Could Quotes (page 115)

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• people
• fate
• saying

The Jewish people and their fate are the living witness for the absence of redemption. This, one could say, is the meaning of the chosen people; the Jews are chosen to prove the absence of redemption. Leo Strauss

• love
• thinking
• die

All right, then, I'd die for you. How about that? Don't you think somebody could die for love? Fannie Flagg

• she
• ambition
• he

He felt fortunate to be with Helen; she had her own ambitions and he could not manipulate here. John Irving

• age
• gift
• very

Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four. Katharine Hepburn

• life
• memories
• memorial

And her life will perhaps be the richer, for holding now within it the memory of what came, but could not stay. George MacDonald

• smile
• time
• confidence

Till now, I could not have supposed it possible to be mistaken as to a girl's being out or not. A girl not out, has always the same sort of dress: a close bonnet, for instance; looks very demure, and never says a word. You may smile, but it is so, I assure you; and except that it is sometimes carried a little too far, it is all very proper. Girls should be quiet and modest. The most objectionable part is, that the alteration of manners on being introduced into company is frequently too... Jane Austen

• smoking
• wishes
• materiality

I wish I had a tray table in my bedroom and I wish I smoked, just so I could extinguish my smoking materials Augusten Burroughs

• broken
• him
• heart

Only self-hatred could lead him to ruin himself because his heart was "broken. Saul Bellow

• life
• empty
• vastness

I saw that my life was a vast glowing empty page and I could do anything I wanted. Jack Kerouac

• manly
• die
• night

Not to me," I said. Kafka wrote his first story in one night. Stendhal wrote TheCharterhouse of Parma in forty-nine days. Melville wrote Moby-Dick in sixteen months. Flaubert spent five years on MadameBovary. Musil worked for eighteen years on The Man WithoutQualities and died before he could finish. Do we care about anyof that now? Paul Auster

• exercise
• faith
• life

Good gracious, she could have remained faithful to him in spirit while she was being unfaithful to him in the flesh. That is a feat of legerdemain that women find it easy to accomplish.'What a odious cynic you are.'If it's cynical to look truth in the face and exercise common sense in the affairs of life, then certainly I'm a cynic and odious if you like.'[Virtue] W. Somerset Maugham

• dog
• october
• yearly

Until that afternoon in October four years ago, I hadn't known dogs could scream. Stephen King

• touching
• look
• friends

She had been looking all along for a friend, and it took her a while to discover that a lover was not a comrade and could never be - for a woman. And that no one would ever be that version of herself which she sought to reach out to and touch with an ungloved hand. There was only her own mood and whim, and if that was all there was, she decided to turn the naked hand toward it, discover it and let others become as intimate with their own selves as she was. Toni Morrison

• everyday
• blue
• evening

But then, the sky! Blue, untainted by a single cloud (the Ancientes had such barbarous tastes given that their poets could have been inspired by such stupid, sloppy, silly-lingering clumps of vapour). I love - and i'm certain that i'm not mistaken if i say we love - skies like this, sterile and flawless! On days like these, the whole world is blown from the same shatterproof, everlasting glass as the glass of the Green Wall and of all our structures. On days like these, you can see to the... Yevgeny Zamyatin

• love
• feeling
• fun

To love what you do and feel like it matters, how could anything be more fun? Katharine Graham