"She put her hand in his, and he clasped it firmly, knowing he had been waiting for her all his life."

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Source : BARBARA TAYLOR BRADFORD (1988). “TO BE THE BEST”

Barbara Taylor Bradford

#Hands Quotes #Knowing Quotes #Waiting Quotes

“Working together, America's military, Iraqi security forces and the Iraqi people have won a major battle in the war on terrorism.”
“Your nightmares follow you like a shadow, forever.”
“I shared a bed with my sister, Grace, until I was seventeen years old. She was afraid to sleep alone and would begin asking me around 5:00 P.M. every day whether she could sleep with me. I put on a big show of saying no, taking pleasure in watching her beg and sulk, but eventually I always relented. Her sticky, muscly little body thrashed beside me every night as I read Anne Sexton, watched reruns of SNL, sometimes even as I slipped my hand into my underwear to figure some stuff out.”
“They who have no central purpose in their life fall an easy prey to petty worries, fears, troubles, and self-pitying, all of which are indications of weakness, which lead, just as surely as deliberately planned sins (though by a different route), to failure, unhappiness, and loss, for weakness cannot persist in a power evolving universe.”
“My friends are all geeks. And many of them are scientists who love playing outside as much as I do.”
“Never call a man a fool; borrow from him”

Source : Oliver Herford, Ethel Watts Mumford Grant, Addison Mizner (1908). “The Cynic's Calendar of Revised Wisdom”
“We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence; like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away.”

Source : Zhuangzi (1974). “Chuang tsu: Inner chapters”, Vintage Books USA
“While the Christian message is increasingly becoming less acceptable in fashionable society, we must be always living according to Scripture and prepared to be apologists for Jesus Christ in all aspects of our lives.”

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