Canned Quotes (page 1081)

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• motivational
• motivation
• book

There are two motives for reading a book: one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it. Bertrand Russell

• good
• cans
• attack

The worst thing that can happen to a good cause is, not to be skillfully attacked, but to be ineptly defended. Frederic Bastiat

• universe
• imagination
• existences

I cannot imagine how the clockwork of the universe can exist without a clockmaker. Voltaire

• peace
• personality
• personal

Peace is the greatest weapon for development that any person can have. Nelson Mandela

• she
• happened
• werewolves

The werewolves are on their was, so she can't see anything that will happen now. It makes her uncomfortable to be blind. Stephenie Meyer

• shine
• sometimes
• may

...for though the flame of liberty may sometimes cease to shine, the coal can never expire. Thomas Paine

• look
• imagination
• exchanges

One can imagine the look the two lovers exchanged; it was like a flame, for virtuous lovers have not a shred of hypocrisy. Honore de Balzac

• good
• physics
• thinking

The most satisfying compliment a reader can pay is to tell me that he or she feels personally addressed. Think of your own favorite authors and see if that isn’t precisely one of the things that engage you, often at first without your noticing it. A good conversation is the only human equivalent: the realizing that decent points are being made and understood, that irony is in play, and elaboration, and that a dull or obvious remark would be almost physically hurtful. Christopher Hitchens

• hard
• childhood
• best

I wrote fairy tales because the Fairy Tale seemed the ideal Form for the stuff I had to say. Then of course the Man in me began to have his turn. I thought I saw how stories of this kind could steal past a certain inhibition which had paralyzed much of my own religion in childhood. Why did one find it so hard to feel as one was told one ought to feel about God or about the sufferings of Christ? I thought the chief reason was that one was told one ought to. As obligation to feel can freeze... C. S. Lewis

• short
• life
• work

Here are some questions I am constantly noodling over: Do you splurge or do you hoard? Do you live every day as if it's your last, or do you save your money on the chance you'll live twenty more years? Is life too short, or is it going to be too long? Do you work as hard as you can, or do you slow down to smell the roses? And where do carbohydrates fit into all this? Are we really all going to spend our last years avoiding bread, especially now that bread in American is so unbelievable... Nora Ephron

• waiting
• garden
• love

But other people fast or walk long pilgrimages to honor the spirit of what they believe makes our world whole and lovely. If we gardeners can, in the same spirit, put our heels to the shovel, kneel before a trench holding tender roots, and then wait three years for an edible incarnation of the spring equinox, who's to make the call between ridiculous and reverent? Barbara Kingsolver

• enough
• needed
• needing

You can never get enough of what you don’t really need. Eric Hoffer

• manly
• suffered
• he man

A man can laugh while he suffers. Elie Wiesel

• son
• age
• manly

This son of his old age was yet more dea? Less from instinctive tenderness, the same Fond spirit that blindly works in the blood of al? 145Than that a child, more than all other gifts That earth can offer to declining man, Brings hope with it, and forward-looking thoughts, And stirrings of inquietude, when they By tendency of nature needs must fail. William Wordsworth

• fate
• hope
• great

The only hope I have left for you hangs on a great doubt - the doubt whether we are, or are not, the masters of our own destinies. It may be that mortal free-will can conquer mortal fate; and that going, as we all do, inevitably to death, we go inevitably to nothing that is before death. Wilkie Collins