"I have listened and I have been quiet all my life. But now I will speak."

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Source : Jessica Stern (2010). “Denial: A Memoir of Terror”, p.25, Harper Collins

Jessica Stern

#Quiet Quotes #Speak Quotes

“Ever since I could first write I have been doing so. When I was taught how to write and read at school, I made up my mind that this was what I love to do best and this was the world I was going to occupy.”

Source : "Class Interview with Anita Desai". www.baruch.cuny.edu. 2003.
“We may at times be unemployed, but no one ever becomes uncalled.”
“Most people are unhappy; and they are unhappy because there is no love in their hearts.”
“Instapaper does support paywall sites. I have a list of them, that when someone saves something it sends a copy of the page as they are viewing it only to them. If you subscribe to a paid site, you can save the content. I'm not really touching the money.”
“True doctrine, understood, changes attitudes and behavior. The study of the doctrines of the gospel will improve behavior quicker than a study of behavior will improve behavior. Preoccupation with unworthy behavior can lead to unworthy behavior. That is why we stress so forcefully the study of the doctrines of the gospel.”

Source : Boyd K. Packer (1998). “The shield of faith”, Bookcraft, Incorporated
“Love calls - everywhere and always. We're sky bound. Are you coming?”
“The older, thinner, and less productive grass lands, however, frequently can be made to produce much larger yields of feed in corn than if left, as they are, in unproductive grass.”
“Most novelists I know went through a period of intense self-examination and self-loathing after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center. I certainly did.”

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