"Some people wait constructively; they read or knit. I have watched some truly appalling pieces of needlework take form. Others - I am one of them - abandon all thought and purpose to an uneasy vegetative states."

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Ada Louise Huxtable

#People Quotes #Waiting Quotes #Purpose Quotes

“But our waking life, and our growing years, were for the most part spent in the kitchen, and until we married, or ran away, it was the common room we shared.”

Source : Laurie Lee (1959). “The edge of day: a boyhood in the west of England”
“Wake up, Carolee, the plane is waiting for us, we have to get to the game.”
“I dieted all the time in the Sixties, but we had no idea what dieting meant - we thought it meant not eating anything.”
“The nations are not gathered in automatically. If God has promised to bless "all the families of the earth," he has promised to do so "through Abraham's seed" (Genesis 12:3, 22:18). Now we are Abraham's seed by faith, and the earth's families will be blessed only if we go to them with the gospel. That is God's plain purpose.”
“Action without planning is the cause of all failure. Action with planning is the cause of all success.”
“Donald Trump is going to be onstage introducing his wife, Melania, so I think this is the first time a presidential nominee has been onstage twice during one convention, and it probably is only the first of many firsts we will record for The Donald during these next few days.”
“The struggle is always worthwhile, if the end be worthwhile and the means honorable; foreknowledge of defeat is not sufficient reason to withdraw from the contest.”

Source : Steven Brust (2009). “Five Hundred Years After”, p.525, Macmillan
“Thereâ€™s the feeling, and the right reading - thatâ€™s all you really need to know; the right light and the feeling.”

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