Hella Haasse Quotes & Sayings

I learned to share work with people even when it was in its rough stages without worrying that they'd be filled with scorn and hatred. After all, I can read their rough work without turning on them like a wildebeest. — Cassandra Clare

And what little she allowed herself to say was said in a strained tone, in which her ingrained timidity paralysed her tendency to freedom and audacity of speech. — Marcel Proust

A desire to succeed in politics is propelled by these two seemingly contradictory forces, which frequently change places and sometimes coexist: to save others and to save oneself. — Madeleine M. Kunin

Your example is a witness - of God's love and yours. - James Hopkins - — Gary Chapman

A person can carry his own persecutor, his own prison, about with him, Monseigneur. He can - as you know - die of thirst even when he has the clearest water within his reach. To be free ... not to be free ... it is all relative. No one has to drag along more ballast than he wants to and he who allows himself to be bound is a fool. The biggest fools are those who wear shackles of cobwebs and believe themselves to be helpless. — Hella S. Haasse

Everything that happens on 'Entourage' does happen in Hollywood. — Kevin Dillon

It was full of lazy late-afternoon shadows and an impossible green lushness such as could only be appreciated by someone freshly arrived — Bill Bryson

A musician, an artist, an architect: the man or woman who is not one of these is not a Christian. — William Blake

I would say that in my black readership, more of my readers tolerate the horror aspect of my work, you know. 'I don't usually read this kind of stuff, but.' — Tananarive Due

The pain I feel now is the happiness I had before. That's the deal. — C.S. Lewis

Now he was singed by pain. When he finally opened his eyes he saw, at the end of the narrow green path, dazzlingly bright light. There she is, he thought breathlessly, there she is. With a shout of joy and deliverance he plunged forward to meet the light. — Hella S. Haasse

India has two million gods, and worships them all. In religion all other countries are paupers; India is the only millionaire. — Mark Twain

We must take the good with the bad; For the good when it's good, is so very good That the bad when it's bad can't be bad! — Moliere