"It's dangerous to start attributing your fortunes to luck and your misfortunes to fate."

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Source : Nancy Pickard (1989). “Marriage Is Murder”, Pocket

Nancy Pickard

#Fate Quotes #Destiny Quotes #Luck Quotes

“I used to think I had no will to power. Now I perceive that I vented it on thoughts, rather than people. Conquering an unknown province of knowledge. Getting the better of a problem. Forcing ideas to associate or come apart. Bullying recalcitrant words to assume a certain pattern. All the fun of being a dictator without any risks and responsibilities.”
“I find standard American the hardest. It really fits in a different place in your mouth. Southern, I find the easiest. If you talk to a dialect coach and you get sort of technical, where an English person keeps their voice in their throat, a Southern person does the same, and it's got the same sort of music to talking.”
“Note that I hold the single-author record for total CERT advisories, proving that in my copious youth I knew how to sling code but not how to manage risk.”

Source : NANOG mailing list, 2002.
“Iâ€™ll be real discreet,â€ Tank said. As discreet as a six-foot-six, no-neck guy weighing three hundred and fifty pounds, all dressed in black SWAT clothes, with a Glock holstered at his side could be.”
“If the United States is to protect itself from the economic and the political threats created by this excessive dependence, we must reduce our reliance on foreign energy sources and on foreign oil as quickly and as efficiently as possible.”
“for every marriage that is made in Heaven, there is a marriage made in Hell.”
“If you are facing a new challenge or being asked to do something that you have never done before donâ€™t be afraid to step out. You have more capability than you think you do but you will never see it unless you place a demand on yourself for more.”
“I was really worn down by an American society that is racist, smugly blind to it, and hugely self-satisfied.”

Source : Interview with Amitabh Pal, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. September 26, 2005.

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