Haneshama Quotes & Sayings

The writing of a poem is like a child throwing stones into a mineshaft. You compose first, then you listen for the reverberation. — James Fenton

Every angry thought makes it a little easier to get angry the next time, and a little more likely. — Eknath Easwaran

She paused as she realized he was looking at her. 'Am I doing something wrong?' 'No. I was just thinking how incredibly beautiful you are.' That didn't seem to please her as her gaze danced around in obvious discomfort. 'You're still drunk, aren't you?' He laughed. 'No. The hangover is starting to kick in. Head hammering like a mother.' 'Ah, that explains it.' 'What does?' 'Your eyesight's screwed up. I could probably take you into a retirement home and you'd be trying to score with Grandma right now.'
- Shahara & Syn — Sherrilyn Kenyon

Not death itself, but only the moral preparation for it, holds terrors. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The first time we put Debbie Downer on the show, I had a giggle fit that I couldn't control, and the whole cast ended up breaking so hard we could never quite recover. — Rachel Dratch

9/11 forced us to build another identity, to look deep and say who are we and what do we believe and is killing in the name of Islam part of that religion?

No. No. No. — Ruth Ahmed

I've done more than 70 auditions in about four years. Early on, it was hard for me because I'd become so attached to these characters, and then you'd be told, 'No.' I'd get very upset when I was younger. But now it comes with the territory. — Olivia DeJonge

Most men and women, by birth or nature, lack the means to advance in wealth or power, but all have the ability to advance in knowledge. — Pythagoras

But grace and effort are not opposites. Grace and earning are opposites. — Mark Buchanan

I'm not afraid of werewolves or vampires or haunted hotels, I'm afraid of what real human beings to do other real human beings. — Walter Jon Williams

Hence when a person is in great pain, the cause of which he cannot remove, he sets his teeth firmly together, or bites some substance between them with great vehemence, as another mode of violent exertion to produce a temporary relief. Thus we have the proverb where no help can be has in pain, 'to grin and abide;' and the tortures of hell are said to be attended with 'gnashing of teeth.'Describing a suggestion of the origin of the grin in the present form of a proverb, 'to grin and bear it. — Erasmus Darwin

Your wealth is in your talent and that is why you will be poor until you find yourself — Sunday Adelaja

[People] will do the rational thing, but only after exploring all other alternatives. — John Maynard Keynes

Always our wars have been our confessions of weakness — Muriel Rukeyser

How could you stop loving me? — James Patterson