"Waiting and hoping is a hard thing to do when you've already been waiting and hoping for almost as long as you can bear it."

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Source : Jenny Nimmo (2012). “Children of the Red King #2: Charlie Bone and the Time Twister”, p.179, Scholastic Inc.

Jenny Nimmo

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“Of all human activities, writing is the one for which it is easiest to find excuses not to begin â€“ the deskâ€™s too big, the deskâ€™s too small, thereâ€™s too much noise, thereâ€™s too much quiet, itâ€™s too hot, too cold, too early, too late. I had learned over the years to ignore them all, and simply to start.”

Source : "The Ghost". Book by Robert Harris, September 26, 2007.
“Singing is best, it gives right joy to speech.”

Source : Genevieve Taggard (1938). “Collected Poems: 1918-1938”
“I've learned never to be surprised if what must inevitably happen happens right now.”
“Man cannot live by bread alone. Man after all is composed of intellect and soul.”
“Worship demands the far distances of God; it protests against the little, the near, the material. It must love but it must look up. It cannot live without the note of spirituality and universality, if not mystery. The ascension, the passing of Christ within the veil, answers this need. So does a full-robed Christianity add to definiteness of knowledge the outreach of imagination and home.”
“For the past few years, I've been more selective than I have any right to be, but I think that's finally starting to work in my favor. I think I get way too much credit for making what people consider to be smart choices, but it's only because I made a decision to stop worrying about making money.”

Source : "Q+A: Lizzy Caplan, Funnywoman". Interview with Simon Abrams, www.esquire.com. January 26, 2012.
“Harvard graduates just cannot shake the idea that they know better than everyone else what's best for us and that they're capable of running a mammoth, unwieldy government program providing each one of us with the precise health insurance we need, at a good price, with no waste or fraud. Trust them, they worked it all out on paper their junior year.”
“Whether weapons exist in Iraq, Saddam Hussein or post-Saddam Hussein, it is a serious enough issue that require that we continue to go and make sure that Iraq does not have weapons.”

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