Quotes by Canadian Authors - Page 87

Wetting one's pants is no kind of self-esteem builder.
Susan Juby
Darlin’, you can’t tell me your ex wasn’t adventurous and not expect me to see it as a challenge.
Leah Braemel
Often she dreamt she had two wings, and one was frightened, and one was happy.
Erin Bow
The way you react to challenging situations will say a lot about you. Actually, it will make or break your business.
Cendrine Marrouat
I was not always a Muslim, but once I was led into the absorption of prayer and the mysteries of the Qur’an, something troubled in me became still.
Camilla Gibb
When you no longer perceive the world as hostile, there is no more fear, and when there is no more fear, you think, speak and act differently.
Eckhart Tolle
Transgender women do not think of themselves as men wearing women's clothing, they ARE women.
Cheryl B. Evans
It is foolish to regret anything form one's past.
Mary Balogh
THERE is something in the autumn that is native to my blood—t Touch of manner, hint of mood;t And my heart is like a rhyme,t With the yellow and the purple and the crimson keeping time.
Bliss Carman
I've heard that the best way to help poor people is to make sure you don't become one of them
Robin S. Sharma
We’re your daughters, mister. We’re your girlfriends, we’re your sisters, we’re your precious baby girls. Goddammit, listen.
Colleen Curran
People with character are capable of long obedience in the same direction, of staying attached to people and causes and callings through thick and thin. People with character also have scope. They are not infinitely flexible, free-floating, and solitary. They are anchored by permanent attachments to important things. In the realm of the intellect, they have a set of permanent convictions about fundamental truths. In the realm of emotion, they are enmeshed in a web of unconditional loves. In the realm of action, they have a permanent commitment to tasks that cannot be completed in a single lifetime.
David Brooks
So now we pause. Still. Ponder. Hush. Wait. Each day of Advent, He gives you the gift of time, so you have time to be still and wait. Wait for the coming of the God in the manger who makes Himself bread for us near starved. For the Savior in swaddlings who makes Himself the robe of righteousness for us worn out. For Jesus, who makes precisely what none of us can but all of us want: Christmas.
Ann Voskamp
Publication is a self-invasion of privacy.
Marshall McLuhan
This lesser world is all about reproduction, as you might well know. Those who cease to duplicate simply die.
Rawi Hage
Leave your hair natural. Let your beard grow out. Leave the makeup in the bag. Wear comfortable clothes. Stop worrying so much about your looks and start looking around you. You have missed so much beauty trying to become beautiful. You have missed your own worth trying to become worthy. Let the mask break open. Let it lie on the floor. Let yourself be seen. Let yourself see.
Vironika Tugaleva
Nearly every parent on earth operates on the assumption that character matters a lot to the life outcomes of their children. Nearly every government antipoverty program operates on the assumption that it doesn’t.
David Brooks
Histories, chronologies and almanacs offer us the illusion of progress, even though, over and over again, we are given proof that there is no such thing.
Alberto Manguel
I had spent so much time secretly scared of rape that in that moment I was hardly even afraid anymore. Or rather I had moved on to my next fear—what happens when it’s over? Would I be left there, alone? Injured? Or worse?
Amber Dawn
Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized.
Margaret Atwood
An all-loving god would surely not damn his children to an eternity of torture simply for being born into a culture that believes in the wrong deity, follows the wrong holy book or attends the wrong type of church services.
Armin Navabi
When you see the truth for the first time, it is what people call a peak moment, or a moment of clarity. You get a larger percentage of what each moment of life actually contains; you are filled with life. Your mind is the gatekeeper of life, and sometimes it lets a little true life in, but most of the time it does not.Without the mind blocking life, you receive all of life, true life, and reflect it all back out.Seeing Niagara Falls or the Grand Canyon for the first time is a peak moment for most people. Why does it make you feel so alive? Nothing really happens to you. Why doesn’t it feel as good the second time you see it? You are seeing the same thing. The reason is, your mind opens up when something is special.The truth is, every moment of life is special, and you can be completely open to life most of the time. You have to see the truth to see true life.
Michael Smith
He liked lonely places, because he never really felt alone.
Eleanor Catton
I want you forever, not just for tonight.
Sylvain Reynard
We should have smashed through the door long ago,” grunted Thor. Everyone had always thought of Thor as Lennie from Of Mice and Men: too big and too slow. The chief difference being that while Lenny accidentally hugged little animals to death, Thor had a penchant for beating the shit out of them with his war hammer, Mjolnir.
Dylan Callens
When in trouble or in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout.
Cory Doctorow
Women’s fiction” doesn’t sound like anything but a slur to my ears.
Sheila Heti
...yes, in the obscured sky a moon does float, newly, a wishing moon, a sliver of ancient rock, a goddess, a wink.
Margaret Atwood
The only authentic literature of the modern era is the owner’s manual.
David Cronenberg
If you live long enough as a parent nowadays, you discover that you have made mistakes you didn't bother to know about along with the ones you do know about all too well. You are somewhat humbled at heart, sometimes disgusted with yourself.
