Charles Harrington Elster quote: "To enjoy and learn from what you read you must understand the meanings of the words a writer uses. You do yourself a grave disservice if you read around words you don’t know, or worse, merely guess at what they mean without bothering to look them up.<br /><br />For me, reading has always been not only a quest for pleasure and enlightenment but also a word-hunting expedition, a lexical safari."

You hunt... Your fellow creatures?" I ask, still in disbelief.

"Of course. A hunt is onl...
M.D. ELSTER

Yes!" He says. "Fear is an excellent motivator. I find that it really brings out the true ingenuity ...
M.D. ELSTER

When one finds oneself in the kind of strange, unsettling circumstances as I presently find myself, ...
M.D. ELSTER

We could not put the ball in the hole, but the biggest thing is we did not get any stops defensively...
AL HARRINGTON

When someone is scoring like that, everybody else isn't involved. When they do shoot, they're ice co...
AL HARRINGTON

I'm sure he is from everything I hear, but I've got to wait until that happens.
AL HARRINGTON

When you're a bad team, you don't get any benefit-of-the-doubt calls. You see it on TV, the media kn...
AL HARRINGTON

It's been a long time coming.
AL HARRINGTON

I don't think you guys realize sometimes how connected we really are in that locker room. We are a f...
AL HARRINGTON

I got the call when I was getting into my car. I can't (pretend); I cried like a baby. I cried as so...
AL HARRINGTON

That's nonsense, and it's not fair to Coach and not fair to Jason. Jason never complained about anyt...
AL HARRINGTON

It's almost funny before you realize how sad it is. You want to try and tell somebody how to brace f...
AL HARRINGTON

Believe it or not, when it left my hand, it felt good.
AL HARRINGTON

It's so stupid because all I wanted was space and now that I have it, there's this part of me that's...
HANNAH HARRINGTON

He took his pain and turned it into something beautiful. Into something that people connect to. And ...
HANNAH HARRINGTON

The best way to help poor people is to not be one of them.
BOB HARRINGTON

That the poor are invisible is one of the most important things about them. They are not simply negl...
MICHAEL HARRINGTON

A faith to live by, a self to live with, and a purpose to live for.
BOB HARRINGTON

Clothes make the poor invisible. America has the best-dressed poverty the world has ever known.
MICHAEL HARRINGTON

If there is technological advance without social advance, there is, almost automatically, an increas...
MICHAEL HARRINGTON

I've never been good at emotional stuff. Except anger. Anger, I'm good at.
HANNAH HARRINGTON

It must be comforting, to have a faith like that. To believe so concretely that there’s someone—...
HANNAH HARRINGTON

I want to stop running away from everything.
I want to find something to run toward.
HANNAH HARRINGTON

You can be surrounded by people and still be lonely. You can be the most popular person in school, e...
HANNAH HARRINGTON

Sometimes people think they want to know things, but then they hear the answer and realize they'd pr...
HANNAH HARRINGTON

Whatever you decide, don't let it be because you don't think you have a choice.
HANNAH HARRINGTON

It's just nice, I guess. Knowing that someone else can put into words what I feel. That there are pe...
HANNAH HARRINGTON

Hate is... It's too easy. Love. Love takes courage.
HANNAH HARRINGTON

A whole army, though they can neither write nor read, are not afraid of a platform, which they know ...
JAMES HARRINGTON

There is still strong growth potential in metals commodities in 2006 and now is the time to make hay...
ANDREW HARRINGTON

People are already worried about supplies for the driving season, even this early on. There's going ...
ANDREW HARRINGTON

There are a couple of countervailing forces in play.
ANDREW HARRINGTON

If you've got declining gas supply and people start burning more oil, then that's one thing, and the...
ANDREW HARRINGTON

The push is on for commodities and that's being led by strong demand, but the trick is in picking th...
ANDREW HARRINGTON

Zinc is a lot stronger in terms of supply characteristics than the other metals.
ANDREW HARRINGTON

People talk about stocks being relatively high in terms of the five-year averages, but it's not as r...
ANDREW HARRINGTON

We're gonna be looking at making sure that the delivered price of natural gas is at levels that insu...
ANDREW HARRINGTON

Having more or less traveled together, refined products and crude have become disconnected in recent...
ANDREW HARRINGTON

