Canned Quotes (page 868)

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• leaving
• conscience
• hardest thing

The hardest thing usually to leave behind, as was the case now, can loosely be called the conscience. Norman Maclean

• tree
• look
• enough

George Oppen is a tough old bird. If you've never seen what [he] sees, it's because you haven't sat still long enough and looked as he has. The things he sees feel like the gnarled bark of a tree. The tree is there too. You can put your weight against it. It won't give. Carl Rakosi

• life
• socializing
• problem

You can't do anything in life. The social barriers in life are so intense and horrific that every encounter is just fraught with so many problems and dread. Every social situation is a potential nightmare. Larry David

• business
• soul
• moving

Because to confide a part of your soul to something that can think and move for itself is obviously a very risky business. J. K. Rowling

• dream
• true
• your dreams

All your dreams can come true. It s not easy but not impossible either. Robert Rodriguez

• castle
• writing
• blue

We write to expose the unexposed. If there is one door in the castle you have been told not to go through, you must. The writer's job is to turn the unspeakable into words - not just into any words, but if we can, into rhythm and blues. Anne Lamott

• world
• excellence
• saying

But what world says that [I'm wicked]? It can only be the next world. This world and I are on excellent terms. Oscar Wilde

• children
• missing
• memories

Rather than dwelling on the past, we should make the most of today, of the here and now, doing all we can to provide pleasant memories for the future…If you are still in the process of raising children be aware that the tiny fingerprints that show up on almost every newly cleaned surface, the toys scattered about the house, the piles and piles of laundry to be tackled, will disappear all too soon, and that you will, to your surprise, miss them, profoundly. Thomas S. Monson

• waves
• different
• eyes

They tell us that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself, but I don't believe that." he said. Then, a moment later, he added: "Oh, the fear is there, all right. It comes to us in many different forms, at different times, and overwhelms us. But the most frightening thing we can do at such times is to turn our backs on it, to close our eyes. For then we take the most precious thing inside us and surrender it to something else. In my case, that something was the wave. Haruki Murakami

• depression
• action
• legislation

Economic depression can not be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement Herbert Hoover

• rude
• drama
• disrespect

A little rudeness and disrespect can elevate a meaningless interaction to a battle of wills and add drama to an otherwise dull day. Bill Watterson

• missing
• your life
• inspirational

Being successful and fulfilling your lifes purpose are not at all the same thing; You can reach all your personal goals, become a raving success by the worlds standard and still miss your purpose in this life. Rick Warren

• universe
• imagination
• universality

Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine. Arthur Eddington

• wills
• liked
• liking

You can do what you like, but the outcome will be the same. E. M. Forster

• today
• german
• little

Heinrich Heine so loosened the corsets of the German language that today every little salesman can fondle her breasts. Karl Kraus