Am Quotes (page 334)

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• mines
• mining
• mine

Gale is mine. I am his. Anything else is unthinkable. Suzanne Collins

• congratulations
• evening
• fear

I must congratulate myself, in passing, for never having lost the ability to examine my conscience, never having lost the gift of finding myself wanting & defective. Why fear the criticism of others when you, yourself, are first out of the critical gate? If self-denigration is the race I am the winner, even before the starting gun. Collect the bets. Frank McCourt

• life
• book
• reading

Oh! I am delighted with the book! I should like to spend my whole life in reading it. Jane Austen

• god
• him
• knowing

I know I am God because when I pray to him I find I'm talking to myself. Peter Barnes

• him
• true
• manly

I am sure that no man asks mercy and grace with true meaning, but if mercy and grace have first been given him. Anya Seton

• may
• new
• world

I congratulate you and my country on the singular favor of heaven in the peaceable and auspicious settlement of our government upon a Constitution formed by wisdom, and sanctified by the solemn choice of the people who are to live under it. May the Supreme ruler of the world be pleased to establish and perpetuate these new foundations of liberty and glory....Thank God, my country is saved and by the smile of Heaven I am a free and independant man. John Hancock

• free
• look
• you me

Say make me, remake me. You are free to do it and I am free to let you because look, look. Look where your hands are. Now. Toni Morrison

• life
• thinking
• moments

The moment when a man's head drops off is seldom or never, I am inclined to think, precisely the most agreeable of his life. Nathaniel Hawthorne

• comforting
• food
• experience

Often I feel I go to some distant region of the world to be reminded of who I really am. There is no mystery about why this should be so. Stripped of your ordinary surroundings, your friends, your daily routines, your refrigerator full of your food, your closet full of your clothes -- with all this taken away, you are forced into direct experience. Such direct experience inevitably makes you aware of who it is that is having the experience. That's not always comfortable, but it is always... Michael Crichton

• feeling
• to live
• sick

Now I am beginning to live a little and feel less like a sick oyster at low tide. Louisa May Alcott

• life
• death
• life death

I am sustained by the certainty that life has meaning...as does death. Dean Koontz

• feeling
• canned
• envelope

Once or twice a day, I am enveloped inside what I like to call the Impenetrable Shield of Melancholy. This shield, it is impenetrable. Hence the name. I cannot speak. And while I can feel myself freeze up, I can't do anything about it. Sarah Vowell

• thinking
• thinks
• willing

I think. I am. I will. Ayn Rand

• she
• giving
• oneness

I am glad you like what I said of Mrs. Elizabeth Fry (prison and mental hospital reformer). She is very unpopular with the clergy; examples of living, active virtue disturb our repose and give one to distressing comparisons; we long to burn her alive. Sydney Smith

• personality
• feeling
• people

A great deal; you are good to those who are good to you. It is all I ever desire to be. If people were always kind and obedient to those who are cruel and unjust, the wicked people would have it all their own way; they would never feel afraid, and so they would never alter, but would grow worse and worse. When we are struck at without a reason, we should strike back again very hard; I am sure we should - so hard as to teach the person who struck us never to do it again. Charlotte Bronte