Hannen Swaffer Quotes & Sayings

On the whole, most biographies about literary women tend to diagnose them. — Kate Zambreno

I've got so many ideas, and sometimes the more exhausted my body gets, the more active my mind gets. — Hilary Mantel

If your name is Sepp, at the bare minimum you've strangled someone in a bar fight. — John Oliver

If you don't trust anyone, they can't let you down. — Simon R. Green

Why are you pestering me, pal? My own evils are enough for me. — Epictetus

Natural justice is a compact resulting from expediency by which men seek to prevent one man from injuring others and to protect him from being injured by them. — Epicurus

As a cop trying to anticipate how burglars might use the city, you have to think three-dimensionally. Volumetrically. You have to think in a fundamentally different spatial way about the city laid out below, including how neighborhoods are actually connected and what the most efficient routes might be between them. After all, this is how criminals think, Burdette explained, and this is how they pioneer new geographic ways to escape from you. — Geoff Manaugh

I guess at a certain point you think, well, singing is singing and acting is acting. — Mandy Moore

Very often the effort men put into activities that seem completely useless turns out to be extremely important in ways no one could foresee. Play has always been the mainspring of culture. — Italo Calvino

Stored in everyone's memory are past experiences of terror. By reminding you of those feelings, fear is trying to protect you from repeating the traumas of the past. As long as you push down your fear, you will not be able to receive it as an ally. But by the same token you can't just act on the basis of fear. At the soul level you see no need for fear, because you don't need protecting. Living in the now poses no threat, and referring to the past therefore serves no purpose. It is safe to go into your fear and ask it where it came from and what it wants you to know. Having seen the world from its perspective, reassure yourself that the soul needs no guardian. Learn from fear, heal it, and ask it to leave. — Deepak Chopra