Hammath Quotes & Sayings

Perhaps not willingly, but pain can make a man do things he wouldn't willingly do. — Anne Bishop

To struggle against censorship, whatever its nature, and whatever the power under which it exists, is my duty as a writer, as are calls for freedom of the press. I am a passionate supporter of that freedom, and I consider that if any writer were to imagine that he could prove he didn't need that freedom, then he would be like a fish affirming in public that it didn't need water. — Mikhail Bulgakov

I was finally beginning to perceive that no matter how many dead people I might see, or people at the instant of their death, I would never manage to grasp death, that very moment, precisely in itself. It was one thing or the other: either you are dead, and then in any case there's nothing else to understand, or else you are not yet dead, and in that case, even with the rifle at the back of your head or the rope around your neck, death remains incomprehensible, a pure abstraction, this absurd idea that I, the only living person in the world, could disappear. Dying, we may already be dead, but we never die, that moment never comes, or rather it never stops coming, there it is, it's coming, and then it's still coming, and then it's already over, without ever having come. — Jonathan Littell

We are very proud of our design for the Transbay Transit Center. This will be a beautiful, functional and sustainable building for San Francisco. — Cesar Pelli

Be hostile unless you must, Moiraine had said, but above all never be overly friendly. Never be eager — Robert Jordan

I wish, in some ways, I was the type of comedian who could do something blistering and topical, but I'm the guy who gets stuck in the revolving door and thinks I should write about that. — Jim Gaffigan

The Communist leaders respect only firmness and have contempt for persons who continually give in to them. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Bitterness can be corrosive. It can rewrite your memories as if it were scrubbing a crime scene clean, until in the end you only remember what suits you of its causes. — Fredrik Backman

I'm interested in the history of ideas and how these ideas take on flesh and influence culture, and the church. — Kevin Vanhoozer

Even while lying, you'll be believed if you speak with authority. — Anton Chekhov

There can be no understanding where there is mutual rejection. — Gustav Niebuhr

Secrecy is the foundation of politics. — Bing Gordon

The good quarterbacks in this league, if you're not playing your best, sometimes will win a game for you — Kerry Rhodes

Only the one true God can take the risk of ruling by relying on the power of humility and love. — Stanley Hauerwas