Quotes by Canadian Authors - Page 23

People know me by the way I live my life, not by the labels I wear, and that means we can hold all sorts of conversations and learn from each other in a way that would not happen if there were the walls of ignorant prejudice between us. --Oisce
Arin Murphy-Hiscock
Ignorance and prejudice and fear go hand in hand
Neil Peart
There are many injustices in the world, but some are worse than others. You can hate someone because he's poor, because of the clothes he wears, or for his political views. But a person can change that. If you hate someone for being a Jew or an Arab, he cannot rub off his skin. That sort of prejudice is the greatest injustice...next to taking someone's life.
Shane Peacock
Prejudice of any kind implies that you are identified with the thinking mind. It means you don't see the other human being anymore, but only your own concept of that human being. To reduce the aliveness of another human being to a concept is already a form of violence.
Eckhart Tolle
Prejudice of any kind implies that you are identified with the thinking mind. It means you don’t see the other human being anymore, but only your own concept of that human being. To reduce the aliveness of another human being to a concept is already a form of violence.
Eckhart Tolle
Only God gets the glory when revival comes to town.
Jared Brock
...I pray this winter be gentle and kind - a season of rest from the wheel of the mind...
John Geddes
Simplicity is no longer presented as a virtue. The value of complex and difficult language has been preached with such insistence that the public has begun to believe the lack of clarity must be a sign of artistic talent.
John Ralston Saul
She wasn't stupid. She just didn't want to put her neuron power into long sentences.
Margaret Atwood
It was simpler just to keep things simple.
Bruce Crown
What’s the most difficult thing you can do? Live simply. ‘Cause in order to be self-sufficient, you got to get well near everybody else to work for you.
M.C. Humphreys
Everyone's life matters and everyone deserves to be happy but not everyone is in a place where they think, or even believe, happiness is possible.
Cheryl B. Evans
Transgender women do not think of themselves as men wearing women's clothing, they ARE women.
Cheryl B. Evans
I wished for impossible things. It was never going to have been a fairy tale for us. There are no fairy tales about two princesses.
Erin Bow
Gay rights aren't predicated on being born gay or having the right gene. Gay rights are predicated on having choice and consent. If you're a man and you can find another man that consents to have sex with you, it's the consent that gives you the right to have sex with him. Genetics are irrelevant when it comes to sexual rights. Just as gay rights are based on choice and consent, so are prostitution rights. All sexual rights are based on choice and consent.
Chester Brown
Relationship (definition): Liaison usually involving two people and their dirty dishes.
Richard Summerbell
You don't deserve the anger you're turning on yourself. Your abuser's the one who does.
Cheryl Rainfield
I break into heterosexual houses so I can masturbate in their heterosexual kitchens
Joey Comeau
Stripping her of her name had been almost as satisfying as removing her dress.
Ania Szado
Victory in war is usually the result of compromising what you want and behaving like those you despise." - Tapio
Miles Cameron
Some victories didn't taste as sweet as they should
Morgan Rhodes
Winners in life visualize their success and look forward to reaping and enjoying the rewards of their accomplishments. They revel in their hard-earned victory, and that reinforces their superior level of self-confidence.
Lorii Myers
Some people look like they sound better than they actually sound, because they look confident and have good posture," once musician, a veteran of many auditions, says. "Other people look awful when they play but sound great. Other people have that belabored look when they play, but you can't hear it in the sound. There is always this dissonance between what you see and hear" (p.251).
Malcolm Gladwell
Many common lies and hypocrisies are like that, just out of the harmony of the moment.
Saul Bellow
Leibniz combines Aristotelian teleology in the notion that the nature of a thing provides for its unfolding in a certain fashion with the modern idea that the nature of a thing is within it. Because the forms are internal in the way that they are not with Aristotle, the harmony of the world has to be pre-established by God.
Charles Taylor
Count blessings and discover Who can be counted on.
Ann Voskamp
Can God be counted on? Count blessings and find out how many of His bridges have already held.
Ann Voskamp
Do you know the sums that I do?” “I count my blessings.
Louise Penny
I did not grasp all these details - and many more - right away. They came to my notice with time and as a result of necessity. I would be in the direst of dire straits, facing a bleak future, when some small thing, some detail, would transform itself and appear in my mind in a new light. It would no longer be the small thing it was before, but the most important thing in the world, the thing that would save my life. This happened time and again. How true it is that necessity is the mother of invention, how very true.
Yann Martel
Blessings sometimes show up in unrecognizable disguises.
Janette Oke
I keep coming back to certain books, and you—to try to find myself again
John Geddes
And I need you, my love," he said. "I need you so much that I panic when I think that perhaps I will not be able to persuade you to come back with me to Enfield. I need you so much that I cannot quite contemplate the rest of my life if it must be lived without you. I need you so much that—Well, the words speak for themselves. I need you.""To look after Augusta?" she said. She dared not hear what he was surely saying. She dared not hope. "To look after Enfield? To provide you with an heir?""Yes," he said, and her heart sank like a stone to be squashed somewhere between her slippers and the parlor carpet."And to be my friend and my confidant and my comfort. And to be my lover.
