Helen Sanderson Quotes

The experiences of the heartless are so limited. It is hate that is blind. Love may miss a flaw here and there, but hate misses beauty everywhere. ~ Helen McCloy

A woman with knowledge is something that frightens the status quo quite a lot. ~ Helen Mirren

Love is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity. ~ Helen Hayes

I don't have followers. I have curious leaders. Shout out to the wild, the curious, the rebels, and the risk takers. You are the leader of your heart's desires and the artist to your soul's inner fire. ~ Helen Edwards

Nice work," he said.
I grinned.
"You look like hell, though," he noted.
"I doubt hell has this much Kool-Aid," I replied. ~ Brandon Sanderson

This is the thing I fight. This is the monster I must defeat. I fear that I have taken too long. Already, so much destruction has occurred that I fear for mankind's survival. Is this truly the end of the world, as many of the philosophers predict? ~ Brandon Sanderson

many saw their antifascism as a more important mark of personal identity than their Jewishness ~ Helen Graham

Don't try to stop yourself from feeling. You'll hate who you become. ~ Brandon Sanderson

Her soul died that night under a radiant silver moon in the spring of 1918 on the side of a blood-spattered trench. Around her lay the mangled dead and the dying. Her body was untouched, her heart beat calmly, the blood coursed as ever through her veins. But looking deep into those emotionless eyes one wondered if they had suffered much before the soul had left them. Her face held an expression of resignation, as though she had ceased to hope that the end might come. ~ Helen Zenna Smith

Back in my State, I'm very close to being able to control the weather. I'll be all-powerful, once I've figured that out. ~ Brandon Sanderson

Could it be that we don't want to think badly of Woodrow Wilson? We seem to feel that a person like Helen Keller can be an inspiration only so long as she remains uncontroversial, one-dimensional. We don't want complicated icons. "People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions," Helen Keller pointed out. "Conclusions are not always pleasant."41 Most of us automatically shy away from conflict, and understandably so. We particularly seek to avoid conflict in the classroom. ~ James W. Loewen

Two people can only live as one when each is prepared to give and receive trust and understanding. Above that lies respect. Without respect for how the other feels, no marriage is worthwhile. ~ Helen Hollick

It's a bit like if we were on a planet where all the space creatures were short, green and fat. Except a very few of them were tall, thin and yellow. And all the advertising was of the tall, yellow ones, airbrushed to make them even taller and yellower. So all the little green space creatures spent their whole time feeling sad because they weren't tall, thin and yellow. ~ Helen Fielding

No, not me.I'm not a good person or a bad person.I'm just here to kill things. ~ Brandon Sanderson

Nonie chewed on her bottom lip for a moment. She'd told Fezzo so much already yet there wasn't a speck of incredulity in his eyes. His expression was serious, and she had his full attention. "I'm not quite sure about what to do with Helen, the ghost that followed me home. ~ Deborah Leblanc

There's a scary moment when you realise you're no longer the youngest person in the room. Especially if you've been a successful young person. That's followed, of course, by the realisation that you're actually the oldest person in the room. ~ Helen Mirren

Children used to be outside. Now the streets are empty. People are indoors looking at television or something. ~ Helen Levitt

Helen devises plans to become a monster herself. ~ Ekaterina Sedia

„You don't really want to do this. I'm a good vampire – I mean, like, a vampire with a soul, not that I'm really good at, you know, vamp-stuff. I'm not some monster. Heck, I've only been a vampire for less than a week! I've never even sucked blood" I ducked under the blade and backflipped away. „Really! You can ask my parents! My mum's a university professor, she's a very trustworthy character reference! ~ Helen Keeble

One day, lad, your eyes will light upon a woman, and you will never forget that glint in her eye, that toss of her head, or sway of her hips. You will dream of her, whether you are asleep of awake. She will possess your mind, and your body will be on fire for her. Nothing will ever erase the linger of her scent in your nostrils, the touch of her hand on your body, the feel of her flesh beneath your fingers.
When you find a woman to love, Cnut, your life changes forever. ~ Helen Hollick

Everyone hates being wrong, Adolin thought. Except my father said he'd rather be wrong, if it would be better for Alethkar. Adolin doubted many lighteyes would rather be proven mad than right. ~ Brandon Sanderson

