"It was a time when the unthinkable became the thinkable and the impossible really happened"

-- Arundhati Roy

#Impossible Quotes #Unthinkable Quotes #Thinkable Quotes

“In Washington, DC, politics dominate even the most casual conversations.”
“I know one husband and wife who, whatever the official reasons given to the court for the break up of their marriage, were really divorced because the husband believed that nobody ought to read while he was talking and the wife that nobody ought to talk while she was reading.”

Source : "Violets and Vinegar". Book by Jilly Cooper and Tom Hartman, "The Battle Done", 1980.
“When a man is afraid and accedes to fear, he will always find arguments to justify his own surrender.”

Source : Natan Sharansky (1998). “Fear No Evil”, p.292, PublicAffairs
“Ole Golly: You know what? You're an individual, and that makes people nervous. And it's gonna keep making people nervous for the rest of your life.”

Source : "Fictional character: Ole Golly". "Harriet the Spy", www.imdb.com. 1996.
“My belief in Jesus Christ is most important thing in my life. What I do to be able to father correctly is to spend time in the mornings by myself to get my heart, my soul, my mind - correct. To be able to handle the situations and handle the young men like I would my son. It's loving my players where they are, helping them to move and achieve. And when they're 30, what are they doing then? Are they a husband that stays true? Are they a father that never leaves? Are they a businessman that can be counted on in whatever they do! I think that really guides me in a better principle.”
“The miracle, of course, was not that the oil for the sacred light - in a little cruse - lasted as long as they say; but that the courage of the Maccabees lasted to this day: let that nourish my flickering spirit.”

Source : Charles Reznikoff, Seamus Cooney (2005). “The Poems of Charles Reznikoff: 1918-1975”, p.226, David R. Godine Publisher
“The world is a thing of utter inordinate complexity and richness and strangeness that is absolutely awesome.”
“People who believe they'll be happy if they go and live somewhere else, learn it doesn't work that way. Wherever you go, you take yourself with you.”

Source : Neil Gaiman (2009). “The Graveyard Book”, p.63, A&C Black

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