I wonder how many people don't get the one they want, but end up with the one they're supposed to be with.
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Fannie Flagg
It's easy to look back and see it, and it's easy to give the advice. But the sad fact is, most people don't look beneath the surface until it's too late.
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Wendelin Van Draanen
People are, generally speaking, either dead certain or totally indifferent (Both types are crawling around deep down in the rabbit's fur! )
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Jostein Gaarder
To some believers, being on the pill or using a condom is a nonverbal way of telling God to go to hell.
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Mokokoma Mokhonoana
It goes without saying that even those of us who are going to hell will get eternal life–if that territory really exists outside religious books and the minds of believers, that is. Having said that, given the choice, instead of being grilled until hell freezes...
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Mokokoma Mokhonoana
More Quotes By George Steiner
When a language dies, a way of understanding the world dies with it, a way of looking at the world.
We speak in (rich) monotones. Our poetry is haunted by the music it has left behind. Orpheus shrinks to a poet when he looks back, with the impatience of reason, on a music stronger than death.
Books - the best antidote against the marsh-gas of boredom and vacuity
What you don't know by heart you haven't really loved deeply enough
The inception of human consciousness, the genesis of awareness, must have entailed prolonged 'condensations' around intractable nodes of wonder and terror, at the discriminations to be made between the self and the other, between being and non-being (the discovery of the scandal of death).
