While Quotes (page 132)

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• running
• world
• putting

A falsehood can run around the world while the truth is still putting its shoes on. William Bennett

• look
• expectation
• him

When you right or extricate a ducking businessman (take him out of chancery) and set him before the wind again, it is worth the while to look and see if he has any seed of success under him. Such a one you may know afar. He floats more slowly and steadily, carrying weight--and of his enterprise, expect results. Henry David Thoreau

• eyes
• manly
• distance

He felt like a man who, after straining his eyes to peer into the remote distance, finds what he was seeking at his very feet. All his life he had been looking over the heads of those around him, while he had only to look before him without straining his eyes. p 1320 Leo Tolstoy

• night
• end
• bad

After a while there were no more tule fogs at dawn and all Charlotte wanted was one night that did not end badly. Joan Didion

• children
• she
• animal

The mother...swinging the children by pulling on a length of string, while at the same time she kept and eye on them with that protective watchfulness, half animal, half angelic, which is the quality of motherhood. Victor Hugo

• good
• feeling
• feel good

Life is like a hot bath. It feels good while you're in it, but the longer you stay, the more wrinkled you get. Jim Davis

• past
• future
• heart

Time affords us the ability to blame past errors on others while whole heartedly pronouncing our futures successes. Douglas Adams

• him
• stands
• partly

Stand with anyone that is right; stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong. Abraham Lincoln

• thoughts
• avoiding
• contentment

Effective listening is more than simply avoiding the bad habit of interrupting others while they are speaking or finishing their sentences. It's being content to listen to the entire thought of someone rather than waiting impatiently for your chance to respond. Richard Carlson

• dream
• touching
• eyes

Do we scream in the night when it touches our dreams? No. We don't dream about it because we don't think about it; we don't think about it because we don't care about it. We are much more interested in law and order, so that American streets may be made safe while we transform those of (Iraq) into flowing sewers of blood which we replenish each year by forcing our sons to choose between a prison cell here or a coffin there. 'Every time I look at the flag, my eyes fill with tears.' Mine too. Dalton Trumbo

• life
• powerful
• leaving

We must leave our mark on life while we have it in our power. Isak Dinesen

• thinking
• shadow
• vision

If we shadows have offended, Think but this, and all is mended, That you have but slumber'd here. While these visions did appear. William Shakespeare

• song
• instrumental
• instrumentation

I have spent many days stringing and unstringing my instrument while the song I came to sing remains unsung. Rabindranath Tagore

• death
• kick
• deaths

Sex is kicking death in the ass while singing. Charles Bukowski

• sometimes
• eating
• people

Sometimes Alton Darwin would talk to me about the planet he was on before he was transported in a steel box to Athena. 'Drugs were food,' he said. 'I was in the food business. Just because people on one planet eat a certain kind of food they're hungry for, that makes them feel better after they eat it, that doesn't mean people on other planets shouldn't eat something else. On some planets I'm sure there are people who eat stones, and then feel wonderful for a little while afterwords. Then... Kurt Vonnegut