"I loved taking off. In my own house, I seemed to be often looking for a place to hide - sometimes from the children but more often from the jobs to be done and the phone ringing and the sociability of the neighborhood. I wanted to hide so that I could get busy at my real work, which was a sort of wooing of distant parts of myself."

-- Alice Munro

#Jobs Quotes #Children Quotes #Real Quotes

“My life is PG-13 sometimes, and I really want Josh Grogan to propose to me, and he just won't do it.”
“I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other.”
“...Nature-the word that stands for the baffling mysteries of the Universe. Steadily, unflinchingly, we strive to pierce the inmost heart of Nature, from what she is to reconstruct what she has been, and to prophesy what she yet shall be. Veil after veil we have lifted, and her face grows more beautiful, august, and wonderful, with every barrier that is withdrawn.”

Source : "Address to the British Association for the Advancement of Science". "Nature", No. 1506, Vol. 58, (p. 438), September 8, 1898.
“I love to dance. I can dance for, like, four or five hours nonstop without even drinking water. It's a beautiful, beautiful thing.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“OK, Rule number 1: Unless you're served in a frosted glass, never come within 4 feet of my lips.”
“God is the one who chooses our rulers”
“Nobody in love has a sense of humor.”
“If the past is not resolved, future relationships will suffer. Let your heart heal, before you open the door to another.”

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