Canned Quotes (page 925)

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• ignorance
• city
• mourning

In the U.S.A., we want to sing along with the chorus and ignore the verses, ignore the blues. . . No one is going to hold up a cigarette lighter in a stadium to the tune of "mourn together, suffer together." City on a hill, though -- that has a backbeat we can dance to. And that's why the citizens of the United States not only elected and reelected Ronald Reagan; that's why we ARE Ronald Reagan. Sarah Vowell

• believe
• personal
• life

...But the truth us that no person ever understands another, from beginning to end of life, there is no truth that can be known, only the story we imagine to be true, the story they really believe to be true about themselves; and all of them lies. Orson Scott Card

• peace
• time
• war

Better that right counsels be known to enemies than that the evil secrets of tyrants should be concealed from the citizens. They who can treat secretly of the affairs of a nation have it absolutely under their authority; and as they plot against the enemy in time of war, so do they against the citizens in time of peace. Baruch Spinoza

• flower
• spring
• soul

Pluck thou my flower, Oothoon the mild; Another flower shall spring, because the soul of sweet delight Can never pass away. William Blake

• forgiveness
• forget
• forgets

One can forgive but one should never forget. Marjane Satrapi

• work
• social work
• social

But what the working-class can do, when once they grow into a solidified organization, is to show the possessing class, through a sudden cessation of all work, that the whole social structure rests on them; that the possessions of the others are absolutely worthless to them without the workers' activity; that such protests, such strikes, are inherent in the system of property and will continually recur until the whole thing is abolished -- and having shown that effectively, proceed to... Voltairine de Cleyre

• leaving
• circus
• monkey

You can get the monkey off your back, but the circus never leaves town Anne Lamott

• life
• wonder
• wonderful

Life is like a moustache. It can be wonderful or terrible. But it always tickles. Nora Roberts

• being used
• useless
• useful

To use is necessary. And if you can't be used, then you're useless. Kanye West

• change
• opportunity
• hope

If you assume that there is no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, that there are opportunities to change things, then there is a possibility that you can contribute to making a better world. Noam Chomsky

• feeling
• thinking
• understanding

I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding. Tennessee Williams

• perfect
• imagination
• nothing

Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. Chuck Palahniuk

• life
• real
• wall

You can spend your whole life building a wall of facts between you and anything real. Chuck Palahniuk

• words
• god
• great

The great spiritual task facing me is to so fully trust that I belong to God that I can be free in the world--free to speak even when my words are not received; free to act even when my actions are criticized, ridiculed, or considered useless.... I am convinced that I will truly be able to love the world when I fully believe that I am loved far beyond its boundaries. Henri Nouwen

• home
• wellness
• personality

Traveling is all very well and good as long as you knew there is a place or person you can call home Jodi Picoult