"Apparently, the world is not a wish granting factory."

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Source : "Fictional character: Augustus Waters". "The Fault in Our Stars", www.imdb.com. 2014.

Augustus

#Wish Quotes #World Quotes #Factories Quotes

“Get unstuck from whatever it is you perceive is holding you back from realizing your dreams.”
“I love the necessary ambiguity of short stories - there simply isn't time to render every detail, so much of the story that orbits the literal prose must happen in the reader's imagination. Who knows, maybe the dwindling attention spans means a lucrative future for short story writers.”

Source : Source: blog.superstitionreview.asu.edu
“Just follow that one road the whole time!... I hope they don't get lost, I'm so bad at giving directions..”
“In seven days God had created the Earth. In a single day mankind had turned it upside down.”

Source : Kristina Mcmorris (2012). “Bridge of Scarlet Leaves”, p.82, Kensington Publishing Corp.
“Do you know someone you would like to change and regulate and improve? Good! That is fine. I am all in favor of it, But why not begin on yourself? From a purely selfish standpoint, that is a lot more profitable than trying to improve others - yes, and a lot less dangerous.”
“There is no law that says a man who earned a hundred million dollars in his first half-dozen years on the job has to be a decent human being, but Mike Eisner is that and more.”
“If you don't wake up for Fajr, then don't wake up at all”
“While the business of education in Europe consists in lectures upon the ruins of Palmyra and the antiquities of Herculaneum, or in disputes about Hebrew points, Greek particles, or the accent and quantity of the Roman language, the youth of America will be employed in acquiring those branches of knowledge which increase the conveniences of life, lessen human misery, improve our country, promote population, exalt the human understanding, and establish domestic social and political happiness.”

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