"Some people wait so long for their ship to come in, their pier collapses."

-- John Goddard

#Long Quotes #People Quotes #Waiting Quotes

“You will go out in joy and be led forth in peace; the mountains and hills will burst into song before you, and all the trees of the field will clap their hands. Instead of the thornbush will grow the pine tree, and instead of briers the myrtle will grow. This will be for the LORD's renown, for an everlasting sign, which will not be destroyed.”
“I canâ€™t fight the sun. I can only watch helplessly as it drags me into a day that Iâ€™ve been dreading for months. Katniss Everdeen”
“I just want to write someoneâ€™s favorite book”
“Weâ€™re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdnessâ€”and call it loveâ€”true love.”
“Where money is an idol, to be poor is a sin.”

Source : William Stringfellow (2006). “Dissenter in a Great Society: A Christian View of America in Crisis”, p.40, Wipf and Stock Publishers
“I don't consider myself a good actor at all. I just do what I want to do, and I'm just having fun doing it.”
“Such a human waste, your eyes without a face.”

Source : Song: Eyes Without A Face, Album: Rebel Yell, 1983
“Travel by canoe is not a necessity, and will nevermore be the most efficient way to get from one region to another, or even from one lake to another anywhere. A canoe trip has become simply a rite of oneness with certain terrain, a diversion off the field, an art performed not because it is a necessity but because there is value in the art itself.”

Source : John McPhee (1982). “The Survival of the Bark Canoe”, p.34, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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