FastSaying

The simple things come back to us. They rest for a moment by our ribcages then suddenly reach in and twist our hearts a notch backward.


Colum McCann

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

I was studying with Peter Carey, Colum McCann; but also, my fellow students were really critical rea...
PHIL KLAY Thou hast made us for thyself, O Lord, and our hearts are restless until they find their rest in the...
SAINT AUGUSTINE The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more, that plants a fire in o...
NICHOLAS SPARKS The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more, that plants a fire in o...
NOAH-THE NOTEBOOK Miracles... seem to me to rest not so much upon... healing power coming suddenly near us from afar b...
WILLA CATHER Our hearts have been made for you, O God, and they shall never rest until they rest in you.
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO The best love is the kind that weakens the soul, that makes us reach for more. That plants a fire in...
AUDREY NIFFENEGGER But peace does not rest in the charters and covenants alone. It lies in the hearts and minds of all ...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY But peace does not rest in the charters and covenants alone. It lies in the hearts and minds of all ...
JOHN F. KENNEDY Every moment is a moment of decision, and every moment turns us inexorably in the direction of the r...
MARY BALOGH Miracles seem to rest, not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us ...
WILLA CATHER The miracles of the church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power comi...
WILLA CATHER The miracles of the church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power comi...
WILLA SIBERT CATHER There is a tonic strength, in the hour of sorrow and affliction, in escaping from the world and soci...
WILLIAM GEORGE JORDAN People will come to test and divide us, but, as long as we keep compassion in our hearts for others,...
STEWART STAFFORD Those things most valuable to possess,are not visible, though they are more real , than anything we ...
JILL ANZINGER No heaven can come to us unless our hearts find rest in today. No peace lies in the future which is ...
FRA GIOVANNI GIOCONDO Our greatness has always come from people who expect nothing and take nothing for granted - folks wh...
MICHELLE OBAMA We create our life moment by moment. Only those things that can match our inner vibrational frequenc...
THOMAS VAZHAKUNNATHU Backward, turn backward, then time in your flight; Make me a child again just for tonight. Mot...
A.M.W. BALL Their defense caused us to make a lot of turnovers, but I felt like we had come a long way. Then we ...
DREW TROST This is such an exciting moment. Our participation in this lawsuit has always been about family prot...
LISA POLYAK If our hearts are ready for anything, we will spontaneously reach out when others are hurting. Livin...
TARA BRACH And if we ask how are we to know where our hearts are, the answer is just as simple - everything whi...
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER When I was in grad school, I had to admit I hadn't read Toni Morrison. My teacher, the novelist ...
SUNIL YAPA The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more, that plants a fire in o...
NICHOLAS SPARKS Because they're out there in the rest of the world and they can come back into our countries where t...
HARRY HULL A happy and a glorious Easter will this one be to all of us who get a new vision of the risen Christ...
THEODORE LEDYARD CUYLER Our clients don't really come to us by publicity. They come to us by expertise.
SCOTT AKER You wish you had not come. If there were not so many around, you would reach out your arms, with the...
ERIK LARSON At any given moment in our lives, there are certain things that could have happened but didn't. The ...
PAULO COELHO If we can soften our hearts, and if we can access the pure and simple aspect of our nature, then we ...
YEHUDA BERG I think what they're looking for is for us to keep our promises and to do the simple things, lik...
RAUL LABRADOR It isn't given for us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch ca...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD Children are a great comfort to us in our old age, and they help us reach it faster too.
SOURCE UNKNOWN First it was come back, then it was go. We're just trying to do what they tell us and get a few thin...
KAREN TORRE Our hearts, they need a mirror, Tessa. We see our better selves in the eyes of those who love us.
CASSANDRA CLARE Dawes? Dawes, do come back to earth and honour us with your attention for a moment.
TIMBERLAKE WERTENBAKER There are people we meet who have but little roles to play in our lives, who happen to be no more th...
CHIRAG TULSIANI Let's reach our goal this year and come back in 2007 and say we'll collect 4,000 pints.
