"I have a deep-down belief that there are folks in the world who are good through and through, and others who came in mean and will go out mean. It's like coffee. Once it's roasted, it all looks brown. Until you pour hot water on it and see what comes out. Folks get into hot water, you see what comes out."

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Source : Nancy E. Turner (2010). “Sarah's Quilt: A Novel of Sarah Agnes Prine and the Arizona Territories, 1906”, p.265, Macmillan

Nancy E. Turner

#Coffee Quotes #Mean Quotes #Water Quotes

“Being good is something that one must choose over and over again, every day, throughout the day, for the rest of oneâ€™s life.”
“Truth would quickly cease to be stranger than fiction, once we got as used to it.”
“There was a time when I experienced architecture without thinking about it,”

Source : Peter Zumthor (1998). “Peter Zumthor”
“With sales stabilizing, we should go back to positive price growth early next year.”
“Tutors should behave reverently before their pupils.”
“I have questioned God sometimes whether prayers have gone unanswered. But answered prayer is still harder to believe.”
“I think I know a lot about campaigns.”
“If time has no beginning and no end, everything is happening, will happen, has happened, at the same moment. All eternity in a single moment.”

Source : Twitter post from Aug 26, 2013

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