He seemed evidently more fond of controversy than of truth, and the whole turn of his conversation indicated that he derived his religious security rather from the adoption of a party, than from the implantation of a new principle.
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Related I don't know if I have a favorite color. KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl. KATE MIDDLETON You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part. HENRY JAMES There is only one classroom in which to learn: 1. The work of God. 2. The will of God. 3. The trustw... ELISABETH ELLIOT She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I love my mom so much. I don't care if that's corny to say. I think on my next birthday, I'm going t... STEPHEN CHBOSKY We Are All Infinite STEPHEN CHBOSKY (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes... JEAN SASSON You can't just sit there and put everyone's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I saw other people there. Old men sitting alone. Young girls with blue eye shadow and awkward jaws. ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY That one moment when you know you are not a sad story. You are ALIVE. STEPHAN CHBOSKY Somos quienes somos por un montón de razones.Quizás nunca conozcamos la mayoría de ellas.Pero aun... STEPHEN CHBOSKY Ambos dijeron que tomara asiento y parecían hablar en serio, así que me senté. STEPHEN CHBOSKY I know these will all be stories some day, and our pictures will become old photographs. We all beco... STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybewe'll never know most of them. STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. STEPHEN CHBOSKY There's nothing like the deep breathes after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore st... STHEPHEN CHBOSKY no more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I don't know the significance of this, but I find it very interesting. STEPHEN CHBOSKY Maybe it’s sad that these are now memories. And maybe it’s not sad. STEPHEN CHBOSKY I'm fucking the grave, I thought, I'm bringing the dead back to life... CHARLES BUKOWSKI If you say you will lead a people to a new age then do it, but don't hide behind your laws as an exc... DEAN IBERHYSAJ It is not the grain of grass that will decide mans future but the bullet that comes from the barrel ... DEAN IBERHYSAJ Loving someone who never loved you, is like remembering a face you never saw. No matter how har... RATISH EDWARDS There will be things I won't tell you ever , Then there will be things that you won't ever lis... RATISH EDWARDS I wish I could see you some day, Just for a moment, just see you, I wish I could h... RATISH EDWARDS Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... C. JOYBELL C. I was very grateful to have heard it again. Because I guess we all forget sometimes. And I think eve... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even if... STEPHEN CHBOSKY The sweetest thing that can happen to a debtor is to see his debts fully paid SOTONYE ANGA I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib... C. JOYBELL C. ...as he discovered in the course of his uncountable years that a lie is more comfortable than doubt... GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained. QUEEN ELIZABETH II Like all best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and... QUEEN ELIZABETH II My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater ... QUEEN ELIZABETH II It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime. QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have to be seen to be believed. QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughou... QUEEN ELIZABETH II I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana's loss, ... QUEEN ELIZABETH II I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast. QUEEN ELIZABETH II The British constitution has always been puzzling and always will be. QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but t... QUEEN ELIZABETH II To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in th... QUEEN ELIZABETH II What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since ... QUEEN ELIZABETH II First, I want to pay tribute to Diana myself. She was an exceptional and gifted human being. In good... QUEEN ELIZABETH II I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something e... QUEEN ELIZABETH II To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts an... QUEEN ELIZABETH II Grief is the price we pay for love. QUEEN ELIZABETH II The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its ... QUEEN ELIZABETH II At its heart, engineering is about using science to find creative, practical solutions. It is a nobl... QUEEN ELIZABETH II At Christmas, I am always struck by how the spirit of togetherness lies also at the heart of the Chr... QUEEN ELIZABETH II For many, Christmas is also a time for coming together. But for others, service will come first. QUEEN ELIZABETH II The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses w... QUEEN ELIZABETH II I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your s... QUEEN ELIZABETH II Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are g... QUEEN ELIZABETH II We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the man... QUEEN ELIZABETH II Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as... QUEEN ELIZABETH II These wretched babies don't come until they are ready. QUEEN ELIZABETH II I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of ... QUEEN ELIZABETH II The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has t... QUEEN ELIZABETH II In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace ... QUEEN ELIZABETH II Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters... QUEEN ELIZABETH II No one who knew Diana will ever forget her. Millions of others who never met her, but felt they knew... QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have been aware all the time that my peoples, spread far and wide throughout every continent and o... QUEEN ELIZABETH II Dedication and enthusiams are the greatest rewards for learning ISABEL RAMOS I was suddenly very aware of the fact it was me standing up in that tunnel with the wind over my fac... STEPHEN CHBOSKY The only perspective is to really be there. STEPHEN CHBOSKY I didn't feel like reading that night, so I went downstairs and watched a half-hour long commercial ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY Why is England manufacturing bigger and better airplanes and bombs and at the same time churning out... ANNE FRANK Each man lives in his own universe and when he dies the world is over BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA She said 'Over my dead body!' so I took her at her word. DIANA WYNNE JONES The end of the world is a strange concept. The world is always ending, and the end is always being a... NEIL GAIMAN What is the Other?" they ask. The Other is the one who taught me whatI should be like, but not ... PAULO COELHO Stupidity is also a gift of God, but one mustn't misuse it. POPE JOHN PAUL II Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war, on... POPE JOHN PAUL II Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry a... POPE JOHN PAUL II Wars generally do not resolve the problems for which they are fought and therefore... prove ultimate... POPE JOHN PAUL II I kiss the soil as if I placed a kiss on the hands of a mother, for the homeland is our earthly moth... POPE JOHN PAUL II The vow of celibacy is a matter of keeping one's word to Christ and the Church. a duty and a pro... POPE JOHN PAUL II From now on it is only through a conscious choice and through a deliberate policy that humanity can ... POPE JOHN PAUL II Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song. POPE JOHN PAUL II An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie, for an excuse is a lie guarded. POPE JOHN PAUL II Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it. POPE JOHN PAUL II The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and ... POPE JOHN PAUL II Today, for the first time in history, a Bishop of Rome sets foot on English soil. This fair land, on... POPE JOHN PAUL II Pervading nationalism imposes its dominion on man today in many different forms and with an aggressi... POPE JOHN PAUL II The historical experience of socialist countries has sadly demonstrated that collectivism does not d... POPE JOHN PAUL II To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the... POPE JOHN PAUL II Young people are threatened... by the evil use of advertising techniques that stimulate the natural ... POPE JOHN PAUL II When freedom does not have a purpose, when it does not wish to know anything about the rule of law e... POPE JOHN PAUL II You will reciprocally promise love, loyalty and matrimonial honesty. We only want for you this day t... POPE JOHN PAUL II The future starts today, not tomorrow. POPE JOHN PAUL II The unworthy successor of Peter who desires to benefit from the immeasurable wealth of Christ feels ... POPE JOHN PAUL II Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create. POPE JOHN PAUL II Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and b... POPE JOHN PAUL II The United Nations organization has proclaimed 1979 as the Year of the Child. Are the children to re... POPE JOHN PAUL II Violence and arms can never resolve the problems of men. POPE JOHN PAUL II Have no fear of moving into the unknown. Simply step out fearlessly knowing that I am with you, ther... POPE JOHN PAUL II There are people and nations, Mother, that I would like to say to you by name. I entrust them to you... POPE JOHN PAUL II
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Luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains. HANNAH MORE Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trem... HANNAH MORE The constant habit of perusing devout books is so indispensable, that it has been termed the oil of ... HANNAH MORE The wretch who digs the mine for bread, or ploughs, that others may be fed, feels less fatigued than... HANNAH MORE My plan of instruction is extremely simple and limited. They learn, on week-days, such coarse works ... HANNAH MORE There is one single fact which we may oppose to all the wit and argument of infidelity, namely, that... HANNAH MORE Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. HANNAH MORE O jealousy,
Thou ugliest fiend of hell! thy deadly venom
Preys on my vitals, turns the health... HANNAH MORE Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its
necessities. HANNAH MORE Fell luxury! more perilous to youth
Than storms or quicksands, poverty of chains. HANNAH MORE No adulation; 'tis the death of virtue;
Who flatters, is of all mankind the lowest
Save he who... HANNAH MORE Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more cert... HANNAH MORE How goodness heightens beauty! HANNAH MORE Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. HANNAH MORE If faith produce no works, I see That faith is not a living tree. Thus faith and works together grow... HANNAH MORE Genius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace; it may serve to cast a gleam o... HANNAH MORE Depart from discretion when it interferes with duty. HANNAH MORE Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it. HANNAH MORE In men this blunder still you find,
All think their little set mankind. HANNAH MORE Sow an action, reap a habit. HANNAH MORE Small habits, well pursued betimes,
May reach the dignity of crimes. HANNAH MORE Forgiveness is the economy of the heart... forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatre... HANNAH MORE A crown! what is it?
