Quotes About Harper

#1. I think because we're such a trading nation, I think Canadians understand that first and foremost we're part of the global economy.

Stephen Harper

#2. But she knew that her father's presence at the table with a man who spewed filth from his mouth - did that make it less filthy? No. it condoned.

Harper Lee

#3. There is not a person in this courtroom who has never told a lie, who has never done an immoral thing, and there is no man living who has never looked upon a woman without desire." Atticus

Harper Lee

#4. The thing is, what I'm tryin' to say is -
they do get on a lot better without me, I can't help them any. They ain't mean. They buy me everything I want, but it's now - you've-got-it-go-play-with-it. You've got a roomful of things. I-got-you-that-book-so-go-read-it.

Harper Lee

#5. We're all of us going to hell, it's just a question of time.

Harper Lee

#6. I intend to lead my party, which is the only party that has a serious policy on the No. 1 priority of the people and that is the economy.

Stephen Harper

#7. No I'm not. It might benefit you to go back and have a look at what some of our founding fathers really believed, instead of relying so much on what people these days tell you they believed.

Harper Lee

#8. The main question raised by the thriller is not what kind of world we live in, or what reality is like, but what it has done to us.

Ralph Harper

#9. Set your sights not just on the next few weeks ... set your sights on the years ahead - because our vision will look that far ahead.

William Rainey Harper

#10. Oh, could slavery exist long if it did not sit on a commercial throne?

Frances Harper

#11. I really want Americans, and all of us, to be less afraid of death, and know that it's a passage, but that - don't go to the funeral before the day of the funeral.

Valerie Harper

#12. He wanted to dismiss Saint Rosaline's comments out of hand, but this was impossible because he knew that the comments came from the recesses of this own mink. Either that, or he was truly going mad, which at this point seemed like an attractive option.

Suzanne Harper

#13. People say, 'Weren't you deprived of your childhood?' No way. I would not take anything back at all. Everything about it was great. I got to go places, meet people, play baseball against older kids and better competition. I had a great time.

Bryce Harper

#14. Sugar" he starts, before turning his attention back over to Dee, " I have thought about sex, hard fucking sex, about a hundred times since we sat down to eat." Looking back over to me, " Does that clear it up for you?

Harper Sloan

#15. I am a disaster magnet. I came home from our first anniversary vacation with jellyfish stings, a puncture wound from a wrought iron pineapple and a cork-shaped bruise in my cleavage.

Molly Harper

#16. I think it would be best if you came down from there before I explained that."
"I think I'll stay right where I am, thank you," I said. "And you, you stay where you are, or I'll ... I don't know what I'll do, but it will really hurt. You, I mean.

Molly Harper

#17. You're very sure of yourself. And you mistakenly seem to think you can be very sure of me" She pouted. "How sad for you."
He gave her a pointed look. "I will have you in my bed, Harper. I always take what I want. Right now, that's you.

Suzanne Wright

#18. Family could lift you up,or mess you up pretty badly.

Kaje Harper

#19. I wonder what would happen if the South had a 'Be Kind to the Niggers Week'?

Harper Lee

#20. There is no greater fraud than a promise not kept.

Stephen Harper

#21. It's fantastic to put your hands in the earth. I enjoy spending my time in heaven here. I don't care what you say, this is my heaven.

Roy Harper

#22. I learned never to take him into a baby store. Ever. He snickered every time he heard the word 'nipple.'" "Well, that's what you get for dating a giant twelve-year-old," I told her, sitting on Jolene's left.

Molly Harper

#23. Okay, okay, you win. One-just one- date. But that's all." She didn't look at Josh, just stalked off toward the nearest exit. "Do you get all your dates by blackmail?"
"Nope," he said cheerily as he easily kept pace with her. "Only the ones that matter

Dani Harper

#24. She had two minutes of peace before yesterday returned: nothing can kill the pleasure of one's first cigarette on a new morning. Jean Louise blew smoke carefully into the still air. She

Harper Lee

#25. Hubert's wife, Mindy, was a tiny powerhouse of a woman with a halo of wild blond hair and eye makeup so complex it took me a while to locate her pupils. She was clearly the brains of the operation, such as she was.

Molly Harper

#26. It ain't time to worry yet. I'll let you know when.

Harper Lee

#27. Sienna Rivers, ex-nerd, undisputed reigning chess champion of the class of 09 and the proverbial all round wise-ass degenerate pain in your backside.

Ali Harper

#28. You aren't thin-hided, it just makes you sick, doesn't it?

Harper Lee

#29. First thing you learn when you're in a lawin' family is that there ain't any definite answers to anything.

Harper Lee

#30. Diane Harper had been sneakily copying, and was making a nurse costume, too, but being Diane, it turned out looking more like a Playboy Bunny without the ears. Alison's, however, was beautiful.

Robin Klein

#31. The woman was Diana Vreeland, the high priestess of fashion and legendary fashion editor of Harper's Bazaar and editor-in-chief of Vogue. Dana paused, eyes wide. Well, perhaps she was a bit star-struck after all.

