Than Quotes (page 138)

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• she
• fall
• snow

The falling flakes were random and without purpose; the snow was drunker than she was. Chuck Klosterman

• color
• mindfulness
• bright

Annabel was, like the writer, of mixed parentage: half-English, half-Dutch, in her case. I remember her features far less distinctly today than I did a few years ago, before I knew Lolita. There are two kinds of visual memory: one when you skillfully recreate an image in the laboratory of your mind, with your eyes open (and then I see Annabel in such general terms as: "honey-colored skin," "thin arms," "brown bobbed hair," "long lashes," "big bright mouth"); and the other when you instantly... Vladimir Nabokov

• she
• world
• light

She would rather light candles than curse the darkness and her glow has warmed the world. Adlai E. Stevenson

• feeling
• people
• society

There is nothing more dangerous than to build a society with a large segment of people in that society who feel that they have no stake in it; who feel that that have nothing to lose. People who have stake in their society, protect that society, but when they don't have it, they unconsciously want to destroy it. Martin Luther King jr.

• eyes
• baby
• morning

If one feels the need of something grand, something infinite, something that makes one feel aware of God, one need not go far to find it. I think that I see something deeper, more infinite, more eternal than the ocean in the expression of the eyes of a little baby when it wakes in the morning and coos or laughs because it sees the sun shining on its cradle. Vincent Van Gogh

• night
• war
• aunt

War with Canada was far less of an enigma to me than what Aunt Evelyn was going to use for a toilet during the night Philip Roth

• savage
• surprise
• ironic

Savages!' he echoed, ironically. 'You set foot on one of the shores of this globe, professor, and you’re surprised to find savages? Where aren’t there savages? Besides, are they any worse than others, these whom you call savages? Jules Verne

• confused
• humanity
• conscience

Confusing monogamy with morality has done more to destroy the conscience of the human race than any other error. George Bernard Shaw

• good
• men
• bad

Good and bad men are each less so than they seem. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

• life
• deep
• feeling

Call listened with amusement--not that the incident hadn't been terrible. Being decapitated was a grisly fate, whether you were a Yankee or not. But then, amusing things happened in battle, as they did in the rest of life. Some of the funniest things he had ever witnessed had occurred during battles. He had always found it more satisfying to laugh on a battlefield than anywhere else, for if you lived to laugh on a battlefield, you could feel you had earned the laugh. But if you just... Larry McMurtry

• love
• self
• understanding

Love is omni-inclusive, progressively exquisite, understanding and compassionately attuned to other than self. R. Buckminster Fuller

• mystic
• heart
• imagination

Traditionally, I have responded to the transcendent mystics of all religions. I have always responded with breathless excitement to anyone who has ever said that God does not live in a dogmatic scripture or in a distant throne in the sky, but instead abides very close to us indeed- much closer than we can imagine, breathing right through our own hearts. Elizabeth Gilbert

• missing
• elephant
• wild

It is in some ways more troublesome to track and swat an evasive wasp than to shoot, at close range, a wild elephant. But the elephant is more troublesome if you miss. C. S. Lewis

• stays
• get
• easier

It is easier to stay out than to get out. Mark Twain

• law
• rightful
• honors

To be right is more honorable than to be law abiding. Henry David Thoreau