"It's as if we spend our entire lives avoiding Jell-O but it is always there at the end, waiting."

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Source : John Grisham (2010). “Ford County”, p.248, Random House

John Grisham

#Waiting Quotes #Ends Quotes #Avoiding Quotes

“Moral improvement (or perfecting) require an evolution leading to a higher consciousness, which is the true torch of life; it is what we have failed too much to appreciate, and that which would be fatal to fail to appreciate any longer ("pluslongtemps", Fr.); For if we do not take it upon ourselves to remedy in time to the moral colapse (or bankruptcy) that already threaten, the whole civilisation will risks to disappear.”
“All philosophers can do is to abstain from helping the aggressors and to enjoin social scientists to tell the truth instead of joining the choir of liars and hypocrites.”

Source : Source: deutsche-denker.de
“I think just having a gift and being able to do something creative and having people like it and enjoy it... I'm in a really, really cool place here. A lot of people try to do this and might get a little bit of success, but we've been lucky. We're going to take that and try and go as far as we can with it and just do the best that we can.”

Source : Source: www.theaureview.com
“The enemy is like a woman, weak in face of opposition, but correspondingly strong when not opposed. In a quarrel with a man, it is natural for a woman to lose heart and run away when he faces up to her; on the other hand, if the man begins to be afraid and to give ground, her rage, vindictiveness and fury overflow and know no limit.”
“Are you paralyzed with fear? Thatâ€™s a good sign. Fear is good. Like self-doubt, fear is an indicator. Fear tells us what we have to do. Remember one rule of thumb: the more scared we are of a work or calling, the more sure we can be that we have to do it.”
“All beauteous things for which we live By laws of space and time decay. But Oh, the very reason why I clasp them, is because they die.”

Source : 'Mimnermus in Church'
“I've always written songs with a visual counterpart in my mind that no one else can see.”
“How beautiful is modesty! It winneth upon all beholders; but a word or a glance may destroy the pure love that should have been for thee.”

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