"He keeps this up, he's bound to be caught, she thought. And this time they'll dangle him for certain."

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Cinda Williams Chima

#Caught Quotes #Certain Quotes

“To be happy in this world, first you need a cell phone and then you need an airplane. Then you're truly wireless.”
“I am not at all a politician. I don't think I'm cut out for politics. I am certainly not going to stand for election.”
“There is a means to every end. A root to any cause. Sometimes the root is more evil than any cause, though it's the cause that is usually most vilified.”
“Americans, more than any other culture on earth, are cookbook cooks; we learn to make our meals not from any oral tradition, but from a text. The just-wed cook brings to the new household no carefully copied collection of the family's cherished recipes, but a spanking new edition of 'Fannie Farmer' or 'The Joy of Cooking'.”
“While in the American academia the knowledge production on the Middle East in general and Syria in particular has been considerably transformed in recent years, the dissemination of these more updated views fails to reach the conventional educational system. For two main reasons: Politics can still subdue and censor views that are not endorsed ideologically, and academics have still not learned how to write openly, directly and, one should say, courageously about these issues.”

Source : Source: www.truth-out.org
“I'm very unpredictable. Very, very impulsive. Extremely. Absolutely! Sometimes I don't know what I want to do from one day to the next. I can't enjoy anything premeditated; I just do it as I feel it. But whatever I do is motivated by honesty.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“All change begins with a DECISION. Once the decision is made, DISCIPLINE becomes the bridge between desire and accomplishment.”

Source : Twitter post from Jun 11, 2013
“I have managed not to finish certain books. With barely a twinge of conscience, I hurl down what bores me or doesn't give what I crave: ecstasy, transcendence, a thrill of mysterious connection. For, more than anything else, readers are thrill-seekers, though I don't read thrillers, not the kind sold under that label, anyway. They don't thrill; only language thrills.”

Source : Lynne Sharon Schwartz (2001). “Ruined By Reading: A Life in Books”, p.5, Beacon Press

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