"Scars crossed her welded wrists."

-- Jeffrey Eugenides

#Scar Quotes #Wrists Quotes

“I think because my parents died in their early 50s, mid 50s, I always thought I would die young. And that's been both a useful thing and I suspect something that's haunted me a little bit.”
“I saved $8,000 and created a construction company when I was 25.”

Source : "What I've Learned: Senator Bob Corker (R, Tenn.)" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. October 18, 2010.
“When you've done the types of things I've done, it's easier not to reflect on yourself. When I start thinking about how it's affecting the families of the people, and my family and everything, it doesn't do me any good. It just gets me very upset.”
“There was no more dangerous a time in a nation's life than the passing of a ruler when the succession was in doubt.”
“You can't beat somebody with nobody.”
“there is no gateway to maturity; there is no line that is crossed. Maturity is like a maze, one path leading to another; it is like a great building full of corridors, one turning into another. Did anybody ever reach the end, so there was a clear way ahead, so he could say, now I am rich with knowledge, now I know all the answers?”
“All comparisons between America's current place in the world and anything legitimately called an empire in the past reveal ignorance and confusion about any reasonable meaning of the concept empire, especially the comparison with the Roman Empire.”
“I don't read my own reviews and I haven't for probably 15 years. I read other people's reviews, though.”

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