I Can Quotes (page 184)

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• fighting
• thoughts
• door

Now days are dragon-ridden, the nightmare Rides upon sleep: a drunken soldiery Can leave the mother, murdered at her door, To crawl in her own blood, and go scott-free; The night can sweat with terror as before. We pieced our thoughts into philosophy, And planned to bring the world under rule, Who are but weasels fighting in a hole. William Butler Yeats

• pain
• bear
• live

How much of this truth can I bear to see and still live unblinded? How much of this pain can I use? Audre Lorde

• doctor
• wonder
• humanity

The more I protested about this ambiguity, the more Joanna pointed out to me that it was both a terrible and wonderful part of life: terrible because you can't count on anything for sure--like certain good health and no possibility of cancer; wonderful because no human being knows when another is going to die--no doctor can absolutely predict the outcome of a disease. The only thing that is certain is change. Joanna calls all of this 'delicious ambiguity.' 'Couldn't there be comfort and... Gilda Radner

• counts
• counting
• thing

Many of the things you can count, don't count. Many of the things you can't count, really count. Albert Einstein

• eyes
• butterfly
• hand

Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. The hands can't hit what the eyes can't see. Muhammad Ali

• saying
• hard
• counted

I'm very hard to catch," says Rue. "And if they can't catch me, they can't kill me. So don't count me out. Suzanne Collins

• life
• evening
• people

There's something sad about people going to bed. You can see they don't give a damn whether they're getting what they want out of life or not, you can see they don't even try to understand what we're here for. They just don't care. Louis-Ferdinand Celine

• answered
• bring
• back

Google can bring you back 100,000 answers, a librarian can bring you back the right one. Neil Gaiman

• helpful
• men
• help

Given the nature of spiders, webs are inevitable. And given the nature of human beings, so are religions. Spiders can't help making fly-traps, and men can't help making symbols. That's what the human brain is there for - the turn the chaos of given experience into a set of manageable symbols. Aldous Huxley

• society
• world
• political

Ideas are very important to the shaping of society. In fact, they are more powerful than bombings or armies or guns. And this is because ideas are capable of spreading without limit. They are behind all the choices we make. They can transform the world in a way that governments and armies cannot. Fighting for liberty with ideas makes more sense to me than fighting with guns or politics or political power. With ideas, we can make real change that lasts. Ron Paul

• die
• died
• lives

I can die for you but I can't live for you Ayn Rand

• friend
• enemy
• hurt

Your enemies can kill you, but only your friends can hurt you. Marcus Tullius Cicero

• dream
• sleep
• evening

You're afraid of imagination and even more afraid of dreams. Afraid of the resposibility that begins in dreams. But you have to sleep and dreams are a part of sleep. When you're awake you can suppress imagination but you can't supress dreams. Haruki Murakami

• you are loved
• love
• ignorance

It isn’t possible to love and part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal. E. M. Forster

• hell
• getting
• cans

It's Paradise, but we can't get out of it. And anything you can't get out of is Hell. Margaret Atwood