"Long after Salinger sent me away, I continued to believe his standards and expectations were the best ones."

-- Joyce Maynard

#Believe Quotes #Long Quotes #Expectations Quotes

“If Willie Nelson had been Rosa Parks, there never would have been a civil rights movement in this country, because he refuses to leave the back of the bus.”
“During the off-season, I go to the movies almost every day.”
“The biggest financial pitfall in life is divorce. And the biggest reason for divorce is marriage.”
“I've never been able to grow an organ back," Lana said. "Last time I tried... Let's just hope you don't end up with whip eyes.”
“We should be empty of clutching, empty of self, empty of all the old ideas of substance. We should be â€˜lost in the objectivity of world-loveâ€™, as I have elsewhere put it; or, perhaps better, we should let ourselves be only an empty space filled with brightness. Life lived like that is â€˜eternalâ€™ life.”

Source : Don Cupitt (2010). “Theology's Strange Return”, p.4, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd
“Think about a dogâ€™s ability to forgive. This to me is love.”
“I know that if I ever have the audacity to blame fate or God for holding a gun to my temple, I also have the wherewithal to remind myself that if I end up with a hole in my head, I was the one who pulled the trigger.”

Source : Tiffanie DeBartolo (2005). “How to Kill a Rock Star”, p.140, Sourcebooks, Inc.
“One of the things Satan fears the most is that you would get the revelation of what you can do through prayer.”

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