"Language is a nice way to remember things."

-- Erin McKean

#Nice Quotes #Way Quotes #Language Quotes

“The stuff adults tell you not to do is the easiest.”
“What Mr. Kaufman and his team are after is less a portrait of any one person than one of the ethos of a place. In the deliberate, simple staging ... in which eight radiantly clean-scrubbed performers embody 60 different people against a bare-bones set, 'Laramie' often brings to mind 'Our Town,' the beloved Thornton Wilder study of life, love and death in parochial New Hampshire.”
“I don't have a cell phone. I am not a Luddite.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“A winning effort begins with preparation.”
“Faith is, necessary to explain anything, and to reconcile the foreknowledge of God with human evil.”
“We in the West must bear in mind that the poor countries are poor primarily because we have exploited them through political or economic colonialism.”
“I went through a lot of abuse and a lot of really difficult things growing up - depression, anxiety, attempted suicide.”

Source : "Justin Bieber's Mom Has Her Own Story To Tell". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com.
“Satori - in the awakening from a dream. Awakening and self-realization and seeing into one's own being - these are synonymous.”

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