"It is better just to get on with the business of living and minding your own business and maybe, if God likes the way you do things, he may just let you flower for a day or a night. But don't go pestering and begging and telling him all your stupid little sins, that way you will spoil his day."

-- Bryce Courtenay

#Stupid Quotes #Flower Quotes #Night Quotes

“It is hard to hold on to friendships when people move away to another state or to another world.”
“Our goal is to not just be a photo-sharing app, but to be the way you share your life when you're on the go.”
“My love for traveling to islands amounts to a pathological condition known as nesomania, an obsession with islands. This craze seems reasonable to me, because islands are small self-contained worlds that can help us understand larger ones.”
“As a diabetic, I'm a walking picnic. I have to eat measured amounts of food at certain times.”
“We shall some day be heeded, and when we shall have our amendment to the Constitution of the United States, everybody will think it was always so, just exactly as many young people believe that all the privileges, all the freedom, all the enjoyments which woman now possesses always were hers. They have no idea of how every single inch of ground that she stands upon today has been gained by the hard work of some little handful of women of the past.”
“Of all wild beasts on earth or in sea, the greatest is a woman.”
“There is a diabolical streak in me, a troublesome and inexplicable perversity.”

Source : Octave Mirbeau (1997). “Torture Garden”, Dedalus Limited
“Everything is figureautable”

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