"I've never thought there was anything I could hope to get by praying for it."

-- Julianna Baggott

#Praying Quotes

“A Man who is Shy and Modest, is An Amazing Character, but a Women who is Shy and Modest is Beyond Amazing.”
“This is days and days and months and years and all the minutes in between, just you me.”
“Doing time is like climbing a mountain wearing roller skates.”

Source : 1977 On conviction after the Watergate scandal. In Newsweek, 4 Jul.
“The Jets tried this whole garbage with Tim Tebow and Mark Sanchez and it got them nowhere,”
“But woman's grief is like a summer storm, Short as it violent is.”

Source : Joanna Baillie (1853). “The dramatic and poetical works of Joanna Baillie”, p.48
“If I'm in a relationship, I'm 1,000% in it. I love doing things for them and surprising them. And that's just something I thoroughly enjoy and it gives me a lot of pleasure. I just haven't found that right girl yet.”
“People who can least afford to pay rent, pay rent. People who can most afford to pay rent, build up equity.”

Source : Arthur Bloch (1991). “The complete Murphy's law: a definitive collection”, PSS Adult
“Yet Irina had once tucked away, she wasn't sure when or why, that happiness is almost definitionally a condition of which you are not aware at the time. To inhabit your own contentment is to be wholly present, with no orbiting satellite to take clinical readings of the state of the planet. Conventionally, you grow conscious of happiness at the very point that it begins to elude you. When not misused to talk yourself into something - when not a lie - the h-word is a classification applied in retrospect. It is a bracketing assessment, a label only decisively pasted onto an era once it is over.”

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