Top 34 Corra Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Corra

#1. I was not too stupid to learn, but too smart. Some instinct must have warned me that a woman accomplished in the domestic arts is frequently enslaved by them.

Corra May Harris

#2. This is the wonderful thing about the pure in heart
they do see God.

Corra May Harris

#3. Without a battle there is no victory.

John Arnott

#4. There is something in the quality of the French mind to which I have always felt a reluctant kinship. They are the only people I know who can leap into an enormous vocabulary of words and beat them up with the wings of their spirit into a fine hysterical eloquence.

Corra May Harris

#5. I love truth, although I shall die hating mere facts, because they are misleading.

Corra May Harris

#6. We have built our State on the freedom of personal adventure.

John Grierson

#7. I believe if we can wait long enough that every honorable sorrow will become a kind of joy.

Corra May Harris

#8. He who practices Tasawwuf without learning Sacred Law corrupts his faith, while he who learns Sacred Law without practicing Tasawwuf corrupts himself.
Only he who combines the two proves true.

Malik Ibn Anas

#9. I'm unique for a suspense author in that I don't have a specialty background. A lot of suspense writers used to be lawyers or crime beat reporters. I didn't even know a cop when I started out. I finally figured out that I could visit prisons - I just had to be willing to make the phone calls.

Lisa Gardner

#10. The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.

Corra Harris

#11. Well don't demand the spotlight if you can't handle the attention.

Melissa Hill

#12. Crowdfunding is the new black.

Rowena Wiseman

#13. Never judge another knight without first knowing the strength and cunning of the dragons he fights.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#14. So long as a man attends to his business the public does not count his drinks. When he fails they notice if he takes even a glass of root beer.

Corra May Harris

#15. Maybe I shall never achieve happiness, but one thing I have had - the terrible wisdom of love.

Corra May Harris

#16. All backups take their cue from Elrod Hendricks, the patron saint of erstwhile catchers.

Stephen Rodrick

#17. I found it unbearable when I allow the song to meet the music, to allow the story to meet the music.

Meryl Streep

#18. We miss the real by lack of attention, and create the unreal by excess of imagination.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#19. I remember being very smart, which is a form of stupidity. I try not to remember it, but it occurs to me that I may have felt intellectual. I entertained views too noble or too bitter to be true. I must have done some soul-stretching of my mental neck.

Corra May Harris

#20. The woman is now climbing slowly down, with that inwardlistening deliberation.

William Faulkner

#21. It is easier to give all your goods to feed the poor, or not to have any goods - only your virtues, to boast of - than it is to judge the rich with charity ...

Corra May Harris

#22. Sanity, in my opinion, is an achievement. I have seen very few well-balanced people in my life who were not dunces.

Corra May Harris

#23. There is no true life. Your true life is the one you end up with, whatever it may be. You just do the best you can with what you've got.

Anne Tyler

#24. To be human is to be on the defensive, somewhere, somehow.

Corra May Harris

#25. The deadly monotony of Christian country life where there are no beggars to feed, no drunkards to credit, which are among the moral duties of Christians in cities, leads as naturally to the outvent of what Methodists call "revivals" as did the backslidings of the people in those days.

Corra May Harris

#26. Not everything you hear about yourself can be considered good publicity. And if you have delicate sensibilities, the currycomb of public imagination frequently rubs your vanities the wrong way.

Corra May Harris

#27. Mere words will not do. They must convey the color, charm, and pulse of life. They must have a private twinkle of wit in them that makes a good-natured noise like laughter through the keyhole of the reader's mind.

Corra May Harris