"[He] saw that a peculiar expression had come into his nephew's face; an expression a little like that of a young hindu fakir who having settled himself on his first bed of spikes is beginning to wish that he had chosen one of the easier religions."

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P. G. Wodehouse

#Expression Quotes #Nephew Quotes #Wish Quotes

“I did believe, from my experience of life and of looking at the world, that men hated women.”
“True happiness comes not when we get rid of all of our problems,but when we change our relationship to them, when we see our problems as a potential source of awakening, opportunities to practice, and to learn.”

Source : Richard Carlson (1998). “Don't Sweat the Small Stuff, and It's All Small Stuff: Simple Ways to Keep the Little Things from Taking Over Your Life”, MacMillan Publishing Company
“We need less perfect but more free films.”

Source : Jonas Mekas (2016). “Movie Journal: The Rise of New American Cinema, 1959-1971”, p.16, Columbia University Press
“Life is a crowded superhighway with bewildering cloverleaf exits on which a man is liable to find himself speeding back in the direction he came.”
“I've learned that no matter what, my faith will guide me. However I play on the field, I know my faith will guide me. After sports, my faith will guide me. As I've grown in my faith, that's something that's given me comfort. God has taught me that I can trust in Him. No matter what-whether things are good or bad-I know I can always trust in Him. And that has really allowed me to go All In for Him.”
“I spent my whole life trying to play the games males play.”
“But just before they cut back to the main newscaster, I see the unmistakable flash of that same mockingjay's wing. The reporter has simply been incorporated into the old footage. She's not in District 13 at all. Which begs the question, What is?”
“I hated Sundays when I was growing up in Streatham, south London. Everything closed down and stopped.”

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