Cans Quotes (page 580)

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• understanding
• look
• tris

Now, Anne, don't look as if you were trying to understand. Seventeen can't understand. L. M. Montgomery

• author
• power
• men

There are two ways of persuading men of the truths of our religion; one by the power of reason, the other by the authority of the speaker. We do not use the latter but the former. We do not say: 'You must believe that because Scripture, which says it, is divine,' but we say that it must be believed for such and such a reason. But these are feeble arguments, because reason can be bent in any direction. Blaise Pascal

• best
• giving
• tomorrow

Harry, just go down to the lake tomorrow, right, stick your head in, yell at the merpeople to give back whatever they’ve nicked, and see if they chuck it out. Best you can do, mate. J. K. Rowling

• sleep
• humanity
• heads

Just because as human beings, what we can't have is what we reply in our head over and over again before we go to sleep. Taylor Swift

• wishes
• saying
• hand

By late afternoon I lie with my head in Peeta’s lap making a crown of flowers while he fiddles with my hair claiming he is practicing knots. After awhile his hands go still. “What?” I ask. “I wish I could freeze this moment, right here, right now, and live in it forever,” he says. Usually this sort of comment, the kind that hints his undying love for me, makes me feel guilty and awful. But I’m so relaxed and beyond worrying about a future I’ll never have, I just let the word slip out. “Okay,”... Suzanne Collins

• time
• universe
• look

There comes a time when one must be strong with rationalists, for they can reduce anything whatever to dust, if they happen not to like the look of it, or if it threatens their deep-buried negativism. I mean of course rationalists like you, who take some little provincial world of their own as the whole of the universe and the seat of all knowledge. Robertson Davies

• dream
• lost
• luck

when your down on your luck and you've lost all your dreams theres nothing like a campfire and a can of beans Tom Waits

• discipline
• problem
• disciplines

With total discipline we can solve all problems. M. Scott Peck

• struggle
• love
• words

who can duly adore that Love which will open the high gates to a prodigal who is brought in kicking, struggling, resentful, and darting his eyes in every direction for a chance of escape? The words compelle intrare, compel them to come in, have been so abused by wicked men that we shudder at them; but, properly understood, they plumb the depth of the Divine mercy. The hardness of God is kinder than the softness of man, and His compulsion is our liberation. C. S. Lewis

• good
• soul
• bear

I want to be good. I can't bear the idea of my soul being hideous. Oscar Wilde

• running
• understanding
• past

Identity is a prison you can never escape, but the way to redeem your past is not to run from it, but to try to understand it, and use it as a foundation to grow. Jay-Z

• winter
• autumn
• leaving

But you can't plead with autumn. No. The midnight wind stalked through the woods, hooted to frighten you, swept everything away for the approaching winter, whirled the leaves. ("The North") Yevgeny Zamyatin

• feeling
• giving
• world

You can be strapped to the most stable chair and still feel the world give way beneath you. Jodi Picoult

• time
• personality
• personal

I'd like to be the sort of person who can enjoy things at the time, instead of having to go back in my head and enjoy them. David Foster Wallace

• enough
• hard
• harding

There's nothing you can't fuck up if you try hard enough. Nick Hornby