"I've never been impulsive. It's always been in my nature to consider things carefully and then decide upon the best solution. Except, sometimes the circumstances change. Sometimes things get so complicated and so bad that your nature just doesn't matter anymore."

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Source : Brenna Yovanoff (2012). “Smoulder”, p.45, Simon and Schuster

Brenna Yovanoff

#Matter Quotes #Sometimes Quotes #Complicated Quotes

“Whether we assert our rights by sea, or attempt their maintenance by land whithersoever we turn ourselves, this phantom incessantly pursues us. Already has it had too much influence on the councils of the nation.”
“I was not happy as a traveller, I did not feel really at home anywhere I went, even in Spain which was the most I felt at home, I still was a foreigner. I missed Australia, and I can't tell why. It's just this is what I grew up with and this is the things I wanted to make meaning of in my life.”

Source : "The Music Show" with Andrew Ford, www.abc.net.au. August 24, 2002.
“Interactions between fathers and children are the starting point of education.”
“If your team is going to win, you need to play better than the other quarterback.”
“Things are finally starting to calm down and be the way they're supposed to be. I think things happen for a reason.”
“Freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose.”
“A third force, developing itself more slowly, becomes even more potent than the rest: the power of gold.”

Source : John Lothrop Motley (1856). “The Rise of the Dutch Republic: In three volumes”, p.30
“Obviously, I like to write stories that are page-turners. But I always try my very, very hardest to be as factually true as possible.”

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