"Joy gives us wings! In times of joy our strength is more vital, our intellect keener, and our understanding less clouded. We seem better able to cope with the world and to find our sphere of influence."

-- Abdu'l-BahÃ¡

#Wings Quotes #Giving Quotes #Joy Quotes

“He squinted at me. "What are you wearing? Is that some new form of birth control?”
“Almost every profession has an outstanding training ground. The military has West Point, music has Juilliard, and the culinary arts has The Institute.”
“Nature intended me for the tranquil pursuits of science, by rendering them my supreme delight. But the enormities of the times in which I have lived, have forced me to take a part in resisting them, and to commit myself on the boisterous ocean of political passions.”
“I love guys and the way they think; they're so straightforward - and women can learn from that.”
“Sometimes you have to learn how to shoot first.”

Source : 1994 On Syrian President Hafez Assad's complaint that he had been put off by a hostile question in a news conference shared with President Clinton. In US News and World Report,19 Dec.
“The creation of the world did not take place once and for all time, but takes place every day.”
“I found that I could write two kinds of short stories: I could write very absurd, kind of surrealistic, funny stories; or I could write very dark, realistic - hyper-realistic - stories. I was never happy with that, because I couldn't meld the two.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com. August 1999.
“I have no problem being with people of different nationalities.”

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