"I hated childhood, and spent it sitting behind a book waiting for adulthood to arrive."

-- Anne Tyler

#Book Quotes #Childhood Quotes #Waiting Quotes

“Life is rather like a tin of sardines - we're all of us looking for the key.”

Source : 1960 Beyond the Fringe.
“Dhoni is one of the greatest captain I have ever seen. Dhoni's record is praiseworthy. Twenty-two Test wins is not a small achievement. And the success against Australia has come against the backdrop of the not-so-good times he went through in the last two years”
“I think there are [gay players] right now, and if they're looking for a window to just come out, I mean, now is the window. My view on it is, yes, I am a Christian, but to each his own. You do what you want to do.”
“The two worst sins of bad taste in fiction are ***** and sentimentality. One is too much sex and the other too much sentiment.”
“We only really learn in conversation after sex.”
“To be cautious, one should not take high confidence as any absolute guarantee of anything.”

Source : "Eyewitness Testimony". Book by Elizabeth Loftus, 1979.
“A day will come when the nationalists will find themselves the only defenders of Islam. They will have to give a special meaning to it if they want the Arab nation to have a good reason for survival.”

Source : "In Memory of the Arab Prophet" by Michel Aflaq, April 1, 1943.
“Man's drive for self-expression, which over the centuries has built his monuments, does not stay within its bounds; the creations which yesterday were detested and the obscene become the classics of today.”

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