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Quotes by Canadian Authors
"We are stymied by regulations, limited choice and the threat of litigation. Neither consultants nor industry itself provide research which takes architecture forward."
"Consider yourself a functional character in someone else's novel - a background character - a person on the street - that's the perspective ..."
"Focus on the POSITIVERecognize the BLESSINGSFind the HUMORHope for the BEST&Brace yourself for the worst."
"Isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?"
"Find your focus by seeking all that is good in your life."
"Wow. Whoops. Sorry. ... I just lost two hours inside a YouTube kitten warp."
"We knew we did not want to record at Impulse Studios again, after the experience of recording in a 'real' studio in London for the Radio One session we did."
"The next time you find yourself getting angry, ask yourself: Is this really something I want to give my time and energy to? Will doing so make any positive impact? If your answer is no, consider redirecting that anger-energy as soon as possible! Find something to do that will feed your soul, fuel your fire, passion and creativity. Find something that will bring something new and positive to this world."
"Fear is the original sin, suddenly said a still, small voice away back-back-back of Valancy's consciousness. "Almost all the evil in the world has its origin in the fact that some one is afraid of something.Valancy stood up. She was still in the clutches of fear, but her soul was her own again. She would not be false to that inner voice."
"If nothing else, we simply get used to being alive."
"I wish I could convey the perfection of a seal slipping into water or a spider monkey swinging from point to point or a lion merely turning its head. But language founders in such seas. Better to picture it in your head if you want to feel it...I spent more hours than I can count a quiet witness to the highly mannered, manifold expressions of life that grace our planet. It is something so bright, loud, weird and delicate as to stupefy the senses."
"The entire Nazi war machine was only possible because of past, present and future violations of the non aggression principle (achievable only through government)."
"Advertising is an environmental striptease for a world of abundance."
"I love them, they are so nice and selfish. Dogs are TOO good and unselfish. They make me feel uncomfortable. But cats are gloriously human."
"Great," Shane said. "Look i'd rather not be on janitorial duty. I have allergies to cleaners.""And to cleaning," Michael said."Look who's talking, Didn't the do one of those Animal Planet documentaries about the roaches in your room?"
"The answer to violence is the improvement of childhood."
"Let that be a reminder to you that the past is one thing, but what we make of it, the conclusions we draw, is another. History can be many things, depending on how we read it, just as the future can be many things, depending on how we live it. There is no inevitability to any historical occurrence, only what people will allow to take place. And it is by dreaming first that we get to new realities."
"This is about me being ready to succeed.When I win in my mind, I truly win.Anything worthwhile deserves some time.I will do it this time! No excuses!"
"Sauve qui peut. To survivewe'd all turn thiefand rascal, or so says the fox,with her coat of an elegant scoundrel,her white knife of a smile,who knows just where she's going:to steal somethingthat doesn't belong to her -some chicken, or one more chance,or other life."
"Santi and Wolfe exchanged a look. Wolfe inclined his head a little to the side, with a strange, crooked smile. "You see? They're as bad as we are.""Worse," Santi sighed."
"Grief is NOT a mental illness or an emotional disorder. Anyone who tells you otherwise has never experienced it for themselves."
"A bland smile is like a green light at an intersection, it feels good when you get one, but you forget it the moment you're past it."
"Children who are resilient often have an appearance of a Teflon coating: nothing seems to faze these children."
"Your window square a yellow kite, and the Moon a white balloon."
"You must take life the way it comes at you and make the best of it."
"Self-esteem is a barometer of your overall internal makeup."
"Anyway, it's a good thing we're human. We design business spreadsheets, paint programs, and word processing equipment. So that tells you where we're at as a species. What is the search for the next great compelling application but a search for the human identity?"
"You're just Little Miss Optimist, aren't you? Do you come with accessories, like a glass half full and lemons to make into lemonade, too?"
"Atheists are my brothers and sisters of a different faith, and every word they speak speaks of faith. Like me, they go as far as the legs of reason will carry them -- and then they leap."
"My heart rides the wind and my thoughts sail away - to a land below the horizon where I know you hide from me..."
"You've turned into quite a bossy little thing," Myrnin said. "I think I might like it."
"Put some action on your good intentions!"
"She had never before minded being alone. Now she dreaded it. When she was alone now she felt so dreadfully alone."
"A truth should exist,it should not be usedlike this. If I love youis that a fact or a weapon?"
"The civilizations barter in coldness; they peddles it, reinforces it, market it, entices with it, reward it, and then flees from it when it's unchecked force is too much to marvel at. Soon absolute zero will be on sale, and people will warm up to that notion as well."
"Value the effort you put forward. Be determined, committed, and involved."
"Across the snowy field the barn light gleams - it's the loneliness of November twilight..."
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