"Having a child at 55... that's optimism."

-- Steve Earle

#Children Quotes #Optimism Quotes

“The Bible is very easy to understand. But we Christians are a bunch of scheming swindlers. We pretend to be unable to understand it because we know very well that the minute we understand, we are obliged to act accordingly.”

Source : "The Irresistible Revolution: Living As an Ordinary Radical". Book by Shane Claiborne, 2006.
“The cave-dweller's wife complained that he hadn't dragged her anywhere in months.”
“You're better off owning 30 percent and having two amazing partners who compliment you and are equally as driven as you are than having 100 percent and only having one aspect of it, unless you're a super genius who is creative and business-minded at the same time.”
“Well, my mom is single and we've both been single at the same time over the last ten years, so I really related to the bond between my character and Diane's.”
“let us thank God for having made us this gift of death, so that life is to have meaning; of night, that day is to have meaning; silence, that speech is to have meaning; illness, that health is to have meaning; war, that peace is to have meaning. Let us give thanks to Him for having given us weariness and pain, so that rest and joy are to have meaning. Let us give thanks to him, whose wisdom is infinite.”

Source : Amin Maalouf (1998). “Leo Africanus”, p.103, New Amsterdam Books
“On 'The Guiding Light' I enjoyed working with Jamie Goodwin and Ellen Parker, who played my sister. I loved working with Jerry Ver Dorn and Jay Hammer. I mean, there's some great fun people that I've really enjoyed.”
“Never can custom conquer nature, for she is ever unconquered.”
“The world is so huge that people are always getting lost in it. There are too many ideas and things and people too many directions to go. I was starting to believe that the reason it matters to care passionately about something is that it whittles the world down to a more manageable size. It makes the world seem not huge and empty but full of possibility.”

Source : Susan Orlean (2009). “The Orchid Thief”, p.133, Random House

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