Katherine Howe famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

In his voice resonated the timbre of a man who thinks he has convinced himself of an idea, but masks his own doubt by laboring to persuade others.
-- Katherine Howe

#Men #Thinking #Ideas
Of course mothers and daughters with strong personalities might see the world from very different points of view.
-- Katherine Howe

#Relationship #Mother #Daughter
...You can have this whole entire life, with all your opinions, your loves, your fears. Eventually those parts of you disappear. And then the people who could remember those parts of you disappear, and before long, all that's left is your name in some ledger. This...person -- she had a favorite food. She had friends and people she disliked. We don't even know how she died...I guess that's why I like preservation better than history. In preservation I feel like I can keep some of it from slipping away.
-- Katherine Howe

#Names #Long #People
She was always puzzled that people say that darkness falls. To her it seemed instead to rise, massing under trees an shrubs, pouring out from under furniture, only reaching the sky when the spaces near the ground were full.
-- Katherine Howe

#Fall #Space #Sky
But remember. Just because you don't believe in something doesn't mean it isn't real.
-- Katherine Howe

#Real #Believe #Mean
In this world, everyone is friends with everyone else. In a way.
-- Katherine Howe

#World #Way #This World
God shields the souls of the innocent the best He can from the Devil's torments.
-- Katherine Howe

#Soul #Devil #Shields

No one man is superior to the game.
Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.
Well," said Pooh, "what I like best," and then he had to stop and think. Because although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn't know what it was called.
The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.
Our God has boundless resources. The only limit is in us. Our asking, our thinking, our praying are too small. Our expectations are too limited.
Because of a friend, life is a little stronger, fuller, more gracious thing for the friend's existence, whether he be near or far. If the friend is close at hand, that is best; but if he is far away he still is there to think of, to wonder about, to hear from, to write to, to share life and experience with, to serve, to honor, to admire, to love.
It came about as follows: over the years when I was involved in dianetics, I wrote the beginnings of many stories. I would get an idea, and then write the beginning, and then never touch it again.
There's a very passionate pro-chewing movement on the Internet called Chewdiasm. They say that we should be chewing 50 to 100 times per mouthful, which is insane. I tried that. It takes like a day and a half to eat a sandwich. But their basic idea is right. If you chew, you'll eat slower and you will get more nutrients.
Once I went to bed in Orlando and I woke up in Atlanta. I have no idea how that happened.
I was really intrigued by the idea of using live streams of data that's relevant to real people, and that would allow us to reflect and learn about ourselves.

Katherine Howe famous quotes

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