Amy B. Harris Quotes

You don't just turn off your feelings for someone, and that's a very hard, sad truth for people. When you're drawn to someone, even if they're not good for you, you feel connected. In a lot of ways.

Amy B. Harris

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• While hereditary chiefs inhabit the apex of our traditional social systems, it would be a mistake to think they hold all the power. They aren't kings. They aren't dictators. They're answerable to their clans and their matriarchs. All decisions that affect our communities require lengthy, deliberate discussions and careful negotiation.

  

  Eden Robinson
  • Power
  • Mistake
  • Decisions

• To be thrown onto the stand-up stage is an experience that you cannot fathom until you're actually there, because there's no place to go, and everyone is looking at you and you can't even see them because of the lights. And yet you have to manage to start talking and be funny on top of it.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Up
  • Experience
  • Funny

• Sometimes your parents are the ones with the biggest mouths of all time.

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • Time
  • Parents
  • Sometimes

• Back when I was growing up, it was like, 'You're too young to know what you want. We're telling you what you want. It doesn't matter if you like it. And you are stupid. Just so you know.'

  

  Wendi McLendon-Covey
  • Up
  • Want
  • Growing

• And really, the basis, I think, of achieving some success in what I want to do today comes from my mother's push to get me to read and to make something of myself from the standpoint of an education.

  

  Sam Donaldson
  • Mother
  • Today
  • Success

• I love making lists.

  

  J. Courtney Sullivan
  • Love
  • Making
  • Lists

• I'm an example of why people deserve second chances.

  

  Cam Newton
  • People
  • Why
  • Example

• One of the best movies of the year was 'Rise of the Planet of the Apes.' That's not just an action movie - it's a prison film.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • Movie
  • Action
  • Best

• Most fish require a short cooking time, but cephalopods are the exception to this fishy rule. As with some cuts of larger land beasts, the longer they're cooked, the more tender they get.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Time
  • Cooking
  • Short

• The '80s was a really creative and brave period. Remember, it was a period of ultraconservatism, and so you needed brave people to push ahead like that.

  

  Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
  • People
  • Remember
  • Period

• Personally, the worst thing a boy can do to a girl is to ignore her while she's loving him with all her heart.

  

  Liam Payne One Direction
  • Heart
  • She
  • Girl

• When you sing the same song over and over and over again, it stops meaning what it originally meant to you. It starts sounding like white noise, or my washing machine.

  

  Linda Ronstadt
  • Song
  • Meaning
  • Sing

• God did not direct His call to Isaiah— Isaiah overheard God saying, ". . . who will go for Us?" The call of God is not just for a select few but for everyone. Whether I hear God’s call or not depends on the condition of my ears, and exactly what I hear depends upon my spiritual attitude.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Spiritual
  • Attitude

• When we think of God, we are apt to think of Him in human form. In the Epiphanies of the Old Testament God revealed Himself to Joshua and others in human form. He puts Himself within the compass of our highest conception, in order that He may make Himself real to us in His love and sympathy and power.

  

  A. C. Dixon
  • God
  • Power
  • Conception

• I've talked to people who say that their music and their creative work is a much needed and appreciated escape, where they don't have to think about the state of the world; they're not even thinking about themselves so much. They're not trying to express their own experiences of that day or relationship strife or anything.

  

  Alain Macklovitch
  • People
  • World
  • Work

• Education is one thing and instruction, however worthy, necessary and incidentally or monetarily educative, another.

  

  Kingsley Amis
  • Education
  • Worthy
  • Instruction

• If I had an explanation, I would give it. We just got whipped from beginning to end tonight. During the season, you will have games like this.

  

  Allen Iverson
  • Beginning
  • Games
  • Season

• The discipline of the writer is to learn to be still and listen to what his subject has to tell him.

  

  Rachel Carson
  • Discipline

• My parents, along with my brother and sister, are vegetarians.

  

  Alissa White-Gluz Arch Enemy
  • Parents
  • Vegetarians

• The art of acting is to be other than what you are.

  

  Whoopi Goldberg
  • Art
  • Acting

• Most 'reality' shows aren't reality at all. They're game shows with no prize. Like 'Rock of Love.' His aren't genuine feelings. Then again, Bob Barker didn't really care whether or not you won the toaster. Sorry to shatter everyone's dreams.

  

  Hal Sparks
  • Game
  • Like
  • Feelings

• The blues have always had some of the best times, best feelings I’ve ever had.

  

  Keanu Reeves
  • Always
  • Feelings
  • Blues

• Good feelings are fragile, with me love doesn’t last. Love for a man doesn’t last, not even love for a child, it soon gets a hole in it. You look in the hole and you see the nebula of good intentions mixed up with the nebula of bad.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Love
  • Feelings
  • Intentions

• You don't just turn off your feelings for someone, and that's a very hard, sad truth for people. When you're drawn to someone, even if they're not good for you, you feel connected. In a lot of ways.

  

  Amy B. Harris
  • Feelings
  • Connected
  • Drawn