Top 100 Harris Quotes
#1. I listen to National Public Radio, which, to me at least, presents the most rounded view of things.
Ed Harris
#2. I am a sucker for romance and I love girls and that is a terrible combination, because romance has the ability to overwhelm your perspective.
Joshua Harris
#3. I was referred to her by a guardian in northern Wilmington, a guy who handles people that are moving into nursing homes. They leave all their stuff there, and we have to empty the houses out. She provides a great service
Richard Harris
#4. The greatest enemy of progress is not stagnation, but false progress.
Sydney J. Harris
#6. I think there's nothing more amazing than helping people every day.
Naomie Harris
#7. There has never been a great 'silent' defense
Del Harris
#8. Only a group lack of imagination could account for people not wondering what went on in the dark around them.
Charlaine Harris
#9. Another of Cicero's maxims was that if you must do something unpopular, you might as well do it wholeheartedly, for in politics there is no credit to be won by timidity.
Robert Harris
#10. You won this job because you were the best for the job. You are smart, quick to learn, and can quickly acquire any skill you might be lacking.
Carla Harris
#11. Just what I needed, another psycho bitch after me. Hadn't the Weres pretty much cornered that market?
Charlaine Harris
#12. I love Dolly Parton, Emmylou Harris and Adele.
Casey Wilson
#13. More trouble is caused in this world by indiscreet answers than by indiscreet questions.
Sydney J. Harris
#14. It's nice to establish yourself as an actor first and a singer second. Proof is such a tremendous piece of work, and I'm incredibly lucky to be a part of it. I'm sure that the musicals will happen in the future, though.
Neil Patrick Harris
#15. 188. I hated trying to figure out what was best morally, because so often that didn't jibe with my gut reaction.
Charlaine Harris
#16. I wasn't aware of my dad being an actor when I was young. I remember there was an Australian children's entertainer on television called Ralph Harris and when I'd say my father was an actor, kids would say, you know, 'oh, is he Ralph Harris?' And I had to say no and then they would lose interest.
Jared Harris
#17. Each of us is looking for a path back to the present:
Sam Harris
#18. If war should break out between England and Japan, the latter would suffer much more than the former.
Townsend Harris
#19. A thoughtful and well-informed consideration of US government in relation to American society.
Ian Harris
#20. Let's do, let's get some handles. I don't know why I'm talking about this stuff. Look, I love you and I miss you and you're doing the right thing. It's costing you too, I know that. I'm here and I'll be here whenever you come home, or I'll meet you anywhere, anytime. That's what.
Thomas Harris
#22. My brother, Jason, came into the bar, then, and sauntered over to give me a hug. He knows that women like a man who's good to his family and also kind to the disabled, so hugging me is a double whammy of recommendation.
Charlaine Harris
#23. The art of living consists in knowing which impulses to obey and which must be made to obey.
Sydney J. Harris
#24. HH Beard has perfected ... 3 excellent (urine) cancer tests, all of proven accuracy of 95% or better ... in 1942 and onwards.
Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet
#25. I love Neil Patrick Harris. I've always been a big fan of his - he was my first TV crush.
Christine Lakin
#26. Nothing is ever clear-cut in Bon Temps. What passes for truth is only a convenient lie. What passes for justice is more spilled blood. And what passes for love is never enough ...
Charlaine Harris
#27. In a way I'm almost more rueful about the notion of having a non-ideological Labour party than I am about the personality of Tony Blair.
Robert Harris
#28. I want to maximize my happiness, but I am generally not moved to do what I believe will make me happier than I now am.
Sam Harris
#29. The problem with such guidelines is that they never seemed applicable to the real-world situation.
Tori L. Harris
#30. It's odd that the people who worry whether certain plays are "morally offensive" so rarely worry about the moral offensiveness of war, poverty, bigotry.
Sydney J. Harris
#31. If you're suffering, you're thinking.
Sam Harris
#32. No matter where we are today or what mistakes we've made in the past, He has given us everything we need to glorify Him right now.
Joshua Harris
#33. Why don't they just take him out?" I asked. I'm not politically minded, as I guess you can tell. Mr. Cataliades was smiling at me. "So direct, so classic," he said. "So American.
Charlaine Harris
#34. The father's role, he says, is to provide the mother with the peace and security she needs to be a good enough mother.
Massimilla Harris
#35. Our world is fast succumbing to the activities of men and women who would stake the future of our species on beliefs that should not survive an elementary school education.
