Being There Quotes (page 98)

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• reading
• brother
• yellow

There were letters for her at the bureau-one from her brother, full of athletics and biology; one from her mother, delightful as only mother's letters could be. She had read in it of the crocuses which had been bought for yellow and were coming up puce, of the new parlour-maid, who had watered the ferns with essence of lemonade... E. M. Forster

• alone
• being alone
• caring

There isn't a thought in my head I care to be alone with for more than five minutes. Larry McMurtry

• time
• emotional
• emotion

There will never come a time when I will be able to resist my emotions. Louise Erdrich

• evening
• words
• search

There is some relationship between the hunger for truth and the search for the right words. This struggle may be ultimately indefinable and even undecidable, but one damn well knows it when one sees it. Christopher Hitchens

• nonsense
• actions
• cannot

There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action. Bertrand Russell

• time
• car
• house

There's a big confusion in this country over what we want versus what we need," Morrie said. "You need food, you want a chocolate sundae. You have to be honest with yourself. You don't need the latest sports car, you don't need the biggest house. The truth is, you don't get satisfaction from those things. You know what really gives you satisfaction?...Offering others what you have to give...I don't mean money, Mitch. I mean your time. Your concern. Your storytelling. It's not so hard. Mitch Albom

• resulting
• more
• exhilarating

There is nothing more exhilarating than to be shot at with no result. Winston Churchill

• humanity
• understanding
• people

There is no such thing as a weird human being, It's just that some people require more understanding than others. Tom Robbins

• beautiful
• beauty
• expectation

There is a beauty in the world, though it's harsher than we expect it to be. Michael Cunningham

• time
• character
• opposition

There are times when I am so unlike myself that I might be taken for someone else of an entirely opposite character. Jean-Jacques Rousseau

• people
• atheist
• thinking

There seem to be only two kinds of people: Those who think that metaphors are facts, and those who know that they are not facts. Those who know they are not facts are what we call "atheists," and those who think they are facts are "religious." Which group really gets the message? Joseph Campbell

• alps
• shall

There shall be no Alps. Napoleon Bonaparte

• time
• willed
• ifs

There is no escape from this. Either you do or you don't. And ifyou do, you can't be sure of doing it the next time. And if you don't, you never will again. Paul Auster

• real
• world
• thy

There is no real exellence in all this world which can be separated from right living. David Starr Jordan

• personal
• memories
• happy

There is never any ending to Paris and the memory of each person who has lived in it differs from that of any other. We always returned to it no matter who we were or how it was changed or with what difficulties, or ease, it could be reached. Paris was always worth it and you received return for whatever you brought to it. But this is how Paris was in the early days when we were very poor and very happy. Ernest Hemingway