"Sometimes what we want isn't what's best for us - Della"

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Source : Abbi Glines (2013). “Simple Perfection: A Novel”, p.43, Simon and Schuster

Abbi Glines

#Want Quotes #Sometimes Quotes

“Of all the potential perils to the new American republic, the prospect of concentrated power . . . troubled the intellectual leaders of the Revolutionary generation. Familiar as the founders were with old Europe . . . they understood why the accumulation of inherited wealth led to inequities and imbalances that inevitably corrupted any system of government.”

Source : Joe Conason (2007). “It Can Happen Here: Authoritarian Peril in the Age of Bush”, p.135, Macmillan
“It is a matter of life and death for married people to interrupt each others stories; for it they did not, they would burst.”
“Sometimes, our greatest strengths can be found while trusting God through our greatest obstacles.”
“I sometimes look into the face of my dog Stan and see a wistful sadness and existential angst, when all he is actually doing is slowly scanning the ceiling for flies.”

Source : Merrill Markoe (1992). “What the Dogs Have Taught Me: And Other Amazing Things I've Learned”, Viking Press
“My coherence-creating groups are going to put out all this mischief-mongership in the world.”
“As time goes on, I realize more and more that, beginning in the early 30's, David Smith began setting the precedent for what was to come later for many of us.”
“If I did things for the money, I'd have done adverts in the 1980s, when I was hot enough to be offered them, and 'Police Academy 6,' which I was asked to write.”
“I don't think with today's technology we can have a voting system that is fully electronic that can be trusted.”

Source : "Grant Awarded to Improve Electronic Voting" by The Associated Press, www.foxnews.com. August 16, 2005.

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