"The big occurrences in life, the serious ones, have for me always been nearly impossible to recognize because they never feel big or serious. In the moment, you have to pee, your arm itches, or what people are saying strikes you as melodramatic or sentimental, and it's hard not to smirk. You have a sense of what this type of situation should be like - for one thing, all-consuming - and this isn't it. But then you look back, and it was that; it did happen."

-- Curtis Sittenfeld

#People Quotes #Serious Quotes #Smirk Quotes

“The giant step in the walk of faith is the one we take when we decide God no longer is a part of our lives. He IS our life.”

Source : Beth Moore (2009). “Praying God's Word: Breaking Free from Spiritual Strongholds”, p.22, B&H Publishing Group
“One day, maybe not in the next few weeks, but certainly in the conceivable future, someone will be able to refer to me without using the word 'arse' somewhere in the sentence.”
“When I can't sleep I count the buckles on my straightjacket.”

Source : Cathie Linz (2006). “Bad Girls Don't”, p.192, Penguin
“For, like almost everyone else in our country, I started out with my share of optimism. I believed in hard work and progress and action, but now, after first being 'for' society and then 'against' it, I assign myself no rank or any limit, and such an attitude is very much against the trend of the times. But my world has become one of infinite possibilities. What a phrase - still it's a good phrase and a good view of life, and a man shouldn't accept any other; that much I've learned underground. Until some gang succeeds in putting the world in a strait jacket, its definition is possibility.”
“Even the kinds of ingredients you can find in your own kitchen can be used to make bombs. So the problem is with the people and not with the tools.”

Source : "Meet the Press" with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. July 22, 2012.
“I'm all in favour of free expression provided it's kept rigidly under control.”
“I always think everything has been the best part of my life.”
“I would just love once to be called sexy. Just because it would make me something other than cute.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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