"An hour spent in the presence of God brings the purest joy known to man."

-- E. Stanley Jones

#Men Quotes #Joy Quotes #Hours Quotes

“Since I started in motor racing I've worked with people from all over the world. We are all here to go racing and prejudice will never play any part in that.”
“Your first kiss is destiny knocking.”

Source : Alice Sebold (2014). “The Lovely Bones: Picador Classic”, p.200, Pan Macmillan
“Love in all its forms is very difficult ... to express. It changes, obviously. If youâ€™re young, and youâ€™re romantically in love with somebody, and often if youâ€™ve just met somebody, its crazy! Itâ€™s completely overwhelming. You canâ€™t think of anything else. You just want to climb inside the other person and live under their pancreas. And then it mellows, somewhat... to the point where you can barely look at them... without feeling a mild distaste”
“People who want to make a million borrow a million first”
“When you get into statistical analysis, you don't really expect to achieve fame. Or to become an Internet meme. Or be parodied by 'The Onion' - or be the subject of a cartoon in 'The New Yorker.' I guess I'm kind of an outlier there.”
“The politics of that year [2004] are old now, but the problem remains the same, the real culture clash of American life. It's between the essence of fundamentalism - paternalism, authority, and charity - and the messy imperatives of democracy, "the din of the vox populi" once derided by Abram Vereide. It's the difference between false unity, preached from above, and real solidarity, pledged between brothers and sisters - the kinds who are always bickering.”
“Better to live your life open rather than exist on borrowed time, waiting for the great unmasking.”

Source : Kate Jacobs (2012). “The Friday Night Knitting Club”, p.111, Hachette UK
“Play more than one sport in high school. If you play, say, football and basketball, you can learn to be physical and you can take those physical aspects of both sports and become better in both sports. Basketball players use some of the same skills football players do and vice versa.”

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