"As long as women are isolated one from the other, not allowed to offer other women the most personal accounts of their lives, they will not be part of any narratives of their ownâ€¦women will be staving off destiny and not inviting or inventing or controlling it."

-- Carolyn Heilbrun

#Destiny Quotes #Long Quotes #Narrative Quotes

“When deep down in the core of your being you believe that your soulmate exists, there is no limit to the ways he or she can enter your life.”

Source : Arielle Ford (2009). “The Soulmate Secret: Manifest the Love of Your Life with the Law of Attraction”, p.15, Harper Collins
“I seek the spread of freedom and democracy in the way that satisfies God. [Americans] have planned and paved the ways for a long time, but it is God who is the real planner -- and the proof of this is the fall of the American twin towers[...]a miracle from God.”
“We basically followed the idea of buying comapnies selling below working-capital - at two thirds of working-capital.”
“The human brain is special. It starts working as soon as you get up and it doesn't stop until you get to school.”
“Ive been chastised for going into mixed martial arts and backing out. But the reason I backed out was the terms - they wanted me ready to fight in four weeks, but youve got to be out of your mind. So I decided to go back to my roots, back to wrestling.”
“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.”
“Killing time is the chief end of our society.”

Source : Ugo Betti (1964). “Struggle Till Dawn”, San Francisco, Chandler
“You know what I would really like to do? I'd like to do a half hour drama with comedy in it.”

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