"For if God does not for a moment tire of giving us good things, how can we tire of thanking Him for these good things?"

-- Nikolaj Velimirovic

#Giving Quotes #Doe Quotes #Tire Quotes

“I am a very simple man. I am a man first, an artist second. My first obligation is to the welfare of my fellow man. I will endeavour to meet this obligation through music, since it transcends language, politics and national boundaries.”
“Yesterday, I did some painting then went out to buy an onion and came home and watched 'University Challenge.' The onion was probably the highlight.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“It was frankly sort of confusing, the way everyone stared at our bodies exactly as they tried to erase the ideas of our bodies from our minds. We were supposed to get over ourselves but no one was supposed to get over us. The female body was our worst handicap and our best advantage - the surest means to success, the surest course to failure.”
“I think my being such a nomad let me into acting. I was always having to create a new image whenever we moved.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“...they'd just tell you to turn the other cheek, wouldn't they?...Trouble is, Mrs. Dowdel observed, after you've turned the other cheek four times, you run out of cheeks.”

Source : Richard Peck (2010). “A Season of Gifts”, p.25, Penguin
“If pimps and thieves everywhere were always punished, honest people would all believe themselves always to be innocent.”
“History is so indifferently rich, that a case for almost any conclusion from it can be made by a selection of instances.”
“If I want to have a conversation, I can't have a list of questions, because the second question on the list is going to interrupt the conversation.”

Source : Interview with Sarah Fay, believermag.com. June 1, 2010.

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