"No one has ever explained why it is that parents and guardians consider dull people such safe matrimonial investments for their young charges. Even granting the unsound assumption that dull people are more apt to be content with their own matrimonial fetters, they are certainly more apt to be the cause of discontent in others."

-- Alice Duer Miller

#People Quotes #Parent Quotes #Dull Quotes

“You mustnâ€™t wish for another life. You mustnâ€™t want to be somebody else. What you must do is this: â€œRejoice evermore. Pray without ceasing. In everything give thanks.â€ I am not all the way capable of so much, but those are the right instructions.”
“Whisky making is an act of cooperation between the blessings of nature and the wisdom of man.”
“Another agency - the IRS - did not do as well under Republicans who control Congress. The IRS is largely flatlined in their spending, but they did get about 300 million more funding. But I can only be used to help people pay their taxes and answer questions. It can't be used for any other purpose.”

Source : Source: www.npr.org
“If life were stable, I'd never need God's help.”
“As a kid, I played a lot of one-on-none.”
“Jesus is the only significance. Beside Jesus nothing has any significance. He alone matters.”
“I never had a brain until Freak came along and let me borrow his for awhile, and that's the truth, the whole truth. The unvanquished truth, is how Freak would say it, and for a long time it was him who did the talking.”

Source : Rodman Philbrick (2015). “Freak the Mighty”, p.6, Usborne Publishing Ltd
“If I can live through this, he thought, I can live through anything. If I can live through this, I WILL live through anything.”

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