"The roof might fall in; anything could happen."

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Dashiell Hammett

#Fall Quotes #Might Quotes #Roof Quotes

“When I record, it feels like I'm in a bubble. There's nothing else in my head right then. It's just that song, and I'm trying to really sound like what the song is about.”

Source : "A Dancing Queen Extends Her Reign" by Dave Itzkoff, www.nytimes.com. May 5, 2013.
“The grace of God is dangerous. It's lavish, excessive, outrageous, and scandalous. God's grace is ridiculously inclusive. Apparently God doesn't care who He loves. He is not very careful about the people He calls His friends or the people He calls His church.”
“And as if reporting some felony to the police they let you know you were not John Donne.”
“The life of a non-Muslim to Muslim is worth as much as the life of a chicken is worth to you and me. We don't go around killing every chicken we see. In fact we keep them and feed them as long as they are useful to us. But we don't lose sleep when we have to slaughter them. So it is not that Muslims will necessarily go around massacring every non-Muslim. As long as these non-Muslims are useful to them, they are granted protection.”

Source : Source: myislam.dk
“I taught myself to drive. I hope that the child in me never dies.”
“You know, people call mystery novels or thrillers 'puzzles.' I never understood that, because when I buy a puzzle, I already know what it is. It's on the box. And even if I don't, if it's a 5,000-piece puzzle of the 'Mona Lisa', it's not like I put the last piece in and go, 'I had no idea it's the 'Mona Lisa'!'”
“I'll see anything that Humphrey Bogart did. Weird, quirky, I know but that's the way it is.”

Source : Source: www.broadwayworld.com
“We are constituted so that simple acts of kindness, such as giving to charity or expressing gratitude, have a positive effect on our long-term moods. The key to the happy life, it seems, is the good life: a life with sustained relationships, challenging work, and connections to community.”

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