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Hannah Inspirational Quotes (507)

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Those who are God's without reserve are, in every sense, content
Hannah Whitall Smith
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every political structure, new or old, left to itself develops stabilizing forces which stand in the way of constant transformation and expansion. Therefore all political bodies appear to be temporary obstacles when they are seen as part of an eternal stream of growing power.
Hannah Arendt
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Imagination frames events unknown, In wild, fantastic shapes of hideous ruin, And what it fears creates.
Hannah More
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I always thought it was what I wanted: to be loved and admired. Now I think perhaps I'd like to be known.
Kristin Hannah
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Although tyranny...may successfully rule over foreign peoples, it can stay in power only if it destroys first of all the national institutions of its own people.
Hannah Arendt
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We manufacture anger to give ourselves the illusion of power when we feel weak and helpless.
Sophie Hannah
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I prefer to scare myself in the ordinary ways, Daddy. Like letting my children cross the country for college. Why bungee jump when you can put a kindergartener on a school bus? Now, that's real terror.
Kristin Hannah
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Life is too short to stress the small things anymore.
Daryl Hannah
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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.
Hannah More
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If I wished to punish my enemy, I should make him hate somebody.
Hannah More
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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.
Kristin Hannah
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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.
Sophie Hannah
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Life though a short, is a working day. Activity may lead to evil but inactivity cannot be led to good.
Hannah More
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My stories do have plot. They're not just scattered language they're controlled, toward an end.
Barry Hannah
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In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.
Hannah Arendt
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The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility he can never admit an error.
Hannah Arendt
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People speak of the fear of the blank canvas as though it is a temporary hesitation, a trembling moment of self-doubt. For me it was more like being abducted from my bed by a clown, thrust into a circus arena with a wicker chair, and told to tame a pissed-off lion in front of an expectant crowd.
Hannah Kent
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Ideas, as distinguished from events, are never unprecedented.
Hannah Arendt
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Let me advise thee not to talk of thyself as being old. There is something in Mind Cure, after all, and if thee continually talks of thyself as being old, thee may perhaps bring on some of the infirmities of age. At least I would not risk it if I were thee.
Hannah Whitall Smith
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Imperialism was born when the ruling class in capitalist production came up against national limits to its economic expansion.
Hannah Arendt
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As mothers and daughters, we are connected with one another. My mother is the bones of my spine, keeping me straight and true. She is my blood, making sure it runs rich and strong. She is the beating of my heart. I cannot now imagine a life without her.
Kristin Hannah
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Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.
Hannah Arendt
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it may be in morals as it is in optics, the eye and the object may come too close to each other, to answer the end of vision. There are certain faults which press too near our self-love to be even perceptible to us.
Hannah More
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Since one cannot educate adults, the word education has an evil sound in politics there is a pretense of education, when the real purpose is coercion without the use of force.
Hannah Arendt
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