"I'm the only one who can stop me.. I'm the one who's been sitting at the stoplight all these years, waiting for the light to turn green."

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Source : Terry McMillan (2006). “The Interruption of Everything”, p.414, Penguin

Terry McMillan

#Years Quotes #Light Quotes #Waiting Quotes

“Self-defence, self-confidence, discipline and self control. The values you learn are priceless.”
“Hurry up: your dreams are waiting for you, but they will not wait forever”
“I wasn't an only child, but I was the youngest, and no one else in my family played music.”
“mankind is resilient: the atrocities that horrified us a week ago become acceptable tomorrow.”
“Watching a movie from beginning to end is like reading, because even though what you see are images, they are telling you a story”
“In this world everything that is won to the ideal, is an eternal (or imperishable, - "impÃ©rissable", Fr.) good.”
“There is scarcely a man who is not conscious of the benefits which his own mind has received from the performance of single acts of benevolence. How strange that so few of us try a course of the same medicine!”

Source : John Frederick Boyes (1859). “Life and Books: Or, Records of Thought and Reading”, p.3
“Considering that virtually none of the standard fare surrounding Thanksgiving contains an ounce of authenticity, historical accuracy, or cross-cultural perception, why is it so apparently ingrained? Is it necessary to the American psyche to perpetually exploit and debase its victims in order to justify its history?”

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