"Things start out as hopes and end up…" — Lillian Hellman
"Things start out as hopes and end up as habits."
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65 Quotes by Lillian Hellman
Lillian Hellman has 65 quotes on this site.
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No one can argue any longer about the rights of women. It's like arguing about earthquakes.
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For every man who lives without freedom, the rest of us must face the guilt.
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My father was often angry when I was most like him.
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Lonely. I always thought loneliness meant alone, without people. It means something else.
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The past, with its pleasures, its rewards, its foolishness, its punishments, is there for each of us forever, and it…
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Was it always my nature to take a bad time and block out the good times, until any success became…
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Decision by democratic majority vote is a fine form of government, but it's a stinking way to create.
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The writer's intention hasn't anything to do with what he achieves. The intent to earn money or the intent to…
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Nobody knows what you want except you. And nobody will be as sorry as you if you don't get it.…
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Old paint on canvas, as it ages, sometimes becomes transparent. When that happens it is possible, in some pictures, to…
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Success isn't everything but it makes a man stand straight.
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I wanted to see what was there for me once, what is there for me now.
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The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all…
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Our tradition of political thought had its definite beginning in the teachings of Plato and Aristotle. I believe it came…
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On the field, blacks have been able to be super giants. But, once our playing days are over, this is…
— Hank Aaron
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I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately…
— J. J. Abrams
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The end of labor is to gain leisure.
— Aristotle
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A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole…
— Aristotle
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Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.
— Aristotle
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If journalists ask you again and again about the same bands, you'll end up saying you hate them just because…
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I really enjoy being single again. I spent a lot of time in a relationship and the nearer we came…
— Dido Armstrong
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I fully expected that, by the end of the century, we would have achieved substantially more than we actually did.
— Neil Armstrong
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I try to live my life where I end up at a point where I have no regrets. So I…
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The problem with leaderless uprisings taking over is that you don't always know what you get at the other end.…
— Chinua Achebe
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