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Always Quotes (page 186)

George Eliot quote: "Blameless people are always the most exasperating."
Blameless people are always the most exasperating. George Eliot
If I knew I was going to die at a specific moment in the future, it would be nice to be able to control what song I was listening to; this is why I always bring my iPod on airplanes. Chuck Klosterman
A new friend is always a miracle, but at thirty-three years old, such a bird of paradise rising in the sage-brush was an avatar. One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly Henry B. Adams
Women have a passion for mathematics. They divide their age in half, double the price of their clothes, and always add at least five years to the age of their best friend. Marcel Achard
It makes no difference what men think of war, said the judge. War endures. As well ask men what they think of stone. War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner. That is the way it was and will be. That way and not some other way. Cormac McCarthy
Alison Bechdel quote: "I never travel without my diary. One should always have..."
I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read on the train. Alison Bechdel
The popular distinction between 'constructive' and 'destructive' criticism is a sentimentality: the mind too weak to perceive in what respects the bad fails is not strong enough to appreciate in what the good succeeds. To be without discrimination is to be unable to praise. The critic who lets you know that he always looks for something to like in works he discusses is not telling you anything about the works or about art; he is saying 'see what a nice person I am. Brigid Brophy
We think we know that chimpanzees are higher animals and earthworms are lower, we think we've always known what that means, and we think evolution makes it even clearer. But it doesn't. It is by no means clear that it means anything at all. Or if it means anything, it means so many different things to be misleading, even pernicious. Richard Dawkins
It makes no difference where you go, there you are. And it makes no difference what you have, there’s always more to want. Until you are happy with who you are, you will never be happy because of what you have. Zig Ziglar
Ray Bradbury quote: "My men are my references. They're waiting outside for the..."
My men are my references. They're waiting outside for the books. They're dangerous."Men like that always are. Ray Bradbury
It has always been a happy thought to me that the creek runs on all night, new every minute, whether I wish it or know it or care, as a closed book on a shelf continues to whisper to itself its own inexhaustible tale. So many things have been shown so to me on these banks, so much light has illumined me by reflection here where the water comes down, that I can hardly believe that this grace never flags, that the pouring from ever-renewable sources is endless, impartial, and free. Annie Dillard
Louis L'Amour quote: "Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is..."
Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you. Louis L'Amour
Horace quote: "he who is greedy is always in want"
he who is greedy is always in want Horace
The Shield was another of the Fear's names. According to Laughter, it means he shields the seed of Abraham the way a man starting a fire shields the flame. When Sarah was about to die childless, the Fear gave her a son. When Abraham was about to slaughter the son, the Fear gave him the ram. He is always shielding us like a guttering wick, Laughter said, because the fire he is trying to start with us is a fire that the whole world will live to warm its hands at. It is a fire in the dark that... Frederick Buechner
Madeleine L'Engle quote: "We cannot always cry at the right timeand who is to say which..."
We cannot always cry at the right timeand who is to say which time is right? Madeleine L'Engle

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