"On the one hand, I'm grateful to be hired and thrilled to be paid."

-- Christopher Durang

#Grateful Quotes #Hands Quotes

“It is important that you get clear for yourself that your only access to impacting life is action. The world does not care what you intend, how committed you are, how you feel or what you think, and certainly it has no interest in what you want and don't want. Take a look at life as it is lived and see for yourself that the world only moves for you when you act.”
“And there was that letter from the Bramleysâ€”that really made me feel good. You donâ€™t find people like the Bramleys now; radio, television and the motorcar have carried the outside world into the most isolated places so that the simple people you used to meet on the lonely farms are rapidly becoming like people anywhere else. There are still a few left, of courseâ€”old folk who cling to the ways of their fathers and when I come across any of them I like to make some excuse to sit down and talk with them and listen to the old Yorkshire words and expressions which have almost disappeared.”

Source : James Herriot (2012). “All Creatures Great and Small: The classic memoirs of a Yorkshire country vet”, p.313, Pan Macmillan
“It's easy to manipulate your children when they're absolutely sure you're stupid.”
“The blessing of this music is that it is fun to do and it keeps evolving.”
“I think he's the best quarterback in this game.”

Source : "Andre Johnson says Andrew Luck is best QB in NFL" by Mike Wells, abcnews.go.com. June 9, 2015.
“The information on a baby born to Vladimir Putin is false. I am going to ask people who have money to organize a contest on the best media rumor.”
“Even though one is well advanced in virtue, should he stop mortifying himself, he soon would lose his modesty and virtue - just as fertile soul quickly becomes dry and arid and produces nothing but thorns and thistles if it is not cultivated.”
“We never know all the facts and the more we're mindful of how we deal with people, the more opportunity we have to evolve.”

Source : "Mary McDonnell Talks ‘Battlestar’ Finale". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, pagesix.com. March 23, 2009.

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