Alec Wilkinson famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Someone responding to intuition, to chance and fortune, often can't explain himself well.
-- Alec Wilkinson

#Intuition #Chance #Fortune
One of the reasons there are so many terms for conditions of ice is that the mariners observing it were often trapped in it, and had nothing to do except look at it.
-- Alec Wilkinson

#Ice #Looks #Reason
I donâ€™t think there is any mystery to understanding the passionate feelings people have for guns. Nobody really believes itâ€™s about maintaining a militia. Itâ€™s about having possession of a tool that makes a person feel powerful nearly to the point of exaltation.
-- Alec Wilkinson

#Powerful #Believe #Gun
I don’t think there is any mystery to understanding the passionate feelings people have for guns. Nobody really believes it’s about maintaining a militia. It’s about having possession of a tool that makes a person feel powerful nearly to the point of exaltation.
-- Alec Wilkinson

#Powerful #Believe #Gun

No matter how much time you spend reading books or following your intuition, you're gonna screw it up. Fifty times. You can't do parenting right.
For in spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never really communicate anything to anybody.
I would live the same life over if I had to live again, And the chances are I go where most men go.
Keep trying until you have no more chances left.
I'm not going to single individuals out but Yakubu has missed loads of great chances
Good fortune is a god among men, and more than a god.
We are always in a hurry to be happy...; for when we have suffered a long time, we have great difficulty in believing in good fortune.
On what slender threads do life and fortune hang.
By going solo I could lose a fortune but money is not important.
Behind every great fortune, there lies a great crime

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