GEORGE TOTH We've been online since 1995. No one was selling anything on the Internet back then, and we put up a...
ERICH EYLER We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellowmen; and along those...
HERMAN MELVILLE The debt of gratitude we owe our mother and father goes forward, not backward. What we owe our paren...
NANCY FRIDAY I think our defense frustrated them and then they were just frustrated for the rest of the game. The...
DAWN HENDERSON Still, pain hurts. And most of us find it difficult, to say the least, to find gratitude in our hear...
OSCAR AULIQ-ICE A Hazel é diferente. Ela caminha com leveza, velhote. Caminha com leveza sobre a Terra. A Hazel sab...
JOHN GREEN When a friend suddenly comes to mind for no apparent reason, he said it’s because they are near to...
KATE MCGAHAN They tend to lay dormant for a while but often come back, and then the cheques come in!
THAYER DAVID We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those...
HERMAN MELVILLE Whatever we have of this world in our hands, our care must be to keep it out of our hearts, lest it ...
MATTHEW HENRY Whatever we have of this world in our hands, our care must be to keep it out of our hearts, lest it ...
MATTHEW HENRY Things always seem to glide away.
They come to you, stay a moment, then leave again.
MARKUS ZUSAK Let us have a dagger between our teeth, a bomb in our hands, and an infinite scorn in our hearts.
BENITO MUSSOLINI Let us have a dagger between our teeth, a bomb in our hands, and an infinite scorn in our hearts
BENITO MUSSOLINI The first win sets the tempo for the next game (today at 1:05 p.m. in Des Moines). They're going to ...
ERIK WESTRUM What encouragement the apostle holds out to us. O my friends, that we might leave all our pretension...
ELIAS HICKS We chose to host this event in Nashville because we were able to secure top-notch facilities in a gr...
PHYLLIS SHELTON All questions need to be explored from our hearts first & then embraced by our heads.
ANDREA GOEGLEIN To turn our hearts to our fathers is to search out the names of our deceased ancestors and to perfor...
JAMES E. FAUST He certainly helped, by our lights, to make it a more truthful understanding of what happened, and t...
ERIC UELAND So we stood hand-in-hand, like two children, and there was peace in our hearts for all the dark thin...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE There's no more stress. We can use the tournament to regroup and come back strong for the rest of ou...
AMY PIKAS All around us are complex people trying to live simple lives,” she said. “Wanting simple things ...
COLE MCCADE In every work of genius we recognise our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain ...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain ...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts: they come back to us with a certain ...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON In every work of genius we recognise our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain ...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.
EVANS G. VALENS We were a little bit upset by that overtime loss. We knew we were the better team, but it wasn't our...
ERLANA LARKINS One might almost say that an apparition is human vision corrected by divine love. I do not see you a...
WILLA CATHER Taking a five-year hiatus allowed us to get our lives back together, our heads back on straight, and...
DUANE PROPES ...here's to all the dreamers, may our open hearts find rest.
NANCI GRIFFITH It took a lot out of us to come back in second quarter. And again to come back in third quarter, it ...
GREG BONCZKOWSKI We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those...
HERMAN MELVILLE I think our guys have wrestled really hard. They have all gone out and competed for us. It is import...
BARRY HARRINGTON Half the joy of life is in little things taken on the run... but let us keep our hearts young and ou...
VICTOR CHERBULIEZ Obviously, it's a disappointing loss for our team. Gray showed the type of player he is by hitting t...
OLIVER PURNELL Some people come into our lives & leave footprints on our hearts. Others come into our lives & make ...
CRYSTAL DAWN SHEPHERD Divine does not tempt us to see what's in our hearts, it tempts us so we could see what's in our hea...
ALEKSANDRA NINKOVIC Our Father, who has set a restlessness in our hearts and made us all seekers after that which we can...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT That's been our problem all year. It was a bad night for it to come back and bite us.
BURT STELLERS …Then another porpoise broke the water and rolled toward us. A third and fourth porpoise neared. T...
