Thomas Harris Quotes

It's fear, Jack. The man deals with a huge amount of fear.' Because he got hurt?' No, not entirely. Fear comes with imagination, it's a penalty, it's the price of imagination.

Thomas Harris

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• From the day of its birth, the anomaly of slavery plagued a nation which asserted the equality of all men, and sought to derive powers of government from the consent of the governed. Within sound of the voices of those who said this lived more than half a million black slaves, forming nearly one-fifth of the population of a new nation.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Men
  • Black
  • Day

• As a heterosexual man, I've never really doubted my sexuality, but I've had men in my life and thought, 'If I was gay, I'd be with him' - you know?

  

  Garret Dillahunt
  • Life
  • Men
  • Man

• Imagine what a harmonious world it could be if every single person, both young and old shared a little of what he is good at doing.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • World
  • Good
  • Single

• He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Men
  • Heart
  • Man

• I believe in the brotherhood of all men, but I don't believe in wasting brotherhood on anyone who doesn't want to practice it with me. Brotherhood is a two-way street.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Believe
  • Men
  • Practice

• Our fears are an amazing gift of the imagination... a way of glimpsing what might be the future when there's still time to influence how that future will play out.

  

  Karen Thompson Walker
  • Time
  • Future
  • Amazing

• The world does not owe men a living, but business, if it is to fulfill its ideal, owes men an opportunity to earn a living.

  

  Owen D. Young
  • World
  • Men
  • Business

• In the case of complex personalities the matter stands thus: one of these can understand other men better than they can understand themselves, because within himself he has not only the character he is grasping, but also its opposite. Duality is necessary for observation and comprehension.

  

  Otto Weininger
  • Men
  • Character

• A woman living with her mother has limited freedom; a man living with his mother has limited freedom and limited respect. For most men, the vacuum (of no support system) is so devastating, they’d rather agree with their wife than express their feelings and risk emotional withdrawal.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Mother
  • Freedom

• This is my question, for life: have we retired the phrase, 'sticks and stones may break my bones, but names will never hurt me'? Is it legal for me to say, 'I endorse hate speech, I don't give a fuck'? I want hate speech. Why can't I hate you...in speech?

  

  Patrice O'Neal
  • Life
  • Why
  • May

• Could man be drunk for everWith liquor, love, or fights,Lief should I rouse at morningsAnd lief lie down of nights.But men at whiles are soberAnd think by fits and starts,And if they think, they fastenTheir hands upon their hearts.

  

  A. E. Housman
  • Men
  • Drunk

• Presently we discovered two or three villages, and the people all came down to the shore, calling out to us, and giving thanks to God.… An old man came on board my boat; the others, both men and women cried with loud voices: 'Come and see the men who have come from the sky. Bring them victuals and drink.'

  

  Christopher Columbus
  • People
  • God
  • Men

• My loneliness was born when men praised my talkative faults and blamed my silent virtues.

  

  Kahlil Gibran
  • Men

• That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.

  

  Aldous Huxley
  • Men
  • Important
  • History

• For this is the journey that men and women make, to find themselves. If they fail in this, it doesn't matter much else what they find.

  

  James A. Michener
  • Men
  • Women
  • Journey

• It can't hurt, publicity is publicity, controversy and all that, it's all good.

  

  Keith David
  • Good
  • Hurt

• There's definitely still a lot of hurt from losing my guys or the fact that I got out and I felt like it wasn't my time yet.

  

  Chris Kyle
  • Time
  • Hurt

• God permits war in order that men may bear the consequences of their sins as punishment. How clearly this is shown time and time again in the story of the children of Israel!

  

  Martyn Lloyd-Jones
  • Time
  • God
  • Men

• "We die," she said, "we die together. That's the deal."

  

  Nalini Singh
  • She
  • Together
  • Die

• It is better; heavier, crueler. The mouth you wear for hell.

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre

• Instead of reading a paper, we now read the news online. Instead of buying books at a store, we buy them on-line. What's so revolutionary? The Internet has mainly affected our leisure life.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Life
  • Reading
  • Internet

• I believe that there is a God's plan for this world, and that plan for this world is for good.

  

  Sarah Palin
  • World
  • God
  • Plan

• Love, then, hath every bliss in store; 'Tis friendship, and 'tis something more. Each other every wish they give; Not to know love is not to live.

  

  John Gay
  • Live
  • Wish
  • Friendship

• It's fear, Jack. The man deals with a huge amount of fear.' Because he got hurt?' No, not entirely. Fear comes with imagination, it's a penalty, it's the price of imagination.

  

  Thomas Harris
  • Men
  • Imagination
  • Hurt