"All these years I've had a story in my mind, the story about us that never really existed. And because of that story, I've kept you framed up on the wall in a little box of nostalgic moonlight."

-- Cathleen Schine

#Wall Quotes #Years Quotes #Mind Quotes

“England did nothing in that World Cup, so why were they bringing books out? 'We got beat in the quarter-finals. I played like s**t. Here's my book.'”

Source : "Barton: fans are vicious, misled and shocking" by Louise Taylor, www.theguardian.com. November 30, 2007.
“Destroying white civilization is the inmost desire of the league of designated victims we call minorities.”
“...God will be 'all in all' (I Cor. 15:28) when we are no longer what we are now, a multiplicity of impulses and emotions, with little or nothing of God in us, but are fully like God , with room for God and God alone. This is the 'maturity' (cf. Col. 1:28) towards which we speed.”
“I think the biggest innovations of the 21st century will be at the intersection of biology and technology. A new era is beginning.”

Source : Walter Isaacson (2011). “Steve Jobs”, p.539, Simon and Schuster
“When you leave them in the morning, they stick their nose in the door crack and stand there like a portrait until you turn the key eight hours later.”
“French wines may be said but to pickle meat in the stomach, but this is the wine that digests, and doth not only breed good blood, but it nutrifieth also, being a glutinous substantial liquor; of this wine, if of any other, may be verified that merry induction: That good wine makes good blood, good blood causeth good humors, good humors cause good thoughts, good thoughts bring forth good works, good works carry a man to heaven, ergo, good wine carrieth a man to heaven.”

Source : James Howell (1726). “Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ: Familiar Letters Domestick and Foreign, Divided Into Four Books; Partly Historical, Political, Philosophical. Upon Emergent Occasions”, p.366
“Sometimes I thought of the Peace Corps as a reverse refugee organization, displacing all of us lost Midwesterners, and it was probably the only government entity that taught Americans to abandon key national characteristics. Pride, ambition, impatience, the instinct to control, the desire to accumulate, the missionary impulse - all of it slipped away.”
“I call it the Etch A Sketch life. Every few years, you should shake that thing up.”

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