Always Quotes (page 154)

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• end
• career
• great

I never once approached greatness, but toward the end of my career, I was always in the game. Pat Conroy

• moments
• steps
• moment

From triumph to downfall there is but one step. I have noted that, in the most momentous occasions, mere nothings have always decided the outcome of the greatest events. Napoleon Bonaparte

• life
• job
• humanity

My mother told me that life isn't always about pleasing yourself and that sometimes you have to do things for the sole benefit of another human being. I completely agreed with her, but reminded her that that was what blow jobs were for. Chelsea Handler

• perfect
• end
• endings

Twilight, again. Another ending. No matter how perfect the day is, it always has to end. Stephenie Meyer

• feeling
• heads
• he

A writer should always feel like he's in over his head Michael Cunningham

• decision
• wind
• saying

You sometimes see in a wind a piece of paper blowing about anyhow. Suppose the piece of paper could make the decision: ‘Now I want to go this way.’ I say: ‘Queer, this paper always decides where it is to go, and all the time it is the wind that blows it. I know it is the wind that blows it.’ That same force which moves it also in a different way moves its decisions. Ludwig Wittgenstein

• slice
• thinness
• will

No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides. Baruch Spinoza

• sad
• color
• fire

Nature always wears the colors of the spirit. To a man laboring under calamity, the heat of his own fire hath sadness in it. Ralph Waldo Emerson

• eating
• chef
• beauty

You never forget a beautiful thing that you have made,' [Chef Bugnard] said. 'Even after you eat it, it stays with you - always. Julia Child

• life
• sorry
• great

For my part I am very sorry for him. It is an uneasy lot at best, to be what we call highly taught and yet not to enjoy: to be present at this great spectacle of life and never to be liberated from a small hungry shivering self--never to be fully possessed by the glory we behold, never to have our consciousness rapturously transformed into the vividness of a thought, the ardour of a passion, the energy of an action, but always to be scholarly and uninspired, ambitious and timid, scrupulous... George Eliot

• words
• end
• wellness

one should always talk well about oneself! The word spreads around and in the end, noone remembers where it started Jean Cocteau

• look
• different
• risk

Risk always looks different when you're beating the system than when you've been beaten. Jodi Picoult

• greatness
• intelligent
• people

Happiness is often presented as being very dull but, he thought, lying awake, that is because dull people are sometimes very happy and intelligent people can and do go around making themselves and everyone else miserable. He had never found happiness dull. It always seemed more exciting than any other thing and capable of as great intensity as sorrow to those people who were capable of having it. Ernest Hemingway

• drinking
• help
• imagination

I always drink at lunchtime. It helps my imagination. Colin Dexter

• bad
• strength
• words

Virtue," he said. "The real thing. It's not some kind of cuddly teddy bear you can keep on the shelf until you need a hug. It's dangerous, which is why it makes people so nervous. Virtue has its own agenda, and believe me, it's not always yours. The word itself means strength, power. And when it gets loose, you'd better watch out."Something bad might happen..."Impossible. But possibly something painful"-A Wizard Alone by Diane Duane Diane Duane