"In real life wishing, divorced from willing, is sterile and begets nothing."

-- Cynthia Ozick

#Real Quotes #Wish Quotes #Willing Quotes

“Everybody comes to the journalist with an agenda.”

Source : "Shepard Smith: What I've Learned (with Video!)" by Mark Warren, www.esquire.com. December 15, 2008.
“He who has learned to pray has learned the greatest secret of a holy and happy life.”

Source : William LAW (Author of “A Serious Call, ” etc.) (1759). “A practical treatise upon Christian perfection ... The fifth edition”, p.403
“On the motionless branches of some trees, autumn berries hung like clusters of coral beads, as in those fabled orchards where the fruits were jewels . . .”
“The best joke-tellers are those who have the patience to wait for conversation to come around to the point where the jokes in their repertoire have application.”

Source : Joseph Epstein (1979). “Familiar territory: observations on American life”, Oxford University Press
“The point of existence is not to find the most powerful thing you can imagine and then grovel before it.”
“Im my profession you have to mystify the enemy.”
“to feed, help, protect, comfort, console, support, nurse, or heal to be fed, helped, nursed, protected, comforted, consoled, supported, nursed, or healed to form mutually enjoyable, enduring, cooperating and reciprocating relationship with Other, with an equal to be forgiven to be loved to be free”

Source : Sarah Kane, David Greig (2001). “Kane: Complete Plays: Blasted; Phaedra's Love; Cleansed; Crave; 4.48 Psychosis; Skin”, p.235, A&C Black
“One of the best animated films I've seen come out of Disney was the Tarzan movie. I wasn't crazy about the story or the design on Tarzan's face, but the traditional animation was spectacular.”

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