Likely Quotes (page 604)

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• book
• mind
• mindfulness

A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone. George R. R. Martin

• shadow
• end
• night

There is a night that never comes to an end....The clock of the world turns under its own shadow. Midnight is a moving place, hurtling around the planet at a thousand miles an hour like a dark knike, cutting slices of daily bread off the endless loaf of Time. Terry Prachett

• pretty
• wellness
• author

I find it very disturbing to be advertised, as I have noticed that it is the advertised authors that stink. I am pretty sure I am going to stink from now on, and it might just as well be in Harpers as anywhere else, I suppose. A writer is like a beanplant-he has his day and then he gets stringy. E. B. White

• feeling
• sports
• men

Software development, like professional sports, has a way of making thirty-year-old men feel decrepit. Neal Stephenson

• insecurity
• country
• renowned

Symbologists often remarked that France-a country renowned for machismo, womanizing, and diminutive insecure leaders like Napoleon and Pepin the Short-could not have chosen a more apt national emblem than a thousand-foot phallus. Dan Brown

• mirror
• reflection
• reflective

The temperament reflects everything like a mirror. Fyodor Dostoevsky

• heart
• sick
• fancied

I treat my heart like a sick child and gratify its every fancy Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• handsome
• feeling
• you me

You don't feel you could marry me instead? Got no brains, of course, and I ain't a handsome fellow, like Jack, but I love you. Don't think I could ever love anyone else. Georgette Heyer

• time
• trip
• sometimes

Sometimes I like taking lots of steps at a time."That's how you trip."..."But you get where you're going faster."Not if you trip. Nora Roberts

• work
• engineering
• brain

To let the brain work without sufficient material is like racing an engine. It racks itself to pieces. Arthur Conan Doyle

• love
• forever love
• missing

Because all those people around you and Miss Satoko are moving slowly but inexorably toward a dnouement. You don’t think the two of you can hover forever in mid-air like two dragonflies making love? Yukio Mishima

• time
• passage
• sustain

As if sustained and too-direct contact with time's raw passage could scar the nerves permanently, like staring at the sun. Jonathan Franzen

• hope
• drinking
• enemy

Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies. Nelson Mandela

• ocean
• inner peace
• die

Having lots of money while not having inner peace is like dying of thirst while bathing in the ocean. Paramahansa Yogananda

• depression
• hurt
• heartbreak

Out of the welter of rapture and anger and heartbreak and hurt pride that he had left, depression emerged to sit upon her shoulder like a carrion crow. Margaret Mitchell