"Nothing happens, and nothing happens, and then everything happens."

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Source : Fay Weldon (2014). “Wicked Women”, p.246, Head of Zeus

Fay Weldon

#Everything Happens For A Reason Quotes

“Sympathy is never waisted except when you give it to yourself.”
“(on grief) And you do come out of it, thatâ€™s true. After a year, after five. But you donâ€™t come out of it like a train coming out of a tunnel, bursting through the downs into sunshine and that swift, rattling descent to the Channel; you come out of it as a gull comes out of an oil-slick. You are tarred and feathered for life.”
“I don't think acting should be all-encompassing. So, when I'm not shooting, I'll go down to Mexico on a spear-fishing trip for a couple of weeks, or I'll go to the Coral Sea, or I'll go to Panama, or wherever.”
“I came from stage in high school, and on stage you kind of overdo with putting on a character a little bit. Sometimes you become a character and sometimes the character becomes you.”
“Not infrequently ... the theoretical is a synonym of the stereotyped. For the 'theoretical' in chess is nothing more than that which can be found in the textbooks and to which players try to conform because they cannot think up anything better or equal, anything original.”
“God's Word teaches a very hard, disturbing truth. Those who neglect the poor and the oppressed are really not God's people at all—no matter how frequently they practice their religious rituals nor how orthodox are their creeds and confessions.”

Source : Ronald J. Sider (2005). “Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger: Moving from Affluence to Generosity”, p.58, Thomas Nelson Inc
“Food is a subject of conversation more spiritually refreshing even than the weather, for the number of possible remarks about the weather is limited, whereas of food you can talk on and on and on.”
“Good education means learning to read, write and most importantly learn how to learn so that you can be whatever you want to be when you grow up.”

Source : Democracy Month Live Chat, www.scholastic.com. October 5, 1994.

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