"I write so much because my cat sits on my lap. She purrs so I don't want to get up. She's so much more calming than my husband."

-- Joyce Carol Oates

#Husband Quotes #Cat Quotes #Writing Quotes

“The minimum that most minimalists want leaves in place just the institutions who protect their interests. That's libertarians for you - anarchists who want police protection from their slaves.”
“You know what I think? Very few people play because they love the game. Most of them play because they make good money. They keep playing because of the money. I could care less about it. If I don't love the game, no check is going to keep me playing.”
“... but if I've learned one thing, it's this: forgiveness is crucial. If you can't forgive someone you're mad at, that anger will poison you. You have to learn to let it go"... "people have reasons for doing the things that they do, especially when they care about you. You may not always understand what they are, but if you can try to understand the person then you might see that they really care, despite what happened." pg 100 Meredith to Vlad”
“I want to give my respect, glory and time to the Bible - to the word of God - just as I want to give my respect and time to my work.”
“Here was the astounding fact: the race did go forward; the race did achieve; and in every way the race grew better. Progress through irrational and astounding blunders, whose outrageousness bedwarfed the wildest cliches of romance, was what Kennaston found everywhere. All this, then, also was foreplanned, just as all happenings at Storisende had been, in his puny romance; and the puppets, here to, moved as they thought of their own volition, but really in order to serve a denouement in which many of them had not any personal part or interest....”
“Shabazz led chants of â€˜death to Israel,â€™ â€˜the white man is the devil,â€™ and â€˜Jihad.â€™ He also said, â€˜Kill every ***** Zionist in Israel! Goddamn little babies, ***** old ladies! Blow up Zionist supermarkets!â€™”
“From the first moment on the set I was consumed with curiousity about the technical side of shooting a sound picture.”
“Giving offers us the opportunity to reshape our destiny. When you give, you are reshaping your destiny.”

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