PAT CONROY We rush, rush, rush to get things done, and in the process, our lives rush past us.
Life isn't ...
LISA VERGE HIGGINS God gave us minds to think with and hearts to thank with. Instead we use our hearts to think about t...
DOUGLAS WILSON We are a continuum. Just as we reach back to our ancestors for our fundamental values, so we, as gua...
PAUL TSONGAS Eventually, we reach the point where we start to realize that we are not going to find peace, conten...
GUY FINLEY After losing our first two, it's nice to come back. It's a big win for us, a huge win.
JAY SCHROEDER I knew we could come back. They did not give up. That last touchdown drive can be a springboard for ...
GARY HEIDE It’s strange how things can change back as suddenly as they changed originally. When one thing hap...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I feel like our substitute players really worked hard in the second half to get us back in the match...
BUDD DITCHENDORF The significance of our lives and our fragile planet is then determined only by our own wisdom and c...
CARL SAGAN (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes...
JEAN SASSON Our own random acts of kindness allow us to receive a gift each day in our hearts.
RON BARATONO I could have.What does this phrase mean? At any given moment in our lives, there are certain things ...
PAULO COELHO A day’s brightness is determined by the light in our hearts.
A.D. POSEY We all have those things that help us carry on through life. It is important that these things upon ...
L.M. BROWNING Words are like seeds, I think, planted into our hearts at a tender age. They take root in us as we g...
TAHEREH MAFI On the monetization front, our strengthening leadership in internet user base and broadening reach o...
VICTOR KOO I think exercise tests us in so many ways, our skills, our hearts, our ability to bounce back after ...
PEGGY FLEMING The words that come out of our mouths do not vanish but are perpetually stored in infinite space, an...
ELIF SHAFAK

More Colum McCann

We have all heard of these things before. The love letter arriving as the teacup falls. The guitar s...
COLUM MCCANN Very seldom in my fiction have I directly used the stories people have told me. I think ripping off ...
COLUM MCCANN About 25 years ago, I took a bicycle across the United States. I soon found out that the greatest it...
COLUM MCCANN I'm only telling you on the truth," he said. "If you can't stand the truth, don't ask for it.
COLUM MCCANN The contemporary American novelist benefits in a way from being ignored. It makes you angrier and ma...
COLUM MCCANN I don't believe the world's a particularly beautiful place, but I do believe in redemption.
COLUM MCCANN He's at ease, his body sculpted to the music, his shoulder searching the other shoulder, his right t...
COLUM MCCANN I think literature can make familiar the unfamiliar, and the unfamiliar is very much about the dispo...
COLUM MCCANN If you're a writer, you know there are ways in which we don't know what we're doing at a...
COLUM MCCANN When I come home, I say I'm coming home to Dublin. When I'm in Dublin, I say I'm going h...
COLUM MCCANN It's not very fashionable, but I love life, and I believe that things disappear and reappear and...
COLUM MCCANN I don't believe a poet has a better hold on truth or morality than a fiction writer has. And I d...
COLUM MCCANN The world spins. We stumble on. It is enough.
COLUM MCCANN He might have been naive, but he didn't care; he said he's rather die with his heart on his sleeve t...
COLUM MCCANN In a certain way, novelists become unacknowledged historians, because we talk about small, tiny, lit...
COLUM MCCANN I could tell from Anna's face that she had already told him about dancing in Saint Petersburg and th...
COLUM MCCANN ...and it strikes her, as she walks, that borders, like hatred, are exaggerated precisely because ot...
COLUM MCCANN I had enough electricity in my booty to jump-start the whole of New York City.
COLUM MCCANN No shame in saying that I felt a loneliness drifting through me. Funny how it was, everyone perched ...
COLUM MCCANN I know already that I will return to this day whenever I want to. I can bid it alive. Preserve it. T...
COLUM MCCANN Words are good for saying what things are, but sometimes they don't function for what things aren't.
COLUM MCCANN One of those out-of-the-ordinary days that made sense of the slew of ordinary days. New York had a w...
