"I couldn't help but wonder if that was what love was -- believing that someone was going to come through, in the end, and that it would still count"

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Source : Laura Dave (2007). “London Is the Best City in America”, p.110, Penguin

Laura Dave

#Believe Quotes #Helping Quotes #Wonder Quotes

“From childhood's hour I have not been. As others were, I have not seen. As others saw, I could not awaken. My heart to joy at the same tone. And all I loved, I loved alone.”
“In following their line through, and those of Plantagenet and Tudor, there is but little to soothe the mind.”

Source : Charlotte Turner Smith, Stuart Curran (2006). “The Works of Charlotte Smith: Marchmont (1796)”
“The more people who own little businesses of their own, the safer our country will be, and the better off its cities and towns; for the people who have a stake in their country and their community are its best citizens.”
“Man can will nothing unless he has first understood that he must count on no one but himself; that he is alone, abandoned on earth in the midst of his infinite responsibilities, without help, with no other aim than the one he sets himself, with no other destiny than the one he forges for himself on this earth.”
“I'm interested in current affairs and social policy as a whole, but I don't watch politics for sport.”

Source : "'Veep's' Anna Chlumsky on politics and her 'My Girl' fame". Interview with Nicki Gostin, www.cnn.com. April 27, 2012.
“Why should you feel honored for getting scraps of his time?”
“We always had chocolates and my mother was careful to make sure they were unwrapped in advance so the paper wouldn't rustle in the middle of a performance.”
“An athlete experiences the emotions of pain and elation through triumph and defeat, through teamwork and individuality, as nothing more than a human being...that is the true glory of sport.”

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