Much Quotes (page 252)

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• hell
• saying
• though

But I tried though," he says. "Goddammit, I sure as hell did that much, now, didn't I? Ken Kesey

• manly
• him
• women

Then that little man in black there, he says women can't have as much rights as men, 'cause Christ wasn't a woman! Where did your Christ come from? Where did Christ come from? From God and a woman! Man had nothing to do with Him. Sojourner Truth

• wind
• adult
• happy

I was happy but happy is an adult word. You don't have to ask a child about happy, you see it. They are or they are not. Adults talk about being happy because largely they are not. Talking about it is the same as trying to catch the wind. Much easier to let it blow all over you. Jeanette Winterson

• travel
• common
• how much

It matters not where or how far you travel,--the farther commonly the worse,--but how much alive you are. Henry David Thoreau

• understanding
• good
• wellness

This is so much harder than I ever thought it would be...because the thing is, even if you're just working part-time, your boss is going to expect a full week's worth of work, no matter how understanding she is. That's just the nature of the working world-things have to get done, babies or not. And if you're like me-if you're like any woman who ever did well in school and did well at her job-you don't want to disappoint a boss. And you want to do a good job raising your baby...It's not like... Jennifer Weiner

• learning
• school
• life

Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities--that's training or instruction--but is rather a making visible what is hidden as a seed...To be educated, a person doesn't have to know much or be informed, but he or she does have to have been exposed vulnerably to the transformative events of an engaged human life...One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated. Thomas Moore

• old
• thinking
• little

I feel a little peculiar around the children. For one thing, they grown. And I see they think me and Nettie and Shug and Albert and Samuel and Harpo and Sofia and Jack and Odessa real old and don't know much what going on. But I don't think us feel old at all. And us so happy. Matter of fact, I think this the youngest us ever felt. Alice Walker

• you
• canned
• cans

How can you do anything until you have seen everything, or as much as you can? Rudyard Kipling

• enough
• lesbian
• saying

Naomi was a tough kid, so much tougher than Landsman ever needed to be. She was two years younger, close enough for everything Landsman did or said to constitute a mark that must be surpassed or a theory to disprove. She was boyish as a girl and mannish as a woman. When some drunken fool asked if she was a lesbian, she would say, “In everything but sexual preference. Michael Chabon

• amazing
• manly
• honestly

It’s amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites. Thomas Sowell

• distance
• career
• understanding

Dear lou, we learned so much. I realize we wont be able to talk for some time, And I understand that as I do you. The long distance thing was the hardest, And we did as well as we could. We were together during a very tumultuous time in our lives. I will always have your back and be curious about you, About your career, Your whereabouts. Alanis Morissette

• eyes
• feeling
• pool

I was feeling everything too much. Everything pulled at my eyes. I spent hours floating in pools. Dave Eggers

• had
• poets
• saints

Saints and martyrs had never interested Maggie so much as sages and poets. George Eliot

• confused
• attainable
• confusions

With few there is attainment. With much there is confusion. Lao Tzu

• him
• bored
• prays

It is much easier to pray for a bore than to go visit him. C. S. Lewis