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“There will be occasions in each of our lives when we will be called upon to explain or to defend our beliefs. When the time for performance arrives, the time for preparation is past.”

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Thomas S. Monson

Thomas S. Monson was an American author known for his religious works. Born on August 21, 1927, he gained recognition in the Mormon Church. more

“...the long train ride was like traveling through limbo. You weren't anywhere when you were on a train, she decided. You weren't where you had been, and you weren't yet where you were going. You were nowhere. It might be beautiful outside the window-and it was, she had sense enough to realize that-but it wasn't anywhere to her, just a scene passing by that was framed by the train window. (p160)”

Long Enough Might Beautiful Realizing Scene Window Decided Train Passing Passings Framed Limbo Passing By

Author:Katherine Paterson

“Perhaps the less we have, the more we are required to brag.”

Boast Bragging Brag Gloating

Author:John Steinbeck

“And I will show that there is no imperfection in the present, and can be none in the future, And I will show that whatever happens to anybody it may be turn'd to beautiful results, And I will show that nothing can happen more beautiful than death, And I will thread a thread through my poems that time and events are compact, And that all the things of the universe are perfect miracles, each as profound as any.”

May Shows Happens Beautiful Turns Universe Perfect Results Events Miracle Profound Imperfection Thread Whatever Happens Compact

Book:Selected poems

Source: Selected poems

“In that house, you will find my heart. You must break in, Henri, and get it back for me.' Was she mad? We had been talking figuratively. Her heart was in her body like mine. I tried to explain this to her, but she took my hand and put it against her chest. Feel for yourself.”

Feels Heart Body Hands House Talking Break Mines My Heart Mad Chests

Author:Jeanette Winterson

“The difference between a lady and a flower girl is not how she behaves, but how she’s treated.”

Girl Differences Flower Treated Behave Pygmalion My Fair Lady

Book:Pygmalion

Source: Pygmalion

“The great secret, Eliza, is not having bad manners or good manners or any other particular sort of manners, but having the same manner for all human souls: in short, behaving as if you were in Heaven, where there are no thirdclass carriages, and one soul is as good as another.”

Ifs Humans Soul Heaven Secret Particular Manners Human Soul Good Manners Carriages Bad Manners Pygmalion

Book:George Bernard Shaw: The Collected Plays (Illustrated): 60 plays including Caesar and Cleopatra, Pygmalion, Saint Joan, The Apple Cart, Cymbeline, Androcles And The Lion, The Man Of Destiny, The Inca Of Perusalem and Macbeth Skit

Source: George Bernard Shaw: The Collected Plays (Illustrated): 60 plays including Caesar and Cleopatra, Pygmalion, Saint Joan, The Apple Cart, Cymbeline, Androcles And The Lion, The Man Of Destiny, The Inca Of Perusalem and Macbeth Skit

“No use slaving for me and then saying you want to be cared for: who cares for a slave? If you come back, come back for the sake of good fellowship; for you’ll get nothing else.”

Ifs Want Use Care Slave Sake Who Cares Fellowship

Book:Pygmalion

Source: Pygmalion

“Would the world ever have been made if its maker had been afraid of making trouble?Making life means making trouble. There’s only one way of escaping trouble; and that’s killing things.”

Ifs World Way Mean Has Beens Made Trouble Killing One Way Makers Escaping Life Means Trouble Making

Book:Pygmalion

Source: Pygmalion

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