"There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by."

-- Annie Dillard

#Inspirational Quotes #Good Life Quotes #Good Day Quotes

“From one match to the next, I kept on winning.”
“Nobody believes that domestic violence kills and nobody believes it is detrimental to children. This world has got to wake up. To me, if there is domestic violence, if the children see it or hear it, that to me is detrimental. Batterers should not have rights to children.”

Source : "In their own words". www.cnn.com. December 20, 1996.
“I discovered later, and I'm still discovering right up to this moment, that is it only by living completely in this world that one learns to have faith. By this-worldliness I mean living unreservedly in life's duties, problems, successes and failures. In so doing we throw ourselves completely into the arms of God, taking seriously, not our own sufferings, but those of God in the world. That, I think, is faith.”
“We need a barn or one of those storage areas for the Broken vehicles." "A garage?" He gave her a short nod. "A private, relatively remote location, with thick walls to dampen the sound and preferably a sturdy door I could bolt from the inside, keeping your grandmother, your brothers, and all other painfully annoying spectators out..." Rose began to laugh. A make-out bunker... "I'm glad you find our dilemma hilarious,”
“It will be said, however, that protection tends to destroy commerce, the civilizer of mankind. Directly the reverse, however, is the fact.”

Source : Henry Charles Carey (1853). “The Slave Trade, Domestic and Foreign: Why it Exists, and how it May be Extinguished”, p.392
“The full impact of printing did not become possible until the adoption of the Bill of Rights in the United States with its guarantee of freedom of the press. A guarantee of freedom of the press in print was intended to further sanctify the printed word and to provide a rigid bulwark for the shelter of vested interests.”

Source : Harold Innis (1999). “The Bias of Communication”, p.56, University of Toronto Press
“I know that sometimes the chemistry just isn't there between the model, photographer, hair and make-up. It's nobody's fault and you just have to do better next time.”
“I have lost all sense of home, having moved about so much. It means to me now--only that place where the books are kept.”

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