"A fiance is neither this nor that: he's left one shore, but not yet reached the other."

-- Anton Chekhov

#Umpires Quotes #Engagement Quotes #Shore Quotes

“I wish you a wrestling match with your Creative Muse that will last a lifetime. ... I wish craziness and foolishness and madness upon you. May you live with hysteria, and out of it make fine stories - science fiction or otherwise. Which finally means, may you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world.”
“The next morning dawned bright and sweet, like ribbon candy.”

Source : Sarah Addison Allen (2007). “Garden Spells”, p.222, Bantam
“Sports keep you feeling cheerful, feeling spirited, it's a kind of a thriving feeling.”
“She [Hillary Clinton] had the courage to stand up.”
“The years I raced in were fantastic. There was so much change in the cars. We went from treaded tyres to no wings right through to slicks to enormous wings.”
“Cross-cultural reality testing forces people to examine both their own and others' understandings of reality. Most people simply assume that the way they look at things is the way things really are, and judge other cultures' views of reality before understanding them. These judgments are based on ethnocentrism, which closes the door to further understanding and communication. Furthermore, ethnocentric judgments keep missionaries from examining their own beliefs and values to determine which of them are based on biblical foundations and which on their cultural beliefs.”
“The great challenge of the twentieth century ... is to create a new financial architecture in which private decisions produce a less degenerate capitalism.”
“Alliances and partnerships produce stability when they reflect realities and interests.”

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