"It's hard to say goodbye for good at any time or any place. It's harder still to say it through a meshed wire. It crisscrossed his face into little diagonals, gave me only little broken-up molecules of it at a time. It stenciled a cold, rigid frame around every kiss."

-- Cornell Woolrich

#Goodbye Quotes #Kissing Quotes #Broken Quotes

“The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.”

Source : As quoted in "Road Signs for Success" y Jim Whitt, (p. 61), 1993.
“A dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.”
“When I look in the mirror, I sometimes think I'm getting old, but then I have two generations behind me so that helps puts things into perspective. I am a grandmother now, but at least my nine-year-old grandson Jude calls me Glamma and not Granny.”
“When someone isnâ€™t smart enough to express their frustration, they use dirty words. Those are words that describe a lack of intelligence. Smart people donâ€™t use those kind of dirty words, because they find it an insult to their intelligence.”
“It is our art that has an opportunity to leave a footprint in the sand. They don't wrap fish in our work.”
“I pefer an ugly truth to a pretty lie. If someone is telling me the truth that is when I will give my heart.”
“A lot of people over time have had this kind of pattern in their relationship with Bill Clinton. You first meet him and you're overwhelmed by his talent. He's so energetic and articulate and full of ideas and he calls himself a congenital optimist and that optimism is contagious.”
“Religion did not exist for the saving of souls but for the preservation and welfare of society, and in all that was necessary to this end every man had to take his part, or break with the domestic and political community to which he belonged.”

Source : William Robertson Smith (1907). “Religion of the Semites (Ppr)”, p.29, Transaction Publishers

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