"It had been an awful thing to lose Henry the first time, to matrimony, but to discover what a false front he was capable of was another kind of blow, and it had left her almost speechless. Then there was the fury with herselfâ€”for she had known what Henryâ€™s love was, and still she had gone back to suffer a little more at his hands."

-- Anna Godbersen

#Blow Quotes #Hands Quotes #Suffering Quotes

“If you want something, it will elude you. If you do not want something, you will get ten of it in the mail.”
“I must have ended up on the wrong planet. Everything here is so strange.”
“I fell far short of living up to the kind of public servant I wanted to be.”

Source : Scott McClellan (2008). “What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception”, p.10, PublicAffairs
“If you take any world problem, any issue on the planet, the solution to that problem certainly includes education. In education, the roadblock is the laptop.”
“War has been more common than peace, and extended periods of peace have been rare in a world divided into multiple states”

Source : Donald Kagan (1996). “On the Origins of War and the Preservation of Peace”, Anchor
“Success can only be measured in terms of distance traveled...”

Source : Mavis Gallant (2011). “The Cost of Living: Early and Uncollected Stories”, p.90, Bloomsbury Publishing
“The grave, where sets the orb of being, sets To rise, ascend, and culminate above Eternity's horizon evermore.”

Source : Abraham Coles (1880). “The microcosm, and other poems”
“The infrastructure of today's computing environment is for good or ill structured around the Windows operating system. Can you get around that? Yes you can, but you have to work harder to do that and most individuals and most corporations are not going to make that extra effort.”

Source : "Tiny Be carves niche out of vast Microsoft-owned pie" by James Hattori and Bob Melisso, www.cnn.com. November 10, 1999.

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