COLUM MCCANN I sit there thinking about how much courage it takes to live an ordinary life.
COLUM MCCANN What Corrigan wanted was a fully believable God, one you could find
in the grime of the everyda...
COLUM MCCANN With all respects to heaven, I like it here.
COLUM MCCANN Corrigan told me once that Christ was quite easy to understand. He
went where He was supposed t...
COLUM MCCANN ...it was necessary to love silence, but before you could love silence you had to have noise.
COLUM MCCANN There are moments we return to, now and always. Family is like water - it has a memory of what it on...
COLUM MCCANN Nobody falls halfway
COLUM MCCANN People think they know the mystery of living in your skin. They don't. There's no one who knows exce...
COLUM MCCANN Everything was fabulous, even our breakdowns.
COLUM MCCANN I guess this is what marriage is, or was, or could be. You drop the mask. You allow the fatigue in. ...
COLUM MCCANN She's always thought that one of the beauties of New York is that you can be from anywhere and withi...
COLUM MCCANN The repeated lies become history, but they don't necessarily become the truth.
COLUM MCCANN There are rocks deep enough in this earth that no matter what the rupture, they will never see the s...
COLUM MCCANN She was tired of everyone wanting to go to heaven, nobody wanting to die. The only thing worth griev...
COLUM MCCANN I gave them all the truth and none of the honesty.
COLUM MCCANN Good days, they come around the oddest corners.
COLUM MCCANN Yet she likes complications. She wishes she could turn and say: I like people who unbalance me.
COLUM MCCANN People are good or half good or a quarter good, and it changes all the time- but even on the best da...
COLUM MCCANN Literature can remind us that not all life is already written down: there are still so many stories ...
COLUM MCCANN The thing about love is that we come alive in bodies not our own.
COLUM MCCANN Some people think love is the end of the road, and if you're lucky enough to find it, you stay there...
COLUM MCCANN Rather he consoled himself with the fact that, in the real world, when he looked closely into the da...
COLUM MCCANN There's a part of me that thinks perhaps we go on existing in a place even after we've left it.
COLUM MCCANN Memory has a heavy backspin, yet it’s still impossible to land exactly where we took off.
COLUM MCCANN We are being bought off by our affair with the contemporary drug of choice: ease.
COLUM MCCANN It was as if they wanted to take their older bodies and put their younger hearts inside.
COLUM MCCANN Cynicism is easy. An optimist is a braver cynic.
COLUM MCCANN Harry had worked his way through the American Dream and come to the conclusion that is was composed ...
COLUM MCCANN Nothing was simple, certainly not simplification.
COLUM MCCANN I recalled the myth that I had once heard as a university student – thirty-six hidden saints in th...
COLUM MCCANN But Austria, Switzerland and parts of Belgium speak a different sort of German.
COLUM JOYCE We play hardball with people who don't respect [the standards]. We impose an awful lot of discipline...
COLUM JOYCE One of the problems that we found with the Web was that it gave people so much innovative capability...
COLUM JOYCE This was a great chance to honor both teams in what turned out to be a really successful season.
BETH MCCANN We had a great tournament and we have no reason to hang our heads. We have a young team and that hur...
BETH MCCANN She's doing quite well with the team. She really beefs up our defensive line.
BETH MCCANN This was good practice for next weekend.
BETH MCCANN My parents aren't giving any pressure on distance, ... This will be my decision, totally. It will be...
BRYAN MCCANN There is more emotion playing defense, ... If you make a mistake but are going hard, you can still b...
BRYAN MCCANN I have offers from UAB , SMU , Northwestern and Stanford, ... Stanford offered toward the end of my ...
BRYAN MCCANN [It is the] jobs of groups like us to make sure that doesn't happen. Anytime there is a local screen...
BRYAN MCCANN My parents aren't giving any pressure on distance, ... This will be my decision, totally. It will be...
BRYAN MCCANN There is more emotion playing defense, ... If you make a mistake but are going hard, you can still ...
