"It is in bed that we learn to bear the inevitable. We are learning this all the time while we lie with our face turned to the wall thinking we are doing nothing."

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Source : Annie Edith Foster Jameson, J. E. Buckrose (1923). “What I Have Gathered”

J. E. Buckrose

#Wall Quotes #Lying Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“I'm a huge comic book collector. When I was a kid, I had both Marvel and DC. I was my own librarian. I made card files. I had origin stories of all the characters, and cross-referenced when they appeared in other comic books. I was full on.”

Source : "'The Wolverine': New film cuts deep into Hugh Jackman hero" by Anthony Breznican, www.ew.com. January 08, 2013.
“A savage is simply a human organism that has not received enough news from the human race.”
“Therefore, I exhort first of all that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks be made for all men, for kings and all who are in authority, that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and reverence.”
“Is there a rarer being, Is there a fairer sphere Where the strong are not unseeing, And the harvests are not sere; Where, ere the seasons dwindle They yield their due return; Where the lamps of knowledge kindle While the flames of youth still burn?”

Source : Edmund Clarence Stedman (1900). “An American Anthology, 1787-1900: Selections Illustrating the Editor's Critical Review of American Poetry in the Nineteenth Century”, Boston ; New York : Houghton, Mifflin, [190-]
“As a quarterback, you have to love it. As much as you like to turn around and hand the ball off - the whole traditional football game - as a quarterback, you gotta love putting it in the air.”
“And what holds good of verse holds infinitely better in respect to prose.”

Source : James Payn (1882). “Sammlung”
“I prefer rugby to soccer. I enjoy the violence in rugby, except when they start biting each other's ears off.”
“If you splurge, do it on an item that's fun, because you'll feel good whenever you put it on.”

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