"The longer you delay, the more your sin gets strength and rooting. If you cannot bend a twig, how will you be able to bend it when it is a tree?"

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Source : Richard Baxter, William Orme (1830). “The Practical Works of Richard Baxter: with a Life of the Author and a Critical Examination of His Writings by William Orme”, p.11

Richard Baxter

#Tree Quotes #Able Quotes #Delay Quotes

“American Journalism is deadâ€¦ They have behaved like hockey goalies in front of Barack Obamaâ€™s net.”
“I love Americans, but not when they try to talk French. What a blessing it is that they never try to talk English.”
“Be grateful for luck. Pay the thunder no mind - listen to the birds. And don't hate nobody.”
“I believe if I knew where I was going, I'd lose my way.”

Source : Song: I Believe, Album: Head or Heart, 2014
“You have to be damn certain you're putting something better in its place.”
“In the first instance, performativity must be understood not as a singular or deliberate â€˜act,â€™ but, rather, as the reiterative and citational practice by which discourse produces the effects that it names”

Source : Judith Butler (2014). “Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of "Sex"”, p.2, Routledge
“I want films to haunt an audience, to give them something to remember and be able to talk about.”

Source : "Irvin Kershner obituary" by Ronald Bergan, www.theguardian.com. November 29, 2010.
“For the man sound of body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every day has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously.”

Source : George Gissing (1909). “The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft”

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