Canned Quotes (page 841)

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• happy
• beautiful
• beauty

Universal happiness keeps the wheels steadily turning, truth and beauty can't. Aldous Huxley

• new
• world
• society

We are entering a new world in which we can choose to follow our own steps, not those that society forces us to take. Paulo Coelho

• help
• saying
• helpful

I was heading to Nebraska. Now there's a sentence you don't want to say too often if you can possibly help it. Bill Bryson

• sad
• soul
• sadness

A sad soul can kill you quicker, far quicker, than a germ. John Steinbeck

• bird
• sometimes
• saying

While clothes do not, as the saying would sometimes have it, make the man, and fine feathers do not make fine birds, sometimes they can add a certain spice to a recipe. Neil Gaiman

• fate
• manly
• deserve

The man deserved his fate, deny it who can; yes, but the fate did not deserve the man. Plato

• helpful
• help
• mystic

The whole secret of mysticism is this: that man can understand everything by the help of something he cannot understand. Gilbert K. Chesterton

• understanding
• evil
• carries

It is only one who is thoroughly acquainted with the evils of warthat can thoroughly understand the profitable way of carrying it on. Sun Tzu

• choose
• confidence
• walking

You either choose this method of passing the evening because you are in each other's confidence, and have secret affairs to discuss, or because you. are conscious that your figures appear to the greatest advantage in walking? if the first, I should be completely in your way, and if the second, I can admire you much better as I sit by the fire. Jane Austen

• husband
• sleep
• people

Beulah has a husband?' I know. It's a miracle. There can't be more than two people on the planet who'd be willing to sleep with her, and here we are both in the same town. Bill Bryson

• giving
• wellness
• willfulness

No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. Henry David Thoreau

• people
• interest
• interested

You can be denounced from the heavens, and it only makes people interested. Tom Wolfe

• lies
• equality
• feeling

But with this woman it is as if there is no interior, only a surface across which I hunt back and forth seeking entry. Is this how her torturers felt hunting their secret, whatever they thought it was? For the first time I feel a dry pity for them: how natural a mistake to believe that you can burn or tear or hack your way into the secret body of the other! The girl lies in my bed, but there is no good reason why it should be a bed. I behave in some ways like a lover—I undress her, I bathe... J. M. Coetzee

• meaningful
• humanity
• earth

Only when there is a wilderness can man harmonize his inner being with the wavelengths of the earth. When the earth, its products, its creatures, become his concern, man is caught up in a cause greater than his own life and more meaningful. Only when man loses himself in an endeavor of that magnitude does he walk and live with humanity and reverence. William O. Douglas

• she
• dark
• hand

Then the anguish increased to unendurable massivity and nightmare dimensions, making her scream and vomit. She wanted...to have her dark curls shaved to an aquamarine prickle, because they grew into her porous skull and curled inside. Jigsaw pieces of sky or wall came apart, no matter how delicately put together, but a careless jolt or a nurse's elbow can disturb so easily those lightweight fragments which became incomprehensible blancs of anonymous objects, or the blank backs of 'Scrabble'... Vladimir Nabokov