"I realized it was like a dating agency: the ions are the lost souls looking for mates; the electrolyte is the agency that can help them find each other."

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Source : Victoria Finlay (2006). “Jewels: A Secret History”, p.138, Ballantine Books

Victoria Finlay

#Agency Quotes #Ions Quotes #Dating Quotes

“You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it, however.”
“I disliked the unfamiliar happiness more than the familiar sadness”
“We were always taught to swing slow with good tempo. But you have to have some acceleration throughout the swing. I think that's where a lot of women go wrong. They should try to whack it a few times and see what happens.”
“A film is not done by one person. It's done by a lot of people. I love this whole collaborative aspect. When it works well, you end up with something better than any of us started out to do.”
“Among all the devotions approved by the Church none has been so favored by so many miracles as the devotion of the Most Holy Rosary”
“A large part of my life revolves around my dad. Sometimes, I even feel a strong sense of connection, something very tangible when I learn something new in the martial arts.”
“There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of Providence, is yet very often the cause of misery, and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear to express their repentance, and their envy of those whom either chance or caution hath withheld from it.”
“This is what I love about the Kimberley... wild gorges, fresh water and there's always a chance of a barra taking your lure.”

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