Quotes by Canadian Authors - Page 12

The law is an opinion with a gun.
Stefan Molyneux
Never say anything about yourself you don't want to come true
Brian Tracy
Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last ditch stand of the artist.
Marshall McLuhan
There were streetlights here, but they were so far apart and surrounded by trees that light dropped away to solid black between them. The skin on the back of his neck crawled as he became aware of the darkness. He didn't usually walk around after nightfall, but tonight he'd had no choice without his car. The wind lifted his hair, leaving him shivering; a voice in his mind chattered nervously.There was someone in my yard the other night...
Danika Stone
As Paul Tillich put it, suffering introduces you to yourself and reminds you that you are not the person you thought you were.
David Brooks
Listen your Lordship I'm a respecter of institutions. Even in Paris I remained a Canadian. I puffed hashish but I didn't inhale.
Mordecai Richler
If a mark of affection can sometimes be taken for an insult, perhaps the gesture of love is not universal: it too must be translated from one language to another, must be learned.
Kim Thúy
The internet is 95 percent porn and spam
Margaret Atwood
She reminded me that I could write stories,/could be struck by lightning & live.
Jen Currin
I barged through the palace, dripping a trail of blood behind me as I held the dead bird by the neck.
Alwyn Hamilton
Awareness makes us emotionally brilliant.
Lorii Myers
Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance.
Brian Tracy
If our ideas and beliefs are held with an awareness of abstracting, they can be changed if found to be inadequate or erroneous. But if they are held without an awareness of abstracting-if our mental maps are believed to be the territory-they are prejudices. As teachers or parents, we cannot help passing on to the young a certain amount of misinformation and error, however hard we may try not to. But if we teach them to be habitually conscious of the process of abstraction, we give them the means by which to free themselves from whatever erroneous notions we may have inadvertently taught them.
S.I. Hayakawa
How to recognize what is real? To know the layers and depths of oneself, to know how to open, to know how to fill a capacious hold-all, to know one’s own quirks and nervous twitches, cravings and transparencies, and, above all the force, literally the force, of events, connections, the wild calm in every thing.
Shawna Lemay
The universe has a much greater imagination than we do, which is why the real story of the universe is far more interesting than any of the fairy tales we have invented to describe it.
Lawrence M. Krauss
There’s gold, and it’s haunting and haunting; It’s luring me on as of old; Yet it isn’t the gold that I’m wanting So much as just finding the gold. It’s the great, big, broad land ’way up yonder, It’s the forests where silence has lease; It’s the beauty that thrills me with wonder, It’s the stillness that fills me with peace.
Robert W. Service
Being passive is not the same as being peaceful. If you aren't doing what you know, in your heart, you want to do, you are NOT going with the flow. You are going against the flow. Your reactions, emotions, desires, and talents are all part of the flow of life. Ignoring them is passive resistance. Let yourself go.
Vironika Tugaleva
But tears don't bring back the dead. I learned that.
Moira Young
To experience biophilia is to love a diversity that, as limitless as it is fragile, both haunts us and fills us with hope.
Adam Leith Gollner
The moon's a crazy sweetheart.
Helen Humphreys
Friendship's like a relationship between friends.
kevin mcpherson eckhoff
I often think we should have tattooed on the back of whatever hand we use to shoot or write, 'I might be wrong.
Louise Penny
A woman only needs one pair of shoes for an outfit. But God, you've got to get it just right.
Allan Dare Pearce
Love is not the opposite of power. Love IS power. Love is the strongest power there is.
Vironika Tugaleva
Men had always been the reciters of poetry in the desert.
Michael Ondaatje
Let's start with what we can be thankful for & get our mind into that vibration and then watch the good that starts to come because one thought leads to another
Bob Proctor
No matter what you do, someone always knew you would.
Ami McKay
If the most connected we’ve ever felt with another person was in that brief moment of apology and regret after physical abuse, then we’ll seek that abuse for the rest of our lives.
Vironika Tugaleva
Hitler had had entirely too brilliant a graphics department, and had understood the power of branding all too well.
William Gibson
...Fate forced me to become a two-man woman. But there was no effing way I could be a four-man woman.Even metaphysics couldn't keep that from being whorey.
Sierra Dean
As has been long observed, men are people, but women are women.
Cordelia Fine
The ability to discipline yourself to delay gratification in the short term in order to enjoy greater rewards in the long term, is the indispensable prerequisite for success.
Brian Tracy
Tell me this. What is it with men and feeling like they have to act like self-destructive superheroes whenever trouble shows up?”“It’s the only way we know how to love.
Andrew Pyper
Maybe a holiday miracle will change Mearth’s awful behavior,” Mandy suggested with optimism.“The only holiday miracle around here is that Mearth hasn’t murdered us both yet,” said Alecto, lighting another cigarette, his hands shaking erratically. He looked exhausted and terrified, his gray eyes soulless.“Do you know what Mearth likes, Alecto?” Mandy questioned.“Vegetables, she likes celery a lot, and lettuce,” Alecto responded in a quiet monotone. “I don’t know what else she likes. I’ve never asked her.”“Well, she has to like something… doesn’t everyone?”“Not her, Mandy Valems.
