Top 100 Hari's Quotes

#1. Kenneth Hari's art work shall influence mankind.

Pablo Casals

Hari's Quotes #1592514
#2. If I have to make moves in her, we'll all get bloody. You, go wake up Raithe. Tell him Hari's waiting to see him. He'll come with you."
"Hari?" He frowned like he wasn't sure if he was being kidded. "Of what abbey? In what land?"
"Hari of Do as You're Told in the land of And Shut the Fuck Up.

Matthew Woodring Stover

Hari's Quotes #1298072
#3. Wouldn't it be better to spend our money on rescuing kids before they become addicts than on jailing them after we have failed?

Johann Hari

Hari's Quotes #787385
#4. Husband and wife are like the two equal parts of a soybean. If the two parts are put under the earth separately, they will not grow. The soybean will grow only when the parts are covered by the skin. Marriage is the skin which covers each of them and makes them one.

Baba Hari Dass

Hari's Quotes #563705
#5. I feel like you can't just have fashion for fashion's sake.

Hari Nef

Hari's Quotes #766065
#6. I'm interested in complexity, in the mathematical sense, as well as the idiomatic sense. The idea of emergence - that it's possible for complex patterns to arise out of many simple interactions - is fascinating.

Hari Kunzru

Hari's Quotes #761184
#7. Death is nothing, nor life either, for that matter. To die, to sleep, to pass into nothingness, what does it matter? Everything is an illusion.

Mata Hari

Hari's Quotes #748944
#8. The composition of our society has been changing. We [world] are becoming a more urban population. Mega-cities, those with more than 10 million residents, are booming.

Hari Sreenivasan

Hari's Quotes #740289
#9. Heckles always vary. I mean, some people are just drunk, and it's nonsense, or, you know, some people just want to just repeat something I've said or add their own two cents about an opinion, but because of the nature of what I do and who I am, like, I also get the racist stuff, which is hard.

Hari Kondabolu

Hari's Quotes #736092
#10. Flowers that bloom in the winter may not survive till spring.

K. Hari Kumar

Hari's Quotes #731255
#11. I'm fascinated by the emergence of a global class. They're highly mobile; they reject the idea of place.

Hari Kunzru

Hari's Quotes #724559
#12. You can either follow your dreams or adjust with your society's expectations ... Either way, consequences are uncertain ... the path to glory or the boulevard of mediocrity, both lead to the grave ... Choose what's worthwhile, for the end is the same.

K. Hari Kumar

Hari's Quotes #719831
#13. I won, goddammit. I beat Kollberg. I beat you. I got everything I goddamn wanted: fame, wealth, power. Shit, I even got the girl."
"The problem with happy endings," Tan'elKoth said,"is that nothing is ever truly over."
"Fuck that," Hari said."I am living happily ever goddamn after. I am.

Matthew Woodring Stover

Hari's Quotes #709578
#14. Post 9/11, brown people had this force pushing us together. It's like we're all being looked at with fear and suspicion; we're all being targeted, so how do you support yourself and your communities?

Hari Kondabolu

Hari's Quotes #702822
#15. Something has gone badly wrong with our culture. We've created a culture where really large numbers of the people around us can't bear to be present in their daily lives. They need to medicate themselves to get through their day.

Johann Hari

Hari's Quotes #695330
#16. I like moral judgment to emerge from the reader. We are being sold a very simplistic morality by our leaders at a time when nuance and understanding are at a premium.

Hari Kunzru

Hari's Quotes #693668
#17. Seattle is a place I've lived only a couple of years, but I feel like I've been adopted by this city. It's like a hug. I've been recognized on planes, in the airport and by cabdrivers. I don't get that anywhere else in the country.

Hari Kondabolu

Hari's Quotes #692319
#18. Some books I've kept because the binding is beautiful - I'm unlikely ever to read my grandmother's copy of 'The Life of Lord Nelson.' I'm addicted to secondhand bookshops.

Hari Kunzru

Hari's Quotes #691508
#19. I feel privileged that I've been able to get anywhere, with my quote-unquote limited mainstream appeal, given my race and subject matter. Of course, I always have my masters to fall back on.

Hari Kondabolu

Hari's Quotes #681938
#20. When I started doing standup when I was 17, I was talking about being Indian and specifically ethnic jokes. Straightforward stuff that was fairly ignorant that I knew would get the laugh. It wasn't flipping stereotypes; it was using them.

Hari Kondabolu

Hari's Quotes #671108
#21. The climate-change deniers are rapidly ending up with as much intellectual credibility as creationists and Flat Earthers ... they are nudging close to having the moral credibility of Holocaust deniers.

Johann Hari

Hari's Quotes #661339
#22. There's nothing New York likes more than a thing. Or a place. Or a place that's a thing. Or a thing that happens to be a place.

