Top 100 Quotes About Harrington
#1. Though he had both esteem and admiration for the sensibility of the human race, he had little respect for their intelligence: man has always found it easier to sacrifice his life than to learn the multiplication table.
[Mr Harrington's washing]
W. Somerset Maugham
#2. He looked like a young Crusader on a tomb. That was Phyllis's first impression of Allan Harrington.
Margaret Widdemer
#3. Mr Harrington was a bore. He exasperated Ashenden, and enraged him; he got on his nerves, and drove him to frenzy. But Ashenden did not dislike him. His self-satisfaction was enormous but so ingenuous that you could not resent it; his conceit was so childlike that you could only smile at it.
W. Somerset Maugham
#4. We will maintain heading until he's committed, then I want a hard
skew-turn to starboard. As hard as you can make it, Chief. I want our starboard broadside on him as he passes below us, and then I want to cut down across his stern and stick it right up his kilt. Clear? (Honor Harrington)
David Weber
#5. JEAN
I need him like the axe needs the turkey.
HARRINGTON
Don't be vulgar, Jean. Let us be crooked, but never common.
Preston Sturges
#6. Every time I think my family has plumbed the depths of stupidity, somebody goes and finds a goddamn shovel." - Jane Harrington-Price
Seanan McGuire
#7. My favorite monologue in the book is Kate Harrington's story of her relationship with Truman.
George Plimpton
#8. After three failed marriages, I know what it's like to be replaced. So that's kind of how Joey Harrington must feel today ... A former No. 1 choice looks to me like he's going to be a bust in Detroit.
Terry Bradshaw
#9. I was working in, being a single parent with a grieving child of five years old. It was horrendous. I couldn't go out much, because I had my daughter to look after. So people used to come round, and Tony Harrington from The Wire came round.
David Toop
#10. Do we play Chicago again? I going to hit Othella Harrington right in the mouth. If he didn't have his clumsy ass on the floor, I wouldn't have fell. How he got on the ground, I don't know. He's clumsy. Quote me on that. I'm going to get him.
Shaquille O'Neal
#11. I see war as that insane enterprise wherein men dig up the riches of the earth and hurl them at one another. - ATTRIBUTED TO JOSEPH DANIEL HARRINGTON
Larry Niven
#12. I've spent over 25 years in the television industry, the direct response industry. I met a lot of people and certainly learned the power of commercials and their brand building potential.
Kevin Harrington
#13. My energy level rises but I get calmer, if that's possible. What a lot of people tend to do is get real tight and get all psyched up and take themselves out of their game.
Joey Harrington
#14. The Law is but words and paper without the hands of swords of men.
James Harrington
#15. A whole army, though they can neither write nor read, are not afraid of a platform, which they know is but earth or stone; nor of a cannon, which, without a hand to give fire to it, is but cold iron; therefore a whole army is afraid of one man.
James Harrington
#16. We must never forget that we are cosmic revolutionaries, not stooges conscripted to advance a natural order that kills everybody.
Alan Harrington
#18. That's my brother," I said. "Saving the world, one girl at a time.
Kim Harrington
#19. -You were in jail? What was it like?
-Boring.Dirty.Smelled like ass.
Hannah Harrington
#20. I don't think there's a lonelier feeling than being with someone who has stopped caring.
Alexis Harrington
#21. That's what being a leader is all about. If the other players see you in a non-positive mind set, that affects them. I have to present an air of confidence at all times.
Joey Harrington
#22. There's no denying the fact he is really, really good-looking, in this rakish, edgy, badass, I-just-rolled-out-of-bed-and-screw-you-I-don't-need-a-mirror kind of way.
Hannah Harrington
#23. People who are much too sensitive to demand of cripples that they run races ask of the poor that they get up and act just like everyone else in the society.
Michael Harrington
#24. He had a matching bandage on his head. We looked like two idiots who'd decided to have a head-butting competition
Kim Harrington
#25. Kendra was on Gabriel like a predator on a slab of meat.
Kim Harrington
#26. Sometimes people think they want to know things, but then they hear the answer and realize they'd prefer to be in the dark.
Hannah Harrington
#27. I guess that's the thing about riding on cloud nine - it can't last forever. And that particular fall was hard and fast.
Hannah Harrington
#28. I hate organized religion. I hate that people use it to justify their crappy, bigoted beliefs.
Hannah Harrington
#30. No problem. Just drop it back off before you go," he says, procuring a brass key. "And if he puts on Bowie's early stuff and starts sweet-talking, dammit, you run. You run as fast as you can.
