"If you have the patience to wait and watch, history will reshape truth (weakest of all forces, and weightless) in the image of opinion. What really happened will cease to matter and, eventually, cease to exist."

-- Meg Rosoff

#Waiting Quotes #Matter Quotes #Watches Quotes

“He works at the kennel with Nana," Ben piped up. "And I think him and Mom are dating." At that, a stillness fell over a throng of admirers, punctuated by a few uncomfortable coughs.”
“The President sends us a billion-page paper that shows how he would spend the money if he were spending the money. He doesn't have the authority to spend the money. He doesn't spend $1 of the money.”
“Soulmate" is an overused term, but a true soul connection is very rare, and very real.”

Source : Hilary Duff (2012). “Devoted: An Elixir Novel”, p.168, Simon and Schuster
“M: Is he smart I: She yes very smart sees right through me M: In my day we valued blindness rather more”
“Sitting down and weeping is what women have done for centuries, and it has done no good at all. Nor praying. God has given us the earth. He is not waiting in the next room, ready to fix it for us if we ruin it. If we do not care for it, no one will. On other worlds, other races of men perhaps do better than we have done. He cares for us, but he does not control what we do.”
“Do you want to be successful? Nurture your talent.”
“If only we could be old and sick while we're still young and healthy enough to put up with it!”
“Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.”

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