"... perhaps the clock hands had become so tired of going in the same direction year after year that they had suddenly begun to go the opposite way instead..."

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Jostein Gaarder

#Tired Quotes #Hands Quotes #Years Quotes

“A father is a reality-concealing machine, a machine for dishing up lies to kids, and that isn't even the worst of it: secretly he believes that he represents reality.”
“Throw your arms around the world and hold on tight. But not through fear...but because of your love.”
“Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this.”
“If Paris that brief flight allow, My humble tomb explore! It bears: Eternity, be thou My refuge! and no more.”
“That's how life goes on - protected by the silence that anesthetizes shame.”

Source : M. L. Stedman (2012). “The Light Between Oceans”, p.155, Simon and Schuster
“The unions say 'last hired - first fired,', we say hire and fire based on merit. We want the best and brightest in the classroom.”
“Antwone's story was a story of hope and that's what appealed to me. I needed hope myself at that time. I think all actors give up at some time and think they're never going to make it.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I don't want to be gone. I don't want to be somewhere else. I consider myself a Yankee.”

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