"To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old."

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Source : Letter to Julia Ward Howe on her 70th birthday, 27 May (1889)

Oliver Wendell Holmes

#Birthday Quotes #Time Quotes #Years Quotes

“And it was suddenly very simple: There was no choice.”

Source : Jojo Moyes (2012). “The Girl You Left Behind”, p.110, Penguin UK
“I had taken some of my solo music into the record label. They didn't really care for the direction I was moving in and I found it really disheartening. They wanted a pop hit, which I understand in terms of making money. I get that. But what they were going to ask of me was something I wasn't prepared to deliver and I felt kind of trapped. I just stopped writing. I just stopped. It was stifling.”
“Doing all the rig work and the stunt work has actually been wonderful. It's a whole new skill set that I've learned that I'll get to take onto my next jobs. We get to do that all the time, the fighting and the learning new moves. It's quite exciting.”
“Why waste time trying to discover the truth, when you can so easily create it?”

Source : David Baldacci (2011). “The Whole Truth”, p.62, Pan Macmillan
“If you [Donald Trump] do visit this country [UK], take time to visit the Mosques. Take time to reflect on how dangerous that kind of rhetoric is.”

Source : Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“There are people creating Photoshopped pictures of me getting beat as if I were a slave back in the day.”
“There are always, of course, job losses of a cyclical nature in a recession.”
“The more people have studied different methods of bringing up children the more they have come to the conclusion that what good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is the best after all.”

Source : The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care ch. 1 (1946)

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