Though crude seems sufficient at the moment it is the refining capacity that is the real bottleneck....
ANDREW HARRINGTON

It takes a certain level of aspiration before one can take advantage of opportunities that are clear...
MICHAEL HARRINGTON

It's harder than you think, to find someone who truly believes in your unequivocal, unconditional aw...
HANNAH HARRINGTON

If there is technological advance without social advance, there is, almost automatically, an increas...
MICHAEL HARRINGTON

All of them are the same type; girls with overprocessed hair and too much makeup and way too much ac...
HANNAH HARRINGTON

There are two differing viewpoints.
BOB HARRINGTON

The most important part of the message is practice some good basic common health techniques.
BOB HARRINGTON

We have been here before, with these types of conditions. Sometimes we end up with a normal to below...
BOB HARRINGTON

We had an actual break in the pipe. We had to replace a 10-foot section.
BOB HARRINGTON

Later, I don't know when, they pushed in the walls and made it a pond. Nobody has a record of why.
BOB HARRINGTON

Restrictions don't mean closures. Although these precautionary measures are in place, folks are stil...
BOB HARRINGTON

It's going to happen, it's just a matter of when.
BOB HARRINGTON

Every man, either to his terror or consolation, has some sense of religion.
JAMES HARRINGTON

Reality TV is a totally different animal than the infomercial world.
KEVIN HARRINGTON

You never become a howling success by just howling.
BOB HARRINGTON

I'm not even sweating that stuff. There's no need for that. I know who I am as a player and that I h...
AL HARRINGTON

(Williams) played well, and he got it done for them. He hit all the big shots, got into the paint wh...
AL HARRINGTON

We had way too many days off. We lost our rhythm. We lost our feel.
AL HARRINGTON

I don't care about the record. Once you're out of the playoffs, records are irrelevant.
JOEY HARRINGTON

If they think they can intimidate the City Council, they're sadly mistaken, ... We're going to do wh...
JAMES HARRINGTON

We took a couple steps backwards. The last couple of games we were focused in the fourth quarter and...
AL HARRINGTON

A corporation prefers to offer a job to a man who already has one To obtain entry into paradise, in ...
ALAN HARRINGTON

Public-relations specialists make flower arrangements of the facts, placing them so that the wilted ...
ALAN HARRINGTON

It's not really a practical dream to have, is it?

He stares right at me. It's intense, be...
HANNAH HARRINGTON

Some people are just sad, all of the time. Too sad to deal with - everything. Life, I guess. I don't...
HANNAH HARRINGTON

It always struck me in years after how bizarre it was, how two people could look at one another with...
HANNAH HARRINGTON

You can't say from those numbers that anything was a failure, but it's not an outrageous success.
JOHN HARRINGTON

The readers and the hearers like my books, But yet some writers cannot them digest; But what care I...
JOHN HARRINGTON

Vice: Whatever was passion in the contemplation of man, being brought forth by his will into action.
JAMES HARRINGTON

The Law is but words and paper without the hands of swords of men.
JAMES HARRINGTON

I guess they were taking it to the hole and we weren't.
AL HARRINGTON

I was struggling with my game. I've been struggling all week, ... I wasn't holing the putts. It's ha...
PADRAIG HARRINGTON

When you get beat like this it doesn't matter what's happened previously or what's going to happen a...
JOEY HARRINGTON

You don't have to be perfect with him. A guy like Roy can make plays that aren't there.
JOEY HARRINGTON

[Unsure of himself as a rookie starter, Harrington seems far more relaxed this year and is helped by...
JOEY HARRINGTON

Hold up your end of the bargain. Get out there and bust (your tail) trying to do your best for your ...
JOEY HARRINGTON

I am tired of losing. I hate losing, and I am not going to take it anymore. I know the organization ...
JOEY HARRINGTON

That would make Lions' president Matt Millen look like a genius. For once in his life.
JOEY HARRINGTON

We have been in too many of these games in the last couple years, where we had a chance to put a tea...
JOEY HARRINGTON

I felt comfortable the last couple of weeks, ... I thought I made some good decisions, threw some go...
JOEY HARRINGTON

I think everybody realizes the importance of playing for your teammates. When you get in those kind ...
JOEY HARRINGTON