Hari Kunzru

Hari's Quotes #642161
#23. We are always learning from each others. Only when we merge inside God would we stop learning. We will understand more as we teach others, so we rely on teaching in order to learn for ourselves.

Baba Hari Dass

Hari's Quotes #635995
#24. Shiva" is Life. Shiva can be split as Sha+ee+Va where Sha stands for Shareeram or body, ee stands for eeshwari or life giving energy and Va stands for vayu or motion. Thus Shiva represents the body with life and motion.

D.K. HEMA HARI

Hari's Quotes #613466
#25. I think it's important for all culturally literate people to understand the technological substrate of new developments.

Hari Kunzru

Hari's Quotes #595330
#26. If you work on yoga, yoga will work on you.

Baba Hari Dass

Hari's Quotes #569790
#27. I like playing with that space between laughter and discomfort where your discomfort can also make you laugh, and you're confused about the mixed feelings. That's challenging, and I think that's what makes for some of the best art.

Hari Kondabolu

Hari's Quotes #1755442
#28. It's easier for doctors to continue treating symptoms instead of causes and for drug companies to develop new, moneymaking drugs than it is to change the nation's food supply.

Vani Hari

Hari's Quotes #1219279
#29. I feel that women and men should free themselves up. It took me a while to get over my dysphoria about shopping in the men's section, trying on men's clothes, but when I was thinking about my life and the kind of woman I wanted to be, it was never just this by-the-book feminine thing.

Hari Nef

Hari's Quotes #1740611
#30. Legality is just the name for everything that's not dangerous for the ruling order.

Hari Kunzru

Hari's Quotes #1644951
#31. I can see a version of my life where it all becomes meaningless. On a good day, writing seems noble. Other times, it's narcissistic and pointless.

Hari Kunzru

Hari's Quotes #1639949
#32. The idea of retiring is like killing yourself. It's almost like Hari Kari. I intend to live to a 100 and go down in history.

Keith Richards

Hari's Quotes #1614004
#33. Being in Harlem on the night of Barack Obama's election was extraordinary. It was the best street party I have ever gone to, and it felt like the period of American history which began with slavery had ended that evening.

Hari Kunzru

Hari's Quotes #1602797
#34. Say there are three identical-looking pizza joints on a street. Two of those will always be empty. The third will have a line of people patiently waiting, checking their phones. There's always one place that's the place. That's how it works.

Hari Kunzru

Hari's Quotes #1475465
#35. I've been approached after shows from people who said, 'I don't agree with anything you said, but I laughed the whole way through.' That's still a little strange to me. Like, nothing, really? But at the same time, that's what happens in a conversation.

Hari Kondabolu

Hari's Quotes #1437824
#36. For anybody who suspects that we need to reform the drug laws, there is an easier argument to make, and a harder argument to make. The easier argument is to say that we all agree drugs are bad - it's just that drug prohibition is even worse.

Johann Hari

Hari's Quotes #1369099
#37. Tapas is not a penance, it's a mental training to develop will power

Baba Hari Dass

Hari's Quotes #1360172
#38. He's cheap and cheesy, coz he loves you. If you want to know how 'expensive' he has been, just check his inbox, see how may gals he disappointed for you.

K. Hari Kumar

Hari's Quotes #1283348
#39. You can't teach a hunter it's wrong to kill.

Baba Hari Dass

Hari's Quotes #1263680
#40. You're too old to be saying to me, as you did recently, that you weren't 'interested in politics'. You're lucky that politics feels optional, something it's safe to ignore. Most people in the world have it forced on them

Hari Kunzru

Hari's Quotes #792443
#41. I got my dad a great father's Day present. He called to say: 'Ach. Zis present is so good I now think it vas almost vorth having children.

Johann Hari

Hari's Quotes #1169414
#42. When you think of H&M, you're thinking of something that's accessible to a broad range of people, perhaps far broader than most of these beautiful shows.

Hari Nef

Hari's Quotes #1093997
#43. I enjoy thinking myself into other times and places. I don't like some of the conventions of the 'historical novel', but I think there's a way of doing it that has a lot of merit.

Hari Kunzru

Hari's Quotes #1092028
#44. The words we use have weight. Whether it's in a conversation with a friend or something said publicly on stage or broadcast. And as performers, we know that because that's why we choose the words we use - that's the whole point of comedy.

Hari Kondabolu

Hari's Quotes #1084896
#45. But it's the particularity of a place, the physical experience of being in a place, that makes it onto the page. That's why I don't just do library research. I very rarely write about somewhere I haven't been.

Hari Kunzru

Hari's Quotes #1069623
#46. Critchley and Webster's fierce, witty exploration of Hamlet makes most other writing about Shakespeare seem simpleminded.

Hari Kunzru

Hari's Quotes #990835
#47. I suffer from vertigo. It's paralyzing in extreme situations. The most scared I've been as an adult was trying to conquer that fear by going climbing in Wales.

