"it isn't true, by the way, that nothing is as bad as you think it's going to be. Some things are exactly as bad as you thought they were going to be, and some things are worse."

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Source : Peg Bracken (1982). “A Window Over the Sink”, Avon Books

Peg Bracken

#Thinking Quotes #Way Quotes #Trouble Quotes

“Energy is a state of mind. Tell yourself you're tired and you will be. Tell yourself you feel great and you will”
“The Republicans here in Concord and down in Washington D.C. would have us believe that the War on Women is a phony war. Michele Bachmann and Fox News would have us believe that the whole thing is political fiction.”

Source : "War on Women Affects Us All" by Rep. Ann McLane Kuster, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 1, 2012.
“Ideas are cheap. I have more ideas now than I could ever write up. To my mind, it's the execution that is all-important.”
“Do not fear the face of man. Remember how small their anger will appear in eternity.”
“How am I doing so far?" she asked, forcing a cheerful lightness into her voice. "You're doing very well," Nick's lazy voice mocked. "I'm half convinced that I'm invisible.”
“With the new Russia allegations coming to the fore once again, the conclusion of the intelligence agencies, we've got to have those [Donald Trump's] taxes to evaluate whether these conflicts go to the heart of our most pressing national security interests.”
“Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.”
“Whatever is produced in haste goes hastily to waste.”

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