"Why isn't life better designed so it warns you when terrible things are about to happen?"

-- Maggie O'Farrell

#Terrible Quotes #Happens Quotes #Terrible Things Quotes

“L'homme qui a un peu useÂ Â ses eÂ motions est plus presse de plaire que d'aimer. The person who has used his emotions even a little is more anxious to please than to love.”
“My ***** may be dumb, but I ain't no dumbass.”
“Conversation with animals could happen, but I think it would be easier for it to happen with creatures we share a bit more with - those that have been bred to interact with us, like dogs or horses, or ones to whom we have a natural evolutionary link, like chimps and other nonhuman apes. I mean, we do communicate with dolphins and whales, but we're not trying to get to the depths of their understandings. I feel that with animals as different from us as the whales and dolphins, it's likely to work better with us just watching them and trying to figure them out.”

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“Find your confidence, lead with love... the rest will follow.”
“We may seem the weakest and most insignificant of all the Realms, but our strength comes in other ways. We have what no other race has: imagination. Any one of us, even the lowliest, can create worlds within ourselves; we can people them with the most extraordinary creatures, the most amazing inventions, the most incredible things. We can live in those worlds ourselves, if we choose; and in our own worlds, we can be as we want to be. Imagination is as close as we will ever be to godhead, Poison, for in imagination, we can create wonders.”
“One must not make oneself cheap here - that is a cardinal point - or else one is done. Whoever is most impertinent has the best chance.”
“Woman's influence is powerful, especially when she wants something.”
“Unbeknownst to most American investors, significant portions of their public pension, mutual fund, life insurance and private portfolios are comprised of stocks of privately held companies that partner with state sponsors of terror.”

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