"I don't have ugly ducklings turning into swans in my stories. I have ugly ducklings turning into confident ducks."

-- Maeve Binchy

#Swans Quotes #Ugly Duckling Quotes #Ducks Quotes

“I don't want to be in my meetings all sore or be at my son's graduation all sore just because of something I did in the past. (I'm) just learning and being smart.”
“When the circumstances are right, everything becomes a dance.”
“If time came before me, time is not before the Word, whose Begetter is atemporal. When the beginningless Father was there, leaving nothing superior to His divinity, then also was there the Father's Son, having in the Father a timeless beginning, like the sun's great circle of overwhelming clear light.”
“Anyone who can only write about themselves or their life experiences, in my mind, isn't a very good writer.”
“I am driving an unfamiliar vehicle down a narrow road I've never seen before. Do you really want to be pissing me off right now?”
“Most things worth having require some sacrifice, usually more than you expect.”
“There is to my mind no doubt that the concept of beautiful had its roots in sexual excitation and that its original meaning was sexually stimulating.”
“I don't really know why I'm not thinner than I am.”

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