Hannah Quotes

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.

Sometimes my colleagues joke and call me Hannah.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

It is doing some service to humanity, to amuse innocently. They know but little of society who think we can bear to be always employed, either in duties or meditation, without relaxation.

Did not God Sometimes withhold in mercy what we ask, We should be ruined at our own request.

I wouldn't buy somebody's album on a dare if they called him a musician's musician. I don't write to be a writer's writer. I don't want to be like the little-magazine writer.

I hate to be fatalistic about it, but alcoholism, it's just in your genes. We had some of it in my family, and it just got me.

Affliction is the school in which great virtues are acquired, in which great characters are formed.

Time is what makes good stories. Much has been cooking for a long time, and at last finds an out in narration one day. That's a supreme joy. And why the characters keep showing up.

There is one single fact that one may oppose to all the wit and argument of infidelity; namely, that no man ever repented of being a Christian on his death-bed.

Foundations to be reliable must always be unshakable.

Follow the crowd and you will never be followed by a crowd.

It is wonderful what miracles God works in wills that are utterly surrendered to Him.

By faith the walls of Jericho fell down, after they were compassed about seven days.

Oh! the joy Of young ideas painted on the mind, In the warm glowing colors fancy spreads On objects not yet known, when all is new, And all is lovely.

Where the soul is full of peace and joy, outward surrounding and circumstances are of comparatively little account.

To be good and disagreeable is high treason against the royalty of virtue.

Americans are xenophobic, they will believe their own people rather than the adversary, even a friendly enemy voice.

If you've traveled independently through Tibet, Brandon Wilson's Yak Butter Blues will bring back memories...this lively memoir is sure to provide a yak-scented whiff of nostalgia.

If you don't cherish past experiences, you cannot learn from them and you cannot move on.

I put my heart in my work.

The roses of pleasure seldom last long enough to adorn the brow of him who plucks them; for they are the only roses which do not retain their sweetness after they have lost their beauty.

Some stories don't have happy endings. Even love stories. Maybe especially love stories.

The only grandeur of imperialism lies in the nation's losing battle against it.

I'd like to be a giant enabler.

It is the nature of beginning that something new is started which cannot be expected from whatever may have happened before. This character of startling unexpectedness is inherent in all beginnings.

An idea is a curious thing. It will not work unless you do.

Well, demonization itself can help ... to provide an alibi. You succumb to the Devil incarnate, and as a result you're not guilty yourself.

I think all women in all industries have more obstacles than men.

The way God has been thought of for thousands of years is no longer convincing; if anything is dead, it can only be the traditional thought of God.

I like a good challenge. And I like to feel that I'm always learning something new.

Basically, I want people to feel feelings. It's too easy to go through this world being told to keep our emotions in check, as if they inhibit us in some way or another.

Shooting an improv-based film is incredibly liberating, exhilarating, and fun, but editing that kind of movie can be difficult for obvious continuity reasons.

It's not intentions that matter. It's actions. We are what we do and say, not what we intend to.

I don't want to freak you out, but I think I may be the voice of my generation.

Sitting around and waiting for your muse is not the best choice.

Of all hateful occupations, housekeeping is to my mind the most hateful.

To overcome any sort of fear is satisfying, and to overcome it well is even better.

You can always, and easily, give somebody the gift of hope and faith, even in the midst of despair.

It’s not fair. People claim to know you through the things you’ve done, and not by sitting down and listening to you speak for yourself.

It is a sober truth that people who live only to amuse themselves work harder at the task than most people do in earning their daily bread.

It's like, 'Sorry I passed you an STD but I really enjoy your quirky web presence.'

Imperialism was born when the ruling class in capitalist production came up against national limits to its economic expansion.

If I wanted to punish an enemy, it should be by fastening on him the trouble of constantly hating somebody.