"They keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck."

-- Erica Jong

#Thinking Quotes #Truck Quotes #Persons Quotes

“The wall, safe haven for what is forbidden, gives a voice to all those who would, without it, be condemned to silence”
“I am a very lucky guy. I can testify before Congress. I can raise funds. I can raise awareness.”
“Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.”

Source : "Fictional character: Maurice J. Minnifield". TV Series "Northern Exposure" ("The Big Kiss", 1991), 1990-1995.
“Every ex-player I meet says the exact same thing to me 'I wish I had given it longer'. Too many players get flights home when they have the opportunity because they' re missing their mates and home, then they go back into that environment and get comfortable.”

Source : Source: www.dailymail.co.uk
“If you don't have humour, then you may as well nail the coffin lid down now.”
“I fear the day when the Kuffar are proud of their falsehood, and the Muslims are shy of their faith.”
“Pity makes a thin drink, indeed.”

Source : Caroline Pafford Miller (1944). “Lebanon”
“Man is always inclined to regard the small circle in which he lives as the center of the world and to make his particular, private life the standard of the universe and to make his particular, private life the standard of the universe. But he must give up this vain pretense, this petty provincial way of thinking and judging.”

Source : Ernst Cassirer, Yale University. Louis Stern Memorial Fund (1944). “An Essay on Man: An Introduction to a Philosophy of Human Culture”, New Haven : Yale University Press ; London : H. Milford, Oxford University Press

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