Charles Traub famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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  • Some of the greatest things, as I understand, they have come about by serendipity, the greatest discoveries

  • I don't understand how a woman can leave the house without fixing herself up a little - if only out of politeness. And then, you never know, maybe that's the day she has a date with destiny. And it's best to be as pretty as possible for destiny.

  • Sometimes serendipity is just intention unmasked.

  • Serendipity... You will understand it better by the derivation than by the definition. I once read a silly fairy tale, called 'The Three Princes of Serendip': as their Highnesses traveled, they were always making discoveries, by accidents and sagacity, of things which they were not in quest of.

  • God isn't chocolate, he's the encounter between chocolate and the palate capable of appreciating it.

  • Once innocence--an all too-brief state of being, if such a one exists--encounters experience, it is transformed. If that transformation is understood, it becomes knowledge. And if that knowledge is employed, then it becomes wisdom.

  • To me, it’s encounters that matter, pictures are much less important.

  • After their encounter on the approach to Jupiter, there would aways be a secret bond between them---not of love, but of tenderness, which is often more enduring.

  • Coincidence may be described as the chance encounter of two unrelated causal chains which