99 result(s) for The Handmaid’s Tale Praise Be Quotes.
"When we think of the past it's the beautiful things we pick out. We want to believe it was all like that."
"Better to be a living dog than a dead lion."
"A rat in a maze is freer to go anywhere, as long as it stays inside the maze."
"The only way to deal with this situation is to turn it to your advantage."
"Nothing is irreversible, but each decision leads where it leads."
"It's the ones that escape that are the problem."
"If I am not for myself, who will be?"
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"This is a story about love. It’s a matter of trust."
"We have always been here. It’s only the changes – bathroom breaks and dinner – that are new."
"Make your own choices, and don't let anyone tell you how to live your life."
"The bed is a great place to think about the world."
"Hope is not something you can hold onto."
"There is no such thing as a free lunch."
"You can't help but think about the future when you're trapped in the past."
"The future is not a gift, it is an achievement."
"This is what I want, to be valued in ways that I do not value myself."
"It’s like a movie, I think. Sometimes there are scenes that are difficult to watch."
"If I had a dollar for every time I repeated myself, I wouldn't be repeating myself."
"Realize that you cannot be her; you can only be yourself."
"The past is what you remember, imagine you remember, convince yourself you remember, or pretend you remember."
"What you don’t know won’t hurt you, it will kill you."
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"Nothing changes instantaneously: in a gradually heating bathtub, death is a slow catastrophe."
"The truth is that men and women are different. What the poem is, is a kind of communion between two sides of ourselves."
"A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it."
"The longer that you look at a thing, the less you see it."
"Nothing is harmless, no matter how zealous the cause."
"There’s something to be gained by looking at things from different angles."
"The eyes of others, our own eyes, are the lenses through which we see the world."
"I think of it as a kind of one-way mirror. Every time you look at it, it looks right back at you."
"Just keep trying to get the right sentences."
"I keep thinking about all those shapes that could be made. It's great, the imagination can take you all sorts of places."
"Under His Eye."
"Freedom to and freedom from."
"This is what you have to be, you have to be like the moon and the stars, you have to be like the sun."
"Nothing changes instantaneously: in a gradually heating bathtub, death is a long process."
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"The Republic of Gilead, where reality is a construct and your fate is predetermined."
"When we think of the past, it’s the beautiful things we pick out. We want to believe it was all like that."
"To be seen is to be a target."
"There is no such thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives."
"We must be the change we wish to see in the world."
"The future is already here – it’s just not very evenly distributed."
"The willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life is the source from which self-respect springs."
"What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make."
"You can’t make someone feel important if you secretly think that they’re not."
"You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist."
"It’s not how much we give but how much love we put into giving."
"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion."
"People’s lives are dependent on being able to tell their stories in their own ways."
"It’s a bad day to be a newscaster."
"It's not the way the world works that matters, but the way people expect it to work that matters."
"Blessed be the fruit."
"May the Lord open."
"Praise be."
"The ceremony is about to begin."
"Better never means better for everyone... It always means worse, for some."
"Nothing changes instantaneously: in a gradually heating bathtub, death is a long way off."
"We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of print. It gave us more freedom."
"You can’t help what you feel, but you can help how you behave."
"The past is a great darkness, and you must learn from it."
"There is nothing more dangerous than a lone woman with a book."
"The story is necessary to make sense of the feelings."
"A word after a word after a word is power."
"Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them."
"To be seen, to be heard, is to be valued."
"I’m not sure how I feel about that. I’ll need to think about it, work through it."
"History is a great teacher, and schools are like the memorial of the past."
"When we think of the past, it's always a soft version."
"Telling someone to be quiet is like telling them to vanish."
"The future is not given; there is no guarantee."
"We need to smash the systemic injustices."
"Everything we need to live, we will always need to thrive."
"We can start creating a new future now, one act of bravery at a time."
"The only way to make sure you don’t pay for your decision is to stand up for your values."
"It’s not just about survival; it’s about hope."
"Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth."
"Praise be!"
"The Bible has some lovely passages, but it is not a guide to living."
"Nolite te bastardes carborundorum."
"If it’s not in the Bible, it’s not in the world."
"Freedom, like everything else, is relative."
"Ignoring isn’t the same as ignorance, you have to work at it."
"Better never means better for everyone. It always means worse, for some."
"There is no such thing as a clean break."
"Nothing changes instantaneously: in a gradually heating bathtub, death is a long one."
"We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of print."
"The only way out of this is to think the unthinkable."
"The past is always tense, the future perfect."
"Nothing is simple anymore."
"You can’t make an omelette without breaking eggs."
"We thought we were going to have a happy ending."
"We were the ones who were educated. We were the ones who had degrees."
"I am a feminist. I write about the issues women face in a man's world."
"The future is not a gift. It is an achievement."
"One remembers a great deal, but I find that forgetting is also necessary."
"When we think it's over, it begins again in a different form."
"A rat in a maze is free to go anywhere, as long as it stays inside the maze."
"The truth is not always beautiful, but the hunger for it is."
"The most dangerous thing you can do is to listen to someone who is trying to silence you."
"If you don’t like the way the world is, you change it."
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