Isabelle Holland quotes

As long as you don't forgive, who and whatever it is will occupy a rent-free space in your mind.
-- Isabelle Holland

#Forgiveness #Space #Long

Guilt is the price we pay willingly for doing what we are going to do anyway.
-- Isabelle Holland

#Guilt #Pay

Events do not really have beginnings or ends. Behind every event is the previous one, causing, or helping to cause, what follows.
-- Isabelle Holland

#Events #Causes #Helping

nobody ever stops drinking until the cost of drinking becomes higher than the cost of not drinking.
-- Isabelle Holland

#Drinking #Cost #Stop Drinking

All women are feminists, whether they know it or not.
-- Isabelle Holland

#Feminist #Feminism

Where would anyone in publicity be if they allowed sensitivity, restraint, breeding or good taste to stand in their way?
-- Isabelle Holland

#Way #Taste #Publicity

You're as sick as your secrets.
-- Isabelle Holland

#Sick #Secret

You can be free from everything but the consequences of what you do.
-- Isabelle Holland

#Consequence

On the whole, my impression is that mercy bears richer fruits than any other attribute.

Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.

Tomer: “What's this?” Cabinet: “Wt's ths?” Wedge: “Cabinet.” Tomer: “I know it's a cabinet, but it's talking.” Cabinet: “...ts tlkng” Janson: “Oh that. It's the Catann Minister of Crawling Into Very Small Spaces.” Tycho: “He bet Wedge he could fold himself in the that cabinet, around the shelves and all.” Hobbie: “Never bet against Wedge. The Minister gets to stay in there until he admits that it was a stupid bet and that Wedge doesn't owe him anything.

Thus would I double my life's fading space;For he that runs it well, runs twice his race.

When you take a shower in space, you have to press the water onto your body to clean yourself, and then you gotta vacuum it off.

One of the most basic human instincts is the need to decorate. Nothing is exempt - the body, the objects one uses, from intimate to monumental, and all personal and ceremonial space. It is an instinct that responds ... to some deep inner urge that has been variously described as the horror of a vacuum and the need to put one's imprint on at least one small segment of the world.

How long does getting thin take?

When we asked Pooh what the opposite of an Introduction was, he said "The what of a what?" which didn't help us as much as we had hoped, but luckily Owl kept his head and told us that the Opposite of an Introduction, my dear Pooh, was a Contradiction; and, as he is very good at long words, I am sure that that's what it is.

As long as you want anything very much, especially more than you want God, it is an idol.

It's hard to say what I want my legacy to be when I'm long gone.