Canute Quotes

#1. There's little question that short stories, like poetry, don't get the respect they deserve in the culture - but what can you do? Like Canute, one cannot fight the sea, you have to go with your love, and hope one day, things change.

Junot Diaz

#2. [No one will be able to] deter the scientific mind from probing into the unknown any more than Canute could command the tides.

Warren E. Burger

#3. What do you know of love? It comes from being with someone, from facing life together! Life in its awfulness as well as its joy! You love a handsome face. Nothing more!

Karleen Koen

#4. All I want to do is get back to a principle-based Congress.

Dan Webster

#5. We need to deal with the problem of al Qaeda, make sure that they can't have a sanctuary in Afghanistan and guarantee that we have regional stabilization and particularly focused on Pakistan.

Rahm Emanuel

#6. trailer and found Ray in his mother's bedroom. "How come you're hanging

Irene Pence

#7. The Christian in me says it's wrong, but the corrections officer in me says, 'I love to make a grown man piss himself.'

Charles Graner

#8. When he thought about her, he remembered her at the cottage, her eyes fiery, daring to love him. But standing here in front of him , she looked defeated and sad.

Jenny Downham

#9. Once you run and once you win with an unabashed progressive feminist standard, then it becomes easier for everybody else who's running,

Christine Pelosi

#10. Come what may, I have been blest.

Lord Byron

#11. I threw bitter tears at the ocean, but all that came back was the tide.

Sarah McLachlan

#12. Writing is a psychological process. It is the process of taking what is in your mind and sharing it with others.

Gudjon Bergmann

#13. Ah? Who said that you have to go out on your days off? Going out is too troublesome.

Kou Matsuzuki

#14. One needs to be either more brave or more good, because if courage is lacking goodness can substitute, while cowardice is the deficiency of both.

Neel Burton

#15. One man's wage increase is another man's price increase.

Harold Wilson

#16. And you, my Sassenach? What were you born for? To be lady of a manor, or to sleep in the fields like a gypsy? To be a healer, or a don's wife, or an outlaw's lady?"
"I was born for you," I said simply, and held out my arms to him.

Diana Gabaldon

#17. I went to see Harvey again in Fiddler. Harvey's throat is getting better.

Rip Taylor