Scamander Harry Quotes & Sayings

My inward experience has often been a wilderness; but Thou hast owned me still as Thy beloved, and poured streams of love and grace into me to gladden me, and make me fruitful. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Those who are truly contemporary are those who neither perfectly coincide with their time nor adapt to its demands ... Contemporariness, then, is that relationship with time that adheres to it through a disconnection. — Giorgio Agamben

I may see a way I want to do something, and I understand when you have a team, everybody can't do their own thing. I'm willing to put my own agenda aside to do what's best for the team. — Richard Seymour

I say that in learning nothing is more profitable than to associate with those men who are learned, and of the roads to learning, none is quicker than to love such men — Xun Kuang

Mr. President, call the toady of American imperialism to order. — Nikita Khrushchev

Social media is an ever-changing world. You want to be ready if a certain platform becomes red-hot, and you don't want someone else taking your company name as his or her handle. That does happen! — Michelle Phan

The Congress is pretty powerful if it wants to be. — Newt Gingrich

A phrase (it often happened when he was exhausted) kept cycling round and round, preconsicously, just under the threshold of lip and tongue movement: "Events seem to be ordered into an ominous logic." It repeated itself automatically and Stencil improved upon on it each time, placing emphasis on different words - "events seem"; "seem to be ordered"; "ominous logic" - pronouncing them differently, changing the "tone of voice" from sepulchral to jaunty: round and round and round. Events seem to be ordered into an ominous logic. — Thomas Pynchon

But I felt then the same way Nicky did, that I was getting myself more life. Not necessarily a better life, not a life more promising than the one I already had. But because I thought this life was in addition to and not instead of, I devoured it without a second's hesitation. — Etgar Keret

Young men do not respect girls they can take advantage of - and they do not as easily take advantage of girls they respect. — Sarah Mally

Our most natural feelings are those we are loath to confess, and fatuity is among them. — Honore De Balzac

She wanted to interrupt and tell him how unnecessary it was, this bloodying and binding, this turning faith into a pugilistic exercise; to tell him that life was a struggle with ourselves more than with a spear-wielding Satan; that belief was a choice for our conscience always to be sharpened. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Not to know the past is to be in bondage to it, while to remember, to know, is to be set free. — Sigmund Freud

Some dreams are meant to be handed over to God. To be remolded and redirected in keeping with his will. Sometimes our plans do not fit with the plans of God. Linux helped ... — Janette Oke

This was yet another colonial fascination: to create the conditions of misery in a population, then subject it to social or medical experimentation. — Siddhartha Mukherjee