“Some things are destined to be -- it just takes us a couple of tries
to get there.”

“Capitalism tries for a delicate balance: It attempts to work things out so that everyone gets just enough stuff to keep them from getting violent and trying to take other people’s stuff.”

George Carlin (1937–2008) American stand-up comedian

“Fear tries to get us to give up but faith takes us all the way through to victory”

Joyce Meyer (1943) American author and speaker

“it doesn t matter if it takes a long time getting there; the point is to have a destination.”

Eudora Welty (1909–2001) American author

“No matter how great the talent or efforts, some things just take time. You can't produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant.”

Warren Buffett (1930) American business magnate, investor, and philanthropist

“Not all nine-fingered girls have hatchets, she said in Tradertalk. Some of us just tried to have a conversation with a snapping turtle.

(Sandry to Daja, referring to her conversation with Tris.)”

Tamora Pierce book Sandry's Book

“If we are destined to be together again, be happy to know you’ll be getting the real me, not some blubbering half me.”

Jerry Spinelli book Love, Stargirl

“Yes, I did have to struggle very hard to get this [the vote on the Iraq war] through, but the reason I did it was because I thought it was the right thing to do. I didn't take this on myself… just because I thought, 'Let's give myself a really hard time for a couple of years!”

Tony Blair (1953) former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

“Some couples go over their budgets very carefully every month. Others just go over them.”

Katherine Mansfield (1888–1923) New Zealand author

“That is just the way with some people. They get down on a thing when they don’t know nothing about it.”

Mark Twain book Adventures of Huckleberry Finn