"Sometimes life is a series of obstacles, a matter of putting one foot in front of the other. Sometimes, she realizes suddenly, it is simply a matter of blind faith."

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Jojo Moyes

#Feet Quotes #Matter Quotes #Obstacles Quotes

“It's more of the older people in my family.”

Source : "Amber Rose reveals family race battle: 'They feel like they're more superior or better than an African American'" by Claire Rutter, www.mirror.co.uk. January 18, 2015.
“People think, 'Oh, I'm loving myself by sitting on this sofa for four hours.' Love yourself enough to get up!”
“Business is recognizing the role it can play in combatting climate change. Thank God, is all I can say, for there is a desperately urgent need for business to play that role. Your lobbying influence can be substantial, but together, united and in large enough numbers it could prove decisive in turning the tide.”
“It seemed to a number of philosophers of language, myself included, that we should attempt to achieve a unification of Chomsky's syntax, with the results of the researches that were going on in semantics and pragmatics. I believe that this effort has proven to be a failure. Though Chomsky did indeed revolutionize the subject of linguistics, it is not at all clear, at the end the century, what the solid results of this revolution are. As far as I can tell there is not a single rule of syntax that all, or even most, competent linguists are prepared to agree is a rule.”
“What do I know of cultured ways, the gilt, the craft and the lie? I, who was born in a naked land and bred in the open sky. The subtle tongue, the sophist guile, they fail when the broadswords sing; Rush in and die, dogsâ€”I was a man before I was a king.”

Source : Robert E. Howard (2015). “The Start Conan the Barbarian Super Pack”, p.43, Simon and Schuster
“A lot of those little things that I really like doing are just moments of cool articulation, just little moments of phrasing that probably go over everybody's head.”
“I was such a nerd in high school, I didn't even have imaginary friends, I had imaginary bullies.”
“Superciliousness is not safe after all, because a person who forms the habit of wearing it may some day find his lower lip grown permanently projected beyond the upper, so that he can't get it back, and must go through life looking like the King of Spain.”

Source : Newton Booth Tarkington (2015). “Gentle Julia”, p.2, Booklassic

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