Quotes by Canadian Authors - Page 5

What a folly to dread the thought of throwing away life at once and yet have no regard to throwing it away by parcels and piecemeal.
John Howe
The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.
Robertson Davies
The first need of being is endurance to endure with gladness if we can with fortitude in any event.
Bliss Carman
It's the plugging away that will win you the day So don't be a piker old pard! Just draw on your grit it's so easy to quit- It's the keeping your chin up that's hard.
Robert W. Service
Today is a new day. You will get out of it just what you put into it. . . If you have made mistakes even serious mistakes there is always another chance for you. . . . for this thing that we call "failure" is not the falling down but the staying down.
Mary Pickford
The sun gives us light but the moon provides inspiration. If you look at the sun without shielding your eyes you'll go blind. If you look at the moon without covering your eyes you'll become a poet.
Serge Bouchard
The greatest joy in nature is the absence of man.
Bliss Carman
A man must be obedient to the promptings of his innermost heart.
Robertson Davies
Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
Laurence J. Peter
Conscience: That which makes a boy tell his mother before his sister does.
Laurence J. Peter
After all what's a cult? It just means not enough people to make a minority.
The Globe and Mail
You always feel when you look it straight in the eye that you could have put more into it could have let yourself go and dug harder.
Emily Carr
Growth begins when we start to accept our own weakness.
Jean Vanier
What had seemed easy in imagination was rather hard in reality.
L.M. Montgomery
Early to bed early to rise work like hell and advertise.
Laurence J. Peter
We also serve who only punctuate.
Brian Moore
Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents' shortcomings.
Laurence J. Peter
A half truth like half a brick is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better.
Stephen Leacock
The new electronic interdependence recreates the world in the image of a global village.
Marshall McLuhan
Prayer is the ascending vapor which supplies The showers of blessing and the stream that flows Through earth's dry places till on every side "The wilderness shall blossom as the rose."
A.B. Simpson
God punishes us mildly by ignoring our prayers and severely by answering them.
Richard J. Needham
Prayer is the voice of faith.
William Van Home
When I have a problem I pray about it and what comes to mind and stays there I assume to be my answer. And this has been right so often that I know it is God's answer.
J. L. Kraft
What a friend we have in Jesus All our sins and griefs to bear! What a privilege to carry Everything to God in Prayer! Have we trials and temptations? Is there trouble anywhere? We should never be discouraged Take it to the Lord in prayer. Are we weak and heavy laden Cumbered with a load of care? Precious Savior still our refuge Take it to the Lord in prayer. O what peace we often forfeit O what needless pain we bear All because we do not carry Everything to God in prayer!
Joseph Scriven
We cannot ask in behalf of Christ what Christ would not ask Himself if He were praying.
A.B. Simpson
Help me to work and pray Help me to live each day That all I do may say Thy kingdom come.
A.B. Simpson
Pray always pray beneath sins heaviest load Prayer claims the blood from Jesus' side that flowed. Pray always pray though weary faint and lone Prayer nestles by the Father's sheltering throne.
A.B. Simpson
Pray always pray when sickness wastes thy frame Prayer brings the healing power of Jesus' name.
A.B. Simpson
God punishes us mildly by ignoring our prayers and severely by answering them.
Richard J. Needham
Power is the recognition of necessity.
Abraham Rotstein
Power only tires those who don't exercise it.
Pierre Elliott Trudeau
The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character-building value of privation for the poor.
J. K. Galbraith
Isn't it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about? It just makes me feel glad to be alive- it's such an interesting world.
L.M. Montgomery
Make your judgement trustworthy by trusting it.
Grenville Kleiser
A word after a word after a word is power.
Margaret Atwood
A voice is a human gift it should be cherished and used to utter as fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence go together.
Margaret Atwood
For years I wanted to be older and now I am.
Margaret Atwood
Forgiving is all forgetting is another thing.
Bob Rae
This proves what a purifying effect women would have on politics.
Nellie McClung
Poetry was the maiden I loved but politics was the harridan I married.
Joseph Howe
In academic life you seek to state absolute truths in politics you seek to accommodate truth to the facts around you.
Pierre Elliott Trudeau
A question which can be answered without prejudice to the government is not a fit question to ask.
John G. Diefenbaker
The essential ingredient of politics is timing.
Pierre Elliott Trudeau
The trouble with socialists is that they let their bleeding hearts go to their bloody heads.
Tommy Douglas
He is a pragmatist. He is not right wing nor left wing nor any wing.
Robert Stanfield
Never retract never explain never apologize - get the thing done and let them howl.
Nellie McClung
Macdonald's Law: Never write a letter if you can help it and never destroy one.
John A. Macdonald
One of the luxuries of a politican's life is that you see yourself as others see you.
Joe Clark
Power is a drug on which the politicians are hooked. They buy it from the voters using the voters' own money.
Richard J. Needham
A new Member requires the experience of his first session in the House to teach him how to hang up his overcoat and take his seat in a manner befitting a gentlemen.
John A. Macdonald
I love this job. I love it to death. I love every waking minute of it.
Joey Smallwood
Reagan won because he ran against Jimmy Carter. Had he run unopposed he would have lost.
Mort Sahl
If a man didn't make sense the Scotch felt it was misplaced politeness to try to keep him from knowing it. Better that he be aware of his reputation for this would encourage reticence which goes well with stupidity.
J. K. Galbraith
Chivalry is a poor substitute for justice if one cannot have both. Chivalry is something like the icing on cake sweet but not nourishing.
Nellie McClung
The essentials of poetry are rhythm dance and the human voice.
Earle Birney
In philosophy an individual is becoming himself.
Bernard Lonergan
People are like birds - from a distance beautiful: from close up those sharp beaks those beady little eyes.
Richard J. Needham
I only have to stop the puck not beat it to death.
Don Beaupre
A nation is a body of people who have done great things together in the past and hope to do great things together in the future.
Frank Underhill
There is Ontario patriotism Quebec patriotism or Western patriotism each based on the hope that it may swallow up the others but there is no Canadian patriotism and we can have no Canadian nation when we have no Canadian patriotism.
Henri Bourassa