Hannah Quotes

Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it.

The wretch who digs the mine for bread, or ploughs, that others may be fed, feels less fatigued than that decreed to him who cannot think or read.

It is in the nature of a group and its power to turn against independence, the property of individual strength.

I know about forgiving people and loving them anyway, even after they hurt you.

Rage is for little wrongs; despair is dumb.

Gentleness is the outgrowth of benignity.

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.

So organic farming practices are something that, to me, are interlinked with the idea of using biodiesel.

Filmmaking is such a collaborative medium.

Prayer is not eloquence but earnestness.

Small habits well pursued betimes May reach the dignity of crimes.

I've never been good in the financial and business arenas. I handle the creative side of things.

Being a humanitarian, supporting animal rights activists, human rights activists, it's all the same.

Perish discretion, when it interferes With duty!

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.

It isn’t about being at the same school or the same town or even the same room. It’s about being together. Love is a choice you make.

Courage is indispensible because in politics not life but the world is at stake.

Thanks be unto God which always causeth us to triumph in Christ!

Don't force yourself to go party if you're not in the mood.

To be sure, nothing is more important to the integrity of the universities . . . than a rigorously enforced divorce from war-oriented research and all connected enterprises.

I've been half-frozen for so long, it is as though the winter has set up home in my marrow.

In politics, love is a stranger, and when it intrudes upon it nothing is being achieved except hypocrisy.

The gloom encroaches upon my mind, and my heart flutters like a bird held fast in a fist.

It belongs among the refinements of totalitarian government in our century that they don't permit their opponents to die a great, dramatic martyr's death for their convictions.

I know exactly what I want to write. I do not write until I do. Usually I write it all down only once. And that goes relatively quickly, since it really depends only on how fast I type.

For politics is not like the nursery; in politics obedience and support are the same.

Promises were a lot like impressions. The second one didn't count for much.

Under conditions of terror, most people will comply but some people will not.

To those who are here, those who are gone, and those who are lost.

At one point, she'd wanted to hurl the whole breakfast at the wall. And then she'd remember why it was that men had temper tantrums and women didn't: cleanup.

When we read, we fancy we could be martyrs; when we come to act, we cannot bear a provoking word.

Life is good, without it we'd all be dead.

Conceptually, we may call truth what we cannot change; metaphorically, it is the ground on which we stand and the sky that stretches above us.

Thoughts - even fears - were airy things, formless until you made them solid with your voice and once given that weight, they could crush you.

That's a big goal of mine, to try and grow as much of my own food as possible

If I have learned anything in this long life of mine, it is this: in love we find out who we want to be; in war we find out who we are.

Where evil may be done, it is right to ponder; where only suffered, know the shortest pause is much too long.

I have four dogs, four horses, a cat, and a bunch of wild frogs

Always remember no matter how many people say no, all you need to find is one single person to say yes. Just one person.

I was always kind of florid. And full of rhetoric. That was my flaw. My whole time writing, I've had to work against that because it can be a wrecking posture.

To those who know thee not, no words can paint! And those who know thee, know all words are faint!

My best stories come out of nowhere, with no concern for form at all.

Unless you're lead dog, the scenery never changes.

Luxury and dissipation, soft and gentle as their approaches are, and silently as they throw their silken chains about the heart, enslave it more than the most active and turbulent vices

Our infinite obligations to God do not fill our hearts half as much as a petty uneasiness of our own; nor His infinite perfections as much as our smallest wants.

the modes of speech are scarcely more variable than the modes of silence.

Sometimes my colleagues joke and call me Hannah.

Well, we think the broadcasts did have some effect, because we see the antiwar movement in the U.S. building up, growing and so we think that our broadcast is a support to this antiwar movement.

Secretary of State Colin Powell, thank you so much, as always, for joining us this morning.

Affliction is a sort of moral gymnasium in which the disciples of Christ are trained to robust exercise, hardy exertion, and severe conflict.