"I had thought that growing up's consolation was that you could escape from the arbitrariness of things, that somehow one acquired more control. Now you had two numbers until you were ninety-nine. And it wasn't true. Growing up was just more of the same but taller. What happened was all luck. There was no logic."

-- Janice Galloway

#Growing Up Quotes #Numbers Quotes #Ninety Nine Quotes

“Just because your world is falling apart doesn't mean you have to fall apart. When everything seems crazy, you be calm. Don't let the outer chaos you are facing get inside of you.”
“In some ways clarifying a vision is easy. A more difficult challenge comes in facing current reality.”
“I do not think anyone can ever do anything without the help and will of God.”
“When men destroy their old gods they will find new ones to take their place”
“I can understand Communism, but not Socialism.”
“I'm a musician at heart. I know I'm not really a singer. I couldn't compete with real singers. But I sing because the public buys it.”

Source : "Nat King Cole". Book by James Haskings, 1990.
“We must stress that the basis for our faith is neither experience nor emotion but the truth as God has given it in verbalized, prepositional form in the Scripture and which we first of all apprehend with our minds.”
“What happens when there is a conflict between the Scottish parliament, if it was established, and the Westminster parliament? Who is supreme?”

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