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Better die an old maid, sister, than marry the wrong man. — Billy Sunday

Seek not for events to happen as you wish but rather wish for events to happen as they do and your life will go smoothly. — Epictetus

Nothing has ever been accomplished in any walk of life without enthusiasm, without motivation, and without perseverance. — Jim Valvano

If you're telling a story it's always best not to play the ending. — John Hawkes

For all my years in public life, I have believed that America must sail toward the shores of liberty and justice for all. There is no end to that journey, only the next great voyage. We know the future will outlast all of us, but I believe that all of us will live on in the future we make. — Edward Kennedy

Your fears are not you. Do you hear me? They don't define who you are. — S.L. Jennings

Fear and impatience demagnetize. Poise magnetizes. — Florence Scovel Shinn

I don't know anything anymore. Is that normal? Is it normal to notice the enormity of everything and just go blank? — A.M. Homes

It's quite confusing being one of the less wealthy people at a posh place. — Sally Phillips

I would never trust her. Not one hundred percent. Not the way some people can trust their mothers. — Jacqueline Woodson

As soon as the first piece of foliage came within blade's reach, my student started frantically swinging the machete like he was defending his virtue from a trove of drunken, handsy woodland elves. 'I feel like I'm in the movie Predator,' he said as he decapitated a flower. — Michael Gurnow

Before we sit down, he puts his mouth next to my ear and says, I like your hair that way. — Veronica Roth

There are few people so stubborn in their atheism who, when danger is pressing in, will not acknowledge the divine power. — Plato

Our mantra was simplicity. — Donna Dubinsky

Early on, I learnt from the Russian intelligentsia that the only meaning of life lies in conscious participation in the making of history. The more I think of that, the more deeply true it seems to be. It follows that one must range oneself actively against everything that diminishes man, and involve oneself in all struggles which tend to liberate and enlarge him. This categorical imperative is by no way lessened by the fact that such an involvement is inevitably soiled by error: it is a worse error merely to live for oneself, caught within traditions which are soiled by inhumanity. — Victor Serge