BRYAN MCCANN I have offers from UAB , SMU , Northwestern and Stanford, ... Stanford offered toward the end of my ...
BRYAN MCCANN [Devine] is going to be a great pitcher in this league someday,
BRIAN MCCANN It was greatest moment I've ever had on the baseball field. Everything just felt right, and it was a...
BRIAN MCCANN You never expect to hit a home run off a guy like that, ... He's the best pitcher in baseball. He's ...
BRIAN MCCANN He threw the ball OK. In the second inning, he wasn't hitting his locations like he wanted to. But h...
BRIAN MCCANN I was going to go up hacking, ... Pitcher on deck. Two outs. He can start throwing his dirtiest stuf...
BRIAN MCCANN He's just a starting pitcher. He's got three pitches, and he can throw them all for strikes. With hi...
BRIAN MCCANN I tried to hurry up the throw and it sailed on me. It's terrible.
BRIAN MCCANN has calluses older than McCann. The kid was 83 days old when Clemens broke in with the Red Sox. He w...
BRIAN MCCANN Class AA is where you prove you can play, where you prove you can hit consistently good pitching. Ev...
BRIAN MCCANN He's got great stuff. He's got about eight pitches. I put something down and he throws whatever. He ...
BRIAN MCCANN We all kind of put in that extra effort to make sure the job gets done. It's getting progressively h...
BOB MCCANN Based on the new rules, Michigan probably now has the strictest mining laws in the country.
BOB MCCANN Once that happened, the disputes were resolved and both parties are able to move on.
BOB MCCANN The goal is to get this plan into workable shape.
BOB MCCANN I was a bit of a late developer, and everyone was saying, 'Whatever you do, don't shave,'...
RORY MCCANN In the business I meet some beautiful women, but to be honest, 80 per cent of them are raving lunati...
RORY MCCANN You shouldn't intervene. No citizen should feel compelled unless they see something that is exactly ...
KELLY MCCANN Down there, basketball is the big thing. Some of my friends that I've known since kindergarten are s...
ALEX MCCANN I didn't start playing until I was 12, but I didn't get really serious until I was in high school.
ALEX MCCANN The thing that I just discovered, which fascinates me really - my name, McCann, the translation isn&...
RORY MCCANN I see a lot of loyalty and commitment. In our businesses we have very little voluntary turnover.
CHERYL MCCANN We started this on a whim four years ago. We don't want to make it any larger than it is. It really ...
JIM MCCANN His stuff he had in Milwaukee was the same stuff he had tonight.
BRIAN MCCANN We see people coming in who want the flexibility. They want to work a couple of days a week. It's ju...
CHERYL MCCANN I am pleased, I was a bit annoyed yesterday as I would have caught the breakaways for sure,
DAVID MCCANN People actually have come in to see Carol.
CHERYL MCCANN We're always looking to advance as many as we can. We're happy with nine, I feel bad for Sammy (Mart...
KEVIN MCCANN I was a lumberjack for years, a pub bouncer, I've sung in a band; in fact, I still sing, and I e...
RORY MCCANN I'm on my boat, training, rehearsing; I spend all my energy on the job that's coming up, and...
RORY MCCANN I'm just about to move to a place that you can only get there by rowing a boat across a loch, wh...
RORY MCCANN So much is yet to come. Soon will be blankets and pillows, and books by the bed to make the stuff of...
JIM MCCANN Our mentality is that we're going to play the same if it's the seventh game of the World Series or a...
BRIAN MCCANN You know, he's one of the greatest pitchers of all time. Just to get a pitch up, out over the plate,...
BRIAN MCCANN We'll just have to regroup and come back next year. We're really not thinking about next year right ...
BRIAN MCCANN Pressure wasn't the problem. Everyone has pressure on them at this level. He threw really well. If w...
BRIAN MCCANN The ministry is doing a great job helping people. What happens when the help stops? Is the city taki...
TOM MCCANN It's like, it doesn't even matter to me. I just want to play at that next level.