Rebecca McNutt
Death cannot be struggled against, brother. It ever arrives, defiant of every hiding place, of every frantic attempt to escape. Death is every mortal's shadow, his true shadow, and time is its servant, spinning that shadow slowly round, until what stretched before one now stretched before him.
Steven Erikson
The finest peculiarity of belief is that believers do not recognize themselves as believers.
Adam Leith Gollner
What’s supposed to be and what is, are two very different things.
Rebecca McNutt
What we call the personality is often a jumble of genuine traits and adopted coping styles that do not reflect our true self at all but the loss of it.
Gabor Maté
...goodness is not the absence of evil - it's the light that pushes back the darkness...
John Geddes
New York makes one think of the collapse of civilization, about Sodom and Gomorrah, the end of the world. The end wouldn't come as a surprise here. Many people already bank on it.
Saul Bellow
I treat winning and losing exactly the same. I see them both as necessary steps to get us where we are going. Big failures big lessons little failures little lessons.
Bob Proctor
My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations.
Michael J. Fox
The worst continued to worsen. What looked one day like the end proved on the next day to have been only the beginning. Nothing could have been more ingeniously designed to maximize the suffering, and also to insure that as few people as possible escape the common misfortune. The fortunate speculator who had funds to answer the first margin call presently got another and equally urgent one, and if he met that there would still be another. In the end all the money he had was extracted from him and lost. The man with the smart money, who was safely out of the market when the first crash came, naturally went back in to pick up bargains. The bargains then suffered a ruinous fall. Even the man who waited for volume of trading to return to normal and saw Wall Street become as placid as a produce market, and who then bought common stocks would see their value drop to a third or a fourth of the purchase price in the next 24 months. The Coolidge bull market was a remarkable phenomenon. The ruthlessness of its liquidation was, in its own way, equally remarkable.
John Kenneth Galbraith
Nothing is ever lost by courtesy. It is the cheapest of pleasures costs nothing and conveys much. It pleases him who gives and receives and thus like mercy is twice blessed.
Erastus Wiman
The neurological condition of echopraxia is to autonomy as blindsight is to consciousness.
Peter Watts
...each person is required to ask, 'what is my authority?' - on what do you base your decisions? if it's yourself, then you are without excuse...
John Geddes
So why don’t Americans cheat? Because they think that their system is legitimate. People accept authority when they see that it treats everyone equally, when it is possible to speak up and be heard, and when there are rules in place that assure you that tomorrow you won’t be treated radically different from how you are treated today. Legitimacy is based on fairness, voice and predictability, and the U.S. government, as much as Americans like to grumble about it, does a pretty good job of meeting all three standards. Pg. 293
Malcolm Gladwell
The fire that hollows us out is what allows us to be filled with strength and power where before there was none.
Morgan Rhodes
In general, silence often reflects ambiguity on the part of the listener as the observer wishes to understand the other's experience.
Sandra Leanne Bosacki
One day, perhaps, you will see for yourself that regrets are as nothing. The value lies in how they are answered.
Steven Erikson
It is useful to study different traditions in order to be free of attachment to any one way of expressing what is beyond expression. (x)
Ravi Ravindra
The trouble with you people is that you don't laugh enough.
L.M. Montgomery
The problem with capitalism is that "we have a global theology without morality, without a Bible." And that's dangerous, he warns - "we're not going to be able to exist in a global context if we are the bastards of our business.
Joel Bakan
Why do you want to have a drink with me?”“Because I like you. Because you’re fun. Because I want to get to know you better. Because I want you to see for yourself I’m not the kind of guy you think I am.
Helena Hunting
She knew this music--knew it down to the very core of her being--but she had never heard it before. Unfamiliar, it had still always been there inside her, waiting to be woken. It grew from the core of mystery that gives a secret its special delight, religion its awe. It demanded to be accepted by simple faith, not dissected or questioned, and at the same time, it begged to be doubted and probed.
Charles de Lint
The most chronic and complex of the dissociative disorders, multiple personality disorder, was renamed multiple personality disorder, was renamed 'dissociative identity disorder' in 1994 in DSM-IV (American Psychiatric Association). The rationale for the name change, was among other things, to clarify that there are not literally separate personalities in a person with dissociative identity disorder; 'personalities' was a historical term for the fragmented identity states that characterize the condition.
Colin A. Ross
No school without spectacular eccentrics and crazy hearts is worth attending.
Saul Bellow
Abhijit Naskar is a self-trained scientist and thinker who discovers the paradigm shifting phenomena of the human mind.
Michael A. Persinger
Birth and death - what could be more monstrous than that? We like to deceive ourselves and call it wondrous and beautiful and majestic, but it's freakish, let's face it.
Rohinton Mistry
Always give without remembering and always receive without forgetting.
Brian Tracy