Hannah Arendt Quotes

Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.

Hannah Arendt

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: historian
  • Nationality: german
  • Birth: October 14, 1906 - December 4, 1975

Topics

MeaningStorytellingWithoutError

I was a very shy child.

Jim Parsons

ChildShyVery

Part of my act is meant to shake you up. It looks like I'm being funny, but I'm reminding you of other things. Life is tough, darling. Life is hard. And we better laugh at everything; otherwise, we're going down the tube.

Joan Rivers

LifeFunnyToughBetterLife Is Hard

In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.

Andre Maurois

LoveDatingLiteratureOthersChosen

Everybody's for democracy in principle. It's only in practice that the thing gives rise to stiff objections.

Meg Greenfield

PracticeDemocracyRisePrinciple

I worked for MI6 in the Sixties, during the great witch-hunts, when the shared paranoia of the Cold War gripped the services.

John le Carre

GreatWarColdSixtiesCold War

I'd love to be one of those people who, whenever you see them, you feel pleased.

John Hurt

LovePeopleFeelYouSeeWho

I'm super organized, but a horrible house cleaner.

Angie Harmon

HouseOrganizedHorribleCleaner

Ours is an open and accepting society, and has historically provided an avenue for lawful immigration to all those willing to accept the responsibilities of citizenship.

Spencer Bachus

SocietyImmigrationCitizenshipOpen

Maturity is achieved when a person postpones immediate pleasures for long-term values.

Joshua L. Liebman

MaturityValuesPersonLong-Term

Most of the characters I have in my children's books are grouchy or annoyed about something or are calling each other unfriendly names. Like my own kids, they're not honeys and sweetie pies and little angels. They're kids. Sloppy, dirty, stinky.

Judith Viorst

ChildrenDirtyAngelsMy OwnNames

With the perspective afforded by the passage of time, where does 9/11 rank as a turning point in our national history? For the victims and their families, innocents going about their lives, suddenly and brutally murdered, no other day can ever matter as much.

Jon Meacham

HistoryTimePerspectiveDayMatter

I think our police are excellent, probably because I have not done anything that has occasioned being beaten up by these good men.

Clement Freud

GoodMenPoliceThinkDoneGood Men

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