Hannah Quotes
It is the large aggregate of small things perpetually occurring that robs me of all my time. The expense of learning to read might have been spared in my education, for I never read.
Glory darts her soul-pervading ray on thrones and cottages, regardless still of all the artificial nice distinctions vain human customs make.
Indeed, I have, alas! outlived almost every one of my contemporaries. One pays dear for living long.
Outward attacks and troubles rather fix than unsettle the Christian, as tempests from without only serve to root the oak faster; while an inward canker will gradually rot and decay it.
O jealousy, Thou ugliest fiend of hell! thy deadly venom Preys on my vitals, turns the healthful hue Of my flesh check to haggard sallowness, And drinks my spirit up!
To hint at a fault does more mischief than speaking out; for whatever is left for the imagination to finish will not fail to be overdone.
Anger is a violent act, envy a constant habit - no one can be always angry, but he may be always envious.
Of two evils, had not an author better be tedious than superficial! From an overflowing vessel you may gather more, indeed, than you want, but from an empty one you can gather nothing.
Long habit so reconciles us to almost any thing, that the grossest improprieties cease to strike us when they once make a part of the common course of action.
If we commit any crime, or do any good here, it must be in thought; for our words are few and our deeds none at all.
Youth has a quickness of apprehension, which it is very apt to mistake for an acuteness of penetration.
he who finds he has wasted a shilling may by diligence hope to fetch it up again; but no repentance or industry can ever bring back one wasted hour.
There is scarcely any fault in another which offends us more than vanity, though perhaps there is none that really injures us so little.
The artful injury, whose venomed dart scarce wounds the hearing, while it stabs the heart.
The secret heart is fair devotion's temple; there the saint, even on that living altar, lights the flame of purest sacrifice, which burns unseen, not unaccepted.
Resentment is an evil so costly to our peace that we should find it more cheap to forgive even were it no more right.
It is an excellent sign, that after the cares and labors of the day, you can return to your pious exercises and meditations with undiminished attention.
Ive always loved musical films; I find them really thrilling and exciting; it was part of what made me want to be an actress, that feeling of being really transported.
I don't have Twitter or Facebook or MySpace or any of those things. I think there's a kind of risky thing privacy wise and I'm a private, guided person and don't want to get too open.
Motherhood rarely allows for solitude, yet it begets its own kind of isolation: from one's past, from one's youth, from the women we once thought we were and would become.
Because of the varroa mite, wild honey bees are now, for all practical purposes, extinct in the United States.
Meditation takes time and dedication, but, for me, it's actually just about closing your eyes and being in that moment.
When I awake Yesterday is far away When I awake I don't recall your name, my only friend.
I had two different degrees: One in International Relations/Political Science and another degree in Radio and Television Production.
Every burn on my body has had its own different personality. And all of them needed different things.
At key crossroads in his life, Vernon Davis has continued to make a conscious choice to grow as a person and player. His determination through adversity since his childhood days is commendable.
My fathers peripatetic career also gave me critical perspective when it came to my own career choices.
It is a fact beyond question that there are two kinds of Christian experience, one of which is an experience of bondage, and the other an experience of liberty.
I wonder how many of our tombstones will have to be inscribed with the epitaph 'Died of too many meetings'?
Thee may tell Aunt Janet from me that she might as well try to stop the stars in their courses as to try to stop a love affair.
My soul was always so full of aspirations, that a God was a necessity to me. I was like a bird with an instinct of migration upon me, and a country to migrate to was as essential as it is to the bird
I have always compared our traditions of liberty, like those of Abraham Lincoln and Ho Chi Minh.
And we broadcast tapes sent to us from Americans against the war. These were most effective I believe.
I guess no one stays friends for more than thirty years without broken hearts along the way.
Jude remembered this pain. Every woman had felt some version of it: the end of first love. It was when you learned, for good and always, that love could be impermanent.
