"I read real books. On paper. You know, those printed books? I feel like this is the last thing I do to support my industry. I think they smell great, too."

-- Gary Shteyngart

#Real Quotes #Book Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Abortions will not let you forget. You remember the children you got that you did not get.”
“If we destroy their environments and communities, we will lose the answers they have to solving our problems, and to the protection of our common futures.”
“No one had more impact on my career than Gil Hodges. Playing for him was a learning experience, and he was a tower of strength. Not everbody liked him, but everybody respected him. He went about his job in a very professional manner, and it caused me to do the same with my job.”

Source : Tom Seaver, Martin Appel (1984). “Tom Seaver's all-time baseball greats”, Atheneum
“Heavenly Father, thank You so much for Your grace. Your forgiveness is SO good that I struggle with believing it at times. Thank You for rescuing me from myself and giving me Your Holy Spirit. Your love is better than life.”
“I love the Underworld movies because the vampires arent automatically evil, yet neither are they basically humans with fangs.”
“Because God is full of life, I imagine each morning Almighty God says to the sun, "Do it again"; and every evening to the moon and the stars, "Do it again"; and every springtime to the daisies, "Do it again"; and every time a child is born into the world asking for curtain call, that the heart of the God might once more ring out in the heart of the babe.”
“If a man has ten good qualities and one bad one, to look at the ten and forget the one, and if a man has ten bad qualities and one good one, to look at the one and forget the ten.”
“The marriage-based society...discourages all the competing alternatives to marriage. You can't have a marriage-based society and a social value of sexual freedom. They don't work together”

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