"You ought to try surviving one of my family reunions. It's like having a bowling alley in your brain."

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Source : Edna Buchanan (2014). “Act of Betrayal: A Britt Montero Mystery - Book Four”, p.193, Diversion Books

Edna Buchanan

#Family Quotes #Brain Quotes #Trying Quotes

“God is punishing America for the way they have persecuted us at Westboro Baptist Church, and worse and more of is coming and this evil sodomite nation is doomed.”

Source : "Virginia Tech Massacre: God's Wrath". WBC Video News, April 23, 2007.
“The course of our lives is determined by how we react--what we decide and what we do--at the darkest of times. The nature of that response determines a person's true worth and greatness.”
“By all odds, earliest man, so naked to the elements and to deadly enemies, should have existed in a state of constant shock. We find him instead the only lighthearted being in a deadly serious universe.... He alone, with childish carelessness, tinkered and played, and exerted himself more in the pursuit of superfluities than of necessities. Yet the tinkering and playing, and the fascination with the nonessential, were a chief source of the inventiveness which enabled man to prevail over better-equipped and more-purposeful animals.”
“It's a terrible thing to go through life thinking that you have a rock on your side when you haven't.”
“Business has to change the way it does business, or we will make no significant changes in the way we relate to the earth.”
“From quite an early age I realised the effect that good food can have on others.”
“I have been young and am now old, and have not yet known an untruthful man to come to a good end.”
“The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision.”

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