Quotes of: Just-be Keyword

Just because I wear a size 14 shoe does not mean I’ll take it off when I go to shake your hand.

This is the best book I've ever written, and it still sucks

I used to date an older obese woman named Ten, but everyone just called her "X". Now I just call her ex X. She'll be XXXIV next month, and I think I'll get her an XXL sweatshirt for her birthday.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

Your actions must reflect your goals in order to experience true success. Don't just wish, DO! Don't just dream, BE! Let today be the day you create a plan and follow it.

Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

She knew exactly what he meant. Despite their differences, of their differences, they were a perfect mismatched set. Two sides of the same tarnished penny. An out-of-step Fred and Ginger. Vaughn was just as fucked up as she was - he was just so much ...

Unsticky

Best friends one, and now we have almost nothing to say to each other. It was interesting, how he had joined those guys and I just stayed on my own. I didn't like it or dislike it. It was just funny that things had turned out that way.

Underdog

Is life less thrilling if your neighbors are rational, if they don’t bomb your power stations whenever they feel you need to be admonished? Is it less rousing if they don’t rattle your windows and nerves with indiscriminate sonic booms just becau...

An Unnecessary Woman

If you decide that what God is asking you to do with your life is just too much on you and is just a little too inconvenient, then you will never see the miracles he has for you.

Visioneering: God's Blueprint for Developing and Maintaining Personal Vision

If you're just starting out as a writer, you could do worse than strip your television's electric plug-wire, wrap a spike around it, and then stick it back into the wall. See what blows, and how far. Just an idea.

On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

It seems to occur to few of the attendees [of a writing retreat] that if you have a feel you just can't describe, you might just be, I don't know, kind of like, my sense of it is, maybe in the wrong fucking class.

On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

Bluebell had been saying that he knew the men hated us for raiding their crops and gardens, and Toadflax answered, 'That wasn't why they destroyed the warren. It was just because we were in their way. They killed us to suit themselves.

Watership Down

Humans don’t just kill to survive. Sometimes, they kill out of rage. And they don’t just eat to survive; sometimes, they eat when their belly is already full. They are violent and greedy. They aren’t like any of the other beasts in the forest; ...

A Wolf at the Gate

Men say," Liz reaches for her scissors, "'I can't endure it when women cry'--just as people say, 'I can't endure this wet weather.' As if it were nothing to do with the men at all, the crying. Just one of those things that happen.

Wolf Hall

I let myself feel everything. Just this once, I wanted it all. I let him push our passion to the cliff, let my body synchronize to his in perfect harmony. Just this once, I let more than my body fall over the edge. With him.

Windburn

I choose many voices to consider and reckon with, rather than just one to tolerate.

From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"

In a world full of cynics, critics, and competitors, we get to choose instead to be cheerleaders for others.

Why Can't We Just Get Along?: 6 Effective Skills for Dealing with Difficult People

This boat that we just built is just fine - And don't try to tell us it's not The sides and the back are divine - It's the bottom I guess we forgot

Where the Sidewalk Ends: The Poems and Drawings of Shel Silverstein

Evan to Bethany: "Just trust me." "You say it like it's so easy." "Of course it's not." "Then how am I supposed to 'just trust' you?" "Funny thing about trust...Sometimes you have to give it before you can experience it.

Wildflowers from Winter

Guttenberg didn’t write the Bible—he just printed it. Gideon didn’t write the Bible—he just placed it into every nightstand in every hotel. And Orafoura doesn’t appear in the Bible—though he may have disappeared into it.


Whenever You're Gone, I'm Here For You

I see a bright portion under the overhead light that shades into darkness and then into darker darkness and I can't see beyond that.

You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense

when I drive the freeways I see the soul of humanity of my city and it's ugly, ugly, ugly: the living have choked the heart away.

You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense

I feel no grief for being called something which I am not; in fact, it's enthralling, somehow, like a good back rub

You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense