"You've got to bend with the wind or you're broken."

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Source : Ernest J. Gaines, John Lowe (1995). “Conversations with Ernest Gaines”, p.128, Univ. Press of Mississippi

Ernest Gaines

#Wind Quotes #Broken Quotes

“The concentration in my book on Marie Antoinette's childhood and on her family influences. It is surprising how some books actually start with her arrival in France!”
“Do not allow the Church or State to govern your thought or dictate your judgment”

Source : Matilda Joslyn Gage (1980). “Woman, Church, and State: The Original Exposé of Male Collaboration Against the Female Sex”
“... it was religion that saved me. Our ugly church and parochial school provided me with my only aesthetic outlet, in the words ofthe Mass and the litanies and the old Latin hymns, in the Easter lilies around the altar, rosaries, ornamented prayer books, votive lamps, holy cards stamped in gold and decorated with flower wreaths and a saint's picture.”
“Young men! it 's a critical thing to go Exactly right with a lady in tow; But when you are in the proper track, Just go ahead, and never look back!”

Source : John Godfrey Saxe (1872). “The Poems: Complete in One Volume”, p.431
“I've always followed the rule that anything worth doing is worth doing excessively.”
“Science works because the phenomenon being described can be relied on to remain the same. Even in quantum physics, where phenomena are changed by observation, the way in which observation interferes is regular and falls within a limited range of possibilities. Human culture, however, has the nasty habit of never staying the same for very long.”
“Unwanted honking not only irritates others, but may also end up causing accidents. Drivers lose cool and it may result in road rage.”
“Knowledge is taken from breath, not lives in a book”

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