I met a bunch of comic-book writers at the Metropolis convention and there was such an interesting discussion about the story of 'Supergirl' and trying to get it right. It can be a challenge, because you don't want it to be the same as the Superman story. ~ Helen Slater

Then why do you have guns?"
"For shooting large and dangerous beasts who might be threatening my fungus specimens", M-Bot said. "Obviously. ~ Brandon Sanderson

It didn't seem to have relevance, except in Central America or South America, countries where the church was connected to the fight of the people for economic justice. That's why it was so interesting to find myself back with Sister Helen [in Dead Man Walking], this new breed of nuns who were making a difference in the community. ~ Susan Sarandon

People who refuse to rest honorably on their laurels when they reach retirement age seem very admirable to me. ~ Helen Hayes

I hate Christmas. Everything is designed for families, romance, warmth, emotion and presents, and if you have no boyfriend, no money, your mother is going out with a missing Portuguese criminal and your friends don't want to be your friend anymore, it makes you want to emigrate to a vicious Muslim regime, where at least all the
women are treated like social outcasts. Anyway, I don't care. I am going to quietly read a book all
weekend and listen to classical music. ~ Helen Fielding

Be happy with what you have while working for what you want. ~ Helen Keller

Girls are so much nicer than men (apart from Tom-but homosexual). ~ Helen Fielding

I had a perfect confidence, still unshaken, in books. If you read enough you would reach the point of no return. You would cross over and arrive on the safe side. There you would drink the strong waters and become addicted, perhaps demented - but a Reader. ~ Helen Bevington

I have never in my life found myself in a situation where I've stopped work and said, 'Thank God it's Friday.' But weekends are special even if your schedule is all over the place. Something tells you the weekend has arrived and you can indulge yourself a bit. ~ Helen Mirren

There was nothing like necessity to supply a lack of nerve. ~ Helen Nielsen

The whole 'R' rating depends on a strange sort of fantasy land where all adults are responsible people, and children only ever go to the cinema with their parents. ~ Helen Mirren

I yelled, wishing that the ground would open up and swallow me – or better yet, my parents. ~ Helen Keeble

The storm catches everyone, eventually. Does it matter? ~ Brandon Sanderson

When you can't have freedom and safety, boy, which do you choose? ~ Brandon Sanderson

We had so many dreams as children. Where do they go when we grow? Are they swallowed up by the mundane things of everyday life? Or do we lose them, leave them behind us in the dust, for new children to find and take up? ~ Helen Hollick

Domesticity was meat and drink to Mouse, and she liked taking care of people. She had done it for so long that it had become a habit with her. ~ Helen Kieran Reilly

Kaladin stared outward at the blue sky. "I have to know," he whispered.
"Know?"
"You asked why I protect Dalinar. I have to know if he really is what he seems, Syl. I have to know if one of them lives up to his reputation. That will tell me-"
"Tell you? Tell you what?"
"If honor is dead, Kaladin whispered.
"He is," Syl said. "But he lives on in men. And in me. ~ Brandon Sanderson

Talkers expand like bread dough. ~ Helen Gurley Brown

Allomancy wasn't just about fighting and killing. It was about skill and grace. It was something beautiful. ~ Brandon Sanderson

Home is any four walls that enclose the right person. ~ Helen Rowland

In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar - a practice which is still continued. ~ Helen Rowland

You're wonderful. So full of life and excitement. The priests and servants of the palace, they wear colors, but there's no color inside of them. They just go about their duties, eyes down, solemn. You've got color on the inside, so much of it that it bursts out and colors everything around you. ~ Brandon Sanderson

The human heart has a staggering capacity for love. ~ Helen Beardsley

So if you start at the center of the peak, you can see that for every five days you spend being average, you spend one day being mildly stupid and one day mildly smart. For every five of those, you spend one day moderately stupid and one day moderately genius. For every five days like that . . ~ Brandon Sanderson

what they'd been afraid of was running out of self. On the contrary the more they loved the more there was to love. ~ Helen Oyeyemi

Twentieth-century American poetry has been one of the glories of modern literature. ~ Helen Vendler