"As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue."

-- Christian Nestell Bovee

#Adversity Quotes #Doe Quotes #Literature Quotes

“My lines all curve. I tend to connect the wrong dots.”
“Sex is a big question mark. It is something people will talk about forever.”
“You look at public education system, charter schools, infrastructure, in so many ways New Orleans has come back stronger.”
“I know that if I could really understand mental illness, then it would be appropriate to make a big career shift. I would become a therapist and a leader in terms of mental illness. But I'm not in the position.”
“I met my wife [Sukhinder Kaur Gill] in Bombay at an official function. And then we courted for three years. That's a great old term, 'courtingâ€™. And we had to do it quietly, of course, because you would know the difficulties one might have with Indian parents. She was advised by her father that people in the West don't take marriage seriously.”
“Fear generates anger, and fear generates violence, and those were part of what built the Saudi state.”
“Remember that in giving any reason at all for refusing, you lay some foundation for a future request.”
“Writing is like a rollercoaster ride for me, an adventure. I love exploring the world through playing people who are absolutely nothing like me.”

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