Harrowed Halls Quotes & Sayings

As Lea Thompson says in 'Howard the Duck', everything happens for a purpose. — Manny Rayner

The Samaritans and the Jews were enemies, two tribes caught in an ancient argument about birthright and ethnicity who lived in segregated neighborhoods. By Jesus's time they were forbidden to have contact with each other, and violent squabbles sometimes erupted. The lawyer, who was a Jew, surely knew of both the informal customs and formal laws separating the two groups. Samaritans and Jews were not good neighbors. Yet Jesus turns the ancient Jewish command to love your neighbor into a story about these hostile groups. The man in the ditch, who is Jewish, is bypassed by those close to him by tribal ties (most likely the priest and the Levite were afraid the thieves were still about in the area and that they might be the next victim) and is eventually rescued by a Samaritan. Thus Jesus enlarges the sphere of neighborhood to include those we deem objectionable. — Diana Butler Bass

I like being on this stage because it keeps me thinking. — Robert Goulet

Talk was cheap and useless. Action was what mattered. And me, I was moving. Now, again, always. — Sarah Dessen

Nothing can take the sting out of the world's economic problems like watching millionaires present each other with golden statues. — Billy Crystal

Writing is too goddamned hard for me to think about a soul in teh world ... I don't think about a soul, but just try to get those goddamned characters to act right. — Ernest J. Gaines

Richard Dieter, executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center, said Tennessee is the first state to reintroduce the electric chair without giving prisoners an option. — Anonymous