They played it well. That's the play we had on.
JOEY HARRINGTON

(Highland) made the adjustment - they just didn't hit them.
JAY HARRINGTON

This is still a young team and an impressionable team, so it has to be someone who is very strong in...
JOEY HARRINGTON

They've had that recipe since before I can remember.
ANN HARRINGTON

It's not a fancy place. It's comfortable and homey.
ANN HARRINGTON

That's kind of his thing. Putting things together that you wouldn't think would go together, and it ...
ANN HARRINGTON

It was a fluke deal. It was fixed. No sense in looking over your shoulder. Nothing but broken bones ...
JOEY HARRINGTON

I'm better than ever. I really don't know how that kind of [stuff] gets started, those rumors. But I...
AL HARRINGTON

I think our guys have wrestled really hard. They have all gone out and competed for us. It is import...
BARRY HARRINGTON

We wrestled really well. We had so many guys step up and come through the back door really hard for ...
BARRY HARRINGTON

He is just a tough, hard-nosed kid that will come after you.
BARRY HARRINGTON

I don't like it, but it's part of the game. They are booing for their own reasons, some of which hap...
JOEY HARRINGTON

We hardly do the same concert twice in a row. It's such an amazing time to be alive, to be a musicia...
DAVID HARRINGTON

No man can be a politician, except he be first a historian or a traveller; for except he can see wha...
JAMES HARRINGTON

Our affluent society contains those of talent and insight who are driven to prefer poverty, to choos...
MICHAEL HARRINGTON

The longer they take to set regulations or set criteria, the less likely it is that any state would ...
SHARON HARRINGTON

These agents are safe and effective at providing relief in the short term from coughs due to upper r...
GERRY HARRINGTON

We wanted to go from the most intimate sound to the largest, in the space of a heartbeat.
DAVID HARRINGTON

Fairness for Good Drivers is bringing the campaign for fairness and choice in auto insurance rates t...
JAMES HARRINGTON

We know exactly what had to be done and we executed it well,
JAMES HARRINGTON

I really believe I can bring a leadership to Brockton by bringing people together,
JAMES HARRINGTON

We worked very hard to get our message out even though there were a lot of distractions. We kept on ...
JAMES HARRINGTON

If they needed anything they'd call me but for the most part the staff continues to do what they're ...
JAMES HARRINGTON

Absolutely not. Actually it's quite the opposite. It's taking time away from the campaign,
JAMES HARRINGTON

I confess that the magistrate upon his bench is that to the law which a gunner upon his platform is ...
JAMES HARRINGTON

This appears to be a more coordinated and organized series of attacks. Prices have room to go up $3 ...
ANDREW HARRINGTON

I just trust my ears.
DAVID HARRINGTON

not an arrangement.
DAVID HARRINGTON

moving in the right direction.
DAVID HARRINGTON

The kids that are out there doing this stuff to each other -- it's an awful waste of life and potent...
DAVID HARRINGTON

But the chord changes are haunting, and there are moments that draw you right in, in the most intima...
DAVID HARRINGTON

After we recorded his song 'Aaj Ki Raat' (from Anamika , 1973) on our Kronos Caravan CD, a friend of...
DAVID HARRINGTON

It's definitely a different team than what we saw a couple of weeks ago. Then, add in the aspect of ...
CHRIS HARRINGTON

I don't think these funeral homes can really survive because they won't be doing enough funerals to ...
DAVID HARRINGTON

It's tough because there are times when I just want to rip someone's throat out, but I've taken the ...
JOEY HARRINGTON

The kids watch TV and get this sense about how it's glamorous, or when you get shot, you're dead,
DAVID HARRINGTON

It was all a bit strange as no other airline seemed to have suffered from lightning strikes and late...
MICHAEL HARRINGTON

For the most part, everyone's in the same area on price -- everyone knows basically where the number...
MICHAEL HARRINGTON

Jim was interested in exploring his own opportunities with creating his own fund and we're fully sup...
MICHAEL HARRINGTON

Our affluent society contains those of talent and insight who are driven to prefer poverty, to choos...
MICHAEL HARRINGTON

If there is technological advance without social advance, there is, almost automatically, an increas...
MICHAEL HARRINGTON