Lynn Steward

#32. In favor of southern womanhood as much as anybody, but not for preserving polite fiction at the expense of human life.

Harper Lee

#33. You deny them hope. Any man in this world, Atticus, any man who has a head and arms and legs, was born with hope in his heart. You won't find that in the Constitution, I picked that up in church somewhere. They are simple people, most of them, but that doesn't make them subhuman.

Harper Lee

#34. There's nothing wrong with wanting a partner and doing the things to have one. To protect ourselves, we have to say, 'I don't need one.'

Hill Harper

#35. I want Harper to want me this same wild and crazy way, like she can't get enough of me. Because, hell, it's become that way for me.
It just has.

Lauren Blakely

#36. But things like long life 'n' good health, 'n' passin' six-weeks tests . . .

Harper Lee

#37. When I was 15, I was wearing sandals and corduroys, Guernsey, striped pullover, a beard that was hardly there, shades and a beret, and the goal was hanging out.

Roy Harper

#38. I want you more than
I've wanted anything in my life
and that frustrates the shit out of me
because you either can't or won't see it.

Harper Sloan

#39. I love you, too, Stretch," he said, giving my shoulder a brief squeeze. "You're the sister I never really wanted." "Nice.

Molly Harper

#40. Talking to Francis gave me the sensation of settling slowly to the bottom of the ocean.

Harper Lee

#41. Anywhere in town, kept to themselves, a predilection

Harper Lee

#42. Things are always better in the morning.

Harper Lee

#43. You're right, it was a bad phone," I said, lifting an eyebrow. "Look at it, lying there, all superior. The phone had it coming.

Molly Harper

#44. I was a lone wolf. Or at least a lone dragon anyway. We liked to work alone. Others would merely cramp our style. Or steal our treasure.

Helen Harper

#45. God wants someone to defend him.

Shane Harper

#46. As I inched sluggishly along the treadmill of the Maycomb County School system, I could not help receiving the impression that I was being cheated out of something. Out of what I knew not, yet I did not believe that twelve years of unrelieved boredom was exactly what the state had in mind for me.

Harper Lee

#47. Her victim - of necessity she must put him away from her - he must be removed from her presence, from this world. She must destroy the evidence of her offense. What was

Harper Lee

#48. I fell for you a long time ago, Cohen Cage. I've loved you my whole life.

Harper Sloan

#49. Even if people are suspicious of the motives I think that learning and speaking two languages can only be a good thing for people.

Stephen Harper

#50. Money is simply a tool to give you choices.

Hill Harper

#51. You're flightier than a hummingbird on crack.

Lou Harper

#52. Her green eyes meet mine in the Guinness mirror behind the bar and it feels like all the air has been sucked out of the room. I've never slept with this girl, but she was the first I remember wanting.
Harper Gray.

Trish Doller

#53. I was just wondering, what would you say to a pair of kittens?"
""Hi, snack food?

Kaje Harper

#54. They've done it before and they'll do it again and when they do it
seems that only the children weep. Good night.

Harper Lee

#55. The single most important duty of the federal government is to protect and defend our national sovereignty. There are new and disturbing reports of American nuclear submarines passing though Canadian waters without obtaining the permission of, or even notifying, the Canadian government.

Stephen Harper

#56. If looks could kill ... well, Dick was already dead, so nothing would happen. But Gabriel was not laughing.
"See Dick," Dick said, pointing at his chest. He then swept his hand dangerously close to mind. "Jane. Dick and Jane. Come on, you humorless jackass. That's funny.

Molly Harper

#57. Said once, that the only real duties of government were to prevent crime and preserve contracts, to which I will add one thing since I find myself reluctantly in the twentieth century: and to provide for the common defense.

Harper Lee

#58. I'm no different from any other woman, and the wrong man would turn me into a screamin' shrew in record time.

Harper Lee

#59. It's not who you slept with that matters, but whom you fell in love with.

Lou Harper

#60. See, you feel better now that you've hit something.

Molly Harper

#61. Sometimes I think to talk too much about music almost cheapens it.

Ben Harper

#62. I've seen such things as you would not believe. I've seen motorbikes driven down hotel corridors - and had a go myself.

Roy Harper

#63. Before Jem looks at anyone else he looks at me, and I've tried to live so I can look squarely back at him.

Harper Lee

#64. She had a knack for relieving the tension in a room by pretending my rudeness away with cooking. Many, many chickens had given up their lives to cover my conversationalist shortcomings.

Molly Harper

#65. Why should we leave it to Harper & Brothers and Redding & Co. to select our reading?

Henry David Thoreau

#66. I might be many things, but I am also smart enough to learn from the past. Smart enough to know that no man who oozes so much alpha male will be happy with a woman who isn't weak. Or, he won't settle until he makes me weak, and I will never be that bitch.

