"I know. That sounds like a lie. But Presbyterians know that every so often a lie isn't all that bad, and I figured that this was about the best place it could happen."

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Source : Gary D. Schmidt (2009). “The Wednesday Wars”, p.82, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Gary D. Schmidt

#Lying Quotes #Sound Quotes

“The aster greets us as we pass With her faint smile.”

Source : Sarah Helen Whitman (1853). “Hours of Life: And Other Poems”, p.147
“I was born in London and raised in Rome until I was 4. Then we went back to London, where I went to school.”
“To be a comedian, you gotta jokesmith, there's no way around it.”
“When you make a mistake, don't make a second one -- keeping it to yourself. Own up. The time to sort out rotten eggs is at the nest. The deeper you hide them in the case the longer they stay in circulation, and the worse impression they make when they finally come to the breakfast table.”
“We are often less grieved at disappointments than at ourselves for having said much concerning the certainty of our expectations.”
“Civilisation needs more than the law to hold it together. You see, all mankind are not equally willing to accept as divine justice what is called human law.”
“The highest intention comes from love and compassion ... when our intentions come from a place of love and compassion then we have the power of the universe.”
“The reality is that de-carbonisation is not happening fast enough.”

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