Vanderhaeghe's Quotes

#1. Any Canadian looking in the bathroom mirror is sure to recognize one of Guy Vanderhaeghe's people. Man Descending is the startling debut of an excellent writer.

Rudy Wiebe

#2. The Wars is a great book, rich in its images, its language, its construction, and, ultimately, its conception.

Guy Vanderhaeghe

#3. Measurements of the specific ionization of both the positive and negative particles, by counting the number of droplets per unit length along the tracks, showed the great majority of both the positive and negative particles to possess unit electric charge.

Carl D. Anderson

#4. Most of those characters with all the answers couldn't poor piss out of a rubber boot if they read the instructions printed on the sole.

Guy Vanderhaeghe

#5. A man descending is propelled by inertia; the only initiative left him is whether or not he decides to enjoy the passing scene.

Guy Vanderhaeghe

#6. The gibbering mad SandWing a few cages down who never shuts up, all night long? (What is her story? Has she really been here since the rule of Queen Oasis?) Or

Tui T. Sutherland

#7. But black students were left on their own.

Isabel Wilkerson

#8. The fact remains, I was never meant to sell china. Only truly saintly men are cut out for that; the sort of men who trudge the roads to Benares, or reside on the icy hilltops speculating on infinity. It takes more faith than I can summon.

Guy Vanderhaeghe

#9. As long as I can remember I have been carelessly casting myself uninvited into novels where no self-respecting novelist would have me. This literary gate-crashing of mine must be a sign of a wretched thirsting after immortality.

Guy Vanderhaeghe

#10. Essence of humility is unity.

Radhanath Swami

#11. That the more authoritarian organizations survive and prevail goes generally unnoticed because people focus on the objectives of organizations, which are many and varied, rather than on their structures, which lend to be similar.

Robert Shea

#12. Not to do as the child wishes would be wrong because he is born on a path, and it would be evil, a crime against nature to make him deny his spirit.

Guy Vanderhaeghe

#13. She'd whisper to me to take my tiny piece of happiness, hold its honey in my mouth until it melts away.

Guy Vanderhaeghe

#14. Sometimes I feel entirely disassociated from what I do. It's a malady of the modern age.

Guy Vanderhaeghe

#15. I've always found that a really lively argument depends on the ignorance of the combatants.

Guy Vanderhaeghe

#16. It might be high summer all about but inside me everything is fall. The lonesomeness of a sad, slow closing of days, knowing frost is nigh and wind needling through the cabin chinks is just around the bend. That's me, right now.

Guy Vanderhaeghe

#17. Do not follow your present course. It is a dead end. The dead end of the perfect English gentleman.

Guy Vanderhaeghe

#18. Embrace one another with courage. Search each other's hearts for hidden suffering and never flee what you discover! That's the ticket!

Guy Vanderhaeghe

#19. He had the neurotic's partial vision of life, and a sense of the absurdity which adheres to all effort when observed in the light of a long enough perspective. This had never made him popular.

Guy Vanderhaeghe

#20. Only those who spend much time in HIs presence will ever become like Him.

Oswald J. Smith

#21. History tells us what people do; historical fiction helps us imagine how they felt.

Guy Vanderhaeghe

#22. I remember you organized the big laundry party and all of our friends took their dirty clothes to the laundromat and drank wine out of a wineskin until the manager threw us out because you kept yelling that there ought to be a prize given to the owner of the biggest pair of boxer shorts.

Guy Vanderhaeghe