Quotes of: When-all-else-fails Keyword

Characters should be interchangeable as between one book and another. The entire corpus of existing literature should be regarded as a limbo from which discerning authors could draw their characters as required, creating only when they failed to find...

At Swim-Two-Birds

Three years with Claudia had taught Ruso that when a woman said something did not matter and refused to tell you what it was, it usually mattered a great deal—to her, if not to you. Frequently her way of punishing you for not knowing what it was in...

Terra Incognita

Each of our devoted investigators has had to protest the critical importance to science and the surpassing conveniences offered by the cabin: How well the hill-and-dale floor is held together by layered patches of variegated linoleum; how nicely the ...

Wolves of Minong: Isle Royale's Wild Community

and when love came to us twice and lied to us twice we decided to never love again that was fair fair to us and fair to love itself. we ask for no mercy or no miracles; we are strong enough to live and to die and to kill flies, attend the boxing matc...

What Matters Most is How Well You Walk Through the Fire

I devised a test. I turned off the TV and instantly the snoring stopped. She began to move. When I felt her eyes about to open, I turned the TV back on and back to sleep she went. Then I'd turn it off and on - sometimes for millisecond - and she neve...

What's Eating Gilbert Grape

Disrespect also can take the form of idealizing you and putting you on a pedestal as a perfect woman or goddess, perhaps treating you like a piece of fine china. The man who worships you in this way is not seeing you; he is seeing his fantasy, and wh...

Why Does He Do That?: Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men

God clues us in to the fact that, "As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts." In short, God is not logical. This is not to say that he is illogical, only that he is not limited ...

Ron Brackin

The Howeitat spread out along the cliffs to return the peasants' fire. This manner of going displeased Auda, the old lion, who raged that a mercenary village folk should dare to resist their secular masters, the Abu Tayi. So he jerked his halter, can...

T.E. Lawrence

[first lines] Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai is found in death. Meditation on inevitable death should be performed daily. Every day when one's body and mind are at peace, one should meditate upon being ripped apart by arrows, rifles, spears, and s...

Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai

You want to be beaten, pummelled and driven away, so you have a reason to shut everyone out, and say 'I told you so' when it all goes to shit. The thing is, we all fuck up. All of us. Regularly. And living is painful of it. we all fuck up. What makes...

Heart Of The Wolf

And when we give each other Christmas gifts in His name, let us remember that He has given us the sun and the moon and the stars, and the earth with its forests and mountains and oceans--and all that lives and move upon them. He has given us all gree...

Sigrid Undset

I wander cowboy sidewalks of wood, wearing a too-small hat, filled with remorse for the many lives I failed to lead.

CivilWarLand in Bad Decline

Failed efforts are there for you to examine and learn from.

The Clutter Breakthrough: Your Five-Step Solution to Freedom from Clutter Forever

In their faces--plenty of them were handsome, but ruined--I've seen the remnants of who they almost succeeded in being but failed to be, before becoming themselves.

Canada

It means that you two, precious father and son, would be a pair of knaves if you had sense enough; but, failing in that, you are only a pair of fools!

Capitola's Peril

You haven't failed until you stop trying.

The Energy Bus: 10 Rules to Fuel Your Life, Work, and Team with Positive Energy

No one's family is normal. Normalcy is a lie invented by advertising agencies to make the rest of us feel inferior.

Epic Fail

Kill your enemies with success and bury them with a smile.... Never fails.

Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics

...it's easy to express romantic love - harder to manage daily love - to forgive failings close to feelings - to divide self from soul...

A Familiar Rain

You are a side effect," Van Houten continued, "of an evolutionary process that cares little for individual lives. You are a failed experiment in mutation.

The Fault in Our Stars

Any teachings that fail to recognize Jesus Christ as the author of life, is absolutely antichrist.John 1:1-13.

God's Blueprint of the Holy Bible