"You can pray until you faint, but unless you get up and try to do something, God is not going to put it in your lap."

-- Fannie Lou Hamer

#Trying Quotes #Lap Quotes #Praying Quotes

“When you're watching television, you don't want to watch a show where everything just works out. You don't want to see a relationship that's just blossoming and everyone's happy and sunshine and roses all the time. That's also not true in life.”
“If it were not for the fact that editors have become so timorous in these politically correct times, I would probably have a greater readership than I have.”

Source : Pat Oliphant, Harry L. Katz, Sara Day, Library of Congress (1998). “Oliphant's Anthem”, p.50, Andrews McMeel Publishing
“Let him ride a horse. He's a cowboy ain't he?”

Source : Nathanael West, Jonathan Lethem (2009). “Miss Lonelyhearts: & the Day of the Locust”, p.124, New Directions Publishing
“Everything good I've ever gotten in life, I only got because I gave something else up.”

Source : "Are You Willing to Let Go?" by Jean-Paul Bedard, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 26, 2014.
“I often say if men were meant to fly we would have been born with either feathers and wings or at the very least parachutes that pop out of our butts.”
“Someone once remarked that in adolescence ***** is a substitute for sex, whereas in adulthood sex is a substitute for pornography.”
“It is apparent at first glance that in The Double there is more creative talent and depth of thought than in Poor Folk. But meanwhile the consensus of St. Petersburg readers is that this novel is intolerably long-winded and therefore terribly boring...”
“Fortune, honour, beauty, youth, Are but blossoms dying; Wanton pleasures, doting love, Are but shadows flying.”

Source : Joseph Haslewood, Edmund Bolton, Thomas Campion, George Gascoigne, Samuel Daniel (1815). “Ancient critical essays upon English poets and poesy”, p.14

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