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Sydney J. Harris Quotes

The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, 'I was wrong'.

Sydney J. Harris

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: journalist
Nationality: american
Birth: September 14, 1917 - December 8, 1986

Topics

Love Hate World Wrong Moral Three

I don't think that you can address poverty unless you address the lack of affordable housing in the cities.

Matthew Desmond

Think Poverty You Housing Lack

Nobody gets excited when they see me. If I put on my wizard outfit and walk around the airport for a couple of hours, I get a couple of puzzled glances.

Andy Kindler

Walk Me Outfit Nobody Airport See

In our society, I see public media as a lever. It pushes people by elevating them and their sights. It brings them into more thinking and understanding, and it brings us together.

Stanley A. McChrystal

Together People Society Thinking See

I'm not a minister, I'm not a philosopher, I'm not a politician, I'm in another category.

Sun Ra

Politician Philosopher Category

As an Asian actor, I would like once in my life to do just one Hollywood movie. It would be a memorable experience.

Tony Leung Chiu-Wai

Life Experience My Life Memorable

Violence is very much with us, and we like to see it. I doubt if you can change that, and I'm not sure you should want to. I have occasionally been very upset by something I was writing, but it's quite rare: I keep my writing very separate from my life.

Ruth Rendell

Life Change Writing My Life Violence

I did my first Broadway play, 'The Vertical Hour,' in 2006, with Julianne Moore, who's always been one of my favorite actresses. My scene was with her, so it was nerve-racking.

Rutina Wesley

Play First Always Her Been Vertical

Federal policy should not block those who are prepared to risk their own wealth to create an enormous energy export industry here in America.

Mike Pompeo

Energy America Wealth Create Risk

The human brain has 100 billion neurons, each neuron connected to 10 thousand other neurons. Sitting on your shoulders is the most complicated object in the known universe.

Michio Kaku

Brain Universe Complicated Sitting

I don't think a lot of the news outlets examine the effect of war on a family.

Luke Macfarlane

Family War Think News Effect Lot

The Seventies were an interesting time to be a reader or writer of fantasy. Tolkien was the great master. Lin Carter was resurrecting wonders of British and American fantasy from the early twentieth century in his Ballantine Adult Fantasy Series.

Judith Tarr

Great Time American Interesting

Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles.

Joseph Joubert

Children Wrinkles Always Pains