Sam Harris
#36. Hey, Liv," he said as he picked up in the middle of the second ring.
Shayla Harris
#37. My concern with religion is that it allows us by the millions to believe what only lunatics or idiots could believe on their own. That's not to say that all religious people are lunatics or idiots. It's anything but that.
Sam Harris
#38. Such actions are beyond praise: it is the perfume of such sweet and noble human sympathy that makes this wild beasts' cage a world habitable for men.
Frank Harris
#40. You know, this is not about endorsements in the primary. We have to get through a primary first.
Katherine Harris
#41. There is no such thing as an "atrocity" in warfare that is greater than the atrocity of warfare itself.
Sydney J. Harris
#42. If your golf instructor were to insist that you shave your head, sleep no more than four hours each night, renounce sex, and subsist on a diet of raw vegetables, you would find a new golf instructor. However, when gurus make demands of this kind, many of their students simply do as directed.
Sam Harris
#43. In Islam, it is the "moderate" who is left to split hairs,
because the basic thrust of the doctrine is undeniable: convert, sub-
jugate, or kill unbelievers; kill apostates; and conquer the world.
Sam Harris
#44. I've learned that it's all about choice. You can choose to turn regrets into lessons that change your future.
Ali Harris
#45. We truly possess only what we are able to renounce; otherwise, we are simply possessed by our possessions.
Sydney J. Harris
#46. Who are you anyway?" Krendler said. "You're not Starling. You've got the spot on your face, but you're not Starling.
Thomas Harris
#47. It may be true that the weak will always be driven to the wall; but it is the task of a just society to see that the wall is climbable.
Sydney J. Harris
#48. Some people will try their best to snuff out the candle of hope inside of you. Don't let them!
Jose N. Harris
#49. Despite our perennial bad behavior, our moral progress seems to me unmistakable.
Sam Harris
#50. Kids should be naughty and go through that rebellious phase I didn't have.
Naomie Harris
#51. On some occasions the only people making accurate claims about the motivations of Islamists and jihadists are themselves dangerous bigots. That's terrifying.
Sam Harris
#52. Polite contempt. The barbed and poisonous weapon of the righteous.
Joanne Harris
#53. I'm probably my biggest critic. I worry that if you spend any quality time reveling in good things then karma will slap you upside the head, so I try to stay as even keel as I'm able.
Neil Patrick Harris
#54. It's like, the more you commit, the happier the animators are; if you're at all iffy and concerned, then it doesn't free them up to do as much fun stuff, so you have to just go for it and, again, trust the people around you and not be seemingly guarded and numb. Throw caution to the wind a bit.
Neil Patrick Harris
#55. The only thing you can be sure of, Herr March, is that - whoever wins - still standing when the smoke of battle clears will be the banks of the cantons of Switzerland.
Robert Harris
#56. For some people they say, it's about wish fulfillment, it's about the things you are never able to do in your day you are actually fulfilling at night. There are other people who will say that it's actually telling you something.
Shelby Harris
#58. He cleared his throat. "One good thing about the range, Starling, is there's no politics out there." "No?" "You were right to secure that garage up at Baltimore there. You worried about the TV?
Thomas Harris
#59. I think that whenever a nation feels itself to be at is zenith, it starts to feel a creeping sense of anxiety.
Robert Harris
#60. It will be quite satisfactory if you open them gradually, as the circumstances may require; but the President assures you that this will not be the case if you make a treaty with England first.
Townsend Harris
#61. I stopped for a moment, biting the inside of my cheek. This was the hardest part. I want to be first. I know that's selfish, and maybe unattainable, and maybe shallow. But I just want to come first with someone. If that's wrong, so be it. I'll be wrong. But that's the way I feel.
Charlaine Harris
#62. Really, a nightmare just really has to evoke some sort of, we call it, dysphoric emotion or something uncomfortable. You could be sad, you could be unhappy; you could be scared, anxious. But traditionally, the definition is you have to awaken from this nightmare.
Shelby Harris
#63. I lay aside the papers. Really, it is beyond hypocrisy; it is beyond even lying: it has become a psychosis.
Robert Harris
#64. An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
No one's immune to bribery.
Joanne Harris
#65. Well, well - be careful of what questions you ask, for fear of what answers you may receive.
Robert Harris
#66. With uncontrived sincerity he said, "I want to know you." That was one of the nicest things anyone had ever said to me.
