Always Quotes (page 143)

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• knowledge
• study
• success

My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that 'achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others, and that's nice, too, but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success. Helen Hayes

• she
• memories
• bad

I want the same one, the way she always is, without failures, without fights, without bad memories. Gabriel Garcia Marquez

• hope
• aunt
• avoiding

Never," said my aunt, "be mean in anything; never be false; never be cruel. Avoid those three vices, Trot, and I can always be hopeful of you. Charles Dickens

• good
• war
• bad

In war, good guys always become bad guys. Howard Zinn

• stupid
• much
• stupider

stupidity has a knack of getting its way; as we should see if we were not always so much wrapped up in ourselves Albert Camus

• love
• heart
• fire

Love, however, cannot be forbidden. The more that flame is covered up, the hotter it burns. Also love can always find a way. It was impossible that these two whose hearts were on fire should be kept apart. (Pyramus and Thisbe) Edith Hamilton

• help
• art
• saying

I always say perseverance is nine-tenths of any art? not that it's much help to be nine-tenths an artist, of course. Peter S. Beagle

• nothing
• absolutes
• absolutely

Nothing is always absolutely so Theodore Sturgeon

• excellence
• sounds
• makes

Whether I make them or not, there are always sounds to be heard and all of them are excellent. John Cage

• life
• light
• him

He was always striving to attain it. The life that was so swiftly expanding within him, urged him continually toward the wall of light. The life that was within him knew that it was the one way out, the way he was predestined to tread. Jack London

• motivational
• promise
• more

Don't ever promise more than you can deliver, but always deliver more than you promise. Lou Holtz

• change
• tomorrow
• changing

Day by day. No yesterdays and no tomorrows. The barometer never changes, the flag is always at half-mast. Henry Miller

• dream
• light
• struggle

His dreams had always been Houdiniesque: they were the dreams of a pupa struggling in its blind cocoon, mad for a taste of light and air. Michael Chabon

• alien
• time
• you me

Wiggin really doesn't care as much about himself as he does about these other kids who aren't worth five minutes of his time.And yet this may be the very trait that makes everyone focus on him. Maybe this is why all those stories Sister Carlotta told him, Jesus always had a crowd around him.Maybe this is why I'm so afraid of Wiggen. Because he's the alien, not me. He's the unintelligible one, the unpredictable one. He's the one who doesn't do things for sensible, predictable reasons. I'm... Orson Scott Card

• life
• deep
• feeling

Call listened with amusement--not that the incident hadn't been terrible. Being decapitated was a grisly fate, whether you were a Yankee or not. But then, amusing things happened in battle, as they did in the rest of life. Some of the funniest things he had ever witnessed had occurred during battles. He had always found it more satisfying to laugh on a battlefield than anywhere else, for if you lived to laugh on a battlefield, you could feel you had earned the laugh. But if you just... Larry McMurtry