Canned Quotes (page 511)

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• world
• time
• change

There are times when the world is rearranging itself, and at times like that, the right words can change the world. Orson Scott Card

• star
• sky
• ignorance

You see many stars in the sky at night, but not when the sun rises. Can you therefore say that there are no stars in the heavens during the day? Because you cannot find God in the days of your ignorance, say not that there is no God. Ramakrishna

• busy
• sleep
• positive

In another telling anomaly of the meat-grinding business, many of the larger slaughterhouses will sell their product only to grinders who agree to not test their product for E. coli contamination--until after it's run through a grinder with a whole bunch of other meat from other sources...It's like demanding of a date that she have unprotected sex with four or five other guys immediately before sleeping with you--just so she can't point the finger directly at you should she later test... Anthony Bourdain

• good
• art
• mathematics

Our species is the only creative species, and it has only one creative instrument, the individual mind and spirit of man. Nothing was ever created by two men. There are no good collaborations, whether in music, in art, in poetry, in mathematics, in philosophy. Once the miracle of creation has taken place, the group can build and extend it, but the group never invents anything. The preciousness lies in the lonely mind of a man. John Steinbeck

• lies
• night
• question

Never lie in bed at night asking yourself questions you can't answer. Charles M. Schulz

• god
• future
• past

If we live with possibilities we are exiles from the present which is given us by God to be our own, homeless and displaced in a future or a past which are not ours because they are always beyond our reach. The present is our right place, and we can lay hands on whatever it offers us. Thomas Merton

• new
• life
• lifetime

Because it is the nature of love to create, a marriage itself is something which has to be created, so that, together we become a new creature. To marry is the biggest risk in human relations that a person can take…If we commit ourselves to one person for life this is not, as many people think, a rejection of freedom; rather it demands the courage to move into all the risks of freedom, and the risk of love which is permanent; into that love which is not possession, but participation…It... Madeleine L'Engle

• dream
• sleep
• willfulness

If he can't sleep, how will he ever dream? Eddie Vedder

• new friends
• together
• old friends

New friends can often have a better time together than old friends. F. Scott Fitzgerald

• women
• different
• losing

Women lose their lives not knowing they can do something different..." from Two or Three Things i Know For Sure Dorothy Allison

• time
• thinking
• humanity

A not-too-distant explosion shakes the house, the windows rattle in their sockets, and in the next room the class of 1964 wakes up and lets out a yell or two. Each time this happens I find myself thinking, "Is it possible that human beings can continue with this lunacy very much longer?" You know the answer, of course. George Orwell

• future
• grace
• experience

We can say that true gratitude does not give rise to the debtor's ethic because it gives rise to faith in future grace. With true gratitude there is such a delight in the worth of God's past grace, that we are driven on to experience more and more of it in the future...it is done by transforming gratitude into faith as it turns from contemplating the pleasures of past grace and starts contemplating the promises of the future. John Piper

• reading
• believe
• she

Once she knows how to read there's only one thing you can teach her to believe in and that is herself. Virginia Woolf

• god
• blessed
• god bless you

If you allow it, [suffering] can be the means by which God brings you His greatest blessings. Charles R. Swindoll

• nothing
• intending
• ups & downs

I intend to put up with nothing that I can put down. Edgar Allan Poe