"God whose gifts in gracious flood Unto all who seek are sent, Only asks you to be good And is content."

-- Victor Hugo

#Goodness Quotes #Flood Quotes #Gracious Quotes

“Too many musicians rush through everything with too many notes. I need time to take the picture. A ballad should be a ballad. It's important to understand what the song is saying, and learn how to tell the story. It takes time. I can't rush it. I really can't rush it.”
“I don't think that writer's block exists really. I think that when you're trying to do something prematurely, it just won't come. Certain subjects just need time, as I've learned over and over again. You've got to wait before you write about them.”
“Teenagers are like cats - they have important business that doesn't involve mere humans.”

Source : Julie Smith (1997). “The Kindness of Strangers”, Fawcett
“The worst aspect of dating from the perspective of many men is how dating can feel to a man like robbery by social custom - the social custom of him taking money out of his pocket, giving it to her, and calling it a date. To a young man, the worst dates feel like being robbed and rejected. Boys risk death to avoid rejection (e.g., by joining the Army”
“You have to work hard for it, but first you have to want it, and then you have to dream on it.”
“I have had playmates, I have had companions; In my days of childhood, in my joyful school days - All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.”

Source : "The Old Familiar Faces" l. 1 (1798)
“Take what is offered and that must sometimes be enough.”
“Unlike my subject will I frame my song, It shall be witty and it shan't be long.”

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