Hannah Harrington
#31. Everything on the radio is crap ... It's fast food for your ears. It doesn't make you think. It isn't even about anything - not anything real. Don't you think music should say something?
Hannah Harrington
#33. Then it's not a waste of time. Believe me, Rose, God hears you. It's just that sometimes the answer doesn't come right away. Or sometimes the answer is simply no."
"It is?"
"Yes. No one gets everything they want.
Alexis Harrington
#34. Whatever you decide, don't let it be because you don't think you have a choice.
Hannah Harrington
#35. I want to stop running away from everything.
I want to find something to run toward.
Hannah Harrington
#36. Lisa's mama says all people are part of Christ's body, so some people have to be the armpits.
Karen Harrington
#37. I've learned that you have to choose courage each day like you choose what shirt to wear. It is not automatic.
Karen Harrington
#38. I want the faith that there will be some kind of an answer, something more than these endless questions taking up so much space in my head, this feeling that nothing matters and nothing has a point.
Hannah Harrington
#40. Excitement in Eastport? Nay! But I had time to snoop around Nancy Drew style.
Kim Harrington
#41. No man can be a politician, except he be first a historian or a traveller; for except he can see what must be, or what may be, he is no politician.
James Harrington
#42. Penelope did not understand how this [study] group was ever formed. It consisted only of her mortal enemies. However, these were things you seemed to put aside during exam period.
Rebecca Harrington
#44. Reality TV is a totally different animal than the infomercial world.
Kevin Harrington
#45. When I was starting out, being a young entrepreneur was not fashionable. Parents would ask, 'When are you going to get a real job?'
Kevin Harrington
#47. And you managed to leave the house and be the hero. Who do you think you are, Spider-Man?
Kim Harrington
#48. It seems a little bit like the home of the U.S. Open in the States. For all the venues of the U.S. Open this is more synonymous for the U.S. Open than any other one.
Padraig Harrington
#49. Ugh. I was going for 'crazy ex filled with hate" not "isn't she cute when she's mad?
Kim Harrington
#51. Except that night didn't change my life. I changed it. I have to stop acting like I have no control over these things. Like I'm letting them just happen to me. These are my choices. For better or worse.
Hannah Harrington
#52. It's like what those cheesy action-movie heros always say before they finish taking out the bad guys: I started this, and I'm going to finish it. Except even in the movie of my own life, I've never been the heroine. I've never been Action Girl. I've only ever been Kristen's supporting character.
Hannah Harrington
#53. Well, that narrowed down the list of suspects.
To the whole world.
Kim Harrington
#54. I'm not saying he was, like, crying tears of man pain over the phone, but he sounded upset.
Hannah Harrington
#55. Being born into poverty does not mean you are condemned to spend the rest of your life in poverty.
Kevin Harrington
#56. With comedy, I think it's so important, especially in TV, to know and trust what the writers are writing and just have it down.
Jay Harrington
#57. I don't know what I need, or even what I want, from her or from anybody. There's no way to tell her the truth, because the truth is that my heart is broken, and I don't think there's any chance of it being sewn back together. This is permanent. It can't be fixed.
Hannah Harrington
#58. Maybe she's suicidal? That's why she keeps inviting me to kill her?
Kim Harrington
#59. It's like he knows everything. And I don't have to say a word.
Hannah Harrington
#60. I don't want to be so scared all the time. So alone. I want to believe something can be worth it. Worth the pain. Worth the risk.
Hannah Harrington
#61. Fifth grade is the beginning of the logic stage. We treat it as a transition year between elementary and middle school expectations.
Jenny Harrington
#63. Hate is ... it's too easy," he says. His face calm, calmer than it has any right to be, his eyes not wavering from mine, like he's so completely sure of what he's saying. "Love. Love takes courage.
Hannah Harrington
#64. It takes a certain level of aspiration before one can take advantage of opportunities that are clearly offered.
Michael Harrington
#65. You're the most important person in the world to
me." I quickly added in a hushed voice, "Don't tell Mom. She'll be jealous.
Kim Harrington
#66. You can date every girl in town as far as I'm concerned. I hate you. I pray every night that you'll fall victim to some strange and unusual castration accident.
Kim Harrington
#67. It's so stupid because all I wanted was space and now that I have it, there's this part of me that's achingly lonely I could die.
Hannah Harrington
#68. I would love to have the opportunity to do a play.