Harper Sloan

#67. I would say what was always on her[Harper Lee] mind was the stories she had to tell, and the story was pretty obvious in "To Kill A Mockingbird," maybe a bit - little bit less obvious and more obscure in "Go Set A Watchman."

Wayne Flynt

#68. I forced myself to open my eyes. I was a Puckett, damn it. And Pucketts didn't lose our nerve. We schemed, we interjected, we occasionally drank too much and told someone what we really thought of them at a Christmas party, but we never lost our nerve.

Molly Harper

#69. She was almost in love with him. No, that's impossible, she thought: either you are or you aren't. Love's the only thing in this world that is unequivocal. There are different kinds of love, certainly, but it's a you-do or you-don't proposition with them all.

Harper Lee

#70. Her world was at its best when her time came to leave it.

Harper Lee

#71. He's freed himself from every stigma, but he sits nursing his hangover of hatred ... .

Harper Lee

#72. Trivia monologue. You are so the man for me.

Molly Harper

#73. Having hit a wall, the next logical step is not to bang our heads against it.

Stephen Harper

#74. Perspicacious individual I've met in years, you are

Harper Lee

#75. I just think it would be unrealistic to suggest we're going to eliminate every last domestic insurgent in Afghanistan. Certainly, the history of the country would indicate that's not a very realistic objective, and I think we have to have realistic objectives.

Stephen Harper

#76. I think, without question, the way someone plays sports shows something about inherently who they are, you know?

Hill Harper

#77. We all have different timetables in reaching and realizing that being in healthy partnership is better than being on our own.

Hill Harper

#78. For taxpayers, however, it's [pay equity] a rip-off. And it has nothing to do with gender. Both men and women taxpayers will pay additional money to both men and women in the civil service. That's why the federal government should scrap its ridiculous pay equity law.

Stephen Harper

#79. Conservative resistance to change, that's all,

Harper Lee

#80. Alexandra had been married for thirty-three years; if it had made any impression on her one way or another, she never showed it.

Harper Lee

#81. Make sure the fortune that you seek is the fortune that you need.

Ben Harper

#82. But somehow, every time there's a natural disaster, news crews manage to track down one of these outdoorsy yahoos to interview about how the "twister came a-screamin' down the holler" and destroyed the snake farm his family had been running for generations.

Molly Harper

#83. Well, your father and I decided it was time I came to stay with you for a while." "For a while" in Maycomb meant anything from three days to thirty years. Jem and I exchanged glances. "Jem's

Harper Lee

#84. the Times is so wrapped up in its duty to posterity it bores you to death.

Harper Lee

#85. Jem, see if you can stand in Bob Ewell's shoes a minute. I destroyed his last shred of credibility at that trial, if he had any to begin with. The man had to have some kind of comeback, his kind always does.

Harper Lee

#86. It's the fact that no matter how bad it's gotten, the body wants to be healthy. The body wants to bounce back. When you do these changes, you do these small changes every single day, and you trust the process of what you're doing. You really do make lasting changes onto your body.

Bob Harper

#87. Dill was in hearty agreement with this plan of action. Dill was becoming something of a trail anyways, following Jem about ... He only grew closer to Jem. (Lee 55)

Harper Lee

#88. The true aim of female education should be, not a development of one or two, but all the faculties of the human soul, because no perfect womanhood is developed by imperfect culture.

Frances Harper

#89. Universality has been severely reduced: it is virtually dead as a concept in most areas of public policy.

Stephen Harper

#90. There's only one proper way a song should go, but you've got to be patient enough to let them come together time wise. Sometimes it's lightning in a bottle and you got the song. But oftentimes it shows up.

Ben Harper

#91. Of course he shouldn't, but he'll never change his ways. Are you going to take out your disapproval on his children?

Harper Lee

#92. You're writing your life as you go - the question becomes, how do you want to write your life?

Hill Harper

#93. As she peeked through the curtains with the phone in her hand, waiting for the police dispatcher to pick up, she realized there was one thing she did know about the naked stranger in her yard. He had, without a doubt, the finest butt on the planet.

Dani Harper

#94. Be grateful for each moment we have and be happy, but more than anything live it fully.

Valerie Harper

#95. Stand up and finish what you started

Bob Harper

#96. But in the secret's courts of man's hearts Atticus had no case. Tom was a dead man the minute Mayella Ewell opened her mouth and screamed.

Harper Lee

#97. Girls aren't supposed to see wieners, Aunt Dee. And Daddy's wiener was mad that Mommy saw. It was so mad, it was pointing at her!

Harper Sloan

#98. Thomas, says there are no real dragons. Only they are in your head, he says."
"Thomas is right, my love, so do not be afraid of the dark."
"But they are in my head sometimes, so I guess they are real.

Karen Harper

#99. I will not reach my full potential as a man unless I find my partner.

Hill Harper

#100. We should always prepare for the tests that we know about. After all, there are so many that surprise us.

Suzanne Harper