Doing Quotes (page 159)

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• power
• attention
• medical

Most people when they nod off look as if they could do with a blanket; I look as if I could do with medical attention. I sleep as if injected with a powerful experimental muscle relaxant. Bill Bryson

• temptation
• doings
• wrongs

It is no credit to me to do right. I am never under any temptation to do wrong! Grover Cleveland

• wrongfully
• wrongs
• wrong

If it's wrong when they do it, it's wrong when we do it. Noam Chomsky

• feeling
• bad
• doings

I am doing the right thing, he told himself, so why do I feel so bad? George R. R. Martin

• evening
• country
• perspective

We've got a form of brainwashing going on in our country…. Do you know how they brainwash people? They repeat something over and over. And that's what we do in this country. Owning things is good. More money is good. More property is good. More commercialism is good. MORE IS GOOD. MORE IS GOOD. We repeat it--and have it repeated to us--over and over until nobody bothers to even think otherwise. The average person is so fogged up by all this, he has no perspective on what's really important... Morrie Schwartz

• choose
• personal
• job

I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it. Bill Gates

• personality
• real talk
• different

The connection was good. I could hear her breathing in the spaces between our words. How do you talk to the real person whose ghost has haunted you? How do you tell the difference between the two? Sherman Alexie

• perhaps
• nothing
• chattering

It's because I chatter that I do nothing. Or perhaps it is that I chatter because I do nothing. Fyodor Dostoevsky

• teacher
• just do it
• stops

You can't stop a teacher when they want to do something. They just do it. J. D. Salinger

• nature
• men
• war

If men are naturally in a state of war, why do they always carry arms and why do they have keys to lock their doors? Thomas Hobbes

• bad
• badness
• doings

Anything worth doing is worth doing badly. Gilbert K. Chesterton

• together
• him
• world

We were never lovers, and we never will be, now. I do not regret that, however. I regret the conversations we never had, the time we did not spend together. I regret that I never told him that he made me happy, when I was in his company. The world was the better for his being in it. These things alone do I now regret: things left unsaid. And he is gone, and I am old. Neil Gaiman

• sometimes
• bored
• kindness

A witch who is bored might do ANYTHING.People said things like 'we had to make our own amusements in those days' as if this signified some kind of moral worth, and perhaps it did, but the last thing you wanted a witch to do was get bored and start making her own amusements, because witches sometimes had famously erratic ideas about what was amusing. Terry Prachett

• can do
• doings
• you can do it

If you have to do it, you can do it. James M. Cain

• thinking
• sometimes
• hungry

I'm hungry, Garion, and I don't think well when I'm hungry."That might explain a lot," Beldin noted blandly. "We should have fed you more often when you were younger." "You can be terribly offensive sometimes, do you know that?"Why, yes, as a matter of fact I do. David Eddings