Ethan Canin Quotes

I'm fascinated by power, by those that can be publicly generous and privately ruthless.

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• You're going through the horror of it, you're going through the isolation of it but you're being empowered by reminding yourself that you're connected to everybody else.

  

  Adam Arkin
  • You
  • Yourself
  • Isolation

• With me serving as the president, we filed a $3-million lawsuit against the league and its member clubs in an attempt to win increased pension benefits and a larger share Of television revenue.

  

  Ted Lindsay
  • Win
  • President
  • Member

• For the wise man looks into space and he knows there is no limited dimensions.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Man
  • Space
  • Wise

• A reviewer once commented that my urban fantasy novels were paced more like epic fantasy, in that they relied on complex world-building and a gradual immersion in the lives of the characters.

  

  Laura Anne Gilman
  • World
  • Like
  • More

• Your best teacher is your last mistake.

  

  Ralph Nader
  • Best
  • Mistake
  • Teacher

• I want people to come away from my book with questions. Questions about virtue and goodness. Not answers.

  

  Veronica Roth
  • People
  • Book
  • Questions

• Americans believe cotton is best, but we've invented new fabrics that will change your lifestyle.

  

  Tadashi Yanai
  • Believe
  • Change
  • Best

• Just because something is three months away and seems far off, doesn't mean you will want to be there when the time comes.

  

  Jaclyn Smith
  • Time
  • Want
  • Three

• Happiness needs one-upmanship.

  

  Zygmunt Bauman
  • Happiness
  • Needs

• 'Veep' is definitely one of my favorite TV shows, and not because I'm in it. It's just such a great show, and the fact that I'm on it is crazy to me because I love it so much.

  

  Randall Park
  • Great
  • Crazy
  • Favorite

• 'You know Adam?' Teddy asked him.'Do I know who?''Adam. In the Bible.'Nicholson smiled. 'Not personally,' he said dryly.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • Bible

• If you stumble at mere believability, what are you living for? Isn't love hard to believe?

  

  Yann Martel
  • Believe

• I have never ever argued about billings because I don’t think that they mean anything.

  

  Amitabh Bachchan

• Who shall count up the evil brood that is born from power - the pitiful fear, the madness, the despair, the overpowering craving for revenge, the treachery, the unmeasured cruelty?

  

  Auberon Herbert
  • Up
  • Power
  • Fear

• Let them revere nothing but religion, morality and liberty.

  

  John Adams

• I loved 'Homeland' - it's such an intriguing, intelligent piece of television, and I am fascinated by them making a hero and heroine that are so odd, so flawed and so complicated. It is a programme that really draws you in.

  

  Lindsay Duncan
  • Hero
  • Intelligent

• It takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile.

  

  Sting The Police
  • Smile
  • Ignorance

• To me, I've played full seasons and had success. Mentally, I've been through it before. I'm not incapable of going through this.

  

  Colin Kaepernick
  • Success

• We look at young black kids with a scowl on their face, walking a certain way down the block with their sweatpants dangling, however, with their hoodies on. And folks think that this is a show of power or a show of force. But I know, because I've been among those kids, it ultimately is fear.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Kids
  • Power
  • Black

• The phonograph and kinetoscope may some day seize and perpetuate all save the magnetic touch, but that weird, illusive, indefinable yet wonderfully real power by which the orator subdues may never be caught by science or preserved for the cruel dissecting knife of the critic.

  

  David Josiah Brewer
  • Real
  • May
  • Power

• During the season especially, we take a lot of swings, we play a lot of games, we swing a lot in games, batting practice, all that, so to maintain your shoulder the strongest is one of the key points that we focused on in the offseason.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • Practice
  • Key
  • Swing

• What purifies the heart refines language.

  

  John Lancaster Spalding
  • Heart

• Obama: But you would rule in the possibility to fight against ISIS.Trump: Well, I'm never gonna rule anything out. And I wouldn't wanna say. Even if I felt - it wasn't going - I wouldn't wanna tell you that because, at a minimum, I want them to think maybe that we would use it.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Trump

• I'm fascinated by power, by those that can be publicly generous and privately ruthless.

  

  Ethan Canin
  • Power
  • Fascinated
  • Ruthless