Hannah Quotes
You can always, and easily, give somebody the gift of hope and faith, even in the midst of despair.
Luck serves ... as rationalization for every people that is not master of its own destiny.
My stories do have plot. They're not just scattered language; they're controlled, toward an end.
A writers job is to destroy and then to build the thing back up again by a chosen means.
To act, in its most general sense, means to take an initiative, to begin... to set something into motion.
For the possibilities of being different from what one is are infinite. Once one has negated oneself, however, there are no longer any particular choices.
power can be thought of as the never-ending, self-feeding motor of all political action that corresponds to the legendary unending accumulation of money that begets money.
Kierkegaard, Marx, and Nietzsche are for us like guideposts to a past which has lost its significance.
The cultural treasures of the past, believed to be dead, are being made to speak, in the course of which it turns out that they propose things altogether different than what had been thought.
Legitimacy, when challenged, bases itself on an appeal to the past, while justification relates to an end that lies in the future. Violence can be justifiable, but it never will be legitimate.
The good things in history are usually of very short duration, but afterward have a decisive influence on what happens over long periods of time.
... the space left to freedom is very small.ends are inherent in human nature and the same for all.
I am sure you will be guided right in your decision, to place implicit faith in his integrity and honesty. Best wishes from one who has known Richard longer than anyone else. His mother
Man can see his reflection in water only when he bends down close to it, and the heart of man, too, must lean down to the heart of his fellow; then it will see itself within his heart.
Who are those ever multiplying authors that with unparalleled fecundity are overstocking the world with their quick succeeding progeny? They are novel-writers.
Pleasure is by much the most laborious trade I know, especially for those who have not a vocation to it.
Life though a short, is a working day. Activity may lead to evil; but inactivity cannot be led to good.
Commending a right thing is a cheap substitute for doing it, with which we are too apt to satisfy ourselves.
The keen spirit Seizes the prompt occasion, makes the thought Start into instant action, and at once Plans and performs, resolves and executes!
If you were to write down all the possible ways to motivate people to do better work, friendly praise would have to come near the head of your list.
Somehow even tragedies seem less tragical, when you are the actors in them, than they look to outsiders
It wasn't a new idea. During the war against the French we had this kind of broadcast for the French soldiers.
It occurred to her suddenly, sharply, that she wanted to be in love... She wanted not to feel so damned alone in the world.
Lately he'd been seen going out less and less, becoming that strangest of animals in a small town: a loner.
Nobody's strong enough to be a parent. We just do it, blindly, going forward on faith and love and hope. That's all it is...Being afraid...and going on.
I never write about CIA conspiracies or the FBI or mafia or anything like that because I just dont understand that world. But I think I do understand individual human harmfulness.
Cambridge is heaven, I am convinced it is the nicest place in the world to live. As you walk round, most people look incredibly bright, as if they are probably off to win a Nobel prize.
I always notice the dysfunctional dynamic of human relationships because most places where you encounter it, people are trying to pretend it isnt happening.
Most crime fiction plots are not ambitious enough for me. I want something really labyrinthine with clues and puzzles that will reward careful attention.
When an old truth ceases to be applicable, it does not become any truer by being stood on its head.
Liam learned that it was possible to appear to move forward when you were really standing still.
Sometimes you simply made the wrong choice and you had to live with it. You could only change the future.
Revolutions are the only political events which confront us directly and inevitably with the problem of beginning.
Most novels I come across have all the excitement of a long trip on a bus with a sensitive glee club. Yammer and chat.