Miss Harriet Quotes

#1. It was now Oliver's staunch belief that ladies - more specifically, Miss Harriet Peabody - had been put on the earth in order to create havoc with his well-organized life.

Jen Turano

#2. Just because your tattoo has Chinese characters in it doesn't make you spiritual. It's right above the crack of your ass, and it translate to beef with broccoli. The last time you did anything spiritual, you were praying to God you weren't pregnant. You're not spiritual. You're just high.

Bill Maher

#3. It is through accomplishment that man makes his contribution and contribution is life's greatest reward.

John Portman

#4. I used to tell women graduate students, half-seriously, that the role of slightly rebellious daughter was one of the better roles for women living in patriarchy.

Carol Gilligan

#5. Everybody has their days of misfortune.

Louisa May Alcott

#6. As we pass through the trials of life, let us keep an eternal perspective, let us not complain, let us become even more prayerful, let us serve others, and let us forgive one another. As we do this, 'all things [will] work together for good to [us] that love God.'

James B. Martino

#7. In the height of thy prosperity expect adversity, but fear it not. If it come not, thou art the more sweetly possessed of the happiness thou hast, and the more strongly confirmed. If it come, thou art the more gently dispossessed of the happiness thou hadst, and the more firmly prepared.

Francis Quarles

#8. Charlotte Palmer is no sillier than Harriet Smith; and yet, how intolerable we should find it to see and hear as much of Charlotte as we do of Harriet! And would Miss Bates have been endurable if she had been presented in the mood and manners of Sense and Sensibility?

Mary Lascelles

#9. What's your hurry?"
Because now is the only time there ever is to do a thing in," said Miss Ophelia.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

#10. But then we always knew heaven would be a desperate place. Everything you desired coming in one fearful moment to greet you.

David Whyte

#11. The economic crisis really affected my family - 2006 to 2011 were really bad times. Almost everybody in my family lost their jobs.

Joey Badass

#12. Now is all the time I have anything to do with, said Miss Ophelia.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

#13. My mother always said two people can't fight if one person doesn't want to,

Dale Carnegie

#14. Talk of heaven! ye disgrace earth.

Henry David Thoreau

#15. Following the creation concept that creation processes differed from preservation processes, it is suggested that God endowed each created kind, at the time of its creation, with potential for vast variety.

Walter Lang

#16. NOP stands for (and is pronounced) no op, as in no operation. The NOP causes the processor to do absolutely nothing. What's it good for? Filling space. The 8080 can usually execute a bunch of NOP instructions without anything bad happening

Charles Petzold

#17. On the X-Men films, people are always throwing out ideas and trying to get the shot to look the best and make the most sense, and to get it done efficiently. Everybody collaborates and everybody is very open to new ideas.

Evan Peters

#18. Well," said Miss Ophelia, "do you think slavery right or wrong?"
"I'm not going to have any of your horrid New England directness, cousin," said St. Clare, gayly.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

#19. [H]eavenly personality, or the perpetuation of human personality in heaven is nothing else than personality released from all earthly encumbrances and limitations[.] [H]ere we are men, there gods[.]

Ludwig Feuerbach

#20. In the midst of life we are in death,' said Miss Ophelia.

Harriet Beecher Stowe