"But my mother's life was a never-ending round of maintenance. Not one single thing did she ever achieve but that it had to be done all over again, one day or one week or one season later. Oh, the monotony."

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Source : Jacqueline Kelly (2009). “The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate”, p.213, Macmillan

Jacqueline Kelly

#Mother Quotes #One Day Quotes #Maintenance Quotes

“Do the atheists in Wisconsin realize they're going to Hell? Did you ask them that?”
“I'M INTROSPECTIVE, because sometimes I want to take "our" side without looking at the facts in situations like these. Sometimes I feel like it's us against them. Sometimes I'm just as prejudiced as people I point fingers at. And that's not right. How can I look at white skin and make assumptions but not want assumptions made about me? That's not right.”

Source : Benjamin Watson (2015). “Under Our Skin: Getting Real about Race. Getting Free from the Fears and Frustrations that Divide Us.”, p.16, NavPress
“Remember, people who peek through keyholes have to expect an occasional poke in the eye.”
“If we are not able to smile, then the world will not have peace.”
“Ah, but life is like that! It does not permit you to arrange and order it as you will. It will not permit you to escape emotion, to live by the intellect and by reason! You cannot say, 'I will feel so much and no more.' Life, Mr. Welman, whatever else it is, is not reasonable. [Hercule Poirot]”
“When I look someone in the eye, they are immediately smitten with me.”

Source : "The NXT Interview: David Otunga". Interview with Aubrey Sitterson, www.wwe.com.
“I don't believe my athletes care what I know, until they know that I care.”
“The truth is, that, even with the most secure tenure of office, during good behavior, the danger is not, that the judges will be too firm in resisting public opinion, and in defence of private rights or public liberties; but, that they will be ready to yield themselves to the passions, and politics, and prejudices of the day.”

Source : Joseph Story (1858). “Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States: with a preliminary review of the constitutional history of the colonies and states, before the adoption of the Constitution”, p.464

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