T.I. Harris Quotes
Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
Love is awesome and endless, but it is constantly changing its form. You love something for what it is, then it changes. But that change can make you love it even more.
Parents need to be more accepting of who their kids are and less concerned about what society thinks they need to be.
It is time that we admitted that faith is nothing more than the license religious people give one another to keep believing when reasons fail.
"Terrorism" is what we call the violence of the weak, and we condemn it; "war" is what we call the violence of the strong, and we glorify it.
People who harbor strong convictions without evidence belong at the margins of our societies, not in our halls of power.
When the Fox hears the Rabbit scream he comes a-runnin', but not to help.
As an atheist, I am angry that we live in a society in which the plain truth cannot be spoken without offending 90% of the population.
We were told, quite seriously, that there never would be a Canadian art because we had no art tradition.
I formed a new group called Alcoholics-Unanimous. If you don't feel like a drink, you ring another member and he comes over to persuade you.
Why do so many people yearn for an eternal life when they don't even know what to do with themselves in this brief one?
The deepest and rarest kind of courage has nothing to do with feats or obstacles in the outside world; and, indeed, has nothing to do with the outside world - it is the courage to be who you are.
And light has no weight, / Yet one is lifted on its flood, /Swept high, /Running up white-golden light-shafts, /As if one were as weightless as light itself - /All gold and white and light.
120 million of us place the big bang 2,500 years after the Babylonians and Sumerians learned to brew beer.
Victory, speedy and complete, awaits the side that employs air power as it should be employed.
You almost never get the pleasure of seeing that you won the argument in real time. People just don't like to publicly change their minds. They change their minds in private.
My gran had always told me that a woman--any woman worth her salt--could do whatever she had to.
You have to grow up, start paying the rent and have your heart broken before you understand country.
We evaluate others with a Godlike justice, but we want them to evaluate us with a Godlike compassion.
An idealist believes the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the long run doesn't matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run.
The truth is that works of art test the spectator much more than the spectator tests them.
A winner rebukes and forgives; a loser is too timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive.
By consciously deciding how you will live the rest of your life, you can create a life that is extraordinary.
I don't drink because I have problems or I want to escape. I just love drinking and being drunk.
A man may plant a tree for a number of reasons. Perhaps he likes trees. Perhaps he wants shelter. Or perhaps he knows that someday he may need the firewood.
What we do in every other area of our lives (other than religion), is, rather than respect somebody's beliefs, we evaluate their reasons.
But with the Industrial Revolution and introduction of various industrial techniques for purifying sugar, we have a situation in which what we are consuming is not good nutritionally or ecologically.
LOL has turned into something you type when you have nothing better to add into a conversation.
Christians have abused, oppressed, enslaved, insulted, tormented, tortured, and killed people in the name of God for centuries, on the basis of a thelogically defensible reading of the Bible.
If you cannot endure to be thought in the wrong, you will begin to do terrible things to make the wrong appear right.
So part of it is we have to break through our kind of private idea that kids belong to their parents, or kids belong to their families, and recognize that kids belong to whole communities.
I've never been very good at leaving things behind. I tried, but I have always left fragments of myself there too, like seeds awaiting their chance to grow.
