quotes about Were Not Meant To Be

“I've been accused over the years of being close to players, but if something needs to be written, I've tried my best to write it and write it in a way that is fair to whoever I'm writing about and is fair to all of my readers.”

“Most writing is done between the mind and the hand, not between the hand and the page.”

“I began to learn the importance of lifting things up and looking underneath.”

“Though anti-Semitism had been only one of several sources of Nazi voting strength, after 1933 Hitler placed anti-Semitic ideologues, the most important of whom were Joseph Goebbels, Otto Dietrich and Alfred Rosenberg, at the top of the key opinion-shaping institutions. In a dictatorship resting on the 'leadership principle', Hitler's anti-Semitic convictions defined policy.”

Source : Jeffrey HERF (2009). “The Jewish Enemy”, p.17, Harvard University Press

“For some people, home is family and their mom's house or their girl or whatever, and I have those experiences as well, but the biggest thing for me is Chicago. I don't know how to explain it.”

“A wall is a very big weapon. It's one of the nastiest things you can hit someone with.”

“If you turn it over to the universe, you will be surprised and dazzled by what is delivered to you. This is where magic and miracles happen.”

“The primary victims of Katrina, those who were given the least help by the government, those rescued last or not at all, were overwhelmingly people of color largely hidden from the mainstream of society.”

“A funny thing happens in real estate. When it comes back, it comes back up like gangbusters.”

“Variety's the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.”

Source : The Task bk. 2 "The Timepiece" l. 606 (1785) See Behn 1