"I hesitated for all the right reasons. And I accepted for all the wrong ones."

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Source : Deanna Raybourn (2013). “A Spear of Summer Grass”, p.175, Harlequin

Deanna Raybourn

#Reason Quotes #Accepted Quotes

“Kid's, Life's too short to be organized. Follow your dreams first, then organize later.”
“Professional sports is a business.”
“Theres nothing wrong with making the best of ones declining years, but what does annoy me is the fatalism. Now that were seriously in range of finding therapies that actually work against ageing, this apathy, of course, becomes an enormous part of the problem.”
“I don't like things to be the same. I like things to evolve.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“It is a solemn sight to see so many Christians lying in their blood, some here, and some there, like a company of sheep torn by wolves, all of them stripped naked by a company of hell-hounds, roaring, singing, ranting, and insulting, as if they would have torn our very hearts out; yet the Lord by His almighty power preserved a number of us from death, for there were twenty-four of us taken alive and carried captive”

Source : Mary Rowlandson (2014). “Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson”, p.10, Diderot Publishing
“A man of talent is not born to be left to himself, but to devote himself to art and good masters who will make something of him.”

Source : Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann (2014). “Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann”, p.181, Ravenio Books
“If there is such a thing as a workaholic, I'm it, and that's what passes for leisure.”
“Wall Street was sort of at the height of the fame, everyone thought it was really cool, and I think taking that job, doing something probably more for the money was probably the worst thing I think I've ever done.”

Source : Source: bigthink.com

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