Harpie Quotes & Sayings

When at last in a race a new principle appears, an idea
that conserves it; ideas only save races. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Music is not a language. Any musical piece is akin to a boulder with complex forms, with striations and engraved designs atop and within, which men can decipher in a thousand different ways without ever finding the right answer or the best one ... — Iannis Xenakis

They were all day among the dunes and in the evening coming down from the last low sandhills to the plain below among catclaw and crucifixion thorn they were a parched and haggard lot man and beast. Harpie eagles flew up screaming from a dead mule and wheeled off westward into the sun as they led the horses out onto the plain. — Cormac McCarthy

White angel wings, made up from thousands of short feathers, now surrounded him.

"Uh. Bird?" She pointed dumbly, unable to form a single coherent though more.
"Harpie." He gave her a glare that could have killed. — Constance Sharper

It is perhaps a sign of the strength of our republic that so few people feel the need to participate. That must be the reason. — Jon Stewart

The mission of law is not to oppress persons and plunder them of their property, even thought the law may be acting in a philanthropic spirit. Its mission is to protect property. — Frederic Bastiat

Hatred obscures all distinctions. — C.S. Lewis

Hollywood expects you to experiment but on a film that makes money and if you don't make money, you're to blame. Your job is to make money. — Orson Welles

Anything is possible if yo've got enough nerve, — J.K. Rowling

JEAN
Boy, would I like to see you give some old harpie the three in one!
COLONEL
Don't be vulgar, Jane. Let us be crooked, but never common. — Preston Sturges

What Mr Blyth has been engaged in was not love, my dear Francis. It was romance, a thing to which Mr Blyth has been very prone; together with melodrama. Whatever made you think that melodrama makes Mr Blyth uncomfortable? He revels in it. — Dorothy Dunnett

Faith is one of only two things in mankind's consciousness that defies discussion. The other is one's marriage. — Psyche Roxas-Mendoza

I grew up overseas in Indonesia, and my school had a great art, music, and theatre program. — Angela Kinsey

Miracles prove nothing except to those whose faith is bought very cheap, sir. — Michael Chabon

You have a firm grasp of the obvious. — Stephen Colbert

IT HAS ALWAYS been a mystery to me why so many Christians in the West struggle to live for what so many Christians in persecuted countries are willing to die for. — Johnnie Moore

I acknowledge that the sacrament of the altar is very God's body in form of bread, but it is in another manner God's body than it is in heaven. — John Wycliffe