Will Harris
Will Harris
William Taylor Harrisis an American professional baseball pitcher for the Houston Astros of Major League Baseball. He previously played for the Arizona Diamondbacks and Colorado Rockies...
wife chance telling-the-truth
A 'penchant for telling the truth' can cripple a candidates chances faster than being caught in flagrante delicto with the governor's wife.
believe passion fuel
We believe what we want to believe, what we like to believe, what suits our prejudices and fuels our passions.
deception too-late may
Confidence, once lost or betrayed, can never be restored again to the same measure; and we learn too late in life that our acts of deception are irrevocable - they may be forgiven, but they cannot be forgotten by their victims.
food credit littles
Gourmet: Usually little more than a glutton festooned with credit cards.
morning typewriters staring
Every morning I take out my bankbook, stare at it, shudder - and turn quickly to my typewriter.
philosophy power-politics doctrine
Any creed whose basic doctrines do not include respect for the creeds of others, is simply power politics masquerading as philosophy.
damage-is-done history-repeats-itself cunning
History repeats itself, but in such cunning disguise that we never detect the resemblance until the damage is done.
decision judgement poor
Many persons of high intelligence have notoriously poor judgement.
mean law miracle
What the ordinary person means by a 'miracle' is some gross distortion or suspension of the laws of nature... but life itself strikes him as commonplace, when in truth a blade of grass or a neuron in the brain is a greater miracle...
simple answers complicated
Between the semi-educated, who offer simplistic answers to complex questions, and the overeducated, who offer complicated answers to simple questions, it is a wonder that any questions get satisfactorily answered at all.
attitude believe men
Isolation always perverts; when a man lives only among his own sort, he soon begins to believe that his sort are the best sort. This attitude breeds both the arrogance of the conservative and the bitterness of the radical.
psychics people minorities
Take away grievances from some people and you remove their reasons for living; most of us are nourished by hope, but a considerable minority get psychic nutrition from their resentments, and would waste away purposelessly without them.
enemy-of-progress enemy progress
The greatest enemy of progress is not stagnation, but false progress.
thinking hypocrisy sin
Sincerity that thinks it is the sole possessor of the truth is a deadlier sin than hypocrisy, which knows better.