Mary Balogh
In time of war, under the banner of an enemy recognisable as such, a foreigner from a camp outside the lines, the imperial idea grew strong in confidence and temper. The British democracy rallied to the call of a strong leadership, and it was not just in rhetorical enthusiasm but with considerable personal satisfaction that Churchill hailed the year 1940-1 as the British people's 'finest hour'. He, with other imperialists, was delighted by the fact that, when it came to the sticking-place, it was the old-fashioned loyalty of the reactionary British Empire to all that was symbolised by allegiance to Crown and country that came forward to save European civilisation from utter overthrow by German tyranny...The days of showing the flag—even for only a momentary glimpse, such as wall that inhabitants of Greece and Crete and Dieppe had of it—had returned. The Empire was the Empire once more, and to 10, Downing Street returned that imperial control that two generations of Dominion opinion had combined to condemn as sinister.
A.P. Thornton
Our listeners asked us:"What is chaos?"We're answering:"We do not comment on economic policy.
John Vaillant
Now that I think of it, she looked splendid. I wish I had met her somewhere else. I wish I had appreciated her as she deserved. I wish that everything had gone differently.
Alice Munro
...a little "appreciation" sometimes does quite as much good as all the conscientious "bringing up" in the world.
L.M. Montgomery
Every one of my fans is so special to me
Justin Bieber
Left to our own devices, we will make God in our own image.
Jared Brock
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness... & ... Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative.–
John Kenneth Galbraith
In 1948, psychologists asked more than 10,000 adolescents whether they considered themselves to be a very important person. At that point, 12 percent said yes. The same question was asked in 2003, and this time it wasn’t 12 percent who considered themselves very important, it was 80 percent.
David Brooks
that is the thing about selfish people. theygamble entire beings. entire souls to please their own. one second they are holding you like the world in their lap and the next they have belittled you to a mere picture. a moment. something of the past. one second. they swallow you up and whisper they want to spend the rest of their life with you. but the moment they sense fear. they are already halfway out the door. without having the nerve to let you go with grace. as if the human heart means that little to them.and after all this. after all of the taking. the nerve. isn't it sad and funny how people have more guts these days to undress you with their fingers than they do pick up the phone and call. apologize. for the loss. and this is how you lose her.- selfish
Rupi Kaur
Unless we recognize a higher power to whom we are responsible and who observes and knows our actions, we will not transcend the selfishness of our character and the subjectivity of our intellect. If each person is the final arbiter of right and wrong, then ‘right’ for him or her will be what he or she desires, regardless of its consequences for the other inhabitants of Earth.
Daniel Friedmann
...I don't want security - to be self-assured - I want to risk my heart in making your portrait and be paid the wages of your devotion...
John Geddes
Mountaineers are one of the few groups to celebrate before the finish line. More mountaineers die on the descent than on the ascent.
Susan Oakey-Baker
Jim turned his head slowly to look into my eyes and shuddered. “It’s the closest I’ve ever felt to dying.
Susan Oakey-Baker
To take that risk, to offer life and remain alive, open yourself like this and become whole.
Margaret Atwood
My heartfelt appreciation goes out to Jan Zwicky, Don McKay, John Barton, Barry Dempster, Carolyn Forché and Elizabeth Philips for their masterful eyes and minds.
Leigh Kotsilidis
you mustn't have to make them want you they must want you themselves
Rupi Kaur
I want, I don’t want.How can one live with such a heart?
Margaret Atwood
he saysi am sorry i am not an easy person to wanti look at him surprisedwho said i wanted easyi don’t crave easyi crave goddamn difficult
Rupi Kaur
It's always amazing how when we're sure we've lost something for good, it winds up finding us.
Nicole Williams
A lot of the world seems to repeat itself
Emma Donoghue
Everyone‟s got a story and everyone thinks theirs is worth telling and worth listening to.
Alice Walsh
To move on, you must surrender to your pain and accept it as your own. Only then will you heal inside.
L.J Vanier
When a child dies, a parent loses a part of themselves,” he said. “Your whole world ceases to exist and you’re nothing but a shell of the person you once were. Your mom has dealt with it in her way, me in mine, and you in yours.” He lifted his hand off John’s gravestone and rose. “Your mom hates the world, I avoid it, and you try to save it.
Nicole Williams
Even today, some opt for the comforts of mystification, preferring to believe that the wonders of the ancient world were built by Atlanteans, gods, or space travelers, instead of by thousands toiling in the sun. Such thinking robs our forerunners of their due, and us of their experience. Because then one can believe whatever one likes about the past - without having to confront the bones, potsherds, and inscriptions which tell us that people all over the world, time and again, have made similar advances and mistakes.
Ronald Wright
What held the civilized world together was the thinnest tissue of nothing but human will.
Paulette Jiles
We are born princes and the civilizing process makes us frogs.
Eric Berne
Interlibrary loans are a wonder of the world and a glory of civilization.
Jo Walton
You need to give money when someone gives you a knife. So the bad luck won't cut you. I wouldn't like it for you to be cut by the bad luck, Jimmy.
Margaret Atwood