"Perhaps the most important thing we can ever do in our lives is find a way to keep the wild-both the wild inside and the wild outside us-and tap into it."

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Source : Stormie Omartian (2016). “Let God's Word Empower Your Prayers: A Devotional”, p.9, Harvest House Publishers

Anne Rivers Siddons

#Life Quotes #Important Quotes #Way Quotes

“Most of the things that I remember from childhood wouldn't make a particularly good story: rescuing worms during rainstorms, our schnauzer attacking a wheel of cheese when someone dropped it during dinner, my parents tricking us into riding Space Mountain at Disney World (we thought it was an educational people-mover kind of ride), playing Star Wars (I got to marry Harrison Ford and my sister married Luke Skywalker) in first and second grade. On the other hand, we always had lots of interesting babysitters--seminary students and friends of my parents--who told really good ghost stories.”
“I just got a fortune cookie that says "Turn off your computer and read a book" which is odd because I'm WRITING a book...on my computer!”
“Slowly, desolately, the fist of what we'd done unclenched the clawed palm of what we'd become.”

Source : Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.798, Macmillan
“God is the God of 'right now.' He doesn't want you sitting around regretting yesterday. Nor does He want you wringing your hands and worrying about the future. He wants you focusing on what He is saying to you and putting in front of you ... right now.”
“I think that what's important as a director is to give your actors the feeling that they're protected, the feeling of confidence, the feeling that if they make mistakes, then as a director, you'll know how to help them. If you're able to convey that, then the actors will give you wonderful performances. As well as the author, you have to write scenes that give the actors the opportunity to show what they're capable of.”

Source : "Michael Haneke Talks AMOUR, His Inspiration for the Film, His Casting Decisions, Physical and Emotional Demands of the Film and Shooting the Film in French". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. December 14, 2012.
“It is enough to make anybody's blood bile in thier vains to think how different sin is looked upon in a man and woman. I say sin is sin, and you can't make goodness out of it by parsin' it in the masculine gender, no more'n you can by parsin' it in the feminine or neutral.”

Source : Marietta Holley (1875). “My Opinions and Betsy Bobbet's: Designed as a Beacon Light, to Guide Women to Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness, But which May be Read by Members of the Sterner Sect, Without Injury to Themselves Or the Book”, p.113
“I was able to afford a car that didn't break down every five minutes.”

Source : "White Stripes For Coffee And Cigarettes". Interview with Daniel Robert Epstein, suicidegirls.com. May 9, 2004.
“The German Army is tired. The vain effort to defeat Russia's armies has used up its equipment and reduced its morale.”

Source : "Kaltenborn Edits the War News" Hans Kaltenborn, (p. 25), 1942.

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