"3:12 pm Secretly, I admit, I find many of my classmates annoying. I've often thought to myself, 'Good grief, these people are five-year-olds. Why must I spend my days among them?' But have I ever said such things aloud? No. I have been nothing but generous to them, and kept these thoughts to myself. And how have they repaid me? Have they been grateful or kind? Ho NO!"

-- Jaclyn Moriarty

#Grateful Quotes #Grief Quotes #Years Quotes

“Nonfiction ties your hands a bit, and just like writing poetry in rhyme, it can force you to make more brutal decisions in terms of word choice, plot, etc.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Now the true soldiers of Christ must always be prepared to do battle for the truth, and must never, so far as lies with them, allow false convictions to creep in.”
“We were not always 70, or rather our 70 is an accumulation of all the other ways we were. Our 5-year-old selves became our 10-year-old selves, and so on and on; and if we unpack our selves, the full album appears. Every moment is a part of the following moment, and we are all a continuum.”
“I think it's fair to have a vote on a resolution for censure.”
“The one thing I never did, I was never strict in my techniques. I might have pretended in the past at times that I did work serially, or something like that, but I never did, it was always I let my ear tell me what to do.”

Source : "The Music Show" with Andrew Ford, www.abc.net.au. January 25, 2003.
“Your problems are never bigger than your purpose.”
“Spring cold is like the poverty of a poor man who has had a fortune left him - better days are coming ...”

Source : Margaret Oliphant (1873). “Innocent: A Tale of Modern Life : in 2 Volumes”, p.34
“People looking up at her--at her smooth pretty vivacious face--had no way of knowing about the painfully articulated resolves formulating in her mind.”

You may also like: