Doing Quotes (page 580)

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• thinking
• time
• god

When the time comes to you at which you will be forced at last to utter the speech which has lain at the center of your soul for years, which you have, all that time, idiot-like, been saying over and over, you'll not talk about the joy of words. I saw well why the gods do not speak to us openly, nor let us answer. Till that word can be dug out of us, why should they hear the babble that we think we mean? How can they meet us face to face till we have faces? C. S. Lewis

• wellness
• recovering
• recovered

Longevity is not whether or not you break, it is how well you recover and repair when you do. Mehmet Oz

• right
• rightful
• knowingly

If you are pissing people off, you know you are doing something right Johnny Rotten

• brilliant
• brilliantly

If it wasn't for me, I'd do brilliantly. Nicolas Chamfort

• life
• god
• manly

God orders a man to do all he can to save his life. Alexander Dumas

• world
• lively
• worldly

We didn't make the world. All we have to do is live in it. Stephen R. Donaldson

• past
• future
• memorial

Memory really matters...only if it binds together the imprint of the past and the project of the future, if it enables us to act without forgetting what we wanted to do, to become without ceasing to be, and to be without ceasing to become. Italo Calvino

• people
• relationship him
• time

One of the major difficulties Trillian experienced in her relationship with Zaphood was learning to distinguish between him pretending to be stupid just to get people off their guard, pretending to be stupid because he couldn't be bothered to think and wanted someone else to do it for him, pretending to be outrageously stupid to hide the fact that he actually didn’t understand what was going on, and really being genuinely stupid. He was renowned for being amazingly clever and quite clearly... Douglas Adams

• manly
• saying
• hand

I mean to say, whether a yarn is tall or small I like to hear it well told. I like to meet a man that can take in hand to tell a story and not make a balls of it while he's at it. I like to know where I am, do you know. Everything has a beginning and an end. Flann O'Brien

• serious
• character
• children

The most serious point in the case is the disposition of the child."What on earth has that to do with it?" I ejaculated. My dear Watson, you as a medical man are continually gaining insight as to the tendencies of a child by the study of the parents. Don't you see that the converse is equally valid. I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children. Arthur Conan Doyle

• life
• kindness
• work

I don't do my work for any kind of group in particular, except for hobos, who just plain kick ass and light up my life. Jhonen Vasquez

• caring
• world
• cares

We must be careful with our lives, for Christ's sake, because it would seem that they are the only lives we are going to have in this puzzling and perilous world, and so they are very precious and what we do with them matters enormously. Frederick Buechner

• pain
• complete
• depth

There's a certain class of people who will do you in and then remain completely mystified by the depth of your pain. Sue Grafton

• life
• quietly
• either or

Quiet heroism or youthful idealism, or both? What do we know? That life without heroism and idealism is not worth living - or that either can be fatal? Erich Segal

• thinking you
• thinking
• look

What do you think you're looking at, sugar tits? Mel Gibson