Top 13 Timandra Harkness Quotes
#1. The people of Waziristan are so innocent they seem stupid and so straight forward the seem arrogant
Ghulam Qadir Khan Daur
#4. Life could snatch away the things you treasured, and there was no getting them back. She began to feel an urgency, a need to seize an opportunity. Before anyone else did.
M.L. Stedman
#5. The Supreme Court needs jurists, not politicians.
Timothy Noah
#7. I can't cook. I don't have the right brain for it, somehow. I can't walk into a room and tidy it up. I get distracted. I pick up one thing and I start looking at it. And my cooking is truly heinous.
Sophie Kinsella
#8. The latest authors, like the most ancient, strove to subordinate the phenomena of nature to the laws of mathematics.
Isaac Newton
#9. In great hearts the cruelty of life gives birth to good.
Vasily Grossman
#10. We are looking to brands for poetry and for spirituality, because we're not getting those things from our communities or from each other.
Naomi Klein
#11. Unless we can restore what George Orwell called patriotism as opposed to nationalism, we will see the rise of the far right, as is happening already in Europe.
Jonathan Sacks
#12. Heaven answers with us the same purpose that the tuning-fork does with musicians. Our affections, the whole orchestra of them, are apt to get below the concert-pitch; and we take heaven to tune our hearts by.
Henry Ward Beecher
#13. But you take a four-year state college, with a broader range of admission, and what happens during those four years may be an even greater value-added educational experience. I don't know.
Roy Romer