Quotes of Lillian Hellman

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Cynicism is an unpleasant way of telling the truth.

- Lillian Hellman

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“ Even when I'm dead, I'll swim through the Earth, like a mermaid of the soil, just to be next to your bones. ”

- Jeffrey McDaniel

“ If you are too busy to pray, you are busier than God wants you to be. ”

- Wanda E. Brunstetter

“ Looks like to me we all begin and end in the same place. Perhaps we could love each other a little bit more along the way. ”

- Clyde Lee Dennis

“ Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone. ”

- Pablo Picasso

“ You know her well. People are harder to sum up when you know them well. ”

- Veronica Roth

“ If you suddenly stumble upon the right door, you will not be able to recognize that it is right. ”

- Osho

“ My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it. ”

- Mark Twain

“ There is a distinct, awful pain that comes with loving someone more than they love you. ”

- Steve Maraboli

“ Do it big, do it right, and do it with style. ”

- Fried Astaire

“ Where there’s marriage without love, there will be love without marriage. ”

- Benjamin Franklin

“ A heart, once stolen, can never be taken back. ”

- Marissa Meyer

“ I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree. A tree whose hungry mouth is pressed Against the earth's sweet flowing breast; A tree that looks at God all day And lifts her leafy arms to pray; A tree that may in summer wear A nest of robins in her hair; Upon whose bosom snow has lain; Who intimately lives with rain. Poems are made by fools like me, But only God can make a tree. ”

- Joyce Kilmer

“ It was like I’d met my life’s purpose. Like I’d been hurtling through the cosmos, blind, and without a destiny and he gave me one. He was fated to be the man who would break my heart at last. The heart I’d kept under scrutiny, sheltered, for this long, he tore through the heavy vaults and ripped it right out of my chest. From then on, there was no me, and no him. There was only us. ”

- Ellie Fox

“ It’s only after you’ve stepped outside your comfort zone that you begin to change, grow, and transform. ”

- Roy T. Bennett

“ I felt overwhelmed. I didn’t expect a first kiss to be so…life altering. In a few brief moments, the rule book of my universe had been rewritten. Suddenly I was a brand new person. I was as fragile as a newborn, but instead of the doctor placing me in my mother’s arms, he’d put me in Ren’s. What would Ren do with me? Would he draw me near, soothe me, and teach me about this new world or would he reject me and tell the doctor there must be some mistake. There was no way to know. What a breakable and delicate thing a heart was, no wonder I’d kept mine locked away. ”

- Colleen Houck

“ All things are difficult before they are easy. ”

- Thomas Fuller

“ Uncertainty will always be part of the taking charge process. ”

- Harold Geneen

“ If I envision a just, fair future, I must behave justly and fairly today. ”

- Elena Aguilar

“ Battered was my heart in the deep search, branded with cracks like slices of silver birch. An ignorant dream, a wish, just fool's gold that was the tale that love had sold. ”

- Sara Secora

“ If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z, with X being work, Y play, and Z keeping your mouth shut. ”

- Albert Einstein

“ We don’t really care for things that we get easily in life. Life always needs to be served hot. ”

- Subhasis Das

“ My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style. ”

- Maya Angelou

“ Close your eyes, take your time and listen. ”

- Maxime Lagacé

“ We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire. ”

- Francois De La Rochefoucauld