Harrower Quotes & Sayings

And all the people said 'What a shame that he's dead, but wasn't he a most peculiar man? — Paul Simon

It is always safe to assume, not that the old way is wrong, but that there may be a better way. — Henry Harrower

My father had bought an ugly new clock, and it was ticking again in the quiet kitchen. — Louise Erdrich

You can admire the way someone meets hard circumstances, but you can't admire him because of them. — Elizabeth Harrower

There are hundreds of thousands of kids walking around with a sleeping monster inside them. — Mackenzie Phillips

We are at risk of trying to make food too sophisticated as we move along, changing ingredients to follow what's in vogue. — Anonymous

So they had all had more troubles than she. Did that really make them superior? If two men were walking along the street and a brick fell on one, missing the other, did that make the injured one a better person? — Elizabeth Harrower

Most employers just aren't willing to look beyond the dumbest or worst thing someone has done. — Greg Boyle

Can I remember "I remember lots," I say. How much of what I remember is true is another matter. — Charles Stross

If we lived forever, there would be time to recover from mistakes of twenty years duration. — Elizabeth Harrower

I was attracted to the strangeness of his mind as a psychiatrist might have been drawn to an interesting case. he wanted a resident analyst. Neither of us understood. — Elizabeth Harrower

Perhaps this was part of growing older, to undergo hideous alterations in the deepest certainties, in love, in lovers, finally in one's self. — Elizabeth Harrower

Oh, but she wished, she wished that there were someone she could tell.Then, in the middle of this tremendous wish, Alice paused: a great thing was beginning to happen to her. A new thought appeared in her mind, yet Alice recognized it as if it had always been there. The thought said, But I know. I know.
After this she looked the same, and her circumstances didn't alter, but she was a different person altogether. — Elizabeth Harrower

We are not built for mountains and dawns and artistic affinities; they are for moments of inspiration, that is all. We are built for the valley, for the ordinary stuff of life, and this is where we have to prove our mettle. A false Christianity takes us up on the mount and we want to stay there. But what about the devil-possessed world? Oh, let it go to hell! We are having a great time up here. — Oswald Chambers

What are you waiting for in order to give up? — Emile M. Cioran

Your level of performance matches your dominant self image. — Jack Canfield

Intelligence officers are supposed to put the facts on the table and really walk away from the policy discussion. — Michael Morell

If a tree fell in the forest, and you were the only one there to hear it; if its fall to the ground didn't make a sound, would you panic in fear that you didn't exist, or would you bask in the bliss of your nothingness? — Andrea Gibson

Of course, we are drawn to teachers who unconsciously mirror our own psychology. None of us are clean. We all make mistakes. It's the repetition of those mistakes and the refusal to look at them that compound the suffering and assure their continuation. — Natalie Goldberg

Try everything that can be done. Be deliberate. Be spontaneous. Be thoughtful and painstaking. Be abandoned and impulsive. Learn your own possibilities. — George Bellows

But sooner or later people have to take up their own lives, not disperse them out as though they were knitting wool that a clever knitter might handle better. — Elizabeth Harrower

You were lonely.
Before you met me.
When you met me.
You were alone.
You were a lonely child.
Your parents left you to yourself.
You never said it but
when I held you in my arms I could feel it.
I see now.
I thought you were strong.
You're not.
Neither am I. — David Harrower

What is it about someone genuine that makes other people want to crucify him in some tiny-seeming way? Someone has probably written the reason down in a book. But no one takes any notice, if we do know. — Elizabeth Harrower

I don't know how long I'll be trick or treating. Maybe I'll be 80 years old and still trick or treating. — Kieran Culkin

I can't see the world as a great hospital with us all nursing and pitying each other. — Elizabeth Harrower