Harbouring Quotes

#1. People often say that I'm curious about too many things at once ... But can you really forbid a man from harbouring a desire to know and embrace everything that surrounds him?

Alexander Von Humboldt

#2. Go gather by the humming sea
Some twisted, echo-harbouring shell,
And to its lips thy story tell.

W.B.Yeats

#3. There is no greater offence than harbouring desires. There is no greater disaster than discontent. There is no greater misfortune than wanting more.

Laozi

#4. The United States is now harbouring Luis Posada Carriles. His continued freedom mocks victims of terrorism everywhere. It also shows how heavily the 'war on terror' is overlaid with politics and hypocrisy.

Stephen Kinzer

#5. Hatred, revenge, bitterness - these are negative emotions. The person harbouring those emotions suffers more.

Ahmed Kathrada

#6. Why does someone, in the midst of your worst suffering, decide the time has come to drive home, disguised in the form of character analysis, all the contempt they have been harbouring for you for all these years?

Philip Roth

#7. A nonviolent warrior knows no leaving the battle. He rushes into the mouth of himsa, never even once harbouring an evil thought.

Mahatma Gandhi

#8. You know, the thing is with people who never talk, the thing is you always suppose they're harbouring some enormous secret. But, just possibly, the secret is, they have absolutely nothing to say.

Richard Greenberg

#9. Getting angry and harbouring bitterness doesn't help anybody, least of all the angry bitter person.

Jane Wilson-Howarth

#10. What would we say if men changed the length of their trousers every year?

Nancy Astor

#11. I'd love to go out with you, but I'd hate to deprive some village of its idiot.

Lois Greiman

#12. If you want soldiers you must have children. You can't buy 'em in boxes, like toy soldiers.

George Bernard Shaw

#13. Man is distinguished not only by his reason, but also by this singular passion, from all other animals.

Thomas Hobbes

#14. Those remarkable, God-given eyes! That glorious, good-natured personality! Elijah's Frodo is a dazzling light in the doom and gloom of war and despair.

Ian Holm

#15. Human beings exercise responsibilities within a social setting and a framework of obligations which transcend the principle of intelligence.

Michael Polanyi

#16. Om was there in the existence, when no religion was formed or founded. It will be there in the existence, if all the religions are demolished.

Banani Ray

#17. Boot the grime of this world in the crotch dear.

Morrissey

#18. The beautiful vagabonds, endowed with every grace, masters of all climes, and knowing no bounds - how many human aspirations are realized in their free, holiday-lives, and how many suggestions to the poet in their flight and song!

John Burroughs

#19. Work is no disgrace: it is idleness which is a disgrace.

Hesiod

#20. I am drawn to women who are independent and creative, which is problematic because it's a struggle, a competition of careers. There's jealousy.

Marilyn Manson

#21. A string of reproaches against other people leads one to suspect the existence of a string of self-reproaches with the same content.

Sigmund Freud

#22. I got sober, and I got happy again.

Macklemore