"When something has been perfect, there is a tendency to try hard to repeat it."

-- Edna O'Brien

#Perfection Quotes #Trying Quotes #Tendencies Quotes

“And I'll act like I have faith, and like that faith never ends, but I really just have friends.”

Source : Song: My Friends, Album: End of the Summer
“Quit questioning God and start trusting Him!”
“We will have to embark on a change so radical, a revolution so quiet and yet so total, that it will go far beyond the programme for a parliament”

Source : Edward Heath's speech to Conservative Party Conference (October 10, 1970), as quoted in John Campbell "Edward Heath" (p. 311), 1993.
“I got a very strong sense from my mother, in particular, that we are all equal in the sight of God.”
“Tinkering is something we need to know how to do in order to keep something like the space station running. I am a tinkerer by nature.”

Source : "NASAWatch.com Interview with NASA Astronauts Fincke and Chiao aboard the International Space Station". Interview with Keith Cowing, www.spaceref.com. October 19, 2004.
“I have come to understand that life is composed of a series of coincidences. How we react to these - how we exercise what some refer to as free will - is everything; the choices we make within the boundaries of the twists of fate determine who we are.”
“Either you're a person who will be stopped, or you are a person who won't be stopped. You choose.”
“Belonging to the Catholic Church gives your support to an organization that conceals and protects child rapists. Again, not as a few isolated incidents, but as a massive, institution-wide culture, a matter of policy even, that extends throughout the organization and reaches all the way to the top. Belonging to the Catholic Church - giving them money, letting them count you in their rolls, sending your children to their schools - gives this behavior your personal thumbs-up, and actively enables it to continue.”

Source : "Why Is Anyone Still Catholic?". Article by Greta Christina, www.alternet.org. May 14, 2010.

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