"But keep on working and hoping still. For in spite of the grumblers who stand about, somehow, it seems, all things work out."

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Source : Edgar Albert Guest (1926). “The Light of Faith”

Edgar Guest

#Hope Quotes #Work Out Quotes #Spite Quotes

“No boyfriend wants to see their girlfriend in a video with a big, handsome black dude feeding his fingers into her mouth, do they? But that concept is my expression, and boyfriends have to deal with that, don't they?”
“Books to the ceiling, Books to the sky, My pile of books is a mile high. How I love them! How I need them! I'll have a long beard by the time I read them.”

Source : Arnold Lobel, “Books To the Ceiling”
“I completely remember the horror I felt when my pits started getting hairy. I would walk with my arms pressed against my sides.”
“There are ultimately only two possible adjustments to life; one is to suit our lives to principles; the other is to suit principles to our lives. If we do not live as we think, we soon begin to think as we live. The method of adjusting moral principles to the way men live is just a perversion of the order of things.”
“A half truth is the worst of all lies,because it can be defended in partiality.”
“We already have a sabbatical system. It's called opposition, and I've had enough of it.”
“Cus was my father but he was more than a father. You can have a father and what does it mean?â€”it doesn't really mean anything. Cus was my backbone . . . . He did everything for my best interest . . . . We'd spend all our time together, talk about things that, later on, would come back to me. Like about character, and courage. Like the hero and the coward: that the hero and the coward both feel the same thing, but the hero uses his fear, projects it onto his opponent, while the coward runs. It's the same thing, fear, but it's what you do with it that matters.”
“There's a lot more to competence than a law degree and a modicum of courtroom skill.”

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