"I have a longing for fiction - to try to believe in it and to disappear into it."

-- Karl Ove Knausgard

#Believe Quotes #Trying Quotes #Fiction Quotes

“For me, I took the exact right path. The cranky, independent one. And I've never looked back on it with anything but joy.”
“Pray on, dear one- the power lies that way”
“I eat like a horse - my mother still brings me Cadbury's chocolate from Britain; I do have a very healthy appetite - but I work out.”
“The last thing I need is for daughter to move back into my basement and become another unemployed millennial statistic. Would love for her to get a job at Facebook. Become the president of Google.”
“I know I'm happy and can't wait to see where my career will go next. This isn't the end for any of us. I can understand why they are upset but I want them to move forward and look for the future.”
“Prayer reveals to souls the vanity of earthly goods and pleasures. It fills them with light, strength and consolation; and gives them a foretaste of the calm bliss of our heavenly home.”
“I love bringing people together. I think that the environment is so important in terms of what kind of relationships you might be able to create, how people get to know each other.”

Source : "Voices of Power: White House Social Secretary Desiree Rogers". Interview with Lois Romano, www.washingtonpost.com. February 27, 2009.
“Man is an animal that cannot long be left in safety without occupation; the growth of his fallow nature is apt to run into weeds.”

Source : George Stillman Hillard (1853). “Six Months in Italy”, p.138

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