Evan Harris Quotes

Disaster beats stasis. Better a rolling stone than a moss-covered rock.

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• No, I'm not a horse better. Every once in a while somebody will give me a sure thing and of course it's not.

  

  M. Emmet Walsh
  • Me
  • Better
  • Horse

• There's a molecule inside of you that is connected to everything - every person, every energy, every thing. You look for it, and when you find it, then you allow it to magnify and grow and be the dominating chemistry inside of you.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Energy
  • Grow
  • Chemistry

• I don't want any romantics to go into the military. I'm not a pacifist. I think we need a military, and the better one we have, the better off we are. I don't want kids going in there thinking that it's John Wayne on Iwo Jima. That's not healthy.

  

  Karl Marlantes
  • Thinking
  • Kids
  • Military

• I am primarily concerned with the condition of man.

  

  Jack Levine
  • Man
  • Condition

• Power is not just political. It can be cultural; it can be spiritual.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Power
  • Political
  • Spiritual

• I've been getting pulled from newspapers for my entire career.

  

  Garry Trudeau
  • Career
  • Been
  • Getting

• Yeah, good to be here. I haven't been here in two years...no applause...thanks. It's that warmth I've missed in Austin. Adding extra Southern drawl So, we been here, ain't our fault you gotta travel around, shit. We supposed to follow you around? You supposed to be back here. What are you doin', where are you?

  

  Bill Hicks
  • Good
  • Travel
  • Thanks

• I've always wanted to push myself and move with the tide. That's just how I am and it's worked for me.

  

  Bryan Adams
  • Myself
  • Move
  • Push

• My thoughts and wishes are all that surrounds, mysteries hold you then fly you away. You know you are my life, my lady of dreams.

  

  John Roy Anderson Yes
  • Life
  • Dream
  • Wish

• It is my worst experience, my worst trip to the Balkans.

  

  Paddy Ashdown
  • Experience
  • Trip
  • Balkans

• Things are steadily coming better, but I'm having problems with a few places on the track.

  

  B. R. Hayden
  • Problems
  • Track
  • Places

• Whenever you give up something, you must replace it with something.

  

  Lou Holtz
  • Up
  • Giving
  • Giving Up

• As opposed to getting into arguments about, well, these folks have been treated fairly so now we're going to be doing things that, very easily in the minds of a lot Americans feel like, "Now I'm being treated unfairly."

  

  Barack Obama
  • Mind
  • Argument
  • Folks

• I've always found drugs and alcohol somewhat pedestrian. It's like, I don't need an external agent to open my mind. I'm here, conscious, alert, present. Why would I alter that?

  

  Jimmy Buffett
  • Mind
  • Why
  • Present

• One night I came home. I figured, let my wife come on. I'll play it cool. Let her make the first move. She went to Florida.

  

  Jack Roy
  • Home
  • She
  • Night

• What you farmers need to do is raise less corn and more Hell.

  

  Mary Elizabeth Lease
  • Hell
  • Farmers
  • Corn

• But unlike European countries, America has never finished a map of the United States, only the eastern United States is covered and a few spots here and there.

  

  William Labov
  • Country
  • America
  • Europe

• Fear was a wonderful propellant, and such a strong exponent of survival, even at the cost of others. Civility, it seemed, was the first to perish in a disaster.

  

  Andrew Barrett
  • Fear
  • Disaster
  • Civility

• Disaster beats stasis. Better a rolling stone than a moss-covered rock.

  

  Evan Harris
  • Disaster
  • Beats
  • Covered