"My theory is that I decided to be a writer when I was about seven, but of course it is not as simple as that. Like most writers, I had to work at other things to earn a living and wrote mainly in the evenings, often very late at night, for many years."

-- Margaret Mahy

#Simple Quotes #Night Quotes #Years Quotes

“The devil fools with the best laid plans.”
“Equality is the soul of liberty; there is, in fact, no liberty without it.”

Source : Frances Wright (1829). “Course of popular lectures; with 3 addresses on various public occasions, and a reply to the charges against the French reformers of 1789”, p.25
“Healthy relationships should always begin at the spiritual and intellectual levels - the levels of purpose, motivation, interests, dreams,and personality.”
“I never found beauty in longing for the impossible and never found the possible to be beyond my reach.”
“My education is going to take me 10 times further than my athletic ability.”
“The object of China's strategy is inexorably to supplant the United States as the world's premier economic power, and if necessary, to defeat us militarily.”

Source : "Red storm ahead" by Lou Dobbs, www.cnn.com. July 15, 2005.
“I didn't marry a man that wanted to be in the business. But that's why we're a perfect fit.”
“You can't find the right roads when the streets are paved.”

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