"On game shows, some people will take the trip to France, but most people will take the washer and dryer pair."

-- Chuck Palahniuk

#Games Quotes #People Quotes #Pairs Quotes

“In principle, I'm sorry that we didn't liquidate him”
“I am a disaster magnet. I came home from our first anniversary vacation with jellyfish stings, a puncture wound from a wrought iron pineapple and a cork-shaped bruise in my cleavage.”
“If someone throws a banana at me in the street, I will go to prison because I will kill him.”

Source : "The Italian Exception" by Sean Wilsey, www.newyorker.com. June 24, 2014.
“I know of no higher fortitude than stubborness in the face of overwhelming odds.”
“Engineers have a very limited education and background, I think you need to move into the broader humanities in order to become a total person.”
“Creative experimentation propels our culture forward. That our stories of innovation tend to glorify the breakthroughs and edit out all the experimental mistakes doesn't mean that mistakes play a trivial role. As any artist or scientist knows, without some protected, even sacred space for mistakes, innovation would cease.”
“For as a city which has been once besieged and not sacked will ever after be more strong to hold out if it be assaulted by the like danger.... so those who are besieged and assaulted by their spiritual enemies will ever after more carefully arm themselves against them with the graces of God's Spirit, that they may not be overcome nor foiled by them.”
“This is what I have come to know: Our past is never passed and there is no such thing as moving on. But there is this telling and there is such a thing as passing through.”

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