Hazelandhuck Quotes & Sayings

Stories are like genies ... They can carry us into and though our sorrows. Sometimes they burn, sometimes they dance, sometimes they weep, sometimes they sing. Like genies, everyone has one. Like genies, sometimes we forget that we do.
Our stories can set us free ... When we set them free. — Francesca Lia Block

If people spent as much time studying as they spent hating, I'd be writing this from a goddamn moon-base. — Zach Weinersmith

When you have a natural genetic tan developed over centuries and many generations, the idea of soaking up rays by the pool has never made sense. — Abraham Verghese

If something is inevitable, it will happen — Herbert Stein

Everyone was always hungry. The poorer you were, the hungrier you were, and with the hunger came weakness and irritability. It became difficult to think clearly and you needed to think clearly to work out how to survive the next day, how to get food. You were sure you could still work if you could find work, and you could look for it if only you could eat. But how were you going to get food, for yourself, for your children, for your wife or husband, for your parents? There were simply too many people within those walls for the calories that were let in. How were you to get food when there just wasn't enough of it? What were you going to have to do? With hunger of this severity came fatigue, a weakness that transcended tiredness and permeated your sinews and bones. As your limbs got ever lighter, they felt progressively heavier with each new day. — Elliot Perlman

You know your marriage is in trouble when your wife would rather listen to a cackling drug lord than accept your apology. — Red Tash

Never think that you know everything and you do not have anything to learn from your people. — Sunday Adelaja

Prayer, in one phase of its operation, is a disinfectant and a preventive. It purifies the air; it destroys the contagion of evil. — Edward McKendree Bounds

Capitalism puts things (capital) higher than life (labor). Power follows from possession, not from activity. — Erich Fromm

Out on the lawn, Bunny had just knocked Henry's ball about seventy feet outside the court. There was a ragged burst of laughter; faint, but clear, it floated back across the evening air. That laughter haunts me still. — Donna Tartt

Peace you can claim for yourself without being disliked by anyone, without any sense of loss, and without any pangs of spirit. — Seneca.

Today the eyes of orthodox Jews of earth are fixed upon Palestine. — Joseph Franklin Rutherford

Sir. Might I with due respect remind you that Mister Vandemar and myself burned down the City of Troy? We brought the Black Plague to Flanders. We have assassinated a dozen kings, five popes, half a hundred heroes and two accredited gods. Our last commission before this was the torturing to death of an entire monastery in sixteenth-century Tuscany. We are utterly professional. — Neil Gaiman