DEE MCCANN I'm anxious. Little nervous. You know how it is. You never know until that day comes.
DEE MCCANN This takes a lot of pressure off of us. Win or lose we still have the Big East title.
DEE MCCANN Step by step. Just focus.
DEE MCCANN They were saying they were coming in to take the Big East. I don't see that happening.
DEE MCCANN I had my fingernails in his jersey and he stepped away. He's got a lot of speed and quickness, but h...
DEE MCCANN My parents aren't giving any pressure on distance, ... This will be my decision, totally. It will be...
BRYAN MCCANN There is more emotion playing defense, ... If you make
a mistake but are going hard, you can s...
BRYAN MCCANN I have offers from UAB , SMU , Northwestern and Stanford, ... Stanford offered toward the end of my ...
BRYAN MCCANN With the magnitude of the game, catching 18 innings, it didn't seem like that, ... If it was a regul...
BRIAN MCCANN You couldn't write a better script, ... for any of this.
BRIAN MCCANN Certainly it seems like it's better to leave business on the table rather than take on something you...
JIM MCCANN I thought yesterday was made for me, but I guess I was a day out.
DAVID MCCANN He broke the law in Canada and so if we are going to let him be charged he should be charged here, w...
DAVID MCCANN If he gets charged in Canada that will have major legal consequences for that extradition request.
DAVID MCCANN We are really strong. We're in a good position. But there is a long way to go in this race, and anyt...
DAVID MCCANN [They can be used to react quickly to reports about Taliban and al Qaeda forces in the area, said J....
KELLY MCCANN We're just frustrated because we were told one thing and that turned out not to be the case,
JACK MCCANN The county judge (Dale Haas) then told me to go ahead and if nothing worked the county would pick up...
JACK MCCANN I was told to talk with the Red Cross, ... I talked with Mark (Massey) with the Red Cross and he sai...
JACK MCCANN I was told they would need at least one officer at the shelter 24-7, ... I was told the state (Depar...
JACK MCCANN Two weeks ago, an employee with the governor's office called me at my office and said several evacue...
JACK MCCANN I didn't murder him, he was already dead when I cut his throat.
JACK MCCANN I want to prepare her that, if he's coming back here, there are going to be some problems -- to what...
JACK MCCANN Whether anybody agrees with it or not, he has served his sentence,
JACK MCCANN I want to prepare her that, if he's coming back here, there are going to be some problems ? to what ...
JACK MCCANN It's extraordinarily difficult. It forces challengers to be extremely creative or have deep pockets ...
JAMES MCCANN It's vitally important that we succeed and continue to raise money,
JAMES MCCANN A lot of different things go into the mix when determining whether or not Roberts is confirmed. The ...
JAMES MCCANN The senators will want to ask about views on presidential powers, women's rights and minorities, bec...
JAMES MCCANN has a problem with that.
JAMES MCCANN God cuts out our path, makes a groove in the clay with His finger, and we poor blind ants slide down...
MARIA MCCANN We try to look at what events may occur that will involve Army forces.
LYNNE MCCANN This is a larger effort within the Defense Department for language studies and cultural awareness. T...
LYNNE MCCANN Our cemeteries are very unique and I know when people come to New Orleans, tourists and all, they lo...
LUCY MCCANN There are so many factors driving employers away from retiree health benefits ? ... escalating healt...
LAURIE MCCANN The seniors all had a great season, it was an awesome year. Next year we will have high expectations...
LAMONT MCCANN It was a really tough tournament. We did well. I was proud of their day, we got a lot accomplished a...
LAMONT MCCANN We really didn't know what we had with Shane until after the Sierra Nevada Classic. Some schools hav...
LAMONT MCCANN People are a lot more aware that there is treatment for sleep disorders. They are also less willing ...
KATHLEEN MCCANN With the growth of sleep centers, a lot are fly-by-night. They're not equipped to provide a proper e...
KATHLEEN MCCANN I have friends who are blacksmiths in the north of Scotland, so I took a few master classes with,the...
RORY MCCANN