People who are much too sensitive to demand of cripples that they run races ask of the poor that the...
MICHAEL HARRINGTON

We kept trying to follow up. We used moral persuasion, but the commission wasn't interested.
ED HARRINGTON

Unfortunately, I find myself just watching him sometimes when I should be carrying out a fake,
JOEY HARRINGTON

I feel terrible for the guy,
JOEY HARRINGTON

I like that, ... I actually never thought of that, coming in not having to worry about stepping into...
JOEY HARRINGTON

In a blink of an eye, that bullet ripped across his spinal cord and changed this kid's life.
DAVID HARRINGTON

Basically, we had a problem and as we solved the problem it kind of gave us the opportunity to go ah...
BOB HARRINGTON

A few months ago we had a room that we were having some very bad odor problems with from what we sus...
BOB HARRINGTON

If I tried to throw Dre' a slant, he'd probably try to lateral it to someone, while R.W. would just ...
JOEY HARRINGTON

I heard George Crumb?s ?Black Angels? and I knew that I had just heard the music that I was born to ...
DAVID HARRINGTON

When you get beat like this it doesn't matter what's happened previously or what's going to happen a...
JOEY HARRINGTON

We came out a little flat and we shouldn't have had that type of lapse. We had a great shoot-around,...
AL HARRINGTON

The point is that we're not going to cede any territory. We'll fight on as many fronts as we can wit...
KATHLEEN HARRINGTON

I hate organized religion. I hate that people use it to justify their crappy, bigoted beliefs.
HANNAH HARRINGTON

There's not much you can do about (the prices). It's a political matter. Of course, supply and deman...
THOMAS HARRINGTON

He has that credibility, having won all those years in San Francisco. He demands focus, holds us all...
JOEY HARRINGTON

We're still as confident, as optimistic as we ever were. You know we hit a little stumbling block he...
JOEY HARRINGTON

And government (to define it de facto, or according to modern prudence) is an art whereby some man, ...
JAMES HARRINGTON

The retirement generation still is not quite here. The demographics suggest they will be a good real...
ED HARRINGTON

It was personal for both of them. They both did a great job tonight.
AL HARRINGTON

That's him doing what he can do. He took over when we needed him to.
BRIAN HARRINGTON

We've been a good team playing bad all year, but right now, we're playing pretty good.
BRIAN HARRINGTON

It doesn't matter which receiver it is, ... It's always, 'I was open.'
JOEY HARRINGTON

Iran continues to weigh but there is a sense that it's a longer-term situation. I don't see any rash...
ANDREW HARRINGTON

It was a hard-fought game, but we gave them too much cushion and we couldn't really recover. But our...
AL HARRINGTON

Nobody played well. The problem when you're playing quarterback ... even if things go wrong around y...
JOEY HARRINGTON

I think it's really indicative of how Suffolk wants everyone to want to have a [unique] experience. ...
ELIZABETH HARRINGTON

It's an excellent opportunity for kids willing to work hard. There's nothing else like it.
ELIZABETH HARRINGTON

They are a wonderful group of people. There were roaches crawling on my feet. I was speechless. The ...
ELIZABETH HARRINGTON

They are not a priority for this commissioner.
ELIZABETH HARRINGTON

It was a good opportunity to sell at a good price.
ED HARRINGTON

The culture were live in ripples through our daily lives, sending messages about what is considered ...
LEE HARRINGTON

I have the same views as my guy, even though we were raised on different sides of the world. I'm sur...
DANIEL HARRINGTON

We can't say now that down the road it wouldn't have value and someone wouldn't want to build (a hou...
DANIEL HARRINGTON

It's amazing how ignorant a person can be, but there's something about our ears that ends up telling...
DAVID HARRINGTON

That was big because I let my team down (in the last game). I just had to come on -- be more aggress...
AL HARRINGTON

It's hard to know which way to go when you get blindsided by something like this. It's literally one...
AL HARRINGTON

He came in here and kicked our behinds tonight. I know the game meant a lot to him, and he played th...
AL HARRINGTON

It's a good trade for everybody now, until they start playing with these guys. Indiana gets some muc...
AL HARRINGTON

How remote we were too from the crazy musicians who arrived on a blustery fall day with the idea tha...
ALAN HARRINGTON

