"Authors of light pieces have, nobody knows why, a genius for getting into minor difficulties: they walk into the wrong apartments, they drink furniture polish for stomach bitters, they drive their cars into the prize tulip beds of haughty neighbors, they playfully slap gangsters, mistaking them for old school friends."

-- James Thurber

#School Quotes #Light Quotes #Car Quotes

“Faith in anything, be it positive or negative, produces results. Putting faith in fear generates destructive results, beginning with the disintegration of our ability to relate confidently to the external world.”
“Envy is a deadly sin!”
“To be a disciple means forsaking everything to follow Jesus, unconditionally, putting our lives completely in His hands. When we say that we want to be His disciple, yet attach a list of conditions, Jesus refuses to accept our terms. His terms involve unconditional surrender.”

Source : Richard Stearns (2014). “Stearns 2 in 1: The Hole in Our Gospel and Unfinished”, p.39, Harper Collins
“Most books about writing are filled with bullshit. Fiction writers, present company included, donâ€™t understand very much about what they doâ€”not why it works when itâ€™s good, not why it doesnâ€™t when itâ€™s bad.”
“When you cannot be just through virtue, be so through pride.”
“I'm a middle-class former housewife who goes to my daughter's softball games.”
“Growing up in the U.S., I was certainly deeply aware of the power of American media, specifically Hollywood and television, in terms of broadcasting a particular vision of what the American experience was like. As someone coming from a war that was a preoccupation of Americans in the 1980s, it did strike me that since we were a part of that war, we should have a chance to talk about ourselves.”
“So we've moved from an era when women's biology was women's destiny to today, which is an era in which men's biology is men's destiny.”

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