Quotes
Quotes about Harm
Therefore they thought it good for hear a play And frame your mind to mirth and merriment, Which bars a thousand harms and lengthens life.
O wild and wondrous midnight, There is a might in thee To make the charmed body Almost like spirit be, And give it some faint glimpses Of immortality.
Had Tibet not fallen away from dharma China could not have invaded. (in reference to violation of Buddha's forbidding animal slaughter).
At any age it does us no harm to look over our past shortcomings and plan to improve our characters and actions in the coming year.
Happy is said to be the family which can eat onions together. They are, for the time being, separate, from the world, and have a harmony of aspiration. - My Summer in a Garden, 1871.
Only actions give life strength; only moderation gives it charm.
He saw her charming, but he saw not half The charms her downcast modesty conceal'd.
Modesty; the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.
How beauteous are rouleaus! how charming chests Containing ingots, bags of dollars, coins (Not of old victors, all whose heads and crests Weigh not the thin ore where their visage shines, But) of find unclipt gold, where dully rests Some likeness, which the glittering cirque confines, Of modern, reigning, sterling, stupid stamp;-- Yes! ready money is Aladdin's lamp.
The immortal could we cease to contemplate, The mortal part suggests its every trait. God laid His fingers on the ivories Of her pure members as on smoothed keys, And there out-breathed her spirit's harmonies.
We like so much to hear people talk of us and of our motives, that we are charmed even when they abuse us.
George Tenet's charm covers his arms as a velvet sheath covers a bloodied sword. *** George Tenet head of Murder Inc. whose agency has had Afghanis die under their interrogation cannot be trusted not to plant WMD's in Iraq.
God is its author, and not man; he laid The key-note of all harmonies; he planned All perfect combinations, and he made Us so that we could hear and understand.
"Music hath charms to soothe the savage beast," And therefore proper at a sheriff's feast.
And sure there is music even in the beauty, and the silent note which Cupid strikes, far sweeter than the sound of an instrument; for there is music wherever there is harmony, order, or proportion; and thus far we may maintain the music of the spheres.
Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven.
The only words that ever satisfied me as describing Nature are the terms used in fairy books, charm, spell, enchantment. They express the arbitrariness of the fact and its mystery.
It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it.
A life in harmony with nature, the love of truth and virtue, will purge the eyes to understanding her text.
People may flatter themselves just as much by thinking that their faults are always present to other people's minds, as if they believe that the world is always contemplating their individual charms and virtues.
In dress, habits, manners, provincialism, routine and narrowness, he acquired that charming insolence, that irritating completeness, that sophisticated crassness, that overbalanced poise that makes the Manhattan gentleman so delightfully small in his greatness.
Yon nightingale, whose strain so sweetly flows, Mourning her ravish'd young or much-loved mate, A soothing charm o'er all the valleys throws And skies, with notes well tuned to her and state.
To vanish nonsense with the charms of sound.
Novelty has charms that our mind can hardly withstand.
It is not only old and early impressions that deceive us; the charms of novelty have the same power.