Alice Munro
What’s the matter for you? You wanna see a stereotypa, suck on my Italian sausage and…”Einstein interrupted by leaping out of his chair, hovering over Da Vinci with his eyes as wide open as possible. His long pointy tongue stuck out like a frog ready to snap at a fly.“Oh, you wanna licka my bocce balls, do you?
Dylan Callens
There is simply no issue more important. Conservation is the preservation of human life on earth, and that, above all else, is worth fighting for.
Rob Stewart
I’m not an easy lay, I won’t do a one-night stand, and my father is a mob boss with a short temper and a collection of guns. Still want to take me out?” - Ana Avdonin
Bethany-Kris
How can a school prepare you for murderers and mad-men?' Taro asked. 'Friends who would betray you to your death. People in authority who use their power to perform the most unnatural acts. People hating you because you can't do things you aren't supposed to be doing anyway. That's a lot to expect of a school.
Moira J. Moore
You’re stuck with me.”She sniffled. “Promise?”He rested his forehead against hers. “Cross my heart.
Kaylea Cross
There's nothing more beautiful than authenticity. There's nothing stronger than vulnerability. There's no better time than now.
Vironika Tugaleva
We all would like to know more and, at the same time, to receive less information. In fact, the problem of a worker in today's knowledge industry is not the scarcity of information but its excess. The same holds for professionals: just think of a physician or an executive, constantly bombarded by information that is at best irrelevant. In order to learn anything we need time. And to make time we must use information filters allowing us to ignore most of the information aimed at us. We must ignore much to learn a little.
Mario Bunge
Rich must thank poor; if poor unite, rich will have no place to hide.
Vinita Kinra
Truth has nothing to do with the conclusion, and everything to do with the methodology.
Stefan Molyneux
Christian feminists can celebrate any sort of feminism that brings more justice and human flourishing to the world, no matter who is bringing it, since we recognize the hand of God in all that is good.
Sarah Bessey
It is not in life but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found.
George Woodcock
The storms inside uncoilinto sky held calm by far seeing eyesMemories dressed in the translucenttrickery of the mind,so as to wear life upon themselves,give up their tired dance and runinto free frequency
Tamara Rendell
Ava turned to the side, staring out into the dark. In profile, her face was suddenly tired and sad, and Cole felt the urge to wrap himself around her. To protect her from whatever was dragging her down.
Danika Stone
A butterfly does not wonder how it can stop being a caterpillar. It simply feels some feeling from within that tells it: isolate yourself in this cocoon and grow within it. It trusts that feeling. When it comes out, it is radiant and beautiful. All the little bug did was follow its nature. You are no different.
Vironika Tugaleva
He sounded like he was used to people swearing at him, which made no damned sense, because he was gorgeous and a hero.
Cate Cameron
I'll love you forever,I'll like you for always, As long as I'm living, my baby you'll be.
Robert Munsch
...the strands that connect us are frail, so don't hang great weights on slender wires...
John Geddes
The point is not that angering people should be the goal for every brand. It's that attempting to avoid controversy at all costs is sometimes the riskier option. It can deprive a brand of its distinctiveness and edge. Too often, marketers strive to please the broadest number of people possible. The result can be communications that no one hates. But no one loves either.
Clive Veroni
Doubt grew only in the fertile darkness of solitude
Michael R. Fletcher
Over time, this growing tendency of like marrying like will only reinforce clustering and geographic sorting along class lines, giving the emerging map of social, economic, and cultural segregation even greater permanence.
Richard Florida
...you want things to remain the same, which they never can, and so you’re wounded by your own feelings & resentful others don’t seem to care...
John Geddes
Sometimes,” she whispered, her lips brushing his cheek, “you need to be lost in order to be found.
Danika Stone
Every year, when you're a child, you become a different person.
Alice Munro
...I found my eyes repelled by hers as if they were the like poles of a pair of magnets.
Alan Bradley
While he has not, in my hearing, spoken the English language, he makes it perfectly plain that he understands it. And he uses his ears, tail, eyebrows, various rumbles and grunts, the slant of his great cold nose or a succession of heartrending sighs to get his meaning across.
Jean Little
… between the irrational promoted in churches and the Darwinian pseudo-science taught in schools, a revolution in the way we understand reality is not only necessary but also long overdue.
Paul Greene
I try to walk around without being noticed but I can’t help attracting attention with my pink Mohawk, black clothing and steel toes, and often I’m with Holly and we’re both tall and arrogant.
Jo Treggiari
Facts are stubborn things but statistics are more pliable.
Laurence J. Peter
Otaku (おた) is also a formal way of saying "you". た means "house", and with the honorific お, it literally means "your honorable house", implying that you are less of a person and more of a place, fixed in space and contained under a roof. Makes sense that the stereotype of the modern otaku is a shut-in, an obsessed loner and social isolate who rarely leaves his house.
Ruth Ozeki
God Lord, give me strength. Please keep the local firefighters away from me. Keep me out of the path of hardened abs and tall men in uniform, for they are bastards, one and all. Amen
Rosanna Leo