Doing Quotes (page 1017)

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• men
• acting
• spite

I do not argue with obstinate men. I act in spite of them. Agatha Christie

• happy
• attitude
• attitudes

WE CAN'T ALWAYS CONTROL OUR CIRCUMSTANCES BUT WE CAN CONTROL OUR ATTITUDE.WE MUST BE MORE CONCERNED WITH WHAT WE DO WITH WHAT HAPPENS TO US THAN WHAT HAPPENS TO US.HAPPINESS DOES NOT DEPEND ON WHAT HAPPENS OUTSIDE OF YOU BUT ON WHAT HAPPENS INSIDE OF YOU. Marvin J. Ashton

• enemy
• since
• telling

Since when do you have to tell the enemy when he has won Orson Scott Card

• feeling
• people
• opera

No opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible. W. H. Auden

• little
• best
• sick

A little starvation can really do more for the average sick man than can the best of medicines and the best doctors Mark Twain

• money
• world
• cover

The Man has a branch office in each of our brains, his corporate emblem is a white albatross, each local rep has a cover known as the Ego, and their mission in this world is Bad Shit. We do know what's going on, and we let it go on. As long as we can see them, stare at them, those massively moneyed, once in a while. As long as they allow us a glimpse, however rarely. We need that. And they know it - how often, under what conditions... Thomas Pynchon

• space
• search
• fruit

Ordinary life does not interest me. I seek only the high moments. I am in accord with the surrealists, searching for the marvelous. I want to be a writer who reminds others that these moments exist; I want to prove that there is infinite space, infinite meaning, infinite dimension. But I am not always in what I call a state of grace. I have days of illuminations and fevers. I have days when the music in my head stops. Then I mend socks, prune trees, can fruits, polish furniture. But while I... Anais Nin

• caring
• believe
• illness

I do not care to speak ill of a man behind his back, but I believe he is an attorney. Samuel Johnson

• wishes
• you me
• it is what it is

Don't tell me what's necessary, you presumptupus pup. What's necessary is whatever I wish to do, regardless of how unnecessary it might be. Dean Koontz

• ease
• lives
• pleasing

Would you live with ease, Do what you ought, and not what you please. Benjamin Franklin

• cat
• ocean
• life

I don't really know if it's the right thing to do, making new life. Kids grow up, generations take their place. What does it all come to? More hills bulldozed and more ocean fronts filled in? Faster cars and more cats run over? Who needs it? Haruki Murakami

• knowing and doing
• know
• knowingly

To know and not to do is really not to know. Stephen Covey

• water
• night
• dark

Stars burn clearall night till dawn. Do that yourself, and a spring will rise in the dark with water your deepest thirst is for. Rumi

• she
• actualization
• stalling

The room was plainly but adequately furnished; she noted the shower stall in the bathroom beyond. Actually, she would have preferred a tub, but this would do. Robert Bloch

• caring
• men
• not caring

I do not care to see men better off? but better! Maxim Gorky