"We think in terms of fate even if we don't believe in it. Even something as trivial as missing the bus - we think: Well, it might be good for something. We always have that thought, no matter how critical we try to be. The idea that everything is always total chance - we're not made for that."

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Daniel Kehlmann

#Believe Quotes #Fate Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Forward momentum. That's my new motto. No regrets. And no going back.”

Source : Gayle Forman (2013). “Just One Day”, p.204, Penguin
“But there were some things I believed in. Some things I had faith in. And faith isn't about perfect attendance to services, or how much money you put on the little plate. It isn't about going skyclad to the Holy Rites, or meditating each day upon the divine. Faith is about what you do. It's about aspiring to be better and nobler and kinder than you are. It's about making sacrifices for the good of others - even when there's not going to be anyone telling you what a hero you are.”

Source : Jim Butcher (2010). “Changes: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.167, Penguin
“IÂ frankly confess that even if it were possible I should not wish to have freeÂ choice given to me, or to have anything left in my own hands by which I mightÂ strive for salvation.”
“I use the Internet a lot. I don't necessarily constantly communicate with my fans or whatever, but it would be hard to distance myself. I just couldn't do it. It's like not having a phone.”

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“Our faith teaches that there is no safer reliance than upon the God of our fathers who has so singularly favored the American people in every national trial and who will not forsake us so long as we obey His commandments and walk humbly in His footsteps”

Source : Harry Joseph Sievers, William McKinley (1970). “William McKinley, 1843-1901: Chronology, Documents, Bibliographical Aids”, Oceana Publications
“When the Turkish authorities gave the orders for these deportations, they were merely giving the death warrant to a whole race; they understood this well, and, in their conversations with me, they made no particular attempt to conceal the factâ€¦ I am confident that the whole history of the human race contains no such horrible episode as this. The great massacres and persecutions of the past seem almost insignificant when compared to the sufferings of the Armenian race in 1915.”
“Every journey is played out between standstill and flight.”

Source : Claudio Magris (2001). “Danube”, Vintage
“The best kind of writing, and the biggest thrill in writing, is to suddenly read a line from your typewriter that you didnt know was in you.”

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