"Well' Francie decided, 'I guess the thing that is giving me this headache is life - and nothing else but'."

-- Betty Smith

#Giving Quotes #Headache Quotes #Wells Quotes

“I don't recall having a gun. I really don't. I don't think I ever pulled a gun on anyone in my life.”

Source : "Darrell Issa ‘New Yorker’ Article Probes ‘Colorful’ Past", www.huffingtonpost.com. January 17, 2011.
“It's not about knowing who you are. It's about thinkin you got there without takin anything with you. Your notions about startin over. or anybody's. You dont start over. That's what it's about. Every step you take is forever. You can't make it go away. None of it.”
“I am very interested in the small decisions people make that do set you on a different road in your life. As much as we have influence over what kind of person we're going to become, there are little tests along the way.”
“A serpent is a serpent, and none the less a viper, because it is nestled in the bosom of an honest-hearted man.”
“Things just always seem to lead to the logical next step.”
“It's a hard thing to explain to other people because it sounds very superficial and nepotistic, but doing the interview is actually a very deep, dream-fulfilling aspect of relationship.”
“To procrastinate seems inherent in man, for if you do to-day that you may enjoy to-morrow it is but deferring the enjoyment; so that to be idle or industrious, vicious or virtuous, is but with a view of procrastinating the one or the other.”

Source : Benjamin Robert Haydon, Frederick Wordsworth Haydon (1876). “Correspondence and Table-talk: With a Memoir”, p.294
“I took the repeal of the Corn Laws as light amusement compared with the difficult task of inducing the priests of all denominations to agree to suffer the people to be educated.”

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