"We can't always do what we think we have to do. So when there's nothing else you can do, you wait... No matter what... pressure... you might feel."

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Source : Jeff Lindsay (2005). “Dearly Devoted Dexter”, p.95, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

#Thinking Quotes #Waiting Quotes #Might Quotes

“Lots of people talk to animals... Not very many listen, though... That's the problem.”
“All my romantic stories are a scrambled version of that first one.”
“Among the rain and lights I saw the figure 5 in gold on a red firetruck moving tense unheeded to gong clangs siren howls and wheels rumbling through the dark city.”
“Longing is a compass that guides us through life. We may never get what we really want, that's true, but every step along the way will be determined by it.”
“Men who stand on any other foundation than the rock Christ Jesus are like birds that build in trees by the side of rivers. The bird sings in the branches, and the river sings below, but all the while the waters are undermining the soil about the roots, till, in some unsuspected hour, the tree falls with a crash into the stream; and then its nest is sunk, its home is gone, and the bird is a wanderer.”
“The power of authority is never more subtle and effective than when it produces a psychological atmosphere or climate favorable to the life of certain modes of belief, unfavorable, and even fatal, to the life of others.”

Source : Arthur James Balfour (1895). “The Foundations of Belief: Being Notes Introductory to the Study of Theology”
“Soldiers can sometimes make decisions that are smarter than the orders they've been given.”
“The object of power is power.”

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