"I'm not better than anyone, and I'm not trying to convince people to live by my standards of what's right. I'm trying to convince them to live by their own."

-- Jonathan Safran Foer

#People Quotes #Trying Quotes #Standards Quotes

“Thus, while I thought myself employed only in forming a Nomenclature, and while I proposed to myself nothing more than to improve the chemical language, my work transformed itself by degrees, without my being able to prevent it, into a treatise upon the Elements of Chemistry.”
“What if River Phoenix had lived?”

Source : "What if River Phoenix had lived?" by Drew McWeeny, uproxx.com. August 19, 2013.
“Celebrate the feast of Christmas every day, even every moment in the interior temple of your spirit, remaining like a baby in the bosom of the heavenly Father, where you will be reborn each moment in the Divine Word, Jesus Christ.”
“It used to be that I was always paranoid or a loser or something so there's usually something that you seem to associate yourself with at one time or another.”
“The great thing about a name like Cougar Town is that you hear it once and you remember it forever. Its a very loud title. But theres a connection to the word cougar that means a lot of people are going to be turned off right away by the title alone without even giving the show a chance.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Both my parents were big readers.”
“I do believe we slander Christ when we think we are to draw the people by something else but the preaching of Christ crucified.”
“I sat and thought for four (delayed train) hours, and all the details bubbled up in my brain, and this scrawny, black-haired, bespectacled boy who didn't know he was a wizard became more and more real to me.”

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