Augustavo Kanalas Quotes & Sayings

I've noticed that worrying is like praying for what you don't want to happen. — Robert Downey Jr.

Hope deferred maketh the heart sick. — Thomas Hardy

Ah, the harbour bells of Cambridge! Whose fountains in moonlight and closed courts and cloisters, whose enduring beauty in its virtuous remote self-assurance, seemed part, less of the loud mosaic of one's stupid life there, though maintained perhaps by the countless deceitful memories of such lives, than the strange dream of some old monk, eight hundred years dead, whose forbidding house, reared upon piles and stakes driven into the marshy ground, had once shone like a beacon out of the mysterious silence, and solitude of the fens. A dream jealously guarded: Keep off the Grass. And yet whose unearthly beauty compelled one to say: God forgive me. — Malcolm Lowry

I had to philosophize. Otherwise, I could not live in this world. — Edmund Husserl

THE TO NOT DO LIST There are a million important things to do. But none as important as lying here next to you. — Pleasefindthis

Texans are the only race of people known to anthropologists who do not depend on breeding for propagation. Like princes and lords, they can be made by breath; plus a big hat-which comparatively few Texans wear. — J. Frank Dobie

Time, you may be sure, will make one or the other of us think differently; and, in the meanwhile, we need not talk much on the subject. — Jane Austen

The operation of the Church is entirely set up for the sinner; which creates much misunderstanding among the smug.
(August 9, 1955) — Flannery O'Connor

What I have figured out is that I can predict the future. I just can't predict when. — Steve Case

Yeah- in between insulting someone's mother and taking the Lord's name in vain, he said, 'Bet you're glad she loves Cullen instead of me today, huh, Charlie? — Stephenie Meyer

Hunger is not the worst feature of unemployment; idleness is. — William Barrett