"You can tell it any way you want but that's the way it is. I should of done it and I didnâ€™t. And some part of me has never quit wishin I could go back. And I cant. I didnâ€™t know you could steal your own life. And I didnâ€™t know that it would bring you no more benefit than about anything else you might steal. I think I done the best with it I knew how but it still wasnâ€™t mine. It never has been."

-- Cormac McCarthy

#Thinking Quotes #Done Quotes #Benefits Quotes

“I have never said that the terrorists' interpretation of Islam is the accurate or correct one. But I have pointed out that the terrorists portray themselves quite successfully among Muslims as the exponents of true and pure Islam, and moderates have mounted no successful response as yet.”

Source : "Honesty is the best policy, Bob". Jihad Watch (www.jihadwatch.org), July 19, 2007.
“But no matter for that, you can be tolerably happy, perhaps, notwithstanding; but as for guessing how happy I am, or knowing anything about the matter,--- O! its quite beyond what you can understand.”
“Nothing in our lives is a mere insignificant detail to God.”
“To me, working out is literally like eating a meal or drinking water or breathing.”

Source : "Hilary Swank Is Ready for Takeoff". Interview with Joanna Coles, www.marieclaire.com. October 7, 2009.
“The endurance athlete is the ultimate realist.”
“Customers will want to talk to you if they believe you can solve their problems.”
“She had nothing in this world but her two hands and her crazy love for Jesus, who seemed, for his part, never to have heard of her.”

Source : Denis Johnson (2016). “Tree of Smoke”, p.112, Pan Macmillan
“The Soviet Union could not exist without the image of the empire. The image of the empire could not exist without the image of force. The USSR ended the moment the first hammer pounded the Berlin Wall.”

Source : Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin (1994). “The View from the Kremlin”, HarperCollins

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