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Timely Quotes (page 488)

You instinctively know that nothing will ever be the same, and you have to carry that knowledge around with you like a huge weight. The next time you see your girl, you can’t look her straight in the eyes the same way you did for all those years. Anthony Kiedis
If she says goodbye perhaps adieu. Adieu - like those old time songs she sang. Always adieu (and all songs say it). If she too says it, or weeps, I'll take her in my arms, my lunatic. She's mad but mine, mine. What will I care for gods or devils or for Fate itself. If she smiles or weeps or both. For me. Jean Rhys
In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all; and, to the young, it comes with bitterest agony, because it takes them unawares. The older have learned to ever expect it. I am anxious to afford some alleviation of your present distress. Perfect relief is not possible, except with time. You can not now realize that you will ever feel better. Is not this so? And yet it is a mistake. You are sure to be happy again. To know this, which is certainly true, will make you some less miserable now. I... Abraham Lincoln
Not a hope. I know where I am, and who, and what day it is. These are the tests, and I am sane. Sanity is a valuable possession; I hoard it the way people once hoarded money. I save it, so I will have enough, when the time comes. Margaret Atwood
You theoretically have so much more time at home, but you fill it with the minutiae that you somehow managed to avoid when you were working. Emily Giffin
This is the most dangerous trial of all, when there is no trial and every thing goes well; for then a man is tempted to forget God, to become too bold and to misuse times of prosperity. Martin Luther
Were I to undertake to answer the calumnies of the newspapers, it would be more than all my own time, and that of 20 aids could effect. For while I should be answering one, twenty new ones would be invented. I have thought it better to trust the justice of my country-men, that they would judge me by what they see of my conduct on the stage where they have placed me. Thomas Jefferson
Each night, without fail, she prayed for blue eyes. Fervently, for a year she had prayed. Although somewhat discouraged, she was not without hope. To have something as wonderful as that would take a long, long time. Toni Morrison
Joseph L. Mankiewicz quote: "Remind me to tell you about the time I looked into the heart..."
Remind me to tell you about the time I looked into the heart of an artichoke. Joseph L. Mankiewicz
One thing I've learned is that strange things do happen. They happen all the time. Today, for instance, my best friend Jill's cat spoke. We were making brownies in the kitchen when we heard it say, 'Let me out. Alice Hoffman
Jonathan Lethem quote: "The key to mostly anything is pretending your first time *isn't*."
The key to mostly anything is pretending your first time *isn't*. Jonathan Lethem
F. Scott Fitzgerald quote: "What was the use of doing great things if I could have a..."
What was the use of doing great things if I could have a better time telling her what I was going to do? F. Scott Fitzgerald
all the time something within her was crying for a decision. She wanted her life shaped now, immediately? and the decision must be made by some force? of love, of money, of unquestionable practicality? that was close at hand F. Scott Fitzgerald
Friedrich Nietzsche quote: "Is life not a hundred times too short for us to stifle ourselves."
Is life not a hundred times too short for us to stifle ourselves. Friedrich Nietzsche
We live in a time of turmoil. Earthquakes and tsunamis wreak devastation, governments collapse, economic stresses are severe, the family is under attack, and divorce rates are rising. We have great cause for concern. But we do not need to let our fears displace our faith. We can combat those fears by strengthening our faith. Russell M. Nelson

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