Pg 21 Quotes

#1. She loved the dry, crackling heat, the way the sky at sunset looked like a sheet of fire, and the overwhelming emptiness and severity of all that open land that had once been a huge ocean bed.
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Jeannette Walls

#2. Like Sarah, treat your husband like what he might become. When all the facts said Sarah would have no vineyard, she became a matriarch to nations. Sarah learned to behave as though she would become a mother to nations
and she did.
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Michael Ben Zehabe

#3. She knew how to get by on next to nothing.
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Jeannette Walls

#4. Virtue steals, like a guilty thing, into the secret haunts of vice and infamy, clings to their devoted victim, and will not be driven quite away. Nothing can destroy the human heart.

William Hazlitt

#5. Often intuition will direct you. If it feels right, it's probably right.

Oprah Winfrey

#6. We are free only when we no longer require health, however much we may prefer it.

Arthur W. Frank

#7. The desire for more positive experience is itself a negative experience. And, paradoxically, the acceptance of one's negative experience is itself a positive experience. This

Mark Manson

#8. Of course I'm schooled in the old school method: taking what I think the director wants, then reworking it through my own brain and heart.

Shirley Maclaine

#9. If I hadn't been a woman, I'd have been a drag queen

Dolly Parton

#10. I'm a good audience in general, but it's hard to make me laugh.

Dan Fogler

#11. Success doesn't mean the absence of failures; it means the attainment of ultimate objectives.

Ed Bliss

#12. She's wonderful. Tell her I've never seen such beautiful hands. I wonder what she sees in you."
Waddington, smiling, translated the question.
"She says I'm good."
"As if a woman ever loved a man for his virtue," Kitty mocked.

W. Somerset Maugham

#13. Successive generations of middle-class parents used to foist their own favourite books on their children. But some time in the late Eighties it began to wane - not because children had lost interest in adorable animals but because most of it was available on useful, pacifying video.

Peter York

#14. For stubborn souls like Lisette, death was easier than the courage it took to actually change your life.

Sarah Addison Allen

#15. We never considered ourselves part of the goth thing.

Ian Astbury

#16. Was there no hope for men? They killed those they should have loved. What good was it to fight, what good was it to win, if there was no difference between ally and enemy? What was victory? Meaningless.

Brandon Sanderson

#17. Through practice, gently and gradually we can collect ourselves and learn how to be more fully with what we do.

Jack Kornfield

#18. Your writing advances a particular view of the world. Pretending that it does't just confuses everybody, starting with you.

Douglas Wilson

#19. I am a great believer in Indian entrepreneurship. There is a whole set of people doing so many exciting things.

Uday Kotak