"I've never been keen on open adoption. It doesn't seem to solve the main problem with adoption, which is that somebody feels she was abandoned by someone else."

-- Joan Didion

#Adoption Quotes #Problem Quotes #Abandoned Quotes

“If I sit next to a madman as he drives a car into a group of innocent bystanders, I can't, as a Christian, simply wait for the catastrophe, then comfort the wounded and bury the dead. I must try to wrestle the steering wheel out of the hands of the driver.”
“My vision for Kentucky is a Commonwealth where there is so much economic opportunity, and our quality of life is so high, that people who are born here can stay here, and people who aren't fortunate enough to be born in Kentucky, can look forward to locating here.”
“Statistically speaking, there is a 65 percent chance that the love of your life is having an affair. Be very suspicious.”

Source : Scott Dikkers (2009). “You Are Worthless: Depressing Nuggets of Wisdom Sure to Ruin Your Day”, p.135, Andrews McMeel Publishing
“We as Christians have a mandate to be nonconformists.”
“Biology gives you a brain. Life turns it into a mind.”

Source : Jeffrey Eugenides (2003). “Middlesex”, p.479, A&C Black
“From a yogic perspective, stillness, coupled with expanded awareness, is by far the most powerful medium by which you can affect your destiny.”

Source : "The 6-Point Method for Breaking Unhealthy Habits" by Rod Stryker, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 21, 2011.
“The hurts of childhood that must be avenged: so small and so huge.”
“Science has always been my preoccupation and when you think a breakthrough is possible, it is terribly exciting.”

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