Hannah Quotes
My family never told me like you have to be one thing. What do you want to be when you grow up? They think it's the most ridiculous question. You can be many, many things.
Action, as distinguished from fabrication, is never possible in isolation; to be isolated is to be deprived of the capacity to act.
What I cannot live with may not bother another man's conscience. The result is that conscience will stand against conscience.
The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade.
The conviction that everything that happens on earth must be comprehensible to man can lead to interpreting history by commonplaces.
The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are but different means chosen to arrive at it.
No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes.
Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake it for a universal one.
I might screw up, I might embarrass you, I might yell at you, but I will never, ever stop loving you. You're my first born. The first time I held you... I fell in love so hard it cracked my bones.
if we do not know our own history, we are doomed to live it as though it were our private fate.
Whenever I write about motherhood - and I write about it a lot - I am drawing on my experiences as a mother and also my experiences as a daughter.
When I step into the batters box and hear my team say my name and they all cheer for me i feel as if i need to hit the ball for them! Softball is life and nothing comes before it
Lies were lethal, however honourable the intentions of the liar. They deprived people of the opportunity to know the basic facts of their own lives.
Gentleness is given to those who have learned that God will not have his kingdom triumph through the violence of the world, for such a triumph came through the meekness of a cross.
It is quite gratifying to feel guilty if you haven't done anything wrong: how noble! Whereas it is rather hard and certainly depressing to admit guilt and to repent.
Nothing is more confused than to be ordered into a war to die or to be maimed for life without the faintest idea of what's going on.
Higher education must lead the march back to the fundamentals of human relationships, to the old discovery that is ever new, that man does not live by bread alone.
Obviously we're a consumer nation and you have the power to influence these big corporations who are running the world right now through what you chose to, or not to, purchase.
Being a humanitarian, supporting animal rights activists, human rights activists, it's all the same.
I've never been good in the financial and business arenas. I handle the creative side of things.
So organic farming practices are something that, to me, are interlinked with the idea of using biodiesel.
And then of course, obviously as far as issues such as global warming, something has to be done on the corporate side, there has to be some mandate or some legislation.
Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise.
To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me ambitious.
Imagination frames events unknown, In wild, fantastic shapes of hideous ruin, And what it fears creates.
It is my contention that civil disobediences are nothing but the latest form of voluntary association, and that they are thus quite in tune with the oldest traditions of the country.