It is to bear the miseries of a people!
To bear the miseries of a people... HANNAH MORE Genius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace; it may serve to cast a gleam o... HANNAH MORE It is not so important to know everything as to know the exact value of everything, to appreciate wh... HANNAH MORE One kernel is felt in a hogshead; one drop of water helps to swell the ocean; a spark of fire help t... HANNAH MORE Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal. HANNAH MORE One kernel is felt in a hogshead; one drop of water helps to swell the ocean; a spark of fire helps ... HANNAH MORE Luxury and dissipation, soft and gentle as their approaches are,
and silently as they throw their s... HANNAH MORE He liked those literary cooks
Who skim the cream of others' books;
And ruin half an author's g... HANNAH MORE Since trifles make the sum of human things,
And half our misery from our foibles springs;
Sinc... HANNAH MORE If faith produce no works, I see That faith is not a living tree. Thus faith and works together grow... HANNAH MORE Absence in love is like water upon fire; a little quickens, but much extinguishes it. HANNAH MORE Forgiveness is the economy of the heart.…forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatre... HANNAH MORE Twas doing nothing was his curse. Is there a vice can plague us worse? HANNAH MORE Small habits, well pursued betimes, May reach the dignity of crimes (Florio) HANNAH MORE Goals help you overcome short-term problems. HANNAH MORE The ordinary arts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simpli... THOMAS MORE What part soever you take upon you, play that as well as you can and make the best of it. THOMAS MORE For if you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infan... THOMAS MORE One man to live in pleasure and wealth, whiles all other weap and smart for it, that is the part not... THOMAS MORE Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else whe... THOMAS MORE I die the king's faithful servant, but God's first. THOMAS MORE I am the reassurance that they have not changed. In an upside down world, with all the rules being r... KENNETH MORE And it will fall out as in a complication of diseases, that by applying a remedy to one sore, you wi... THOMAS MORE Whate'er in her Horizon doth appear,
She is one Orb of Sense, all Eye, all aiery Ear. HENRY MORE Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities - that's ... THOMAS MORE [how can anyone] be silly enough to think himself better than other people, because his clothes are ... THOMAS MORE And, indeed, though they differ concerning other things, yet all agree in this: that they think ther... THOMAS MORE There are several sorts of religions, not only in different parts of the island, but even in every t... THOMAS MORE Then awake! the heavens look bright, my dear; / 'Tis never too late for delight, my dear;/ And the b... THOMAS MORE Those among them that have not received our religion do not fright any from it, and use none ill tha... THOMAS MORE On ne renonce pas à sauver le navire dans la tempête parce qu'on ne saurait empêcher le vent de s... THOMAS MORE In an upside down world, with all the rules being rewritten as the game goes on and spectators invad... KENNETH MORE In Pakistan, it was a stop-gap arrangement. Here we would definitely go with a specialist opener. KIRAN MORE A pretty face may be enough to catch a man, but it takes character and good nature to hold him. THOMAS MORE If honor were profitable, everybody would be honorable. THOMAS MORE Whoever loveth me, loveth my hound. THOMAS MORE He travels best that knows when to return. THOMAS MORE First Thought is one of the gem of garland of Success...
Don't lose it....
