Canned Quotes (page 744)

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• running
• cold
• lost

A bluetick hound bays out there in the fog, running scared and lost because he can’t see. No tracks on the ground but the one’s he’s making, and he sniffs in every direction with his cold red-rubber nose and picks up no scent but his own fear, fear burning down into him like steam. Ken Kesey

• common
• strong
• him

It's a fine thing for a man and a woman to have a common interest," Daniel began in a pontificating voice. "Makes a strong marriage."I can't tell you how many times Daniel's assisted me in surgery," Anna put in mildly. He huffed. "I've washed a few bloody knees in my time with these three."And there was the time Rena broke Alan's nose," Caine put in."It was supoosed to be yours," his sister reminded him."That didn't make it hurt any less." Alan shifted his eyes to his sister while his wife... Nora Roberts

• hand
• camera
• oneness

What can one do with one's hands when the camera is interested in other things? Dave Eggers

• life
• promise
• loss

The promise that life can go on, no matter how bad our losses. Suzanne Collins

• dark
• star
• enough

But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough, can you see the stars. Martin Luther King jr.

• about myself
• wellness
• manly

But what can a decent man speak of with most pleasure? Answer: Of himself. Well, so I will talk about myself. Fyodor Dostoevsky

• husband
• mistake
• respect

He still went out nearly every night. I thought, is this what he's going to do when we have the baby? Have I made another terrible mistake with a man? You don't really know a man until you have a child with him. Then you see so much. Is he kind? Is he tolerant? Is he loving? Or is he immature and egotistical and selfish? When you have a child, it can go two ways with your husband: You love him even more, or you lose all respect for him. And if you lose respect, there's no way to get it back... Candace Bushnell

• you me
• allowed
• exists

You allowed me existence, which is the sum of what one can demand of his fellow-beings George MacDonald

• children
• worst things
• autism

The worst thing you can do is nothing. (re: teaching children with autism) Temple Grandin

• hard
• life
• saying

I was thinking of people who say that happiness is impossible on earth. Look how hard they all try to find some joy in life. Look how they struggle for it. Why should any living creature exist in pain? By what conceivable right can anyone demand that a human being exist for anything but for his own joy? Every one of them wants it. Every part of him wants it. But they never find it. I wonder why. Ayn Rand

• parents
• children
• character

Parents can only advise their children or point them in the right direction. Ultimately people shape their own characters. Anne Frank

• persistence
• personality
• personal

I think certain types of processes don’t allow for any variation. If you have to be part of that process, all you can do is transform—or perhaps distort—yourself through that persistent repetition, and make that process a part of your own personality. Haruki Murakami

• manly
• which
• hi

There is one thing...which a man can always do, if he chuses[sic], and that is, his duty. Jane Austen

• personality
• mind
• mindfulness

Boredom, like beauty, is in the mind of the beholder. ?There is no such thing as an uninteresting subject? said Chesterton. ?The only thing that can exist is an uninterested person. George A. Sheehan

• kindness
• kind
• bigs

Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center. [...] Big, undreamed-of things--the people on the edge see them first. Kurt Vonnegut