Canned Quotes (page 813)

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• smart
• pain
• saying

its no surprise to me that anyone hardly tells the truth about how they feel. The smart ones keep to themselves for good reason. Why would you want to tell anyone anything that's dear to you? Even when you like them and want nothing more than to be closer to them? It's so painful to be next to someone you feel so strongly about and know you can't say the things you want to. Henry Rollins

• fun
• she
• history

Good women are no fun... The only good woman I can recall in history was Betsy Ross. And all she ever made was a flag. Mae West

• reality
• realities
• getting

Reality is what you can get away with. Robert Anton Wilson

• good
• can do
• harming

If you can do no good, at least do no harm. Kurt Vonnegut

• science
• political
• may

The suppression of uncomfortable ideas may be common in religion or in politics, but it is not the path to knowledge, and there's no place for it in the endeavor of science. We do not know beforehand where fundamental insights will arise from about our mysterious and lovely solar system. The history of our study of our solar system shows us clearly that accepted and conventional ideas are often wrong, and that fundamental insights can arise from the most unexpected sources. Carl Sagan

• loneliness
• him
• evening

We can also allow our Soulmate to pass us by, without accepting him or her, or even noticing. Then we will need another incarnation in order to find that Soulmate. And because of our selfishness, we will be condemned to the worst torture humankind ever invented for itself: loneliness. Paulo Coelho

• thinking
• brainly
• brain

I don't think it's much use your looking for the brains: a creature who twice walked into a lions den can't have got any. Aesop

• words
• time
• ignorance

I usually work in a direction until I know how to do it, then I stop, At the time that I am bored or understand — I use those words interchangeably — another appetite has formed. A lot of people try to think up ideas. I’m not one. I’d rather accept the irresistible possibilities of what I can’t ignore. Robert Rauschenberg

• love
• nature
• loves

It is part of the nature of every definitive love that sooner or later it can reach the beloved only in infinity. Rainer Maria Rilke

• personality
• achievement
• saying

Nothing has ever been achieved by the person who says, It can't be done. Eleanor Roosevelt

• conscience
• perfect
• country

It is said, in this country, that if a man can arrange his religion so that it perfectly satisfies his conscience, it is not incumbent upon him to care whether the arrangement is satisfactory to anyone else or not. Mark Twain

• looking back
• work
• look

That was Youth with its reckless exuberance when all things were possible pursued by Age where we are now, looking back at what we destroyed, what we tore away from that self who could do more, and its work that's become my enemy because that's what I can tell you about, that Youth who could do anything. William Gaddis

• moments
• free
• tomorrow

If God 'foresaw' our acts, it would be very hard to understand how we could be free not to do them. But suppose god is outside and above the Time-line... You never supposed that your actions at this moment were any less free because God knows what you are doing. Well, He know your tomorrow's actions in just the same way--because He is already in tomorrow and can simply watch you. In a sense, He does not know your action till you have done it: but the moment at which you have done it is... C. S. Lewis

• time
• people
• timely

You can fool some of the people all of the time, and those are the people you need to concentrate on. Robert Strauss

• thinking
• believe
• question

I think if you know what you believe, it makes it a lot easier to answer questions. I can't answer your question George W. Bush