"If you are going to be underestimated by people who speak more rapidly, the temptation is to speak slowly and strategically and outwit them."

-- Doris Betts

#People Quotes #Temptation Quotes #Speak Quotes

“Sometimes along the way, when people are actively working, they will start to do a search for their roots and maybe get really interested in ancestry and become very good at what was just a hobby. But I think that we shouldn't wait quite that long to develop and look for those parallel interests of ours and not sometimes see them as frivolous and take them a little more seriously, and spend some time and energy and maybe even capital in pursuing them.”
“Things have got to be wrong in order that they may be deplored.”
“George Bush has shown great skill at disguising an incredibly weak foreign policy.”
“I love skin. I don't believe the body is something to hide.”
“But the sense of accomplishment is something Iâ€™ve never felt before, in a physical sense.”

Source : "Charlene Tilton on Dancing on Ice and going back to Dallas". www.mirror.co.uk. January 7, 2012.
“I belong to you. He has no idea what he's up against. And that will get him in the end. I believe that. Everything's going to come right for you." "And you," Kami said again. "If everything's right for you," Jared said at last, "everything's right for me.”
“The impious presumption of legislators and rulers, civil as well as ecclesiastical, who, being themselves but fallible and uninspired men, have assumed dominion over the faith of others, setting up their own opinions and modes of thinking as the only true and infallible, and as such endeavoring to impose them on others, hath established and maintained false religions over the greatest part of the world and through all time.”
“Only where children gather is there any real chance of fun.”

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