pervasive in our universe than carbon. — Marilynne Robinson

He wanted women to love him, all women, beginning with his mother and going on from there. Therefore, whenever any woman got mad at him, he felt maternal disapproval crashing down upon his shoulders, as if he'd been a naughty boy. — Jeffrey Eugenides

Whether you have an abortion, what you put in your own body, with whom you have sex - these are not the affairs of the state. A government does not exist to control the citizens. When it does, it is a tyranny, and must be fought. The tree of liberty, Jefferson warned us, must be refreshed with the blood of tyrants and patriots. — Gore Vidal

I think my grandmother Woodrell was most responsible for my becoming a writer. She wasn't quite literate, but was very proud that she attended school as far as the third grade. She worked as a maid, housekeeper and cook. — Daniel Woodrell

Old men are always advising young men to save money. That is bad advice. Don't save every nickel. Invest in yourself. I never saved a dollar until I was forty years old. — Henry Ford

Don't raise the bar and narrow the gap, but narrow the gap to raise the bar. — Andy Hargreaves

I was strongest when I laughed at my weakness. — Elmer Diktonius

Yes, I am aware that I am the gayer version of Jeff Lewis. — Daniel Tosh

My preference is that employees pay their union dues, but what I also get is that I'd rather someone be in the union than not in the union. — Bill Shorten

There's something about shooting webs out of my wrists and climbing up things that just makes me happy. — Chris Hardwick

If you had a front row seat at the Renaissance, you would have seen Machiavelli come by plotting, and you would have seen murders in the streets, you would have seen violence, you have seen people burning books and it would have looked like the world was a horrible place, but that's where all these incredible stuff we're still living with comes out of. — Juan Enriquez

Be careful. Everything you say, every single day, may be recorded in your students' hearts forever. — LouAnne Johnson

When you are on your deathbed, and you look back into your life, it won't matter to you what you have done with your life. What will matter to you is what you have done all of your life with your heart. — John De Ruiter

Ordinarily, of course, I thought it best to remain inconspicuous, but the gesture had a certain irresistable theatricaility, and an inevitablility. Sometimes you can feel the pull of what other people want from you, and you sacrifice yourself, you risk seeming odd or sunsavory, to keep them entertained. — Curtis Sittenfeld

The important thing is not to know more than all men, but to know more at each moment than any particular man. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe