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Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody. - Benjamin Franklin The language of friendship is not words, but meanings. - Henry David Thoreau I can't believe that God plays dice with the universe. - Albert Einstein Don't hate, it's too big a burden to bear. - Martin Luther King, Jr. My words fly up, my thoughts remain below; Words without thoughts never to heaven go. - William Shakespeare If you would be loved, love and be lovable. - Benjamin Franklin

If you are willing to take the punishment, you're halfway through the battle. That the issues may be trivial, the battle ugly, is another point.

- Lillian Hellman | Critics and Criticism Quotes

Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.

- Lillian Hellman | Cynicism Quotes

Most people coming out of war feel lost and resentful. What had been a minute-to-minute confrontation with yourself, your struggle with what courage you have against discomfort, at the least, and death at the other end, ties you to the people you have known in the war and makes for a time others seem alien and frivolous.

- Lillian Hellman | War Quotes

They're fancy talkers about themselves, writers. If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.

- Lillian Hellman | Writers and Writing Quotes

I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.

- Lillian Hellman | Happiness Quotes

Nothing you write, if you hope to be any good, will ever come out as you first hoped.

- Lillian Hellman | Acceptance Quotes

Was it always my nature to take a bad time and block out the good times, until any success became an accident and failure seemed the only truth?

- Lillian Hellman | Forgiveness Quotes

I like people who refuse to speak until they are ready to speak.

- Lillian Hellman | Self-Control Quotes

It is best to act with confidence, no matter how little right you have to it.

- Lillian Hellman | Self-Confidence Quotes

Was it always my nature to take a bad time and block out the good times, until any success became an accident and failure seemed the only truth?

- Lillian Hellman | The Past Quotes

The past with its pleasures, its rewards, its foolishness, its punishments, is there for each of us forever, and it should be.

- Lillian Hellman | The Past Quotes

It is best to act with confidence, no matter how little right you have to it.

- Lillian Hellman | Positive Quotes

People change and forget to tell each other.

- Lillian Hellman | Change Quotes

Decisions, particularly important ones, have always made me sleepy, perhaps because I know that I will have to make them by instinct, and thinking things out is only what other people tell me I should do.

- Lillian Hellman | Decisions Quotes

Decisions, particularly important ones, have always made me sleepy, perhaps because I know that I will have to make them by instinct, and thinking things out is only what other people tell me I should do.

- Lillian Hellman | Decisions Quotes

Decisions, particularly important ones, have always made me sleepy, perhaps because I know that I will have to make them by instinct, and thinking things out is only what other people tell me I should do.

- Lillian Hellman | Instincts Quotes

I will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.

- Lillian Hellman | Right Quotes

Nothing you write, if you hope to be any good, will ever come out as you first hoped.

- Lillian Hellman | Perfection Quotes