Whenever a thought strike... RAJESH MORE The ordinary acts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simpli... THOMAS MORE One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated THOMAS MORE Ask a woman's advice, and whatever she advises, Do the very reverse and you're sure to be wise THOMAS MORE She is far from the land where her young hero sleeps, / And lovers are round her, sighing:/ But cold... THOMAS MORE Here bring your wounded hearts, here tell your anguish; Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal THOMAS MORE Earth hath no sorrow that heaven cannot heal. THOMAS MORE Marriage is an Athenic weaving together of families, of two souls with their individual fates and de... THOMAS MORE A friendship like love is warm; a love like friendship is steady. THOMAS MORE What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine THOMAS MORE If I speak to thee in friendship's name, thou think'st I speak too coldly, if I mention love's devot... THOMAS MORE The way to Heaven out of all places is of like length and distance THOMAS MORE The devil - the prowde spirit - cannot endure to be mocked THOMAS MORE The heart that has truly loved never forgets, But as truly loves on to the close THOMAS MORE Oh! breathe not his name, let it sleep in the shade, / Where cold and unhonoured his relics are laid... THOMAS MORE Believe me, if all those endearing young charms, / Which I gaze on so fondly to-day. THOMAS MORE Plants that wake when others sleep. Timid jasmine buds that keep their fragrance to themselves all d... THOMAS MORE By confronting us with irreducible mysteries that stretch our daily vision to include infinity, natu... THOMAS MORE This wretched brain gave way, and I became a wreck at random driven, without one glimpse of reason o... THOMAS MORE . . . the state of things and the dispositions of men were then such, that a man could not well tell... THOMAS MORE I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself. THOMAS MORE Our emotional symptoms are precious sources of life and individuality. THOMAS MORE Our purpose is to be the sword and shield for people of faith ... to defend and protect Christians a... THOMAS MORE An enchanted world is one that speaks to the soul, to the mysterious depths of the heart and imagina... THOMAS MORE An absolutely new idea is one of the rarest things known to man. THOMAS MORE The light, that lies In woman's eyes, Has been my heart's undoing THOMAS MORE Disguise our bondage as we will, 'Tis woman, woman, rules us still THOMAS MORE To be educated, a person doesn't have to know much or be informed, but he or she does have to have b... THOMAS MORE Friendship demands attention. THOMAS MORE Whoever loveth me, loveth my hound THOMAS MORE Your sheep, that were wont to be so meek and tame and so small eaters, now, as I hear say, be become... THOMAS MORE 'Tis the last rose of summer Left blooming alone; All her lovely companions Are faded and gone THOMAS MORE The channel is known only to the natives; so that if any stranger should enter into the bay without ... THOMAS MORE The most part of all princes have more delight in warlike manners and feats of chivalry than in the ... THOMAS MORE I never nursed a dear gazelle, / To glad me with its soft black eye, / But when it came to know me w... THOMAS MORE Oh! blame not the bard. THOMAS MORE Some flow'rets of Eden ye still inherit, / But the trail of the serpent is over them all! THOMAS MORE Laws could be passed to keep the leader of a government from getting too much power THOMAS MORE Like Dead Sea fruits, that tempt the eye, / But turn to ashes on the lips! THOMAS MORE Your eight is someone's infinity. NITYA MORE A little wanton money, which burned out the bottom of his purse. THOMAS MORE The many great gardens of the world, of literature and poetry, of painting and music, of religion an... THOMAS MORE No one, on his deathbed, ever regretted having been a Catholic. THOMAS MORE Instead of inflicting these horrible punishments, it would be far more to the point to provide every... THOMAS MORE For when they see the people swarm into the streets, and daily wet to the skin with rain, and yet ca... THOMAS MORE "Tell me, what's Love?" said Youth, one day, To drooping Age, who crost his way, "It is a sunny hour... THOMAS MORE They have no lawyers among them for they consider them as a sort of people whose profession it is to... THOMAS MORE This case is about free inquiry in education, not about a religious agenda, THOMAS MORE I was really happy with the way the kids played tonight, ... We executed our doubles strategy perfec... THOMAS MORE Yea, marry, now it is somewhat, for now it is rhyme; before, it was neither rhyme nor reason. THOMAS MORE Lawyers-a profession it is to disguise matters. THOMAS MORE My only books were woman's looks, and folly's all they've taught me THOMAS MORE Is not this house [the Tower of London] as nigh heaven as my own? THOMAS MORE You may break, you may shatter the vase, if you will, / But the scent of the roses will hang round i... THOMAS MORE Bill Dotson holds a special place in my life, THOMAS MORE Oh? And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned round on you where would you hide, the laws... THOMAS MORE A pretty wife is something for the fastidious vanity of a roué to retire upon. THOMAS MORE The harp that once through Tara's halls / The soul of music shed, / Now hangs as mute as Tara's wall... THOMAS MORE Humility, that low, sweet root, From which all heavenly virtues shoot THOMAS MORE Fond memory brings the light of other days around me. THOMAS MORE There is nothing half so sweet in life as love's young dreams THOMAS MORE No, there's nothing half so sweet in life As love's young dream THOMAS MORE Because the soul has such deep roots in personal and social life and its values run so contrary to m... THOMAS MORE The devil…the prowde spirite…cannot endure to be mocked. THOMAS MORE If it be a point of humanity for man to bring health and comfort to man, and especially to mitigate ... THOMAS MORE He certainly cut a swatch. He never drove anything but a fabulous convertible. GARY MORE He was going to work on bridges in college and he decided that he really loved to draw and he got ve... GARY MORE We never thought it was a curse of Shaquille O'Neal. It's hard to get to Austin, people don't realiz... HERB MORE There was a long discussion on middle order batting and we thought that this is the best team we can... KIRAN MORE He has done well in domestic cricket and has experience as well. KIRAN MORE He has done very well in domestic cricket and his experience will be crucial in Pakistan. KIRAN MORE He was always in the scheme of things and we had only been trying others against Sri Lanka, which is... KIRAN MORE He has gone to Australia for treatment. KIRAN MORE Patel has been keeping well and also chipping in with the bat in recent domestic matches so we decid... KIRAN MORE He is playing. He has been cleared by his doctor. KIRAN MORE Our middle-order is very strong. We have some concerns only with the opening slot. KIRAN MORE We have some plans for the team, you don't need to know everything about it. KIRAN MORE Anyone who campaigns for public office becomes disqualified for holding any office at all. THOMAS MORE Lawyers -- a profession it is to disguise matters. SIR THOMAS MORE And it will fall out as in a complication of diseases, that by applying a remedy to one sore, you wi... SIR THOMAS MORE In such a state, humility is the virtue of men, and their only defense; to walk humbly with God, nev... PAUL ELMER MORE Every man has by the law of nature a right to such a waste
portion of the earth as is necessary for... SIR THOMAS MORE For men use, if they have an evil tourne, to write it in marble;
and whoso doth us a good tourne we... SIR THOMAS MORE Hail, guest, we ask not what thou art;
If friend, we greet thee, hand and heart;
If stranger, ... PAUL ELMER MORE They lepe lyke a flounder out of a fryenge panne into the fyre. SIR THOMAS MORE For this is one of the ancientest laws among them; that no man shall be blamed for reasoning in the ... SIR THOMAS MORE A little wanton money, which burned out the bottom of his purse. SIR THOMAS MORE They wonder much to hear that gold, which in itself is so useless a thing, should be everywhere so m... SIR THOMAS MORE This hath not offended the king. SIR THOMAS MORE Why dost thou gaze upon the sky? O that I were yon spangled sphere! Then every star should b... SIR THOMAS MORE Nay, tempt me not to love again: There was a time when love was sweet; Dear Nea! had I known... SIR THOMAS MORE Then on the grounde
Togyder rounde
With manye a sadde stroke,
They roll and rumble,
