"We understand more than we know."

-- Margaret Atwood

#Understanding Quotes

“I offer something very different from the lifelong career politicians who have worked their way up to run for higher office or those who can parachute in with checks for $5 million or $10 million, and that seems to be the definition of credible or legitimate. I'm rejecting that premise.”
“Yet even the brightest of sunrises must come to an end.”

Source : Cameron Dokey (2009). “Beauty Sleep”, p.23, Simon and Schuster
“To be in front of an audience and pretending, and to lie, this is the principle of acting.”
“My mom just died. We blink and another decade passes. I don't want to reach the end of my life and regret not having given my days everything in me to make them worthwhile.”
“God is waiting eagerly to respond with new strength to each little act of self-control, small disciplines of prayer, feeble searching after him. And his children shall be filled if they will only hunger and thirst after what he offers.”
“Clinton's resilience became sort of the secret weapon of the campaign. He was never going to just give up and get out.”
“I'm proud to be one. I feel a lot stronger, a lot sexier and I think that all of that is reflected in my music.”
“In theory it may seem all right to some, but when it comes to being made the instrument of the Lord's vengeance, I myself don't like it.”

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