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  • The truth is that liberal humanism is at once largely ineffectual, and the best ideology of the 'human' that present bourgeois society can muster.

    Terry Eagleton (2008). “Literary Theory: An Introduction”, p.174, U of Minnesota Press
  • Jealousy is such a direct attack on whatever measure of confidence you’ve been able to muster. But if you continue to write, you are probably going to have to deal with it, because some wonderful, dazzling successes are going to happen for some of the most awful, angry, undeserving writers you know-people who are, in other words, not you.

    Writing   People   Awful  
    Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, p.122, Anchor
  • If optimism is important, it's because many outcomes are determined by how much of it we bring to the task. It is an important ingredient of success. This flies in the face of the elite view that talent is the primary requirement of a good life, but in many cases the difference between success and failure is determined by nothing more than our sense of what is possible and the energy we can muster to convince others of our due. We might be doomed not by a lack of skill, but by an absence of hope!

  • Hearing that I'd come so close to dying should've terrified me, but all I could muster up was a weary "This day sucks.

    Dying   Hearing   Should  
  • If you have to make an unpopular speech, give it all the sincerity you can muster; that's the only way to sweeten it.

    Giving   Speech   Way  
  • I'm convinced no one actually likes clubs. It's a conspiracy. We've been told they're cool and fun; that only "saddoes" dislike them. And no one in our pathetic little pre-apocalyptic timebubble wants to be labelled "sad" - it's like being officially declared worthless by the state. So we muster a grin and go out on the town in our millions.

    Fun   Clubs   Want  
    Charlie Brooker (2009). “The Hell of it All”, p.3, Faber & Faber
  • Even if things are as bad as they could possible be, and as meaningless, then matters of truth are themselves indifferent; we may as well please our sensibilities and, with as much spirit as we can muster, go out with a buck and a wing.

    Wings   May   Bucks  
  • It is my conviction that physical courage at crucial moments comes from the sum of intellectual courage and integrity that you muster at that moment.

    Michael Weisskopf (2016). “Blood Brothers: Among the Soldiers of Ward 57”, p.188, Holt Paperbacks
  • Postmodernism, the school of 'thought' that proclaimed 'There are no truths, only interpretations' has largely played itself out in absurdity, but it has left behind a generation of academics in the humanities disabled by their distrust of the very idea of truth and their disrespect for evidence, settling for 'conversations' in which nobody is wrong and nothing can be confirmed, only asserted with whatever style you can muster.

    "Liberals and the New McCarthyism" by Derrick Jensen, www.counterpunch.org. August 10, 2015.
  • Winning takes character. Workers get the most out of themselves. When a body has limited talent, it must muster all its resources of character to overcome adversity.

  • Strength, strength alone, is honorable, the German nation clamors in its majesty. But since it is hard to muster strength so suddenly, they have to make do with boorishness.

  • Parents accept their obsolescence with the best grace they can muster. . . they do all they can to make it easy for the younger generation to surpass the older, while secretly dreading the rejection that follows.

  • That a majority of the Abolitionists in this place would patronize a free labor store, in preference to others, I do not doubt; but we do not muster money in Cincinnati.

  • I usually think of art as having a measurable content of nourishment, whether factual or emotional or whatever, and I try to make sure that whatever I do has as much nourishment as I can muster.

    Source: therumpus.net
  • Leaders who fail to appreciate this fundamental precept of accountability must also fail to muster the profound commitment true leadership demands.

  • It says, I think, that at root that we're children, or we'd like to be. And the best of us each keep as much of that childhood with us as we grow into adulthood, as we can muster... And even after we're past the point of being able to play the game with any skill, if we love it, then it's like Peter Pan - we remain boys forever, we don't die.

    Children   Boys   Past  
  • Will you keep going when you don't know why? When you can't get any answers that would make the pain go away, will you still say, 'My Lord,' even though his ways are not clear to you? Will you keep going-with all the grace and grit and faith you can muster-and live in hope that one day God will set everything right. Will you trust that God is good? ... Ultimately, the choice everyone faces is the choice between hope and despair. Jesus says, 'Choose hope.'

    Jesus   Pain   Choices  
    John Ortberg (2009). “Everybody's Normal Till You Get to Know Them”, p.198, Zondervan
  • For the Holy Ghost blesses us with optimism and wisdom at times of challenge that we simply cannot muster on our own.

  • And I know I'm supposed to feel guilty for wanting people to buy my books... and books in general? Novels and poetry, they belong to the realm of art. How dirty of us to try to hawk art! But, after a decade of hand-wringing and apologies, I can't quite muster the guilt anymore.

    Art   Dirty   Book  
    "Novelist Walks Into a Bar or Facebook or Wherever" by Julianna Baggott, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 21, 2011.
  • The days of our lives, for all of us, are numbered. We know that. And yes, there are certainly times when we aren't able to muster as much strength and patience as we would like. It's called being human.

    "Elizabeth Edwards dies after battle with cancer". www.cnn.com. December 7, 2010.
  • To be human, at the most profound level, is to encounter honestly the inescapable circumstances that constrain us, yet muster the courage to struggle compassionately for our own unique individualities and for more democratic and free societies.

  • We absolutely must battle with every bit of determination we can muster to root out the harm that would warp the souls and spirits of children in our world.

    Wess Stafford (2010). “Too Small to Ignore: Why the Least of These Matters Most”, p.159, WaterBrook
  • I approach my life haphazardly. Not much holiness and only as much wisdom as I can muster.

  • I feel like I'm going to HURL. Which, even if I wanted to do, I couldn't do, because I haven't eaten. I can't even drag myself out of my room. And while I'd be able to muster the strength to roundhouse Fang until he begged for MERCY, I'de be mush around an Eraser.

    "Fang: A Maximum Ride Novel (Maximum Ride, Book 6)". Book by James Patterson, February 5, 2010.
  • If I can muster up any allure in my life, at this stage, I wouldn't mind doing that.

    Mind   Allure   Stage  
    Interview with Kathryn Borel, www.believermag.com.
  • In his own way, he's lived life with all the intensity he could muster.

    Way   Intensity   Muster  
    Haruki Murakami (2011). “Norwegian Wood”, p.240, Random House
  • Man wants but little here below Nor wants that little long, 'Tis not with me exactly so; But 'tis so in the song. My wants are many, and, if told, Would muster many a score; And were each wish a mint of gold, I still should long for more.

    Song   Men   Long  
    JOHN QUINCY ADAMS (1848). “POEMS OF RELIGION AND SOCIETY”, p.15
  • I try to give myself passionately, totally, to whatever I'm observing, with as much affectionate curiosity as I can muster, as a means of understanding a little better what being human is.

    Passion   Mean   Giving  
  • There is nothing like fun, is there? I haven't any myself, but I do like it in others. O, we need it. We need all the counterweights we can muster to balance the sad relations of life. God has made many sunny spots in the heart; why should we exclude the light from them?

    Fun   Heart   Light  
    Thomas Chandler Haliburton (1855). “Nature and Human Nature”, p.56, New York : Stringer and Townsend
  • We must do everything we are obliged to do; give without reckoning, practice virtue whenever opportunity offers, constantly overcome ourselves, prove our love by all the little acts of tenderness and consideration we can muster. In a word, we must produce all the good works that lie within our strength - out of love for God.

    God   Lying   Opportunity  
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