... SIR THOMAS MORE Feast of John Keble, Priest, Poet, Tractarian, 1866 We are born knowing nothing and with much stri... PAUL ELMER MORE And it will fall out as in a complication of diseases, that by applying a remedy to one sore, you wi... SIR THOMAS MORE Lawyers-a profession it is to disguise matters. SIR THOMAS MORE Whosoever loveth me loveth my hound. SIR THOMAS MORE We are born knowing nothing and with much striving we learn but a little; yet all the while we are b... PAUL ELMER MORE Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying ... HANNAH ARENDT In Iceland, you can see the contours of the mountains wherever you go, and the swell of the hills, a... HANNAH KENT The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an er... HANNAH ARENDT I love the sense of how time passes when I'm acting. When you're not aware of the clock tick... HANNAH WARE Wild animals are just as confused as people are now. You've got toxins in the water, oil, sewage... JACK HANNAH Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to th... HANNAH ARENDT I really loved animals when I was little - my friend and I had an imaginary vet's office; we wou... HANNAH MURRAY I still don't know why, exactly, but I do think people can have a spiritual connection to landsc... HANNAH KENT 'Skins' is about a group of teenagers in Bristol, and it's all about what they get up to... HANNAH MURRAY A writer's job is to destroy and then to build the thing back up again by a chosen means. BARRY HANNAH I don't go around thinking about regret; regret doesn't consume me as a person... I'm no... BARRY HANNAH I had absolute freedom to create things on my own and in silence. No rush, the artificial rush by me... BARRY HANNAH I was born in Clinton, Mississippi, which had 1,500-2,500 people when I was growing up - a village. BARRY HANNAH My dad read history, about a book a day, but only after he retired as a successful bank and insuranc... BARRY HANNAH I distrust thought. The interior life is highly overrated. I don't like the wispy and the vague.... BARRY HANNAH I lost my second marriage because of drinking, and I loved the woman very much. But I thought I need... BARRY HANNAH I wanted very much to be Miles Davis when I was a boy, but without the practice. It just looked like... BARRY HANNAH I grew up when people seemed actually to be hurting themselves for their art. Of course, some of it ... BARRY HANNAH I was always kind of florid. And full of rhetoric. That was my flaw. My whole time writing, I've... BARRY HANNAH My best stories come out of nowhere, with no concern for form at all. BARRY HANNAH Honestly, I envy painters, who can have a masterpiece in one morning. Or musicians, who can write so... BARRY HANNAH I wouldn't be happy had I only been a teacher, if all I had done was help young people, frankly.... BARRY HANNAH My aunts told wonderful stories. Not to me, but to each other. We had a very strong family. My mothe... BARRY HANNAH Most novels I come across have all the excitement of a long trip on a bus with a sensitive glee club... BARRY HANNAH Some writers are curiously unmusical. I don't get it. I don't get them. For me, music is ess... BARRY HANNAH When you're not involved, other people's unhappiness seems to be about the funniest damn thi... BARRY HANNAH Love and despair go hand in hand. BARRY HANNAH I'll tell you why I like writing: it's just jumping into a pool. I get myself into a kind of... BARRY HANNAH I hate editing. I love to write, but I hate to reread my stuff. To revise. BARRY HANNAH I don't write under the ghost of Faulkner. I live in the same town and find his life and work in... BARRY HANNAH A man's got to do what a man's got to do. A woman must do what he can't. BARRY HANNAH I found out about reviews early on. They're mostly written by sad men on bad afternoons. That... BARRY HANNAH Randomness I love. And I still love just a holler right in the middle of an ongoing narrative. Pain ... BARRY HANNAH Voice comes to you through a spell, a trance. The best voices are not you... they're a little aw... BARRY HANNAH I love my kitchen. On the weekends, we have friends over, the kids are buzzing around, and we cook a... HANNAH STORM Sometimes my colleagues joke and call me Hannah. HANOI HANNAH I had to do something for the country. HANOI HANNAH And we also read Newsweek, Time and several newspapers. HANOI HANNAH We advised them to do what they think proper against the war. HANOI HANNAH Because the GIs were sent massively to South Vietnam, maybe it's a good idea to have a broadcast... HANOI HANNAH It wasn't a new idea. During the war against the French we had this kind of broadcast for the Fr... HANOI HANNAH Our program for American GIs can be heard at 1630 hours. HANOI HANNAH I would like to see America some day. HANOI HANNAH Because our fight has been for such a long time we are isolated from the world, even after reconstru... HANOI HANNAH