Harisme Quotes & Sayings

Words. The forbidden fruit seemed good and desirable to Eve; yet it cast her out of Eden. The walking idly on his palace roof seemed harmless enough to David; yet it ended in adultery and murder. Sin rarely seems sin at first beginnings. Let us then watch and pray, lest we fall into temptation. We may give wickedness smooth names, but we cannot alter its nature and character in the sight of God. Let us remember St. Paul's words: "Exhort one another daily, lest any be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin." (Heb. iii. 13.) — J.C. Ryle

...I don't expect to need rescuing. I'm not that kind of princess. — Garth Nix

What we need and what we want is to moralize politics, not to politicize morals. — Karl R. Popper

Her tragedy, if she had one, was to be as normal and average as any child ever born. — Holly Black

There are whole precincts of voters in this country whose united intelligence does not equal that of one representative American woman. — Carrie Chapman Catt

The cherished dream of every chessplayer is to play a match with the World Champion. But here is the paradox: the closer you come to the realization of this goal, the less you think about it. — Mikhail Tal

If people don't wish to be eaten then they shouldn't taste so nice — Amy Mah

The meaning of a particular action of the hand was understood only in terms of the positioning of the entire body, the facial expression, and the direction of the glance. — Ross King

Though you break your heart, men will go on as before. — Marcus Aurelius

It's almost terrifying, how much it defies logic and reason. What else do we know about the world that isn't true? — Taylor Jenkins Reid

The U.S. media have done a shameful job of reporting on the Arab world. — Ethan Zuckerman

I would keep her, and raise her, and love her, even if she had to teach me how to do it. — Vanessa Diffenbaugh

In the future the optimal form of industrial organization will be neither small companies nor large ones but network structures that share the advantages of both. — Francis Fukuyama

Children who hear acquire language without any particular effort; the words that fall from others' lips they catch on the wing, as it were, delightedly, while the little deaf child must trap them by a slow and often painful process. But whatever the process, the result is wonderful. Gradually from naming an object we advance step by step until we have traversed the vast distance between our first stammered syllable and the sweep of thought in a line of Shakespeare. — Helen Keller