Canned Quotes (page 1078)

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• color
• nature
• persistence

Humans are born with a susceptibility to that most persistent and debilitating disease of intellect: self-deception. The best of all possible worlds and the worst get their dramatic coloration from it. As nearly as we can determine, there is no natural immunity. Constant alertness is required. -The Coda Frank Herbert

• weeping
• ifs
• lived

If you live in a graveyard, you can't weep for everyone. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

• death
• war
• fills

The recruit who reports for active duty at the beginning of the war can in some instances be afraid of death, but more often he is 'afraid of being afraid'; that is, he is filled with anguish before himself. Jean-Paul Sartre

• humanity
• world
• humanities

You do all you can to humanize and familiarize the world, and suddenly it becomes more strange than ever. Saul Bellow

• thoughts
• giving
• eyes

I thought there was something weird with all of you, I just couldn't figure out what it was. But now I know. It all makes sense." Her dark, tear-filled eyes sparkled as her accusatory gaze traveled from one of us to the other. "I can tell you battle on the side of good, and I want to join you." She turned to Frank, brushed her curly hair away from her throat, and closed her eyes. "Go ahead. Do it."There was a long silence as everyone stared at Kayla's shapely neck. Then Frank looked... Meg Cabot

• happenings
• exceptions
• cans

Anything can happen to anyone, but it usually doesn't. Except when it does. Philip Roth

• book
• death
• journey

The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying says that death is the graduation ceremony, while living is just a long course in learning and preparing for the next journey. If we acknowledge death as the beginning, then how can we fear it? Nikki Sixx

• freedom
• mind
• mindfulness

There is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind. Virginia Woolf

• freedom
• you me
• he

Let me remind you that the measure of anyone's freedom is what he can do without. L. M. Montgomery

• him
• professional
• only

Professionals in a campaign are servants; they can tell him only how to do something once he tells them what it is he wants to do. Theodore White

• him
• home
• thoughts

You can't know somebody, I thought, till you've followed him home. Barbara Kingsolver

• love
• hope
• feeling

All I can hope for is a reconstruction: the way love feels is always only approximate. Margaret Atwood

• great
• reality
• greatness

A poem, as a manifestation of language and thus essentially dialogue, can be a message in a bottle, sent out in the –not always greatly hopeful-belief that somewhere and sometime it could wash up on land, on heartland perhaps. Poems in this sense too are under way: they are making toward something. Toward what? Toward something standing open, occupiable, perhaps toward an addressable Thou, toward an addressable reality. Paul Celan

• love
• lovingly
• meet

Love is ancient and mysterious and you can't mess with it. If you do it just backfires and you meet with disaster. Alice Hoffman

• encouraging
• book
• world

Look, there’s not much useful to take away from this book – it’s largely stories of a woman who has spent her life peeing on herself. But there is one way I really believe I can help the world, and that is to encourage everyone, in all things, to “Make It a Treat Sarah Silverman