"Sometimes what we want to do and what we must do are not the same. Pasquo, the smaller the space between your desire and what is right, the happier you will be."

-- Jess Walter

#Space Quotes #Desire Quotes #Want Quotes

“Every good girl loved a bad boy. It was a fact of life, a quirk of nature. Opposites attract, and the badder the boy, the more attractive he was to that good girl who couldn't help but be drawn to him.”

Source : Lora Leigh (2015). “Too Hot to Touch: Three Breeds Novellas”, p.131, Penguin
“The moon shone like herrings in the water.”

Source : Dorothy Wordsworth, Mary Trevelyan Moorman (1971). “Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth: the Alfoxden journal, 1798; the Grasmere journals, 1800-1803”, Oxford University Press, USA
“Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them. With Major Major it had been all three. Even among men lacking all distinction he inevitably stood out as a man lacking more distinction than all the rest, and people who met him were always impressed by how unimpressive he was.”
“I rarely use a stylist, and enjoy choosing my outfit on my own. If you know what suits your body and personality then your individual style emerges naturally.”

Source : "All-American Beauty Hilary Rhoda Gives Up Her Style Secrets". Interview with Kerry Pieri, www.harpersbazaar.com. June 19, 2012.
“The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer: the activity must lie in the phenomenon.”
“The problem with being passionately in love ... is that it deprives you of too much sleep.”
“The music business for me was never about buses and billboards you know, that was never the reason I got into the music business. The reason I wanted to get into the music business was because I genuinely, wholeheartedly love to sing. I love singing songs and telling stories and playing music, so that's why I got into the music business.”

Source : "Johnny Reid headlining Fredericton's Maritime Countryfest". "Information Morning Fredericton" with Terry Seguin, www.cbc.ca. June 20, 2015.
“The job of the press is to encourage debate, not to supply the public with information.”

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