"I was a very quiet child, quite introverted, really. Independent, yes; I didn't need a lot of supervision. Less so than I did when I got older, maybe. But I was a bookish child, not surprisingly. I could sit quite happily in a corner for hours and entertain myself with books."

-- John Boyne

#Children Quotes #Book Quotes #Independent Quotes

“All good performance starts with clear goals.”

Source : Ken Blanchard, Garry Ridge (2013). “Improve Your Career Performance (Collection)”, p.390, FT Press
“I've been surfing almost as long as I've been playing music.”

Source : Source: www.seventeen.com
“In this infinite space is placed our universe (whether by chance, by necessity, or by providence I do not now consider).”
“The association of motorcycles with LSD is no accident of publicity. They are both a means to an end, to the place of definitions.”
“Once we agree with God that we exist for His pleasure and His glory, we can accept whatever comes into our lives as a part of His sovereign will and purpose. We will not resent, resist, or reject the hard things, but embrace them as friends, sovereignly designed by God to make us more like Jesus and to bring glory to Himself.”
“Well, because the Arabs who were involved in 9/11 cooperated with the Zionists, actually. It was a cooperation. They gave them the perfect excuse to denounce all Arabs. It's a racist sort of thing, really racist - you know, picking out these 19 or 20 terrorists - they were terrorists - and saying all the Arabs are like them.”

Source : "Former U.S. Sen. James Abourezk on Hizbullah TV: The Arabs Involved in 9/11 Were Cooperating with the Zionists; People in America Don't Really Look at it That Deeply; They Accept What the Government and the Press Are Saying". "Al-Manar TV" Interview, www.memri.org. August 30, 2007.
“After being impaled by a javelin, while officiating- I'm doing fine now, just resting and hanging around.”
“My heroes have always been the hardworking and unflappable. Those who light a candle rather than curse the darkness.”

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