"I spent a lot of time waiting for things to happen to me, which is more or less as pathetic as it sounds."

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Source : Sloane Crosley (2012). “I Was Told There'd Be Cake”, p.65, Portobello Books

Sloane Crosley

#Waiting Quotes #Sound Quotes #Pathetic Quotes

“If any philosopher had been asked for a definition of infinity, he might have produced some unintelligible rigmarole, but he would certainly not have been able to give a definition that had any meaning at all.”
“Love isn't a burst o' trumpets and a flock o' doves descendin' out o' the heavens to roost on yer heads. Tis sharin' a cup o' tea by the hearth on a cold winter's night. 'Tis the look in yer husband's eyes when ye lay yer first child in his arms. Tis the ache in yer heart when ye watch the light in his eyes dim fer the last time, and know a part o' ye has gone out o' this world with him...”

Source : Teresa Medeiros (2011). “Charming the Prince”, p.311, Bantam
“When people ask what's on my iPod, it's the Mormon Tabernacle Choir.”
“I often eat Skippys Super Chunk peanut butter out of the jar with a spoon. I dont shamefully sneak it in the dark of night when everyone is in bed. I just twist that cap off and go to town right out in the open.”
“A season of silence is the best preparation for speech with God.”
“The only way to stop Thierry Henry? With a gun!”
“I can never acknowledge the right of slavery. I will bow down to no deity however worshipped by professing Christians - however dignified by the name of the Goddess of Liberty, whose footstool is the crushed necks of the groaning millions, and who rejoices in the resoundings of the tyrant's lash, and the cries of his tortured victims.”

Source : "Shapers of the Great Debate on the Civil War: A Biographical Dictionary". Book by Dan Monroe and Bruce Tap, p. 255, 2005.
“Golf isn't a game, it's a choice that one makes with one's life.”

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