Bruce E. > Bruce's Quotes

“Failure is only the opportunity more intelligently to begin again.”
― Henry Ford

“I was mistaken about Eve in the beginning;  It is better to live outside the Garden with her   than inside, without her….”                                                                                       —Mark Twain”
― Lola St.Vil, The Girl

“As you begin to simplify your life, you’re going to be making a lot of changes in the way you spend your time. If saying no is a problem for you, go back to your short list (#21) and keep it firmly in mind. Your objective will be to get to the point where you see that by turning down an invitation you’re not saying no to someone else; rather you’re saying yes! to what you really want to do.”
― Elaine St. James, Living the Simple Life: A Guide to Scaling Down and Enjoying More

“Belief is not the beginning of knowledge- it is the end.”
― Goethe

“In small communities, she believed, people are more accountable to one another. Serious misbehavior is harder to get away with, harder even to begin when everyone who sees you knows who you are, where you live, who your family is, and whether you have any business doing what you’re doing.”
― Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Talents

“You had as good a chance as I did. I told you everything I saw, as I saw it at the time. And if that was in itself deceptive, remember, I told you that, too: I warned you, right from the beginning, that I lie.”
― Tana French, In the Woods

“She laughed again, and she looked at me. Just for a moment. But she looked, she saw. She wasn't looking at me to see what she looked like, she was looking me to see what I looked like. That is unusual in my experience”
― Ursula K. Le Guin