"Don't you think it's better to be extremely happy for a short while, even if you lose it, than to be just okay for your whole life?"

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Source : Audrey Niffenegger (2014). “The Time Traveler's Wife”, p.235, Simon and Schuster

Audrey Niffenegger

#Life Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Inspire Quotes

“It's not my place to tell you whom to vote for, to take any political stand, to tell you what religion to believe in. I'm an athlete. I can influence certain things, but when I see other athletes and celebrities telling you whom to vote for, I actually get a bit offended.”
“The person I have admired the most in comedy terms would be Eric Morecambe, who is my total hero.”
“I don't need my phone to play me music. I need it to be a phone and an e-mail thing.”
“Late April and you are three; today We dug your garden in the yard. To curb the damage of your play, Strange dogs at night and the moles tunneling, Four slender sticks of lath stand guard Uplifting their thin string. So you were the first to tramp it down. And after the earth was sifted close You brought your watering can to drown All earth and us. But these mixed seeds are pressed With light loam in their steadfast rows. Child, we've done our best.”

Source : W. D. Snodgrass, “Heart's Needle”
“In the eye of the law no doubt, man and wife are for many purposes one: but that is a strong figurative expression, and cannot be so dealt with as that all the consequences must follow which would result from its being literally true.”

Source : Wenman v. Ash, C. B. 844, 1853.
“So long as the priest, that professional negator, slanderer and poisoner of life, is regarded as a superior type of human being, there cannot be any answer to the question: What is Truth?”
“I think words were Reagan's greatest weapon - and more powerful than the Strategic Defense Initiative, which did not come to fruition in his lifetime.”

Source : Source: www.washingtonpost.com
“Life is a fight from the minute you take your first breath to the moment you exhale your last.”

Source : Ronda Rousey, Maria Burns Ortiz (2015). “My Fight / Your Fight”, p.2, Simon and Schuster

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