Belief sometimes precedes understanding; faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONBelief sometimes precedes understanding; faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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There are no original ideas. There are only original people.
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Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . .
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I made the mistake of thinking that if you add up the past, you sum up the future; I forgot how frequently life astonishes us.
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Facts mean nothing to wounded feelings.
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Persecution always acts as a jell for members of cults; it proves to them, in the absence of history, liturgy, tradition, and doctrine, that they are God’s chosen.
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Nothing is more democratic, less judgmental, than water. Water doesn’t care whether flesh is withered or fresh; it caresses aged flesh and firm flesh with equal love.
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Italians do not regard food as merely fuel. They regard it as medicine for the soul, one of life’s abiding pleasures.
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All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
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Weather creates character.
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The best work is a fusion of love and praise.
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The real reason women fall in love abroad is not that they are free of domestic inhibitions but that they translate their love of stone and place into love of flesh. … Is this true?
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If there is one lesson Rome teaches, it is that matter is good; in Rome the holy and the homely rise and converge.
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Porches are America’s lost rooms.
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Every house we have lived in, every building to which our hands have lent their work, belongs to us by virtue of love or of regret.
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In memory Venice is always magic.
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