Spinsterhood And Society Quotes & Sayings

For those who want to pray for me to "find God," please don't waste your prayers. If you really think God is listening to you, then please use those precious moments to ask God to care for the sick and dying, and leave me out of it. I'm happy without my faith and with living my life in the here and now. Besides, thousands before you have prayed for me to find God and it hasn't worked yet. Why would God value your request over theirs? — David G. McAfee

Today we're dealing with metropolitan Shanghai, metropolitan New Delhi or Paris. If we're competing at that level, our diversity, that richness of people coming from so many different backgrounds, is one of our greatest advantages. — John Hickenlooper

He sleeps for himself and dreams for others. — Anonymous

There's no such thing as a soulmate ... and who would want there to be? I don't want half of a shared soul. I want my own damn soul. — Rachel Cohn

Don't look for peace. Don't look for any other state than the one you are in now; otherwise, you will set up inner conflict and unconscious resistance. Forgive yourself for not being at peace. The moment you completely accept your non-peace, your non-peace becomes transmuted into peace. Anything you accept fully will get you there, will take you into peace. This is the miracle of surrender — Eckhart Tolle

Congratulations is a societal burp that follows a positive act. When you graduate AA, you get a congratulations. When you throw back three bottles of whiskey in one night, you do not. For a species that is interested in furthering its kind, no one will congratulate you for succeeding in one more day of spinsterhood. If you follow the Congratulation Super Highway, you will get engaged, married and then have children. Getting a congratulations has never been so easy. Just have some unprotected sex. — Mara Altman

On the basis of both values and interests, the natural relationship between Islam and the United States is one of friendship. — Jimmy Carter

Wit penetrates; humor envelops. Wit is a function of verbal intelligence; humor is imagination operating on good nature. — Peggy Noonan

I still think of my mum as being kind of a dork - a cooler one, but still a dork. — Georgia Jagger

If you wait for the weekend to live,
you're not living 71% of your life. — Khang Kijarro Nguyen

A boy, by the age of 3 years, senses that his destiny is to be a man, so he watches his father particularly-his interests, manner, speech, pleasures, his attitude toward work ... — Benjamin Spock

A coquette is a young lady of more beauty than sense, more accomplishments than learning, more charms not person than graces of mind, more admirers than friends, mole fools than wise men for attendants. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Aspire greatly; anything less than a commitment to excellence becomes an acceptance of mediocrity. — Brian Tracy

More and more families today are sending both parents into the workforce - t's become the norm, it's what we now expect. The overwhelming majority of us do it because we think it will make our families more secure. But that's not how things have worked out. — Amelia Warren Tyagi