"Make your goals big and broad enough so that they never become answered prayers and boomerang to curse you."

--

Douglas Coupland

#Prayer Quotes #Goal Quotes #Enough Quotes

“Don't live vicariously through your kids or try to shape them into who you wanted to be, like the popular kid or an athlete. Children should be given the opportunity to be themselves.”
“It's very rare that you just get stuck with the ball. You're going to get somebody open.”
“I think sometimes I intimidate people. I've been told that. But I feel I'm the least intimidating person possible.”
“I worked at a factory owned by Germans, at coal pits owned by Frenchmen, and at a chemical plant owned by Belgians. There I discovered something about capitalists. They are all alike, whatever the nationality. All they wanted from me was the most work for the least money that kept me alive. So I became a communist.”

Source : "Khrushchev: A Career". Book by Edward Crankshaw, p. 12, 1966.
“Leaving feels good and pure only when you leave something important, something that mattered to you. Pulling life out by the roots. But you can't do that until your life has grown roots.”
“Almost no one under 60 remembers what fundraising was like before Watergate. Until the 1970s, campaign money was collected by "bagmen," familiar characters from the world of organized crime. As fans of Boardwalk Empire know, a bagman is a political fixer who walked around with stacks of $100 and $1,000 bills. At lower levels, he used brown paper bags. In presidential campaigns, the cash was more likely to be in briefcases. Classier that way.”
“Getting the nomination is like gravy. Winning would be like whatever is better than gravy.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Some of life's biggest and most positive changes are propelled by mini conspiracies of a few well-meaning folks.”

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