Hari Kunzru

Hari's Quotes #928027
#48. TV is shifting into the background of just being another appliance; it's just a bigger screen.

Hari Sreenivasan

Hari's Quotes #859683
#49. If Allah has willed it that way ... He must have better plans for you child ...

K. Hari Kumar

Hari's Quotes #832304
#50. The world is not a burden; we make it a burden by our desires. When the desires are removed, the world is as light as a feather on an elephant's back.

Baba Hari Dass

Hari's Quotes #827254
#51. My dance is a sacred poem in which each movement is a word and whose every word is underlined by music. The temple in which I dance can be vague or faithfully reproduced, for I am the temple.

Mata Hari

Hari's Quotes #820154
#52. There are things about our world that almost by their nature defy our ability to comprehend them. Some people use a religious register to deal with that - they call it God and that's a way of domesticating it.

Hari Kunzru

Hari's Quotes #140603
#53. Guglielmo Marconi, the inventor of radio, believed that sound waves never completely die away, that they persist, fainter and fainter, masked by the day-to-day noise of the world. Marconi thought that if he could only invent a microphone powerful enough, he would be able to listen to ancient times.

Hari Kunzru

Hari's Quotes #231541
#54. It would be as if the Navy Seals defected from the U.S. Army to help the Crips take over Los Angeles
and succeeded.

Johann Hari

Hari's Quotes #226951
#55. I am no Patriot for I try to breathe in with the steadfast belief that my country is the Earth and my religion is Humanism.

K. Hari Kumar

Hari's Quotes #206400
#56. Sometimes things do not go the way one wanted them to go ... At times like this, one would wish that one had not dreamt so much. Just hang in there ... destination is just a mile away.

Hari Kumar K

Hari's Quotes #202193
#57. Finally... I'm here...

K. Hari Kumar

Hari's Quotes #176907
#58. We humans have always been resilient. With each industrial revolution, we have adapted, creating new jobs with new technologies.

Hari Sreenivasan

Hari's Quotes #169549
#59. There's an explosion of Indian fiction of all kinds, from military thrillers to chicklit. I think that's exciting.

Hari Kunzru

Hari's Quotes #169417
#60. Imagination is the other end of Reality.

K. Hari Kumar

Hari's Quotes #161171
#61. You have to find a way to laugh a little bit each day despite everything, or your heart will simply run out of the joy that makes it go.

Daoud Hari

Hari's Quotes #156140
#62. No one can please everyone. Your mental peace is more important. If you are in peace, then others around you will feel peace. So your best effort should be to work on yourself.

Baba Hari Dass

Hari's Quotes #154161
#63. Morganith snorted and didn't lower her weapon. "One girl can cause alotta trouble, Hari. You and I are proofa that.

Ash Gray

Hari's Quotes #151462
#64. It took me a while to see that the contrast between the racism directed at Billie and the compassion offered to addicted white stars like Judy Garland was not some weird misfiring of the drug war - it was part of the point.

Johann Hari

Hari's Quotes #141079
#65. In my early teens, science fiction and fantasy had an almost-total hold over my imagination. Their outcast status was part of their appeal.

Hari Kunzru

Hari's Quotes #255537
#66. The US head of state grew up on food stamps. The British head of state grew up on the postage stamps.

Johann Hari

Hari's Quotes #133249
#67. Not just charity, even corruption begins at home.

K. Hari Kumar

Hari's Quotes #128286
#68. Until the day that "the Great Judge proclaims: / 'The last addict's died,'254 " the poem said, "Then - not till then - may you be retired.

Johann Hari

Hari's Quotes #116752
#69. Politics and sports are the same thing in some ways. I like sports; I don't like the sports aspect of politics. The conventions are basically the playoffs, and the election's the Super Bowl. To me, it doesn't feel important.

Hari Kondabolu

Hari's Quotes #77832
#70. Every day, I have something that is so full of nutrition and so full of foods that give you life, rather than take them away, that it makes me feel amazing and really good inside. It balances my blood sugar, balances out all of the things that I need, the nutrition that I need to get into my body.

Vani Hari

Hari's Quotes #74450
#71. All things are transitory. All things must pass. Attachments whether to material possessions, to people, to places to name, are futile. Despite your clinging, these things will fade away.

Hari Kunzru

Hari's Quotes #74434
#72. The human story is one of continual branching movement, out of Africa to every corner of the globe. When people talk of blood and soil, as if their ancestors sprung fully formed from the earth of a particular place, it involves a kind of forgetting.
(Hari Kunzru)

Carolina De Robertis

Hari's Quotes #65389
#73. If a pickpocket meets a Holy Man, he will see only His pockets.

Baba Hari Dass

Hari's Quotes #63669
#74. You will come across people who always affirm by everything you say, but at the hour of need, they simply disappear! Stay away from such people or simply don't fall for their promises.

