Harmel Kristin Quotes & Sayings

You know, I truly believe adoption is one of the greatest unheralded blessings in the world," she continues, her expression turning earnest. "Think how beautiful it is to give a child a home and to become a family because you choose to! Maybe that's the best way to make a family, don't you think? — Kristin Harmel

I look to the right as I cross the bridge and smile to see the tip of the Eiffel Tower soaring over rooftops in the distance on the other side of the river. I've seen it in photographs a thousand times, but seeing it in person for the first time that reminds me that I'm really, truly here, thousands of miles away, across an ocean from home. — Kristin Harmel

Not that I regretted having Annie; I'd never felt that way for a second. I just regretted that I'd never had a chance to live the life I'd thought I was supposed to. — Kristin Harmel

Oh, so now it's you with the gift of prophecy, is it? I know what I've seen. You are my key and my salvation. — Rachel Hawkins

Anyone who works on a quilt, who devotes her time, energy, creativity, and passion to that art, learns to value the work of her hands. And as any quilter will tell you, a quilter's quilting friends are some of the dearest, most generous, and most supportive people she knows. — Jennifer Chiaverini

Endless moments like this stretching before us. I loved him deeply, but I never really knew that every second we had together was a gift until he was gone. — Kristin Harmel

When people can't use you, they ridicule what you represent. I was lucky that I understood that, because when one does not understand that, it is very easy to be broken and to be subdued. — Wangari Maathai

Will you have me, though I come to you corrupt? My armor tarnished with sin and decadence. — Nicole Jordan

Eyes are wonderful! Revelation is more wonderful! Eyes deceive you; revelation does not. Eyes evaluate; revelation is certain. God gives everyone eyes; revelation is reserved for those who pursue him for it. — Ron Brackin

Life changes you, even if you don't realize it while it's happening, and it turns out you can't take back the years that have passed by. — Kristin Harmel

Life doesn't work out the way we plan, but maybe it works out the way it's supposed to after all. — Kristin Harmel

Doing or not doing something - they are similar. Both involve an action and sincerity. — CLAMP

Defeatism about the feasibility of plans for disarmament and ordered peace has been the most calamitious of all the errors made by democratic governments in modern times. — Philip Noel-Baker, Baron Noel-Baker

Some days I wake up and think, How did I get here? It's like one day, you just realize you're not young anymore, and you already made your choices, and now it's too late to change anything. — Kristin Harmel

Yes. There is one God, and he lives in the sky, and he hears all of us. It is just that here on earth, we are confused about how to believe in him. But what does it matter, as long as we trust he is there? — Kristin Harmel

It was 11:04 when Patrick walked through the door that final night almost a dozen years ago. I remember — Kristin Harmel

It's a tradition my great-grandfather started almost a hundred years ago, after my father was born. He gave my father fifty newly minted silver dollars and explained that each time something really amazing happened to him, he had to return one of the dollars to the universe so that someone else could wish on it.
I smile, recalling how Patrick had once told me a story of his grandfather standing on the Brooklyn Bridge in 1936 and throwing a silver dollar into the water after his beloved Yankees won the World Series. They won it for the next three years too, and his grandfather always believed that it was his coins - good luck returned to the universe - that kept their streak alive ...
... My father always used to tell me that if you keep the coins, you throw things out of balance ... It's all about passing the luck on and thanking the world for whatever good things have happened to you. — Kristin Harmel

Fame is the worst pain known to man.
It's stronger than heroin. — Nicki Minaj

It occurs to me how mundane this moment would be if this was really the life I was living. — Kristin Harmel

So it happens that we must ask ourselves, with regard to truth, not for a new criterion for it, which will be better polished than earlier ones, but, peremptorily and seizing it by the lapels, "what is truth as such," and with regard to reality, not what things are or what and how is that which is, but for what reason that X which we call Being is in the Universe, and with regard to knowledge we must not ask for its bases and limits - as Plato, Aristotle Descartes, Kant did - but for something which comes before all this: for what reason we concern ourselves with trying to know. — Jose Ortega Y Gasset

I think its just human nature to wish that the people who are gone from our lives are going to come back. — Kristin Harmel

Who are your friends? Do they believe in you? Or do they stunt your growth with ridicule and disbelief? If the latter, you haven't friends. Go find some. — Ray Bradbury

When I was younger, acting, singing and dancing was what it was all about. That's really what kept me in school because I was really naughty otherwise. — Suki Waterhouse

You have to be absolutely sure. Otherwise, regret will grow in spaces you don't even know are there. — Kristin Harmel

Dissimulation was his masterpiece; in which he so much excelled that men were not ashamed of being deceived but twice by him. — Edward Hyde, 1st Earl Of Clarendon

So you can't compare the present with the past, not really, because you're a different person than you were [when Patrick was alive]. You have to look forward to the things you want, not back at the things you once had. — Kristin Harmel

It reminds me suddenly that in real life, Patrick and I used to fight sometimes, big and messy ... And I hadn't been scared to argue with him, because I'd never feared him walking away.
So why am I so scared to fight with Dan now? Or with anyone in my life, for that matter? I've spend the last decade thinking of myself as even-tempered and reasonable. But what if I've just been a chicken? What if I'm so terrified of losing the people I love that I've been slowly giving away pieces of myself just to avoid confrontation? — Kristin Harmel

The greatest revelation any believer can have is coming in a revelatory understanding of the cross of Christ. One of the greatest deceptions in the movement today is teaching central to needs of people instead of preaching the Cross, the blood and the power of walking out the way of the cross. It is by the cross of Christ that sets the captive free, heals the sick, and saves the lost. The Necessity of the Cross Living in the reality of the Cross is mandatory. — Peter Vandever

Yes, I am Jewish," she says. "But I am also Catholic." She pauses and adds, "And Muslim too." ... "It is all the same, is it not? It is mankind that creates the differences. That does not mean it is not all the same God. — Kristin Harmel

I know she loves One Direction and that her favorite member is Louis, because he's the mature one. — Kristin Harmel