Reader Hanna Schmitz Quotes

#1. Nothing is more important in the preservation of peace than to secure among the great mass of the people living under constitutional government a just conception of the rights which their nation has against others and of the duties their nation owes to others.

Elihu Root

#2. Ask your neighbor only about things you know better yourself. Then his advice could prove valuable.

Karl Kraus

#3. I have great respect for actors like Jodie Foster and Natalie Portman who went to school the entire time they were acting. All I did was one small little independent film, and I realised I couldn't balance both lives.

Nikki Reed

#4. Nobody needs to prove to anybody what they're worthy of, just the person that they look at in the mirror. That's the only person you need to answer to.

Picabo Street

#5. Rap now is multi-generational, which has its own issues. My son is a big Cudi fan, but he does not like talking to me about Kid Cudi.

Lyor Cohen

#6. Music was my joy, my home, the one place I felt happy and secure.

Lawrence Welk

#7. Lay me down
Let the only sound
Be the overflow
Pockets full of stones

Florence Welch

#8. A lot of the people of the Midwest came from the Northeast. We're of the same stock. Yet something must have happened when we crossed the Ohio River Valley because I have sensed that there's more of an openness and flexibility of spirit out West.

Jane Hamilton

#9. I've learned that it helps when you're in love with a mummy to pay attention to little things like curses, adder stones, and long-winded archaeologists.

Colleen Houck

#10. I have invested my heart. There is a chance that it will be broken but also a chance at unlimited happiness.

Beatrice Sparks

#11. To lovers of the truth, nothing can be put before God and hope in Him.

Saint Basil

#12. I make myself a leper with the lepers to gain all to Jesus Christ.

Father Damien

#13. Many readers share their stories with me and if one speaks to me (or if the same theme keeps coming at me), I will research it and decide if it would make a good book. But, straight down to it, people inspire me.

Ellen Hopkins

#14. A woman is gentle, soft, delicate, and a man's position is to protect her, help her up stairs, make sure she's in the car safely first. Take good care of your woman, and the sky's the limit!

Taraji P. Henson

#15. Equality ... is the result of human organization. We are not born equal.

Hannah Arendt