GREAT QUOTES

                                                          Great Quotes

   We're all known, or remember by the lines we say, in a private conversation or in public...     Presidente Ronald Regan is still remembered today for "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down that wall" publicly said at one of his most famous speaches.   

   John F Kennedy's famous "Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country" in his inaugural speech of 1961, is remembered today as one of the most important lines ever proffered.   

   Ayrton Senna, regarded by most as the greatest Formula1 driver at all times, had many great lines, among them: "Being second is to be the first of the ones who lose"   

   Sir Winston Churchill once said, " The price of greatness is responsibility", "out of intense complexities, intense simplicities emerge", among many other wonderful quotes.  

   "The best way to predict the future is to invent it.” Is another great one.   
   The movies are full of quotes remembered all the times... "Gone with the wind" ended with: "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn." with was voted the best movie line of all times by the AFI. The quote "He's looking at you, kid." from "Casablanca", became more famous than the movie itself. Another good one is "Go ahead; make my day" from Clint Eastwood in the movie "Sudden Impact". "It's an island baby! If you don't bring here, you won't have it", was said by Harrison Ford in "Six days, Seven nights".
   We're all known, and many things are remembered, by the lines we say.

   Then, thinking of quotes, comes to my mind the story of Annabelle...   

   First, she did not like her name, she always felt she had no lucky whatsoever, thinking of herself as being ugly. It is true that she was not miss Universe, but again, most of women aren't.   Annabelle was, somehow, pessimistic and used to repeat to herself, and to others, many times, that "if it wasn't for the bad luck, she wouldn't have lucky, at all".   A few boyfriends walked through her life but she was still single. 

   With time, she started putting her romantic life in the back burner or her life and dedicated herself, in her opinion, at less complexes tasks, like exceeding in her academics.

   After graduating as one of the first in her entire school, she had no trouble finding the job of her dreams, script writer for the movies industry. 

   As a inveterate romantic she had always been, movies always helped her cope with her disappointments in life. It was just natural that she felt drawn to be closer to the "dream makers" perhaps, unconsciously, trying to control the script of her life.

   Once, the only day she woke up really late to work and had no time, at all, to even finish dressing properly, much less for a quick make up, at lunch time, seated alone at one table in the cafeteria, she heard that deep voice, almost speaking on her ear: "May I seat here?"

   In a natural reaction, looking at the "voice", impress by the looks, in a mechanical movement, the egg she had poked with her fork to be cut, was lifted to her mouth and swallowed in one piece, instead.

   When she heard: "Are you okay?" she "melted"...

   That guy was the most beautiful person she had even seen...

   Embarrassed, trying to hide the obvious, she smiled a shy smile, lightly tinted by egg yoke, and left the table, running from her thoughts.

   To make sure not to be ever noted again, specially by that hunk, she begun dressing very poorly to work, no make up, or any other care with her appearance. They crossed each other a few times and, because nothing happened, other than courteous, distant smiles, "my plan is working" she thought.

   A few days latter, walking in a hallway, surprisingly, she felt an almost violent gentle grab in her arm. It was the hunk! He pressed her against a wall, looked at her and said:

 - You are driving me crazy. I can take you out of my head... Please, at least be my friend, 

   talk to me, stop avoiding me.

 - With so many beautiful woman walking around, why me? She replied. 

 - Because you are different. You're never trying to impress anyone with your beauty. You

   are natural, and those little wrinkles when you smile, make me want to kiss you, non stop.

   Annabelle fall flat. She couldn't say a word. If she had plan something to be noticed, it wouldn't have never work so good.

 - That's okay! We can be friends... She said.

 - You made my day! She heard, having her face held by that big gentle hands, feeling a

   gentle kiss in her forehead.

   They begun to have meals together and even small talks when their breaks would coincide.

   Annabelle was happy, although a little puzzled. In a few months they became real friends, developing a confiding, honest relationship.
   Despite being very busy in their work schedule, without seeing each other much, she would think of her new friend every time her mind would take a break from her tasks. Sometimes she would even feel melancholic, a state of mind which would end, invariably with a smile, brought to bear by one of the many images of her hunk friend she was carrying in her mind since their first encounter. 
   One day, on her way to her office, she saw her friend seated in a bench, elbows on his knees, holding his face, apparently really sad.
   She sat beside him, and with a sweet voice, touching his arm, asked:
   "What's wrong?" 
   "I can't take you out of my head... I think I'm in love with you!" He said, looking at her 
   with those beautiful blue eyes, according to her thoughts.
   It was too much to resist, she realized. "I think I love you too.", she replied.
   Still seated, they held each other and shared a gentle kiss.
   Annabelle looked at him and stated:

   "Please! Just one thing I ask you; mess up my lipstick, not my mascara..."
   After a few seconds of reflection, and understanding what she meant, he looked at her and with a smile said:
   "Wow! This one, in my opinion, is number one, between the great quotes..."






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