Hannaford Quotes & Sayings

So, friends, every day do something that won't compute ... Give your approval to all you cannot understand ... Ask the questions that have no answers. Put your faith in two inches of humus that will build under the trees every thousand years ... Laugh. Be joyful though you have considered all the facts ... Practice resurrection. — Wendell Berry

I put my hand on the doorknob because I thought maybe her hand was on the doorknob on the other side. — Jonathan Safran Foer

Writing, for me, means humility. It's a process that involves fear and doubt, especially if you're writing honestly. — Kiran Desai

I know you may not love me, Gabrielle, but I thought you had some affection for me. Perhaps I was wrong." His voice, gone quiet, was even scarier than his previous angry shouting. "You know better," Gabi said quietly. "I ... I don't know if what we share is love. The word seems too mild to explain what I feel for you. It's not cute or schmaltzy or romantic. It scares me." Her voice had dropped to a whisper. "The thought of being without you, it's worse than contemplating death. — Sharon Hannaford

The nuclear family must be destroyed ... Whatever its ultimate meaning, the break-up of families now is an objectively revolutionary process. — Linda Gordon

Could love be not grand gestures or empty vows, not promises meant to be broken, but instead a paper trail of forgiveness? — Jodi Picoult

Atomism was viciously persecuted as heresy throughout the early Christian era, and only one printed manuscript of De Rerum Naturum survived the flames. There are several translations; I have chosen the one translated by my fellow Devonian and Oxonian, W. Hannaford Brown. Brown's own manuscript was almost destroyed during the Nazi bombardment of England in 1943: if a religious book had survived so many vicissitudes we can easily imagine what the faithful would say. But Lucretius teaches us to live without such piffle. — Christopher Hitchens

Psychopaths view any social exchange as a 'feeding opportunity,' a contest or a test of wills in which there can be only one winner. Their motives are to manipulate and take, ruthlessly and without remorse. — Robert D. Hare

I'd done such a foolish thing in binding myself to Rhysand. Rhysand, with the wings and talons lurking beneath that beautiful, flawless surface; Rhysand, who could shatter minds. I did it for you, I wanted to shout. — Sarah J. Maas

Today's gasoline prices are taking a severe toll on Americans' pocketbooks. Consumers are anxious. — Pete Domenici

A soul mate is not found. A soul mate is recognized. — Vironika Tugaleva

Meditation is the tool you use to "upgrade your operating system," to move from that "either/or" thinking of the binary mind into the more spacious heart awareness that sustains the wisdom way of knowing. — Cynthia Bourgeault

Sometimes it looks like I'm dancing, but it's just that I walked into a spider web. — Demetri Martin

Obsession is an addiction you may never shake free of. It just ... holds you and never gives anything in return. But love, you can give all you've got to love and it always gives you back more. That's how you can tell the difference between the two. I know that now.
Robyn Hannaford from The Great Northern Coven — Bruce Jenvey

I've never seen a constructive Social Security debate that started with one side digging in, in one place and another side digging into another. — Jacob Lew

That's rich, coming from you, Hellcat, I would've thought it was impossible for a Vampire to get grey hairs until I met you! (Alexander) — Sharon Hannaford

An atheist strives for involvement in life and not escape into death. — Madalyn Murray O'Hair

Hannaford: Please, dear lady, don't — Joseph McBride

When someone you know you love so much but treat you dishonorably what can you do? — Martellis Thurmand

Calms appear, when Storms are past;
Love will have his Hour at last:
Nature is my kindly Care;
Mars destroys, and I repair;
Take me, take me, while you may,
Venus comes not ev'ry Day. — John Dryden