"I find my wife hath something in her gizzard, that only waits an opportunity of being provoked to bring up; but I will not, for my content-sake, give it."

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Source : Samuel Pepys (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Pepys (Illustrated)”, p.2195, Delphi Classics

Samuel Pepys

#Opportunity Quotes #Wife Quotes #Giving Quotes

“... the divine knowing - what the Father knows, and what the Word says in response to that knowing, and what the Spirit broods upon under the speaking of the Word - all that eternal intellectual activity isn't just daydreaming. It's the cause of everything that is. God doesn't find out about creation; he knows it into being. His knowing has hair on it. It is an effective act. What he knows, is. What he thinks, by the very fact of his thinking, jumps from no-thing into thing. He never thought of anything that wasn't.”
“Everybody was kung-fu fighting, those kids were fast as lightning. In fact, it was a little bit frightening, make sure you have expert timing.”
“We think of death and loss as tragic twins, but in fact it is loss that hurts us.”
“My parents brought me up on all different styles of music, like my Mum would listen to Motown R&B and my Dad was quite 80's driven, so I was always surrounded by music growing up.”
“I never made films like kind of career moves, like making this film in order to make that film in order to end up in Hollywood.”
“Some women are like elephants. I don't mean size, I mean they never forget.”
“The number of rooms in a fictional house should be inversely proportional to the years during which the couple living in that house enjoyed true happiness.”
“Earth Day 1970 was irrefutable evidence that the American people understood the environmental threat and wanted action to resolve it.”

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