Jay Harrington
#69. Just because the restaurant had Dynamite Shrimp on the menu, was that any reason for the place to blow up? (re April 15 release, Killer Kitchens
Jean Harrington
#70. Deciding to kiss Jake is like standing on the edge of a pool, staring down and wanting to take the leap, but fearing how cold the water will be.
I hold my breath and jump.
Hannah Harrington
#71. The sun's going down and we can't afford to come back to it tomorrow.
Desmond Harrington
#72. It seems so impossible that someone could look at [Andy and Noah], see how plainly they care for each other, and find anything ugly or shameful or worthy of hatred in it, when all I see is something beautiful.
Hannah Harrington
#73. He winks at me, and the surge of butterflies in my stomach is so strong I think I may throw up right there. I need something to calm my nerves. The most obvious remedy is more alcohol. They don't call it liquid courage for nothing.
Hannah Harrington
#74. How you can already miss someone when you are in the same room with them, I have no idea. But I do.
Karen Harrington
#75. So really, it isn't as if noticing something like his well-toned biceps or his seriously long eyelashes means anything - other than a confirmation of the fact that I'm not blind.
Hannah Harrington
#76. But if they stripped all those labels off, people might be shocked to find a normal girl beneath. Who doesn't want to spend her days on the defensive. Who wants what everyone else wants. To be loved.
Kim Harrington
#77. This wasn't the time or place for it, so I hid it away in a little drawer in the back of my mind,
marked DEAL WITH LATER.
Kim Harrington
#78. Winning is about believing you're never out of a game. I've always believed that.
Joey Harrington
#79. I use the time to finish reading Of Mice and Men, which turns out to be just as awful as I thought it would be. I hate stories with dead puppies. So depressing.
Hannah Harrington
#81. DEDICATION For Halle. The coolest Mudblood I know. Consider this your Hogwarts letter.
Jamie Harrington
#82. Measurement is the first step that leads to control and eventually to improvement. If you can't measure something, you can't understand it. If you can't understand it, you can't control it. If you can't control it, you can't improve it.
H. James Harrington
#83. Well, I would say that every time you buy a new blouse or some wrinkle cream to make you look good, go and buy a book right away. It's just as important to keep your mind beautiful, don't you think?
Karen Harrington
#84. Look, it's not ever going go stop hurting. That's the reality. But after a while, it'll get ... easier. You'll get used to living with it.
Hannah Harrington
#85. I'm not an athlete; I'm a quarterback. I don't have great speed, and I can't throw 90 yards down the field. I win games because I've done the mental preparation.
Joey Harrington
#86. It's a job and we're going to work together for six months, so let's have a good time.
Desmond Harrington
#87. I'm sure there's a hell of a party in Ireland now and I know I don't have anything to do for two-and-a-half days so I'm going to party on
Padraig Harrington
#88. I knew about loyalty about putting family before all others. I'd already learned some things I'd do to protect my own. I'd withold infomation from the police. I'd use people. I'd lie. If pushed hard ... how far would I go.
Kim Harrington
#89. Therapy is my mother's solution to everything. I'm sure she thinks there'd be peace in the Middle East if every country were forced to sit down on a stiff leather couch with a box of Kleenex and talk about their feeeeelings.
Hannah Harrington
#90. She put up her posters, which mainly consisted of one five-foot-wide panorama of Diego Luna doing a split on the set of Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights-which Penelope had decided would be an excellent conversation topic, because that is a movie everyone likes.
Rebecca Harrington
#91. One of the big problems entrepreneurs run into is they get too comfortable,
Kevin Harrington
#93. You know, I'm atheist, but I get it. I get why people have faith in a higher power. Some people need it. They need to believe they're not alone.
Hannah Harrington
#95. I hate procrastinating, so much so that I often do my homework on Friday so it won't be hanging over my head all weekend long. The good
thing is, my (nonexistent) social life doesn't usually interfere with this quirk of mine.
Kim Harrington
#96. He took his pain and turned it into something beautiful. Into something that people connect to. And that's what good music does. It speaks to you. It changes you.
Hannah Harrington
#97. Sketchy black van? Weird stalking of my house? What are you going to do next, offer me some candy?
Hannah Harrington
#99. MY MOUTH OPENED.
Way to go, Clare. Way to impress the mother of a prospective boyfriend. Moms love their boys to date psycho overprotective girls.
Kim Harrington
#100. Well, I can feel superior for my good deed." I flashed him a smile. "How's that for a selfish reason?
Kim Harrington
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