The measure of a society is its compassion.
– Kristin Hannah
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- A crowded society is a restrictive society; an overcrowded society becomes an authoritarian, repressive and murderous society. – Edward Abbey
- Magic to be its best must be unexpected. – Kristin Hannah
- He is a man, and he is afraid. This is not a good combination. – Kristin Hannah
- Vietnam…war…it did something to us. Or maybe not. Maybe the bad seeds were always in me, and war gave them a dark place in which to grow. – Kristin Hannah
- She had tried to be loved by him; more important, she had tried to keep loving him, but in the end, one was impossible as the other. – Kristin Hannah
- It is nearly impossible.”Nearly impossible and impossible are not the same thing. – Kristin Hannah
- I just want to keep you safe.I smile. Americans can be so naive. – Kristin Hannah
- Goddamn, sometimes it hurt to be free. – Kristin Hannah
- I am like some wounded animal in a darkened lair, nursing the thorn in my paw, unable to find anyone to take it out. – Kristin Hannah
- A daughter without her mother is a woman broken. It is a loss that turns to arthritis and settles deep into her bones. – Kristin Hannah
- A WOMAN’S PLACE IS IN THE HOUSE…AND THE SENATE. – Kristin Hannah
- Liam learned that it was possible to appear to move forward when you were really standing still. – Kristin Hannah
- I look at people who aren’t us and I hate them. – Kristin Hannah
- This time I really am going to light the world on fire,’ she said, laughing. ‘I finally have a ????ing match. – Kristin Hannah
- it’s better to be bold than meek.If you jump off a cliff at least you’llfly before you fall – Kristin Hannah
- Those are exactly the kind of memories I try to avoid, but they’re like abestos: invisible and deadly. You need special gear to get rid of them. – Kristin Hannah
- Memories are who we are, Tul. In the end, that’s all the luggage you take with you. Love and memories are what last. – Kristin Hannah
- He’d learned in the past few months that telling a girl what to wear–even one the size of a golf club–was a bad idea. Histrionics often followed. – Kristin Hannah
- Was Vianne really supposed to let Sophie starve to prove her loyalty to France? – Kristin Hannah
- . . .you sounded frustrated and pissed off and amazingly happy – Kristin Hannah
- It isn’t about being at the same school or the same town or even the same room. It’s about being together. Love is a choice you make. – Kristin Hannah
- Sometimes you simply made the wrong choice and you had to live with it. You could only change the future. – Kristin Hannah
- The next morning, Angie woke with the sun…Her eyes felt gritty and swollen.Once again she’d watered her mattress with memories. – Kristin Hannah
- but that shadow self of hers wasn’t so sure. The ugly, toxic thought was smaller than a drop of blood, yet it poisoned the entire stream. – Kristin Hannah
- A generous donor (who had no doubt lived a life that imperiled his mortal soul) had granted [the Sisters] more than one hundred waterfront acres. – Kristin Hannah
- Love doesn’t measure that way… you may blame me for your feelings, but it isn’t fair to blame me for how you’ve chosen to behave. – Kristin Cashore
- You cannot measure love by a scale of degrees. – Kristin Cashore
- Society has failed its inhabitants, just as its inhabitants have failed society. – Anthony T Hinkcs
- The measure of any society is how it treats its women and girls. – First Lady Michelle Obama
- One measure of a civilization, in fact, is the percentage of misfits in its society. – Kb Abe
- I used to measure the skies, now I measure the shadows of Earth.Although my mind was sky-bound, the shadow of my body lies – Johannes Kepler
- — So this is the measure of your God’s Mercy.– No. This is the measure of Pharaoh’s soul. – The NT Translation Moses
- We cannot measure time. We can only measure changes of life and the universe. – Debasish Mridha
- The measure of your faith is the measure of the pain you can endure. – Dan Brown
- You can measure the true strength of a man by how well he controls others, but you measure his true power by how well he controls himself – Amari Soul
- The result may be important but it’s not the actual measure. The measure is the feeling you have made contact with something. – Eric Maisel
- To measure the man, measure his heart. – Malcolm Forbes
- The measure of your solitude is the measure of your capacity for communion. – Henri JM Nouwen
- The measure of love is to love without measure. – attributed to Saint Augustine
- I was its skin, its movement, its shape, its god, its creator, its destroyer. And you thought Dexter was bad. The Bridgeman arrives soon. – Catherine Astolfo