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Quotes by Canadian Authors
"I make soup and I back bread and I know my supreme need is joy in God and I know I can't experience deep joy in God until I deep trust in God. I shine sinks and polish through to the realization that trusting God is my most urgent need. If I deep trusted God in all the facets of my life, wouldn't that deep heal my anxiety, my self-condemnation, my soul holes? The fear is suffocating, terrorizing, and I want the remedy, and it is trust. Trust is everything. If fear keeps our lives small, does a life that receives all of God in this moment grow large too?"
"The process of grief and loss is as unique as your personal DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid), no two individuals will have the same experiences or relationship to grief."
"Unless I'm really uneasy with what I'm writing, I lose interest very quickly."
"With a painting, you don't have to go back and paint it again."
"It takes two guys on a team to do very well in the end and be successful."
"The grim fact is that we prepare for war like precocious giants, and for peace like retarded pygmies."
"I don't think it is a good mental health practice to fantasize that you know the infinite thoughts of imaginary entities."
"Appetite is essentially insatiable, and where it operates as a criterion of both action and enjoyment (that is, everywhere in the Western world since the sixteenth century) it will infallibly discover congenial agencies (mechanical and political) of expression."
"When you act dramatically in that way it often has a consequence that is very negative."
"The name of a man is a numbing blow from which he never recovers."
"As a civilian during the Second War, I was exposed to danger in circumstances which removed any distinction between the man in and the man out of uniform."
"Our biggest goal is to continue to force ourselves to always start our creative work on a white page and not take advantage of past successes and challenging ourselves."
"Some shows, like PPG, tape in a group session, which is always more fun because you can play off each other."
"Vietnam was a lie but at least there was a political agenda. It was the domino theory. Iraq is about nothing but George Bush's ego laced with imperialist ambitions. And it was helped by your government."
"I would definitely stay in the business, be behind the camera maybe."
"I feel it's important to show that one thing that you do doesn't define you as a human being. It doesn't mean there aren't ramifications or you shouldn't pay for that but its not who you are."
"Sometimes it is not easy to find any words that properly convey a thought. When we hear or read, we usually remember the gist, not the exact words, so there has to be such a thing as a gist that is not the same as a bunch of words."
"And I think that at a certain point, after all the time and all the conjecture and everything that had kind of gone on surrounding this show, I think that Mitch just felt like it was time to let it go. It was best for the show."
"Publishing a book is like stuffing a note into a bottle and hurling it into the sea. Some bottles drown, some come safe to land, where the notes are read and then possibly cherished, or else misinterpreted, or else understood all too well by those who hate the message. You never know who your readers might be."
"I grew up in kind of the last generation of Canadians who thought things that were happening in Britain were more important, almost, than what was happening in Canada. And my mother was fervently of that opinion."
"Is there anything in the world more annoyingly creepy than an unspoken dress code?"
"It must have been an endless breathing in: between the wish to know and the wish to praise there was no seam."
"Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don't know what they are conserving."
"I think money is due for some sort of collapse. People are going to realize that money has a half-life, like radioactive elements."
"When I was a teenager, I got into SF, quite heavily, and that too has had a major impact on my writing."
"In seeking absolute truth we aim at the unattainable and must be content with broken portions."
"Our Parliamentary system has simply failed to meet the challenge of judicial activism."
"I rise in support of a Canada in which liberties are safeguarded, rights are protected and the people of this land are treated as equals under the law."
"All this happens without him knowing - they actually install cameras in his apartment and hire this girl to get him to fall in love with her so that she can be in the apartment and present him products without him knowing."
"Jesus embraced His not enough ... He gives thanks ... and there is more than enough. More than enough. Eucharisteo always precedes the miracle. And who doesn't need a miracle like that everyday? Thanksgiving makes time. The real problem of life is never a lack of time. The real problem of life - in my life - is lack of thanksgiving. Thanksgiving creates abundance; and he miracle of multiplying happens when I give thanks - ...it's giving thanks to God for this moment that multiplies the moments, time made enough. I am thank-full. I am time-full."
"Forgiveness is the intentional act or process of pardoning or offering absolution unto another."
"Sometimes failure isn't an opportunity in disguise, it's just you."
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