"Sometimes seeing everything just gets in the way."

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Source : Chris Lynch (2011). “Angry Young Man”, p.167, Simon and Schuster

Chris Lynch

#Way Quotes #Sometimes Quotes

“Now we cannot...discover our failure to keep God's law except by trying our very hardest (and then failing). Unless we really try, whatever we say there will always be at the back of our minds the idea that if we try harder next time we shall succeed in being completely good. Thus, in one sense, the road back to God is a road of moral effort, of trying harder and harder. But in another sense it is not trying that is ever going tobring us home. All this trying leads up to the vital moment at which you turn to God and say, "You must do this. I can't.”
“The more relaxed you are, the better you are at everything.”
“I don't mind living in a man's world as long as I can be a woman in it.”
“I feel like I was drafted to play football, not carry another player's pads.”

Source : "Dez Bryant Refuses Roy Williams’ Rookie Hazing". www.huffingtonpost.com. July 26, 2010.
“The liberation of women from exclusive domesticity did not originate in feminist books, or a war, or a big inflation, although they contributed to its progress. The rising enrollment of women in the paid labor force is a straightforward consequence of the industrial revolution of two hundred years ago.”
“The spirituality of the earth is an invitation to initiation, to the death of what we have been and the birth of something new”
“You have to get to know your voice and its strengths and play on those. It took me quite a long time.”
“If we have a thousand bamboo spears, there's nothing to worry about a war with the Soviet Union.”

Source : "Sugamo Diary" by Yoshio Kodama, (p. 30), 1960.

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