Jeremiah Lloyd Harmon Quotes & Sayings

In familiar surroundings our manners are cheerful and easy, but only transport us to places where we know no one and no one knows us, and Lord! how uncomfortable we become! — Susanna Clarke

For an American, there's no automatic place where people love the art of poetry. There's not a social class that considers poetry its property the way in some countries there's a snob value to the art. — Robert Pinsky

The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough of is love. — Henry Miller

Because life is not fair, Albert. And the world is conspiring against you. — Veronica Roth

Revelation comes most often when we are on the move. — Dallin H. Oaks

I wanted to protect him, which I was sure I could do, even if I could not protect myself. — Jonathan Safran Foer

An imitation may be quite successful in its own way, but imitation can never be Success. Success is a first-hand creation. — Henry Ford

No matter what else happens, this is the century in which we must learn to live without fossil fuel. — David Goodstein

I know very well you can't help me," he said. "But I tell you, because unsuccessful and superfluous people like me find their salvation in talking. I have to generalise about everything I do. I'm bound to look for an explanation and justification of my absurd existence in somebody else's theories, in literary types - in the idea that we, upper-class Russians, are degenerating, for instance, and so on. Last night, for example, I comforted myself by thinking all the time: 'Ah, how true Tolstoy is, how mercilessly true!' And that did me good. Yes, really, brother, he is a great writer, say what you like!" Samoylenko, who had never read Tolstoy and was intending to do so every day of his life, was a little embarrassed, and said: "Yes, all other authors write from imagination, but he writes straight from nature. — Anton Chekhov

As C. S. Lewis points out, the journey to hell is a process, which can begin with something as apparently innocuous as a grumbling mood. — Timothy Keller

What I am most grateful for is that neither of my fathers pushed the relationship; they just let things develop and didn't impose anything on me. They were both just there, emanating stability in a very unstable situation. — Allegra Huston