"We stay in the house so much because I am waiting for the telephone. I seem to be back in my teens, a period I thought I would never have to endure again: my life is spent hoping for things that only someone else can bring about."

-- Anne Tyler

#Waiting Quotes #House Quotes #Teens Quotes

“Don't allow the enemies in your life to cause you to focus more on your appetite or circumstances than on the promises of God that are released when you employ the powerful weapon of fasting.”

Source : Jentezen Franklin (2014). “Fasting: Opening the Door to a Deeper, More Intimate, More Powerful Relationship with God”, p.53, Charisma Media
“A leader is always first in line during times of criticism and last in line during times of recognition.”
“If we [gays] want to be equal under the law, we must now - as the great heroes of the Civil Rights movement of 1963 and 1964 showed us - turn our attention to the federal government.”

Source : Source: www.bilerico.com
“Yugoslavia was a kind of superpower. Great movies. Beautiful novels. Great rock-and-roll. We became a superpower in basketball. The problem is that people needed to identify more strongly with it after Tito and his awful, tricky way of leading the country.”
“What you keep by you, you may change and mend but words, once spoken, can never be recalled.”
“Every soul is beautiful and precious; is worthy of dignity and respect, and deserving of peace, joy and love.”
“Books are not like albums, where you can simply download and enjoy your favorite chapter and ignore the rest.”

Source : "Will eBooks Create An Elite Reading Class?" by Karin Slaughter, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 24, 2010.
“... I have noticed that no sooner do people embark on a course of action which they do not find wholly satisfactory than they muster every argument to persuade others to imitate it ...”

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