Go Quotes (page 426)

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• going
• americanized
• americanism

We go to Europe to be Americanized. Ralph Waldo Emerson

• thinking
• known
• adulthood

I don't think I'd have been in such a hurry to reach adulthood if I'd known the whole thing was going to be ad-libbed. Bill Watterson

• life
• rock
• moments

From this moment on I'd dedicate my life to rock and roll and take as many drugs as possible. What could possibly go wrong? Craig Ferguson

• death
• night
• great

The craving to risk death is our last great perversion. We come from night, we go into night. Why live in night? John Fowles

• if i stay
• willfulness
• willing

If I can't stay where I am, and I can't, then I will put all that I can into the going. Jeanette Winterson

• end
• look
• personality

... a person is not like a thing that you put down in one place and leave, a person moves, thinks, asks, questions, doubts, investigates, probes, and while it is true that, out of a long habit of resignation, he sooner or later ends up looking as if he has submitted to the objects, don't go thinking that this apparent submission is necessarily permanent. Jose Saramago

• lies
• rain
• real

When you know that something's going to happen, you'll start trying to see signs of its approach in just about everything. Always try to remember that most of the things that happen in this world aren't signs. They happen because they happen, and their only real significance lies in normal cause and effect. You'll drive yourself crazy if you start trying to pry the meaning out of every gust of wind or rain squall. I'm not denying that there might actually be a few signs that you won't... David Eddings

• saying
• apple
• job

Jobs insisted that Apple focus on just two or three priorities at a time. “There is no one better at turning off the noise that is going on around him,” Cook said. “That allows him to focus on a few things and say no to many things. Few people are really good at that. Walter Isaacson

• hand
• manly
• mans

(…)man holds the remedy in his own hands, and lets everything go its own way, simply through cowardice- that is an axiom. Fyodor Dostoevsky

• bored
• meditation
• evening

I've been so thoroughly incorporated into the California culture that I practice meditation and go to a therapist, even though I always set a trap: during my meditation I invent stories to keep from being bored, and in therapy I invent stories to keep from boring the psychologist. Isabel Allende

• hard
• back
• useful

Once the blinders are off, it's rather hard to go back to seeing things the way you used to. Mercedes Lackey

• giving
• you me
• joy

I know what I really want for Christmas. I want my childhood back. Nobody is going to give me that. I might give at least the memory of it to myself if I try. I know it doesn't make sense, but since when is Christmas about sense, anyway? It is about a child, of long ago and far away, and it is about the child of now. In you and me. Waiting behind the door of or hearts for something wonderful to happen. A child who is impractical, unrealistic, simpleminded and terribly vulnerable to joy. Robert Fulghum

• ultimate
• spiritual
• struggle

Regimes planted by bayonets do not take root... Our military strength is a prerequisite to peace, but let it be clear we maintain this strength in the hope it will never be used, for the ultimate determinant in the struggle that's now going on in the world will not be bombs and rockets but a test of wills and ideas, a trial of spiritual resolve, the values we hold, the beliefs we cherish, the ideals to which we are dedicated. Ronald Reagan

• universe
• look
• star

Do you imagine the universe is agitated? Go into the desert at night and look at the stars. This practice should answer the question. Lao Tzu

• philosophical
• words
• paid

In the words of the philosopher Scepturn, the founder of my profession: am I going to get paid for this? Terry Prachett