"I s'pose, I can't have it all my own way, can I? You can't drown in a person unless they let you."

-- Markus Zusak

#Way Quotes #Persons Quotes

“Leaning her silly, beautiful, drunken head on my shoulder, she said, "Oh, Esther, I don't want to be a feminist. I don't enjoy it. It's no fun." "I know," I said. "I don't either." People think you decide to be a "radical," for God's sake, like deciding to be a librarian or a ship's chandler. You "make up your mind," you "commit yourself" (sounds like a mental hospital, doesn't it?). I said Don't worry, we could be buried together and have engraved on our tombstone the awful truth, which some day somebody will understand: WE WUZ PUSHED.”
“[God in the Law given to Moses] having forbidden all unlawful marriage, and all unseemly practice, and the union of women with women and men with men.”

Source : "The Proof of the Gospel: Being the Demonstratio Evangelica of Eusebius of Cæsarea".
“If you attempt certain things at the right time, they are easy to accomplish - in fact, they almost get done by themselves. If you undertake them before the time is right, not only will they fail, but they will often become impossible to accomplish even when the time would have been right.”

Source : Francesco Guicciardini (1965). “Maxims and Reflections (Ricordi)”, p.61, University of Pennsylvania Press
“Children, then, acquire social skills not so much from adults as from their interactions with one another. They are likely to discover through trial and error which strategies work and which do not, and later to reflect consciously on what they have learned.”
“If you run an Internet search on Vietnam and the war, most of the information you get begins at about 1962. I think this is telling. It is missing the whole period that led up to the reasons the war happened in the first place”
“I think many people love poetry who don't know they love it. People are sometimes afraid of poetry, or they've been introduced to poetry that doesn't speak to them.”
“To understand your fear is the beginning of really seeing.”
“The issue isn't-nor should it ever be-how weak our child is, but rather how strong our God is.”

Source : Tim Kimmel (2004). “Why Christian Kids Rebel: Trading Heartache for Hope”, p.168, Thomas Nelson Inc

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