Heiress Harris Quotes & Sayings

Could he not find in his heart the generosity to acknowledge that there is a small nation that stood alone not for one year or two, but for several hundred years against aggression; that endured spoliations, famines, massacres in endless succession; that was clubbed many times into insensibility, but that each time on returning [to] consciousness took up the fight anew; a small nation that could never be got to accept defeat and has never surrendered her soul? — Eamon De Valera

All my life I have been trying to learn, to read, to see and hear, and to write. At sixty-five I began my first novel and after the five years, lacking a month, I took to finish it, I was still traveling, still a seeker. — Carl Sandburg

I tug at the ends of her sweater near her wrist, and her fingers twist up in defense. Nope. Not having it. First chance I get, I'm throwing every long-sleeved item in the trash and burning it with a single match and a gallon of gas. — Katie McGarry

One needs time to free oneself of wrong convictions. If it happens too suddenly, they go on festering. — Elias Canetti

When interviewing for any job, you of course want to dress appropriately for the position, but you also want to stay true to who you are. — Nina Garcia

Yet the New Testament treats of man and man's so-called spiritual affairs too exclusively, and is too constantly moral and personal, to alone content me, who am not interested solely in man's religious or moral nature, or in man even. — Henry David Thoreau

A small way to have control in a tense situation, I suppose — Sara Shepard

Give yourself a set period of time to grieve and heal before focusing on financial matters. — Lois P Frankel

Stories are artifacts, not really made things which we create and can take credit for, but pre-existing objects which we dig up. — Stephen King

You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life. — Benjamin Disraeli

Mistakes, scandals, and failures no longer signal catastrophe. The crucial thing is that they be made credible, and that the public be made aware of the efforts being expended in that direction. The marketing immunity of governments is similar to that of the major brands of washing powder. — Jean Baudrillard

To truly own your life you must be in charge of every minute of it. — Sunday Adelaja

[In] the national and religious conflict of the [Byzantine and Saracen] empires, peace was without confidence, and war without mercy. — Edward Gibbon