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Always Quotes (page 168)

The law presumably says that it is finest to keep as quiet as possible in misfortunes and not be irritated, since the good and bad in such things aren't plain, nor does taking it hard get one anywhere, not are any of the human things worthy of great seriousness.... One must accept the fall of the dice and settle one's affairs accordingly-- in whatever way argument declares would be best. One must not behave like children who have stumbled and who hold on to the hurt place and spend their time... Socrates
Let thethings be illusions or not, after all I would then also be an illusion, and thus they are always like me. This is what makes them so dear andworthy of veneration for me: they are like me. Therefore, I can lovethem. And this is now a teaching you will laugh about: love, oh. Govinda, seems to me to be the most important thing of all. Tothoroughly understand the world, to explain it, to despise it, may bethe thing great thinkers do. But I'm only interested in being able tolove the... Herman Hesse
Rosemary felt that this swim would become the typical one of her life, the one that would always pop up in her memory at the mention of swimming. F. Scott Fitzgerald
Rudyard Kipling quote: "Now India is a place beyond all others where one must not take..."
Now India is a place beyond all others where one must not take things too seriously—the midday sun always excepted. Rudyard Kipling
Shirley Chisholm quote: "I am and always will be a catalyst for change."
I am and always will be a catalyst for change. Shirley Chisholm
Because I never have any definite destination. This ship is not for going to places, but for getting away from them. When I stop at a port, it's only for the sheer pleasure of leaving it. I always think: here's one more place that can't hold me. Ayn Rand
See you in the funny papers," he said. Jaunty, he reminded himself; always jaunty. In my panache is their hope for salvation. Michael Chabon
He had discovered that people who allow themselves to be blown about by the winds of emotion and impulse are always unhappy people. Jean Rhys
A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener. So our prospects brighten on the influx of better thoughts. We should be blessed if we lived in the present always, and took advantage of every accident that befell us. Henry David Thoreau
It is quite possible--overwhelmingly probable, one might guess--that we will always learn more about human life and personality from novels than from scientific psychology Noam Chomsky
I was never young. Whoever I was then is dead. That's more of your quills. I don't want a hide full, thanks. I have always figured that you die each day and and each day is a is a box, you see, all numbered and neat; but never go back and lift the lids, because you have died a couple thousand times in your life, and that's a lot of corpses, each dead a different way, each with a worse expression. Each of those days is a different you, somebody you don't know or understand or want to understand. Ray Bradbury
Dave Eggers quote: "It was always difficult to get cattle returned once a marriage..."
It was always difficult to get cattle returned once a marriage was dissolved. Dave Eggers
Evelyn Waugh quote: "Once you start changing a name, you see, there's no reason..."
Once you start changing a name, you see, there's no reason ever to stop. One always hears one that sounds better. Evelyn Waugh
Basil Bunting quote: "The times are squalid. They always were. It is a poet's duty..."
The times are squalid. They always were. It is a poet's duty to hold the line. Basil Bunting
Paul Theroux quote: "I always found myself in the company of Australians, who were..."
I always found myself in the company of Australians, who were like a reminder that I'd touched bottom. Paul Theroux

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