K. Hari Kumar

Hari's Quotes #52581
#75. The opposite of addiction isn't sobriety. It's connection.

Johann Hari

Hari's Quotes #41338
#76. You have to be stronger than your fears if you want to get anything done in this life.

Daoud Hari

Hari's Quotes #38689
#77. Everything is an illusion.

Mata Hari

Hari's Quotes #397820
#78. Such is the great nature of man, it resides the true face beneath a glittering masquerade.

K. Hari Kumar

Hari's Quotes #538839
#79. The greatest trick the rich - and their cheerleaders on the right - ever pulled was convincing the world that class didn't exist. Out here in the real world, it is more real and more rigid than it has been for a century.

Johann Hari

Hari's Quotes #529273
#80. Introductions are always weird for me because my name is Hari and it's constantly mispronounced . 'Hurry', 'Hairy' - there are different ways to screw it up, and it leads to these awkward conversations.

Hari Kondabolu

Hari's Quotes #523142
#81. I actually start my day with a cup of warm lemon water with cayenne pepper. It jump-starts your detoxifying system in your body, jump-starts your liver, helps you eliminate the food that you ate the day before, and also just gets your body in an alkaline state ready to ward off disease.

Vani Hari

Hari's Quotes #502975
#82. Life is not a burden, but we make it one when we refuse to accept things as they are.

Baba Hari Dass

Hari's Quotes #501214
#83. There shall come a day when Birds shall be free ... and humans will see ...

K. Hari Kumar

Hari's Quotes #449721
#84. When you ask your white friends what their cultural heritage is, they don't just say white. They give you a math equation. 'Well, I'm a third German and a fourth Irish and one-sixteenth Welsh and one-fortieth Native American for college applications.'

Hari Kondabolu

Hari's Quotes #445905
#85. I respect you as a person too much to respect your ridiculous beliefs.

Johann Hari

Hari's Quotes #445663
#86. Telling me that I'm obsessed with talking about racism in America is like telling me I'm obsessed with swimming when I'm drowning.

Hari Kondabolu

Hari's Quotes #442283
#87. I'm not a politician, I'm not an ideologue, I'm not an organizer anymore. I'm a human being sharing ideas, and those ideas have to feel fresh and from my heart and my head, and I have to feel it. You can't force that feeling.

Hari Kondabolu

Hari's Quotes #431114
#88. This diversity comes about due to the interdependency between each other

D.K. Hari

Hari's Quotes #412822
#89. I stand on my public record as a defender of the human rights of Muslims, notably my work for Moazzam Begg and other British Muslims detained without trial in Guantanamo Bay.

Hari Kunzru

Hari's Quotes #552714
#90. If I could create something that is even minutely close to a small percentile of a genius as Cloud Atlas, I shall deem my life worthy!

K. Hari Kumar

Hari's Quotes #393518
#91. I can very well understand your frustration, but you must stick to your dreams. Try Harder!

K. Hari Kumar

Hari's Quotes #392129
#92. Once you know what's in your food you can't unlearn it.

Vani Hari

Hari's Quotes #376601
#93. The war on drugs makes it almost impossible for drug users to get milder forms of their drug - and it pushes them inexorably toward harder drugs.

Johann Hari

Hari's Quotes #358309
#94. As soon as a person starts thinking, 'I want to be a better person,' that is the start of Yoga.

Baba Hari Dass

Hari's Quotes #348299
#95. Stand-up will always be my first love, and it has been the primary way I've expressed myself since I was 17.

Hari Kondabolu

Hari's Quotes #334541
#96. You can be funny and say what you mean; these ideas are not mutually exclusive. Some of the best jokes came from people who meant it. See: Pryor, Bruce, Carlin, etc.

Hari Kondabolu

Hari's Quotes #313958
#97. After 9/11, I changed a lot of the ways I viewed the world. I realized my comedy and my politics and my view of the world did not match. I had to start writing from my heart.

Hari Kondabolu

Hari's Quotes #312986
#98. I have had vegan Thanksgiving of tofurkey and soy gravy. And it's not to say that Thanksgiving will ever justify the genocide of the Native Americans. But vegan Thanksgiving - that's just spitting on the graves, isn't it?

Hari Kondabolu

Hari's Quotes #274870
#99. January 14, 2000, was my first time on stage, and I've been hooked ever since. I got discovered nationally in Seattle by the now-defunct HBO Comedy Festival, and that led to an appearance on 'Jimmy Kimmel Live' and a path to a professional comedy career.

Hari Kondabolu

Hari's Quotes #267761
#100. The truth emerging from this scattered picture of nuclear proliferation is simple: there is a stronger chance of a nuclear bomb being used now than at almost any point in the Cold War.

Johann Hari

Hari's Quotes #264804

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