Haskins Quotes

#1. The historian, on the contrary, cannot experiment and can rarely observe. Instead, the historian has to collect his own evidence, knowing, all the while, that some of it is useless and much of it unreliable.
-Professor Charles Homer Haskins

Jill Lepore

#2. The Haitian people are gentle and lovable except for their enormous and unconscious cruelty.

Zora Neale Hurston

#3. Many a man gets weary of clamping down on his rough impulses, which if given occasional release would encourage the living of life with salt in it, in place of dust.

Henry S. Haskins

#4. Each experience through which we pass operates ultimately for our good. This is a correct attitude to adopt and we must be able to see it in that light.

Henry S. Haskins

#5. ... he pretty much made me feel like there's no use struggling anymore, that most everybody that dies goes to hell, and heaven isn't anything but a great wilderness.

James Haskins

#6. My first draft is usually how I meant it, but my second and third drafts is how I want to be understood.

Selena Haskins

#7. When a thing is not worth overdoing, leave it alone!

Henry S. Haskins

#8. What are the implications of a China that may be on nuclear parity with the United States?

Charles Bass

#9. I was never part of the "in" crowd, because as I stood outside the circle, everyone looked the same.

Selena Haskins

#10. Mozart makes us care about people in flashes of lightning.

Simon McBurney

#11. The boys had always been her reason to stay, but now for the first time they were her reason to leave. She'd allowed violence to become a normal part of their life.

Liane Moriarty

#12. If all your life means to you is water running over rocks, then photograph it, but I want to create something that would not have existed without me.

Minor White

#13. It's not about talent, it's about heart. It's about who can go out there and play the hardest. They're not going to give us anything, so you've got to go out there and you've got to take it.

Don Haskins

#14. Some people are like wheelbarrows; useful only when pushed, and very easily upset. The time to stop talking is when the other person nods his head affirmatively but says nothing.

Henry S. Haskins

#15. Whistling to keep up courage is good practice for whistling.

Charles Homer Haskins

#16. The middle age pair lay in bed sans underwear and genetics played out to the fear of all. She had a hot flash and he passed the gas they both were incinerated in an instantaneous flash of thunder, lightning, motion and force. The needed dental records to identify the corpses.

Byron Haskins

#17. It is the gifted, unorthodox individual, in the laboratory, or the study, or the walk by the river at twilight, who has always brought to us, and must continue to bring to us, all the basic resources by which we live.

Caryl Parker Haskins

#18. Letting go means wanting to move on so you can live.

Selena Haskins

#19. And I said to the man who stood at the gate of the year: "Give me a light that I may tread safely into the unknown." And he replied: "Go out into the darkness and put your hand into the hand of God. That shall be to you better than light, and safer than a known way."

Minnie Louise Haskins

#20. All too frequently the amateur will purchase a fine modern camera and proceed to use it for making the most elementary simple snapshots. This surely is like playing 'Chopsticks' on a concert grand piano.

Sam Haskins

#21. People really had a problem with my disinterest in submission. They had a problem with my intellect, and they had a problem with my choice of lovers. They had a problem with my choice of everything.

Alice Walker

#22. The only excuse from a man who abuses you are the ones we give him.

Selena Haskins

#23. The Rolling Stones are violence. Their music penetrates the raw nerve endings of their listeners and finds its way into the groove marked 'release of frustration.'

Jon Landau

#24. Let the splendor of diamond, pearl and ruby vanish? Only let this one teardrop, this Taj Mahal, glisten spotlessly bright on the cheek of time, forever and ever.

Rabindranath Tagore

#25. Annis had never been a people person, unless 'people person' was defined as a person who ate people.

Derek Landy

#26. Really, if you get to know pigs, they're very moody. They're not sweet little animals at all. That's what I like about them. They get depressed; they get into these snits. They're carnivorous.

Jamie Wyeth

#27. We have to serve ourself many years before we gain our own confidence.

Henry S. Haskins

#28. Winter, a bad guest, sitteth with me at home; blue are my hands with his friendly handshaking

Friedrich Nietzsche

#29. The issue of attention permeates the Gospels, yet the messages of the modern church swing wildly between the twin poles of hollow social action and shallow, myopic entertainment.

Peter Denbo Haskins

#30. Good behavior is the last refuge of mediocrity.

Henry S. Haskins

#31. A photographer went to a socialite party in New York. As he entered the front door, the host said 'I love your pictures - they're wonderful; you must have a fantastic camera.' He said nothing until dinner was finished, then: 'That was a wonderful dinner; you must have a terrific stove.

Sam Haskins

#32. A society committed to the search for truth must give protection to, and set a high value upon, the independent and original mind, however angular, however rasping, however socially unpleasant it may be; for it is upon such minds, in large measure, that the effective search for truth depends.

Caryl Parker Haskins

#33. Writing is not a numbers game. You should focus more on reaching the hearts of readers and building fans more than publishing a plethora of books that no one may care about.

Selena Haskins

#34. What some highbrows call rapport is nothing more than a mild flirtation between photographer and the girl on the other side of the camera. Some models get so professional they can send hours flirting with the camera itself while the poor photographer is reduced to the role of spectator.

Sam Haskins

#35. I played for the best coach who ever lived, Henry Iba. I wasn't intimidated by Adolph Rupp.

Don Haskins

#36. You see, my love. As you've always said, after the rain-"
Sun."
After the darkness-"
Light."
And after the illness-"
Health."
Exactly," said the Tsar. "We mustn't give up faith.

Robert Alexander

#37. Treat the other man's faith gently: it is all he has to believe with.

Henry S. Haskins

#38. N.Y. Chamber of Commerce Urges Passage of Silver For War Use.

Caryl Parker Haskins

#39. Life's most beautiful things are empty without somebody to share them with.

Torre DeRoche

#40. walked to his second-floor office.

Michael Haskins