"I have no end of failings as a mother, but I have always followed the rules."

-- Lionel Shriver

#Mother Quotes #Failing Quotes #Ends Quotes

“The key to growing up well, is being tough enough.”
“I do believe that God is with us even when we're at our craziest and that this goodness guides, provides, and protects.”
“It's no accident, I think, that tennis uses the language of life. Advantage, service, fault, break, love, the basic elements of tennis are those of everyday existence, because every match is a life in miniature. Even the structure of tennis, the way the pieces fit inside one another like Russian nesting dolls, mimics the structure of our days. Points become games become sets become tournaments, and it's all so tightly connected that any point can become the turning point. It reminds me of the way seconds become minutes become hours, and any hour can be our finest. Or darkest. It's our choice.”

Source : FaceBook post by Andre Agassi from Jan 14, 2015
“I've taken people and fired them over a period of a year. I've fired them over a period of a month. I've fired them over a period of a day or a week, nice and easy, slow. The one thing that a firing always has in common is the next day they wake up and they hate Donald Trump, no matter how nice you are.”
“He accepted what each moment brough him, and never troubled himself with matters that were outside his control.”

Source : William Nicholson (2012). “The Wind Singer”, p.137, Egmont UK
“But look at the men who have those perverted notions about the grace of Jesus Christ which has come down to us, and see how contrary to the mind of God they are. . . . They even abstain from the Eucharist and from the public prayers, because they will not admit that the Eucharist is the self-same body of our Savior Jesus Christ which flesh suffered for our sins, and which the Father of His goodness raised up again.”
“I'm missing a knuckle, it's crushed inside my hand at the moment.”
“Hatred is a cold fire, and it gives no warmth.”

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