Skrewts In Harry Quotes & Sayings

Half the spiritual difficulties that men and women suffer arise from a morbid state of health. — Henry Ward Beecher

In Memory of M. B.

Here is my gift, not roses on your grave,
not sticks of burning incense.
You lived aloof, maintaining to the end
your magnificent disdain.
You drank wine, and told the wittiest jokes,
and suffocated inside stifling walls.
Alone you let the terrible stranger in,
and stayed with her alone.
Now you're gone, and nobody says a word
about your troubled and exalted life.
Only my voice, like a flute, will mourn
at your dumb funeral feast.
Oh, who would have dared believe that half-crazed I,
I, sick with grief for the buried past,
I, smoldering on a slow fire,
having lost everything and forgotten all,
would be fated to commemorate a man
so full of strength and will and bright inventions,
who only yesterday it seems, chatted with me,
hiding the tremor of his mortal pain. — Anna Akhmatova

I never did pal around with actresses. Their talk usually bored me to tears. — Bette Davis

May I meet this moment fully. May I meet it as a friend. — Sylvia Boorstein

A good twenty percent of this idea's allure is in my eagerness to get rid of my V-card so I can stop saving it for Hunter. I need to be freed of that idea. Freed of my crush. I hope that after spending some time at Love Inc., I never blush in the middle of a sexual encounter ever again. No Hunter West or anybody else will be able to knock me off my feet, and I like that idea. — Ella James

It would be a shame to lose the precious jewel of liberation in the mud of ignorant body building. — K. Pattabhi Jois

The system was elementary, as you can see. Naturally these "lotteries" failed. Their moral virtue was nil. They were not directed at all of man's faculties, but only at hope. — Jorge Luis Borges

The man who is extremely and dangerously hungry has no other interest but food. Capacities not useful for the satisfying of hunger are pushed into the background. 'But what happens to man's desires when there is plenty of food and his belly in chronically filled? At once, other (and higher) needs emerge and these, rather than the psychological hungers, dominate the organism. — Betty Friedan

Here's a confession: I hate parenting books. I hate the ones that are earnest and repetitive. — Bruce Feiler

Yes, sir. Certainly, it was I who found the body. — Ryunosuke Akutagawa

I love the experience of walking into the theater, buying a ticket and all that goes with it. — Victoria Mahoney

And I remember going to the record studio and there was a park across the street and I'd see all the children playing and I would cry because it would make me sad that I would have to work instead. — Michael Jackson

Well, if they're any bigger than this lot, even Hagrid won't be able to handle them," said Harry. "That's if he hasn't been attacked by his skrewts. Wonder what's up with them?" "Maybe they've escaped," said Ron hopefully. "Oh don't say that," said Hermione with a shudder. "Imagine that lot loose on the grounds. ... — J.K. Rowling

Citizens who over-rely on their government to do everything not only become dependent on their government, they end up having to do whatever the government demands. In the meantime, their initiative and self-respect are destroyed. — Charles Koch

Love really is the answer to human problems: love of oneself, love of others, love of where one is, love of what one is doing, love of nature, love of life, love of the world, love of spirit in all its wonder and splendor. Love sets our energy free. It opens us and puts us in a flow with spirit and life on many levels. Love is the true secret behind manifestation. — David Spangler

The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what a man or woman is able to do that counts. — Virgil