"The only things we can keep are the things we freely give to God. What we try to keep for ourselves is just what we are sure to lose."

-- C. S. Lewis

#Letting Go Quotes #Giving Quotes #Trying Quotes

“Once you start to provide public services that have to be run under public rules, for example child protection, then it has to go with public law. Institutions have to make a decision whether they want to do that or they don't want to do that.”

Source : "'Anti-gay' book puts Gove at centre of faith school teaching row" by Jamie Doward, www.theguardian.com. February 18, 2012.
“I don't revise a lot when writing short stories. As far as the novel, I definitely thought more about plot. Honestly, I'm still pretty confused about what "plot" means. I've been reading some of my Goodreads reviews and one reader noted that the The Last Days of California "reads like a short story stretched to the breaking point, padded and brought into novel range..." I don't know what people want, really.”
“Some of the things I've seen a lot of my female-actress friends who are relatively famous receive - I've seen some hideous things. Like some really, really bad things... like, the FBI should be contacted immediately.”
“We'll get material in there and all of a sudden I'll switch the material around or the order of the show.”
“As we celebrate Recovery Month, it is time for Congress to knock down the barriers to treatment and recovery for 26 million Americans suffering the ravages of alcohol and drug addiction.”
“The fellow who laughs last may laugh best, but he gets the reputation of being very slow-witted.”
“Death is ordinary. Behold it, subtract its patterns and lessons from those of the death that weapons bring, and maybe the residue will show what violence is.”
“When L.A.’s schizophrenia between Dreamland and Utopia was becoming socially manifest, the United States, which was always a place, went to war with America, which was always an idea.”

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