We're just going to make this the strongest case possible. We're going to keep building and building...
GERRY HARRINGTON

He called her when he was alone and told her he was going to prison for a long time and the police h...
GERRY HARRINGTON

You could definitely smell the alcohol on him. Multiple detectives spoke to him, and his story kept ...
GERRY HARRINGTON

Ken Clausen and I have been so close. It?s in our sights. We firmly believe this year it?s going to ...
GREG HARRINGTON

No way (am I going to let him make a run). I'm coming head hunting.
GREG HARRINGTON

We know all about what they have done and the amount of success they have been able to achieve. It i...
JAY HARRINGTON

It's been a long time coming, but I think this group has proven they are one of the top teams in the...
JAY HARRINGTON

We're taking the approach that we're just happy to be going to the national tournament. We're not go...
JAY HARRINGTON

What does this mean to me? It means I have to coach another week. But if any group of kids ever dese...
JAY HARRINGTON

I can't tell you how proud I am of these kids. We just had so many kids step up again tonight.
JAY HARRINGTON

I'm not one for Knute Rockne speeches and so I'm not going to start now. I did tell the kids the oth...
JAY HARRINGTON

We feel like our kids are winners. We know if we play our game, we'll win. If we're consistent, we'l...
JAY HARRINGTON

That's the real key to this team. It's the most unselfish group of kids I have ever been around. The...
JAY HARRINGTON

That's a very, very good team. But we're not playing as well as we have been. And what did we shoot ...
JAY HARRINGTON

He doesn't mind getting dirty. You don't get your head split open or your lip split open by standing...
JAY HARRINGTON

Ryan's friends are so stricken with grief. I don't think they'd ever want to inflict that loss on an...
JASMINE HARRINGTON

He just always envisioned a world where people respected each other.
JASMINE HARRINGTON

The only thing I do wish right now is that it wasn't an issue of...a gun in the school. More that a ...
JASMINE HARRINGTON

No one on the bus was in any danger whatsoever.
JASMINE HARRINGTON

We'd all rather him be here.
JASMINE HARRINGTON

It was a lot of fun [pitching a complete game]. My last few starts haven't been so successful, and I...
IAN HARRINGTON

I felt a little weak, but I wasn't throwing my fastball where I needed it. It all snowballed from th...
IAN HARRINGTON

Coach Trap told me before the game I had to be efficient with my pitches because our bullpen was a l...
IAN HARRINGTON

That was a terrible pitch. I left a fastball up and he made me pay for it.
IAN HARRINGTON

Fish has done a great job for us all year. But today just wasn't his day. You can't be perfect every...
IAN HARRINGTON

I just tried to work the outside part of the plate and stuck with that today.
IAN HARRINGTON

I definitely had a letdown in the sixth against Washington (his last start), so I doubled up on my c...
IAN HARRINGTON

Trap came out to talk to me twice and we were on the same page. I was just nibbling at the corners i...
IAN HARRINGTON

Managers receiving hundreds of thousands a year—and setting their compensation for themselves—ar...
MICHAEL HARRINGTON

We know we are going to have some people who are going to have some issues. But we are uncovering ga...
KATHLEEN HARRINGTON

This is positive movement. We know that we have more work to do, but we have plans in place to do it...
KATHLEEN HARRINGTON

The Golden Gate Restaurant Association did a study, when the law first came out, the first quarter, ...
KATHLEEN HARRINGTON

so it's in the interest of our success to do this and to label everything appropriately.
KATHLEEN HARRINGTON

The deadline serves a valuable purpose in motivating people to pay attention.
KATHLEEN HARRINGTON

Any extra help they need can and should be provided by those other sources.
KATHLEEN HARRINGTON

In some of these communities we've faced some culture barriers where there is a lack of trust in gov...
KATHLEEN HARRINGTON

Awesome."
"Awesome squared."
"Awesome cubed."
"Awesome to the power of infinity."
HANNAH HARRINGTON

Bernie (long-time coach Bernie Harrower) gave me a lot of support.
KRISTY HARRINGTON

If we have our best team available, we are going to be tough to beat.
KRISTY HARRINGTON

We have been in too many of these games in the last couple years, where we had a chance to put a tea...
JOEY HARRINGTON

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