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As you grow older, it becomes harder to feel 100 percent happy; you learn all the things that can go wrong, you become superstitious about tempting fate, about bringing disaster upon your life by accidentally feeling too good one day.


Douglas Coupland


#happy #life #superstitious #tempting-fate #wrong

The worst thing about falling in love with her so early in life was that he’d been an absolute snot at fourteen, at once arrogant and self-pitying. Almost as bad was the fact that he’d been nearly half a foot shorter than she at their first meeting —she’d been five foot nine, and he barely five foot four. Though she was only a few weeks older than he was, she’d looked upon him as a child—while he broiled with the heat and anguish of first love. When nothing else garnered him her attention, he turned horrid. She was disgusted by this midget who tried to trick her into broom closets to steal kisses, and he was at once miserable and thrilled. Disgust was better than indifference; anything was better than indifference.


Sherry Thomas


#sherry-thomas #tempting-the-bride #life

Perhaps you forgave him too much, but who among us would not wish to be so generously loved and generously forgiven?


Sherry Thomas


#sherry-thomas #tempting-the-bride #forgiveness

The wonders of the Grand Canyon cannot be adequately represented in symbols of speech, nor by speech itself. The resources of the graphic art are taxed beyond their powers in attempting to portray its features. Language and illustration combined must fail.


John Wesley Powell


#art #attempting #beyond #cannot #canyon

She fluttered her fan. “And do you know what they say of women of a certain age, what they want above all?” Desire simmered in him at her not quite smile. “Do tell.” “To be rid of you, Hastings. So that they don’t have to waste what remains of their precious few years suffering your lecherous looks.” “If I stopped looking at you lecherously, you’d miss it.” “Why don’t we test that hypothesis? You stop and I’ll tell you after ten years or so whether I miss it.” .... He rose and bowed slightly. “You wouldn’t last two weeks, Miss Fitzhugh.


Sherry Thomas


#helena #sherry-thomas #tempting-the-bride #age

I know that there are many on the Space Coast who are already attempting to address job creation and I intend to support them in every way possible. I will be a hands-on participant.


Sandy Adams


#already #attempting #coast #creation #every

Once a food becomes off-limits, then it takes on this whole other personality. 'Forbidden' is more tempting. And it becomes something evil, but food is food. It's there to nourish your body.


Valerie Bertinelli


#body #evil #food #forbidden #more

The person attempting to travel two roads at once will get nowhere.


Xun Zi


#get #nowhere #once #person #roads

As millions of Americans look for work, the Obama campaign and Democrats are attempting to distract attention away from this administration's dismal record. The attack they have launched against Mitt Romney shows just how worried they are about facing him in the general election.


Jeb Bradley


#administration #against #attack #attempting #attention

Attempting to get at truth means rejecting stereotypes and cliches.


Harold Evans


#cliches #get #means #rejecting #stereotypes