I’m a novelist, and idle speculation is what novelists do. How odd to spend one’s life trying to pretend that non-existent people are real: though no odder, I suppose, than what government bureaucrats do, which is trying to pretend that real people are non-existent.
MARGARET ATWOODIt is wonderful when God saves a drunkard which He sometimes does, but it is more wonderful still when God saves little children before they become drunkards, libertines, and degenerates.
More Bob Jones, Sr. Quotes
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We come altogether fresh and raw into the several stages of life, and often find ourselves without experience, despite our years.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD -
Another reason is baseball has to compete with other sports now – basketball, football, soccer – for the better athletes that might have more skills and stronger arms.
AL KALINE -
I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
ERICA JONG -
The life of faith is not only totally different from, but also diametrically opposite to, a life of feeling.
WATCHMAN NEE -
When you have kids, you start thinking about their future and you forget about yours.
BOB SEGER -
My response [to fear of being poor]was to study contracts, finance, economics, to plan, to have a goal, to work on that goal. To learn everything I could. I always poked at the things that scared me most.
ELIZABETH WARREN -
You are not the type of person who settles, don’t settle.
NICOLE BROWN -
Someone who loves you won’t walk away from you so easily. Someone who loves you will hurt over even the idea of being apart from you.
SONIA SABNIS -
All those images are being produced basically the same way, through a lens and a camera.
ADAM FUSS -
They[ Lana and Andy Wachowski]are true artists. They really are trying to say something and trying to create something original, and there aren’t that many people who do that.
DARYL HANNAH -
I really like to please people, and I think it’s a symptom of being an only child.
PALOMA FAITH -
None so little enjoy themselves, and are such burdens to themselves, as those who have nothing to do. Only the active have the true relish of life.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN -
We can only change what we are willing to change.
NANSIA MOVIDI -
I’m not really tough.
JASON MOMOA -
Everything has been such a whirlwind ever since I stepped foot in the league and everything has been like a dream, so I’m just blessed to be in this position.
KEVIN DURANT