Dan Harris
#68. So the cluviel dor was a test of Eric's sincerity, in Niall's eyes. And the cluviel dor was a test of my love for Eric, in Eric's eyes," I said. "And we both failed the test.
Charlaine Harris
#69. People have very strong opinions about how their national icons should be played.
Naomie Harris
#70. Running for office is similar to being a trial lawyer in a very long trial. It requires adrenaline and stamina; it requires being in shape mentally and emotionally. It's a marathon.
Kamala Harris
#71. You can't make sense of the present unless a part of you lives in the past.
Robert Harris
#72. I saw a very good Hollywood film the other day. It was about Cole Porter.
Julie Harris
#73. The truest test of independent judgment is being able to dislike someone who admires us, and to admire someone who dislikes us.
Sydney J. Harris
#74. In general, there are patients with insomnia who - many patients with insomnia will actually over report the lack of sleep that they are getting.
Shelby Harris
#75. Do you see a theme emerging? Women like flowers; men like food!
Joshua Harris
#76. Most seem to think that while a person may not be responsible for the opportunities he gets in life, each is entirely responsible for what he makes of these opportunities.
Sam Harris
#77. True love isn't expressed in passionately whispered words an intimate kiss or a embrace; before two people are married, love is expressed in self-control, patience, even words left unsaid.
Joshua Harris
#78. I would challenge anyone here to think of a questions upon which we once had a scientific answer, however inadequate, but for which now the best answer is a religious one.
Sam Harris
#79. I propose going up the Delaware, In order to be nearer this place than I should be by taking The course of the Chesapeake which I once intended."1 - William Howe, July 16, 1777
Michael Harris
#80. The second commandment is "Thou shall not construct any graven images." Is this really the pinnacle of what we can achieve morally? The second most important moral principle for all the generations of humanity?
Sam Harris
#81. I usually make records very quickly. I usually go in and record them and mix them, and I'm done within a couple of weeks.
Jesse Harris
#82. The secret is...
That it's not about how we obtain our dreams,
it's about how we live our life.
If we live our life the right way,
the dreams will come to us...
Jose N. Harris
#83. Barney did not reply. He looked at Krendler as though the left and right hemispheres of Krendler's brain were two dogs stuck together.
Thomas Harris
#84. In the best case, notions of God's love and grace provide some relief - but the central message of these faiths is that each of us is separate from, and in relationship to, a divine authority who will punish anyone who harbors the slightest doubt about His supremacy.
Sam Harris
#85. One of the key components of your mistake recovery strategy is to just stop, learn, get rid of the emotion and the feeling of shame and burden, and move on.
Carla Harris
#86. Having the urge to write a novel, especially if you've yet to be published, is like having a medical condition impossible to mention in polite company - it's a relief simply to know there are fellow-sufferers out there.
Robert Harris
#87. Powers that be, powers of three, let Caterina's destiny be all that I see.
Rachel Harris
#88. Amputees suffer itches, cramps and even severe pains in a leg that is no longer there. It can be the same with love ...
Jose N. Harris
#89. To fine that light within
that's the genius of poetry.
Julie Harris
#90. Motherhood is at its best when the tender chords of sympathy have been touched.
Paul Harris
#91. And most of the failures in parent-child relationships, from my observation, begin when the child begins to acquire a mind and a will of its own, to make independent decisions and to question the omnipotence or the wisdom of the parent.
Sydney J. Harris
#92. Food insecurity and hunger are serious threats to children's health, growth, and development. The idea of not being able to put plentiful, nutritious food on the table for my girls is a horrifying thought.
Samantha Harris
#93. Change isn't always comfortable, but it is a fact of life.
Joanne Harris
#95. I will, however, establish that success in love, as in all other aspects of life, belongs, as a rule, to the persistent and fiber man. Chaucer had reason to make the Old Bath confess: 'The truth is, more or less, we always succumb to attention and perseverance'.
Frank Harris
#96. Orwell has always been a huge influence on me.
Robert Harris
#97. I couldn't speak, for once in my life. I was terrified of seeing him again; and I would rather have shaved my head than not see him again.
Charlaine Harris
#98. Loss of social standing is an ever-present threat for individuals whose social acceptance is based on behavioral traits rather than unconditional human value.
Melissa V. Harris-Perry
#99. Before babies, I worked very hard to make sure I understood my surroundings and figured out where I fit in the world, whether it was at work or in a social situation.
Neil Patrick Harris
#100. One of the first things I learned about acting was, the only person you compete against is yourself.
Ed Harris
