"To be a kid is to be invisible and to listen, and to interpret things that aren't necessarily meant for you to hear--because how else do you find out about the world?"

-- Maile Meloy

#Kids Quotes #World Quotes #Invisible Quotes

“What do you do when disappointment comes? When it weighs on you like a rock, you can either let it press you down until you become discouraged, even devastated, or you can use it as a stepping-stone to better things.”
“Great allowances ought to be made for the petulance of persons laboring under ill-health.”
“Boring damned people. All over the earth. Propagating more boring damned people. What a horror show. The earth swarmed with them.”
“Cameron Indoor Stadium is a special place in sports and there's really nothing else out there quite like it. Anytime I'm inside Cameron, I've got memories. Cameron is like Yankee Stadium or the old Boston Garden.”
“This argument [that life is too improbable to have arisen by chance] comes up repeatedly: its latest manifestation is Hoyle's discussion of the likelihood of a wind blowing through a junkyard assembling a Boeing 707 [sic]. What is wrong with it? Essentially, it is that no biologist imagines that complex structures arise in a single step.”

Source : "The Problems of Biology". Book by John Maynard Smith, p. 49, 1986.
“Old maids do not mind giving people trouble.”

Source : Thomas Nelson Page “The Works of Thomas Nelson Page”
“Worry and anxiety are sand in the machinery of life; faith is the oil.”
“In honour I gained them, and in honour I will die with them.”

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