Cans Quotes (page 483)

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• time
• running
• also

The belief that time is a linear, directed sequence running from A to B is a modern illusion. In fact, it can also go from B to A, the effect producing the cause. Umberto Eco

• history
• end
• ending

History's got no bows on it, only frayed ends of ribbons and knots that can't be untied. Orson Scott Card

• alone
• god
• future

God alone knows the future, but only an historian can alter the past. Ambrose Bierce

• marriage
• free
• value

you can't be value free when it comes to marriage Al Gore

• jealousy
• fear
• fears

Fear can make you do more wrong than hate or jealousy... fear makes you always, always hold something back. Philip K. Dick

• beautiful
• learning
• dead

because I have learned the hard way how deadly these beauties can be. Suzanne Collins

• words
• work
• progress

To conclude, therefore, let no man upon a weak conceit of sobriety or an ill-applied moderation think or maintain that a man can search too far, or be too well studied in the book of God's word, or the book of God's works, divinity or philosophy; but rather let men endeavor an endless progress or proficience in both; only let men beware that they apply both to charity, and not to swelling; to use, and not to ostentation; and again, that they do not unwisely mingle or confound these learnings... Francis Bacon

• things
• how
• describing

How pathetic it is to describe these things which can't truly be described. Anne Rice

• believe
• future
• powerful

You can't insure against the future, except by really believing in the best bit of you, and in the power beyond it. David Herbert Lawrence

• kindness
• saying
• study

Only two kinds of people can attain self-knowledge: those who are not encumbered at all with learning, that is to say, whose minds are not over-crowded with thoughts borrowed from others; and those who, after studying all the scriptures and sciences, have come to realise that they know nothing. Ramakrishna

• happy
• joy
• rejection

Either the day must come when joy prevails and all the makers of misery are no longer able to infect it, or else, for ever and ever, the makers of misery can destroy in others the happiness they reject for themselves. C. S. Lewis

• good
• good job
• enough

A 'good job' can be both practically attractive while still not good enough to devote your entire life to. Alain de Botton

• helpful
• simple
• creativity

The tiny space, the toilet, two hundred strangers just a few inches away, it's so exciting, the lack of room to maneuver, it helps if you're double-jointed. Use your imagination. Some creativity and a few simple stretching exercises and you can be knock, knock, knockin' on heaven's door. You'll be amazed how time flies. Chuck Palahniuk

• engagement
• saying
• using people

What I used to say to people, when I was much more engag myself, is that you can't be apolitical. It will come and get you. It's not that you shouldn't be neutral. It's that you won't be able to stay neutral. Christopher Hitchens

• change
• different
• play

A lot of people ask me where music is going today. I think it's going in short phrases. If you listen, anybody with an ear can hear that. Music is always changing. It changes because of the times and the technology that's available, the material that things are made of, like plastic cars instead of steel. So when you hear an accident today it sounds different, not all the metal colliding like it was in the forties and fifties. Musicians pick up sounds and incorporate that into their playing,... Miles Davis