"People say things like "it wasn't supposed to go this way" and "this isn't what I wanted." They're just making noise. There's no such thing as "supposed to," and what you want doesn't matter. All that matters is what happened."

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Source : Mira Grant (2012). “Blackout: The Newsflesh Trilogy:”, p.7, Hachette UK

Mira Grant

#People Quotes #Noise Quotes #Matter Quotes

“Because modern Protestants have not only forgotten what Rome was, what she is, and what she will for ever be; the most irreconcilable and powerful enemy of the Gospel of Christ; but they consider her almost as a branch of the church whose corner stone is Christ.”
“Let us not search for the guilty ones only among others, let us speak the bitter truth: we are all guilty ... each and every one of us.”
“To discover your mission and put it into action - instead of worrying on the sidelines - is to find peace of mind and a heart full of love.”
“Let every family meet once a day or week for a real hearty sing, and their sing will give them more pleasure than they will take all the rest of the day.”

Source : Orson Squire Fowler (1851). “Memory and Intellectual Improvement: Applied to Self-education and Juvenile Instruction”, p.115
“In a world where carpenters get resurrected, everything is possible.”
“I think the motion picture industry is a stupid business and I despise acting the scenes in short snatches, one at a time. I hate this film work. I am disgusted with myself. On the stage I could never play a part unless I felt it with all my heart and soul.”
“We English are good at forgiving our enemies; it releases us from the obligation of liking our friends.”
“A miser is sometimes a grand personification of fear. He has a fine horror of poverty; and he is not content to keep want from the door, or at arm's length, but he places it, by heaping wealth upon wealth, at a sublime distance!”

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