Paul Dini quotes

“We’ve all selected the wrong partners, all gotten hurt, and hopefully all moved on wiser for the experience. But there are those who, even in the face of constant disappointment, continue to believe that the intensity of their desire will be rewarded by an eventual jackpot of affection. And if that’s the slot machine you’re playing, friend, you’d better leave the casino ‘cause that one don’t pay out”
-- Paul Dini

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“Boys, boys, boys. Boys buy the little spinny tops, they but the action figures, girls buy princesses, we're not selling princesses.”
-- Paul Dini

Source : "Blood-Boiler of the Day: TV Show Canceled for Having Too Many Smart, Interesting Girl Characters" by Inkoo Kang, www.indiewire.com. December 19, 2013.

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“We’ve all selected the wrong partners, all gotten hurt, and hopefully all moved on wiser for the experience. But there are those who, even in the face of constant disappointment, continue to believe that the intensity of their desire will be rewarded by an eventual jackpot of affection. And if that’s the slot machine you’re playing, friend, you’d better leave the casino ‘cause that one don’t pay out”
-- Paul Dini

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“I would rather play with forked lightning, or take in my hand living wires with their fiery current, than to speak a reckless word against any servant of Christ, or idly repeat the slanderous darts which thousands of Christians are hurling on others, to the hurt of their own souls and bodies.”

“I get to keep you,” he said, staring at me with an intensity that made me shiver. “Keep me?” I asked, reaching up to kiss his chin and trail kisses down his perfect neck. “Not here. I can’t take much more, Pagan. I’m only so strong,” he said in a husky voice as he pulled me against his chest. “You’re mine now. While you walk the Earth you belong to me. Nothing can hurt you.” I heard a touch of humor in his voice. “It’s pretty impossible to hurt what Death protects.”

“Hope is a decision we make, a choice to believe that God can take the adversity, the disappointment, the heartache, and the pain of our journeys and use these to accomplish his purposes.”

Source : Adam Hamilton (2011). “The Journey, Expanded Large Print Edition: Walking the Road to Bethlehem”, p.73, Abingdon Press

“The outcome of fear is disappointment and shyness is frustration.”

“There is a hint of despair in the cry of 'I told you so,' an element of disappointment in the apparent satisfaction when idols turn out to have clay feet. The human race, when it thinks it has proved that no one is superior, is partly gratified and partly depressed.”

“I still secretly believe that afternoons are the time for the test card and you shouldn't watch television when the sun is out.”

“I cannot understand how any man or woman can believe in the Lord's coming and not be a missionary, or at least committed to the work of missions with every power of his being.”

Source : A. B. Simpson (1987). “Missionary Messages: For a Church that Needs to Hear”, p.23, Moody Publishers

“I believe in instinct, not reason. When reason is right, nine times out of ten it is impotent, and when it prevails, nine times out of ten it is wrong.”

“Hope lies to mortals And most believe her, But man's deceiver Was never mine.”

“Psychoanalysts believe that the only "normal" people are those who cause not trouble to either themselves or anyone else.”