"The paintings are like prayers, relating to wishing for something beyond everyday life."

-- Susan Rothenberg

#Prayer Quotes #Everyday Quotes #Wish Quotes

“You need a lot of things in any organization, but one of the critical things is trust. When you lose trust and you feel betrayed, and it's not a matter of judgment.”
“He knew he wasn't going anywhere that didn't take him to her.”

Source : Cindy Gerard (2009). “Show No Mercy and Take No Prisoners”, p.470, Simon and Schuster
“Every solitary one of these aristocratic conspirators and would-be murderers claims to be an arch-patriot; every one of them insists that the war is being waged to make the world safe for democracy. What humbug! What rot! What false pretense! These autocrats, these tyrants, these red-handed robbers and murderers, the "patriots," while the men who have the courage to stand face to face with them, speak the truth, and fight for their exploited victims-they are the disloyalists and traitors. If this be true, I want to take my place side by side with the traitors in this fight.”
“But the idea of a man making his living by writing seemed, in that hardy environment, so fantastic that even today I am sometimes myself assailed by a feeling of unreality.”
“To feed our people we must first feed our soil”
“Books fall open, you fall in, delighted where you've never been; hear voices not once heard before, reach world on world through door on door; find unexpected keys to things locked up beyond imaginings. What might you be, perhaps become, because one book is somewhere? Some wise delver into wisdom, wit, and wherewithal has written it. True books will venture, dare you out, whisper secrets, maybe shout across the gloom to you in need, who hanker for a book to read.”
“Happiness is not some 'thing' to be pursued it is a way of being born from appreciating”
“I'm the comedic girl next door and a lot of fun.”

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