« All All Quotes · Jane Hamilton's Page
All Quotes by Jane Hamilton
- We all need people to tell us that we were the ones who had been deeply wronged.
- I had forgotten what it was like, to be drawn to a person...I'd forgotten how your blood flows toward a person when they move, so…
- From early on I valued the gift of memory above all others. I understood that as we grow older we carry a whole nation around…
- It is books that are a key to the wide world; if you can't do anything else, read all that you can.
- I feel like I don't have all the ingredients a person is supposed to have.
- We're only passers-by, and all you can do is love what you have in your life. A person has to fight the meanness that sometimes…
More All Quotes
- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide